Achievements
Grants :
Start-up Research Grant, Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, Govt. of India, 2022.
Centre for AI and School of Software, FEIT, Publication Grant, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2019.
School of Software, FEIT, Higher level of Funding Support; and Centre for AI, Conference Travel Grant, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2018.
Vice-Chancellor's Postgraduate Research Student Conference Fund, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2018.
IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) Graduate Student Research Grants, 2017.
GGRS-IEIS (Griffith Graduate Research School and International Experience Incentive Scheme) Conference Travel Grants, Australia, 2017.
School of ICT (Information and Communication Technology), Griffith University, Conference Funding, Australia, 2017.
IIIS (Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems), Griffith University, Conference Travel Grant, Australia, 2016.
Gold Coast Association of Postgraduates (GCAP) Professional Development and Conference (PDAC) Funding, Australia, 2015.
Competitions :
Winner of ICDAR 2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2019 (conjunction with IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2019)), Australia, Sep. 2019. (link)
Winner of the signature and name component recognition task of ICFHR-2018 Competition on Thai Student Signature and Name Component Recognition and Verification – TSNCRV2018 (conjunction with IAPR International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2018)), USA, Aug. 2018. (link)
1st runner-up in ICFHR 2018 Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2018), USA, Aug. 2018.
1st runner-up in ICDAR 2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017 (conjunction with IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2017)), Japan, Nov. 2017.
Entrepreneur's Award and Best of Gold Coast Award, GovHack-2016, Australia. (link)
Top-10 finalist in ISTAS (Invitational Symposium on Trusted Autonomous Systems) Student Poster Competition, organized by Defence Science and Technology Group, Dept. of Defence, Australian Government, 2016.
Winner of the recognition task, and 1st runner-up in segmentation task of ICB-2016 Sclera Segmentation and Recognition Benchmarking Competition: SSRBC-2016 (conjunction with IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB-2016)), Sweden, Jun. 2016. (link)
1st in Challenge on Coding (ChoCo 2013): Intra-University coding competition, organized by Dept. of CSE, University of Kalyani, India, Apr. 2013.
Best Paper Award (1st): Ethical Hacking - Issues & Challenges (EHIC-2012), Students’ Paper Contest held at Dr. B. C. Roy Engg. College, Durgapur, under the technical sponsorship of IEEE Communication Society, Kolkata Chapter, and Internet Society, India, Kolkata Chapter, Nov. 2012.
Scholarships :
HDR Post-Thesis Industry Scholarship, FEIT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2019. (link)
Dr. Kalam Doctoral Scholarship and International Research Scholarship (IRS), University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2018.
Griffith University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (GUIPRS) and Postgraduate Research Scholarship (GUPRS), Australia, 2015-2018.
National Scholarship for qualifying in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2012 in CS), India, 2012-2014.
National Merit Scholarships from MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development), India, based on Higher-Secondary (2008-2012) & Secondary (2006-2008)-level exams.
Academics :
PhD Thesis, nominated for the UTS Chancellor’s & FEIT Dean’s Award and List for the best doctoral thesis, University of Technology Sydney, 2019.
M.Tech Thesis, nominated for INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering) Innovative Student Projects Award - 2014.
Professional :
Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera, 2020.
Big Data Foundations - Level 1, IBM, 2019.
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer, 2011.