Academic Honors and Activities

Honors and Awards

1. 1. 2025:  Top 10 Notable AI Research Papers of the Week (Robotics, 3rd week of July), by AI World.

   2. 2024:  Hatter Scholarship, by the Hatter Department of Marine Technology, University of Haifa, Israel, and the Department of AI Research, Govt. of Israel.

   3. 2023: Best Paper Presenter Award, by the International Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Knowledge Informatics and Industrial Electronics (AIKIIE), IEEE.

   4. 2023: International Conference Travel Grant, by NIT Rourkela, India.

   5. 2023: International Conference Travel Grant, by the University of Sharjah, UAE.

   6. 2022: Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), by NCB-GATE, MHRD, Govt. of India. (AIR: 124)

   7. 2019, 2020: Junior Research Fellowship (twice), by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. (AIR: 38, 99)

   8. 2015, 2018: Joint Admission Test for Masters' (JAM), by IITs and IISc Bangalore, India. (AIR: 468)

National Entrance Examinations

1. 1. 2017: UGC NET (LS)

   2. 2017:  Delhi University Common Entrance Test (AIR: 12)

   3. 2018: Utkal University M.Phil Entrance Exam (AIR: 1)

   4.  2018: VSSUT, Burla M.Phil Entrance Exam (AIR: 1)

   5. 2019: CUCET (AIR: 9)

   6. 2019: Tejpur University, Assam Common Entrance Test (AIR: 1)

*AIR = All India Rank

Academic Activities

1. 15 Jan 2026- Guest Speaker in IEEE Oceanic Engineering Meetup-2026 (OES-26), University of Haifa, Israel. Topic:  Physics-informed Inertial Dead Reckoning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

2. October 2025–Continue: Editor for a special issue of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (SCIe), titled “Explainable AI for Text Mining: Interoperability and Transparency".

3. July 2025–October 2025: Guest Editor for a special issue of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (SCIe), titled “Explainable AI for Text Mining: Interoperability and Transparency".

4. 12 Jul 2025: Guest Speaker in a One-Day Seminar on “Application of Neural Networks", GIET, Odisha, India.

5. 25–27 May 2025: Chair in The First University of Haifa AI Conference (HiAI), University of Haifa, Israel.

6. 17–18 Jun 2023: Co-Chair in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things (AI4IOT): Accelerating Innovation in Industry and Consumer Electronics, South Africa.

7. 27–28 May 2023: Keynote Speaker at Humanities and Management Conference (HMSS 2023). Topic: Multi-dimensional Poverty Analysis for an Indian State through the Lens of Artificial Neural Networks.

8. Upcoming: April 2026- Publication Chair in an IEEE Conference (ETAACT 2026).