Awards

Academic

Competitions:

• Poster Spotlight, HCXAI Workshop, ACM CHI, Barcelona, Spain (2026)

• Oral Spotlight Presentation, Bridging AI and Behavior Change Program, AAAI, Singapore (2026)

• Winner of Lingathon (first hackathon for linguistics), Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics & Utrecht University (Cash Prize: 150€) (2024)

• Finalist, Five-Minute Linguist (5ML) Competition, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meet, New York City (2024)

• Best Presentation Award, 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Guangzhou, China (2023)

• GATE - Ecology and Evolution (AIR 52) (2019)

• National Eligibility Test (NTA-NET) - Linguistics (2018 & 2019)

• TSSET - Life Sciences (2017)

• Second Best Poster, GIAN Workshop on Ionic Signaling and Human Disease (5000/- INR cash prize) (2016)

Fellowships/Grants:

• WiML Travel Grant to present my work at NeurIPS 2025 (~ $775)

• "Travel Support" to attend Linguistic Society of America Annual Meet, Philadelphia, USA (2025) (Sponsored by my postdoc advisor) ( $ 1500)

• "Student Scholarship" to attend LREC-COLING-24, Turin, Italy (2024)

• COGEL Travel Grant awards 2024 Honorable Mention, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) (2024)

• IITH Travel Award to present my work at LSA Annual Meet 2024 (2023) ($ 2000)

• Full Registration Fee Waiver to attend ACL 2023 online (2023)

• Full Fee Waiver, Neuromatch Deep Learning Course (2023)

• Senior Research Fellowship, Ministry of Education, GoI (2021) [Linguistics]

• Junior Research Fellowship, Ministry of Education, GoI (2019) [Linguistics]

• GATE fellowship, Ministry of Education, GoI (2019) (Declined) [Ecology & Evolution]

• Travel/Accommodation support for attending Vijyoshi Science Camp at IISc Bengaluru (2012)

• Full Tuition Fee Waiver for outstanding academic performance (12000/- INR) (2002-03)

Non-Academic

• Silver medal (Team Kata), JKAI National Karate Championship (2017)

• Silver medal (Team Kumite), JKAI National Karate Championship (2017)