May 2024. A grant of £2,000 was awarded by the ECS Pump Priming Fund 2024 at the University of Southampton for the proposal titled "Designing a Serious Game to Elicit Ethical Preferences of Citizens" to Jayati Deshmukh, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein.
Our demo titled “Serious Games for Ethical Preference Elicitation” won the best demonstration award at AAMAS 2025.
Nominated for the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2025 from IIIT-Bangalore.
Selected to attend ACM Pingala Interactions in Computing (among 25 young researchers from India) at Infosys Mysore Campus in Feb 2024 (Could not participate).
Demo presentation titled “Simulation of traffic scenarios using SUMO” based on Traffic Modeling and Simulation project at SUMO User Conference 2022 was voted best presentation, by the conference attendees. [YouTube link]
Our paper entitled “Social Capital as Engagement and Belief Revision” authored by Gaurav Koley, Jayati Deshmukh and Srinath Srinivasa awarded the best paper award at the SocInfo 2020. [Link]
Awarded Star of the Business Award at Accenture Labs in Dec 2016.
Awarded Lab Inventor Award at Accenture Labs in Nov 2016.
Member of the team Fluid which won the first prize at IBM-Nasscom machine learning hackathon, 2015
Gold Medalist at IIIT-Bangalore. Awarded Sir M Vishveswariah Scholarship Award.
Awarded Certificate of Excellence for being in Deans Merit List in all semesters at IIIT-Bangalore
Stood 1st in GTU (Gold Medalist) in Computer Engineering Department all over Gujarat. [link]
Awarded 0.1% Certificate of Merit in English Communication, 2006, CBSE
Researchers at IIIT-Bangalore develop model to teach drones and robots to be more responsible. The Hindu. October 25, 2024. [link]
Video interview in which I share glimpses and memories of my PhD journey at IIIT-B. June 2024. [link]
Journey of a Researcher-From M.Tech to PhD at IIIT-Bangalore. June 2024. [link]
My interview in IIITB monthly newsletter Naviiina where I shared my experience of my PhD research journey. July 2023 [link]
After gold medal in M Tech, they are raring to serve society. The Times of India, July 7, 2014 [link]