Achievements and Activities

Scholastic Achievements

  • Awarded IBM Social Good Fellowship by IBM Research for the summer of 2018

  • Awarded the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship by the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for 2017-19

  • Awarded the Student Support Scholarship for Big Data Neuroscience Workshop organized by Advanced Neuroscience Network (ACNN), 2017

  • Awarded the student travel grant for the International Symposium on Information Theory (2017 and 2018)

  • Awarded the travel grant for the North American School on Information Theory, 2016

  • Awarded D. Anand Subramaniam Memorial Award for academic excellence, 2014

  • Lifetime member of Mensa, India Chapter

  • Secured rank 1 in Communication Stream of 23 students and overall rank of 2 out of 68 students in Electrical Engineering

Leadership Roles & Activities

Anonymous Reviewer for Academic Publications

  • Review academic publications for IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISIT


Coordinate Science Lab Student Conference (2014-17) CSL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • General co-chair from 2016-17 and funding chair from 2014-16 of the student-run conference

  • Lead a team of graduate students to conduct the 3-day conference monitoring various aspects such as speaker invitations, abstract selection, sponsorships, travel arrangements, budgeting, reception etc.


National Service Scheme Volunteer Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  • Was a volunteer in the Teaching team of the IIT Madras NSS chapter

  • Identified local schools that were understaffed so as to assist with the teaching Maths and Science for classes XI and XII

  • Located local school dropouts and spoke to their parents in an attempt to bring them back to school

  • Conducted several study sessions on Engineering and basic Computer skills at Gandhiniketan Ashram and T.Kallupatti