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