Awards and Leadership

Recognitions and Awards

• Awarded the Google PhD Fellowship 2024
• Recipient of the “Honorable Mention” for the 2022 Snap Fellowship.
• My work on using NLP methods to combat COVID-19 related misinformation and for creating automatic summaries of reliable articles to help make verifiable information more accessible was recognised by the TeachAids community on International Youth Day. Link to article
• Ranked 2nd among 4789 students of Information Technology in all colleges of University of Pune.
• Awarded scholarship to attend MIT Media Lab 5thDesign Innovation Workshop (200 students selected out of 1500 applicants).
• Awarded Tata Merit Scholarship and Academic Merit Scholarships for standing 1st in Information Technology Dept. 2012-2016.
• Gold Medal in Academics at Army Institute of Technology, Pune Information Technology Class of 2016
• Awarded Grace Hopper Student Scholarship 2015

Leadership & Service

• Student Rep, UMSI Doctoral Committee, 2022.
• Student organizer at Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa
• Student volunteer at Grace Hopper Conference, 2017; ACL 2023.