Doctoral studies (2018 – Present)

  • Among 100 computer science researchers worldwide invited to attend the prestigious 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2021.
  • Teaching Assistant Award by EPFL given to top 10% of the TAs, 2021
  • Consecutive Distinguished Service Awards by EPFL IC for contributions to the PhD Association, 2019-2020
  • Awarded the EDIC Doctoral Fellowship by EPFL for the year 2018–2019
  • ACM SIGMOD Most Reproducible Paper Award for our work on Influence Maximization, 2018
  • Travel Grants Awarded: VLDB 2022, SIGIR 2022, WSDM 2022, EDBT 2019, EDBT 2019 summer school, CLEF 2012

Masters (2011 – 2013)

  • Won the First Prize in the Adobe Data Mining Competition at IIT, Madras, 2013
  • Won the Fifth Prize in Scalable String Similarity Search/Join workshop at EDBT, 2013
  • Awarded the Overall Best Hack Prize in Yahoo! HackU, 2012 at IIT, Kanpur
  • Won the Second Prize in the 10th ImageCLEF: Plant Identification Task, 2012
  • Student Travel Award: Among 7 researchers worldwide to get ELIAS Sponsorship for attending CLEF 2012
  • Best Project Award for HiPhi: Approximate kNN Search in High-Dimensional Spaces
  • Best Project Award for FriendMiner: Inferring Relationship Based on Mobile Phone Data
  • Ranked Third in the CSE department at IIT Kanpur, among the entrant batch of M.Tech and Phd programme
  • All India Rank 369 (out of ≈ 150K candidates) in GATE 2011, category: Computer Science.

High School

  • State level Science Award for securing highest marks in Mathematics in Secondary Examination (ICSE), 2004
  • Uttar Pradesh State Merit Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Secondary Examination (ICSE), 2004