Achievements

Awards, competitions, certifications and the adventures in between.

Awards and scholarships

  • Monalisa Gupta Award, IIM Calcutta 59th Annual Convocation (2024). Given to a female graduating student with significant achievements across multiple spheres during the PGP. See the announcement ↗
  • Aditya Birla Scholar, Class of 2022–23. One of 15 students across India’s premier management institutes, and the sole recipient at IIM Calcutta. See the announcement ↗
  • Top 13 in the IIM Calcutta admission merit list (2022)
  • National Finalist, ET Ascent Dewang Mehta National Education Awards 2022 (1 of 950+ students selected to represent IIM Calcutta)
  • Spot Award, Rapyuta Robotics (2020), for ownership of the full robot simulation stack
  • Pre-placement offer, Edelweiss Global Markets prop trading desk (2023)
  • Double Award Winner, Department of Electrical Engineering, VJTI, for outstanding achievements
  • INSPIRE Scholar, top 1% of students in the Class XII science board exams (2015)
  • Pune City ICSE X Topper (2013), featured in the top three Indian newspapers

Competitions

  • 2nd Runner-Up, Smart India Hackathon 2018 (Ministry of Railways track, ₹50,000 prize). Our team of six built “Prediction of Fibre Optic Cable Failure using LSTM to Reduce Downtime” in a 36-hour hackathon with about 100,000 participants. Listed on VJTI’s website ↗
  • Top 17, Aero India 2019 Student’s Pavilion (Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Civil Aviation and Ministry of HRD), out of 120+ nationwide entries, for my capstone project: an autonomously navigating quadrotor for indoor and outdoor environments, designed and built from scratch with my team. Project on LinkedIn ↗
  • Campus Finalist, Venture Capital Investment Challenge 2022
  • Pre-Finalist, e-Yantra Robotics Competition, IIT Bombay and MHRD (2016–17)
  • 2nd place, rink football, Enthusia 2016, VJTI’s national-level sports festival. Team photo on LinkedIn ↗
  • Top 1% on websudoku.com with a 1:32 easy-level solve

Research and engineering

  • Proposed a new colour gamut expansion algorithm for UHD displays, raising saturation gain on a test portrait from +6% to +45%; paper submitted to IET Electronics Letters 2018. Interactive demo → · Internship certificate and blog ↗
  • Demonstrated multi-robot collaboration to clients and press at the Kyoto Smart City Expo 2019, covered by the Kyoto Shimbun. Press coverage on LinkedIn ↗
  • Face recognition with cascaded CNNs and FaceNet at 99.67% accuracy on the LFW dataset

Adventure

  • SSI Level I Freediver, certified in the Andamans: one of fewer than 70 Indians internationally certified to dive past 60 feet on a single breath. See it on LinkedIn ↗
  • Yachting Association of India Level 1 Sailor. See the post ↗
  • Surfing in the Arabian Sea on an eight-foot foamie, and learning to surfskate

Leadership

  • Hosted Dr. Seema Rao, India’s first woman commando trainer and Nari Shakti Puraskar recipient, for a motivational talk at VJTI as Gymkhana PR Manager (2016). Event photos ↗
  • Vice Captain, VJTI college football team
  • Media Strategist, VJTI Gymkhana Committee (2017–18)
  • Chief Mentorship Officer, IEEE VJTI (2017–18)
  • Design Head, Event Head (rink football) and PR Manager, VJTI Gymkhana Committee (2016–17)
  • Chief Student Editor, school magazine (2011–13), and represented my school in the EUMIND Europe Meets India exchange