Here are some awards and accolades I've been fortunate to receive.
Academic Accolades
- Awarded the Samsung Innovation Award, for excellence in research, IIT Guwahati, 2015.
- One among 60 students among a batch of 660 awarded a Branch Change at IIT Guwahati, 2013.
- Secured 99.01 percentile of 0.5 million, in the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE).
- Secured 99.81 percentile of 1.15 million, in the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE), 2011.
- S. Rama Iyer Memorial Academic Excellence Award, Proficiency in AISSCE, 2011.
- Master R. Balakrishnan Memorial Award, Best All Rounder Student, 2011.
- Dr. Lt. Col. T S Kalyanam Award, for the Best Outgoing Student, 2011.
- Secured Top 0.1 Merit Award for Physics and English in AISSCE 2011.
- Ranked 2nd in school (Bala Vidya Mandir) in All India Senior School Certificate Exam, 2011.
Conferences Attended
- One of 33 students selected for Research Science Initiative, Chennai, 2010, a 6 week program conducted at IIT Madras, in association with MIT, and Centre for Excellence in Education, USA. 2010.
- International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics - ICORR, 2015.
- International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology - i-CREATe, 2015.
- Workshop on Programming Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles, Stanford University, 2015.
- Summer Seminar Series, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014.
- 59th International Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics - ISTAM, 2014.
Co-curriculur Honors
- 1 of 60 semi-finalists among 7500 entries in the International Google Science Fair, for my project on a Bicycle based Crop Harvester, in 2011.
- Presented with the Best Poster Award for HyAWET - A Hybrid Assistive Wheelchair Exoskeleton Transformer, at Seismech, the annual symposium of Mechanical Department of IIT Guwahati, 2014.
- Selected as one of 20 top teams among 900 entries, at the CBSE National Science Exhibition, 2011.
- Selected to attend the Jawaharlal Nehru National Junior Science Congress, 2010.
- Awarded the best technical green idea at Quark, the annual technical festival of BITS Goa, 2012.
- Awarded the best technical idea at Techniche, the annual technical festival of IIT Guwahati, 2011.
Extra-curriculur Honors
- Certified 4th Grade Pianist, with Merit, from the Trinity School of Music, London, 2012.
- National Team Racing Silver Medallist, DP World National Coastal Sailing Championship, 2011.
- One of 20 students to attend a two week student exchange program in association with Bendemeer Sec. School, Singapore, 2007.
- Won first place at stand-up comedy, at Mood Indigo, the annual cultural festival of IIT Bombay, 2013.