Achievements
Selected grants, awards, fellowships, academic honors, and media coverage.
Grants
- Google Academic Research Award (GARA) 2024 - Co-PI of the project “2σ Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS)”, awarded USD 100,000.
- Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant (MAPG), 2021–2023 - Research contributor to the project “Non-toxic Multilingual Personalized Autosuggest Generation”, one of five projects funded nationwide in India.
- IIT Hyderabad Exceptional Research Scholar Grant (2022) - Awarded competitive funding to present research at an international conference.
- Travel Grants from Microsoft, ACL, ACM SIGIR, ACM India–IARCS, and CODS-COMAD (2020–2023) to present research at leading international conferences.
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
- Won the SAC Paper Award for the Resource and Evaluation Track at NAACL 2025.
- Annual Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad (2024).
- Best Paper Honorable Mention, CONSTRAINT Workshop at AAAI 2021.
- Suzuki Foundation Fellowship, awarded for short-term research visits to Japan (2020 & 2021).
Media Coverage
- Featured in IIT Hyderabad's KiraIITH magazine for the best poster presentation at CSE Research Scholar Day 2021.
- Featured on the official MBZUAI blog titled Tutors of Tomorrow: A New Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs (2025).
- Featured by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) and the official MBZUAI news portal for receiving the Google Academic Research Award (2024).
- Invited to the With Priya Podcast to discuss AI research and my PhD research journey (2023).
Additional Recognition
- Selected as IIT Hyderabad's sole representative for the BBC–IIT Guwahati Hackathon (2019), including a sponsored visit to Google India.
- Second Place, University of Tokyo–IIT Hyderabad Research Workshop (2018).