Achievements & Honors
AI Hackathons & Innovation Victories
Beam — AI Narrative Partner for Founders
Beta University Hackathon / BetaHacks (May 2026)AI narrative and storytelling partner for founders, co-developed with Rachel Zhang.
LinkedIn Coverage →CallExpress.AI — Generative AI Sales Platform
AGI House SF AI Revenue Hackathon (May 2026)End-to-end generative AI workflow platform designed for high-velocity sales teams.
AGI House Coverage →AI Creative Ad Brief War Room
AGI House Hackathon in Hillsborough (May 2026)Autonomous multi-agent war room for real-time creative advertising campaigns and brief generation.
FactGPT — Automated LLM Fact-Checking
NYC AI GPT Hackathon (April 2023)Automated claim extraction and factual verification system for large language models.
CMU LTI Feature →Team Cortex — Educational AI Platform
Stanford AI for Education Hackathon (July 2026)Adaptive learning and comprehension engine for classroom and individual instruction.
LinkedIn Coverage →Beam — Best Use of Butterbase
Builders of Tomorrow AI Super Hackathon (May 2026)Selected for best integration and execution on high-concurrency real-time AI backend.
National & Corporate Honors
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award 2017
Presented at the Festival of Innovation, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. Selected among the top 39 projects nationwide out of 2,915 entries (GYTI Techpedia News).
ARM Bravo Awards (2016 & 2017)
Awarded at ARM Bangalore for flawless delivery of compute subsystems, building in-house verification automation, and discovering critical RTL design bugs.
R D Sethna & Lotus Education Trust Scholar (2017)
Awarded competitive scholarship funding ($1,800) for graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
IEEE Student Enterprise Awards (Region 10 — 2013 & 2014)
Awarded $3,000 in total project grant funding for "Mapping Greenhouse Gases using WSNs" ($1,500 in 2014) and "Autonomous Quadcopter" ($1,500 in 2013).
Competitive National Examination Ranks (2011)
All India Rank 2,151 in AIEEE 2011 (out of 1M+ applicants), Rank 6,104 in IIT-JEE 2011, and Rank 97 in ISAT 2011 (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology).