Honors, Gallery & Moments
A curated visual record of major national and corporate honors, AI hackathon championships, conference presentations, academic milestones, and leadership moments.
National HonorGandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award
Conferred at the Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace of India). Selected among the top 39 projects out of 2,915 nationwide entries.
National AwardGYTI Award 2017 — Official Certificate
Official citation certificate for innovative technological contribution presented during the national Festival of Innovation.
Executive MomentMeeting Simon Segars, CEO of ARM
Meeting with Simon Segars, Chief Executive Officer of ARM, during his visit following recognition for top subsystem verification deliverables.
Corporate AwardARM Bravo Award (2017)
Awarded for flawless delivery of multiple compute subsystems, designing an in-house verification platform used across global teams, and top 5% performance ranking.
Corporate AwardARM Bravo Award (2016)
Conferred for uncovering multiple critical RTL bugs in major SoC compute subsystems, providing high-speed testbench delivery across production cycles.
Technical ExcellenceCode Repeatability & Scalability Award
Official recognition for engineering scalable and repeatable test code for top-level ARM system verification across global teams.
1st Place WinnerBeam — AI Narrative Partner for Founders
Winner (1st Place) at BetaHacks for Beam, an AI narrative partner that structures founder pitches, investor memos, and strategic storytelling.
1st Place WinnerCallExpress.AI — Generative Sales Workflow
1st Place at AGI House SF AI Revenue Hackathon for CallExpress.AI, an autonomous agentic pipeline optimizing sales conversion and call intelligence.
1st Place WinnerAI Creative Ad Brief War Room
1st Place winner at AGI House Hillsborough for an interactive multi-agent creative ad brief generator aligning marketing strategy and asset generation.
3rd PlaceTeam Cortex — Educational AI Platform
3rd Place at Stanford AI for Education Hackathon for Cortex, an AI-powered personalized tutoring and real-time comprehension companion.
1st Place WinnerFactGPT — Automated Fact-Checking for LLMs
1st Place winner at NYC AI GPT Hackathon. Developed an automated truthfulness and reference verification engine for generative AI responses.
Conference TalkACM ICMI 2019 — Multimodal Interaction
Presentation on "Multimodal Behavioral Markers Exploring Suicidal Intent in Social Media Videos" at the 21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
Conference TalkIEEE CoCoNet 2015 — Research Presentation
Presenting research on "Pipelined Implementation of High Radix Adaptive CORDIC as a Coprocessor" at the International Conference on Computing and Network Communications.
Conference CertificateIEEE CoCoNet 2015 — Certificate of Presentation
Official certificate of presentation for the paper on High Radix Adaptive CORDIC coprocessor architecture.
Academic MilestoneNITK-CMU Joint Winter School (2014)
Certificate of Participation for the joint Carnegie Mellon University and NITK Winter School, marking the genesis of the Never Ending Learning of Sound (NELS) research.
Enterprise GrantIEEE Student Enterprise Award — Quadcopter
IEEE Student Enterprise Award for Region 10 with $1,500 research funding grant for autonomous quadcopter design and aerial tracking.
LeadershipNITK IEEE Student Leadership Certificate
Honoring significant technical contributions and organizational leadership across IEEE student branch initiatives and technical workshops.
LeadershipToastmasters Leadership Certification
Certification for completing the Toastmasters International Leadership program, demonstrating mastery in team leadership and organizational communication.
CommunicationCompetent Communicator Award
Recognition for speech development, vocal variety, and structured executive presentation delivery.
CredentialTechnical Milestone Credential
Official documentation of technical and academic deliverables achieved during engineering research initiatives.