Awards

• 2020 Purdue University's Most Impactful Faculty Inventor
• 2018 Infocom Workshop Best Paper Award for paper GroupCast: Preference-Aware Cooperative Video Streaming with Scalable Video Coding.
• 2018 VAJRA Faculty Award from Science and Engineering Research Board India, which aims to bring a strong international connect to the R&D ecosystem of India.
• 2017 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award for the Best Systems Paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology for paper Design and Characterization of a Full-duplex Multi-antenna System for WiFi networks.
• Best-in-Session-Presentation Award in technical session of Cloud Storage in IEEE Infocom 2017 for Taming Tail Latency for Erasure-coded, Distributed Storage Systems.
• Elevated to IEEE Senior Member, 2015
• Visiting Faculty Research Program Award from Air Force Research Laboratory, Summer 2015.
• AT&T Senior Vice President Team Excellence Award, 2014 for coordinating an aggressive Centre recruiting program. The program was transparent, thorough and highly professional, engaging the entire organization in a positive activity that positions AT&T Labs Research (now AT&T Labs Advanced Technologies) for the future.
• AT&T Vice President Excellence Award for experimenting with different models for small cell indoor RF propagation and recommending a model, 3Q 2012. This model was later developed with the help of Labs Analysis and Optimization Organization, and used as Hetnet Analysis and Resource Planning tool, which was a finalist for the Fierce Innovation Awards 2013
• The AT&T Innovation Pipeline Executive Challenge Second Prize for solution to ``How can AT&T leverage our network and technology to provide Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research Organizations with advanced tools for clinical trials in both the US and abroad?", 2011
• Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship for demonstrating the highest scholarly excellence, Princeton University, 2009. For the profile of this years fellows, have a look here. This fellowship has been awarded to an Electrical Engineering Graduate student after 13 years.
• Honorable Mention, Princeton Research Symposium, Poster Contest, 2009
• Teaching Award for Signal Analysis and Communication Systems, 2008.
• Princeton Fellowship, 2005.
• Sridhar Memorial Prize for being the best student of B.Tech. final year on academic performance during the preceding three years in Electrical Engineering, 2005.
• Certificate of merit for academic excellence in the undergraduate program thrice in consecutive years 2001-2002, 2002-2003 and 2003-2004.

News Mentions

• Understanding the Science Behind Small Cell Deployment : My work was presented as a feature story for AT&T Research. In addition, this work got news coverage from Fierce Wireless and Light Reading. This work was a finalist for Fierce Innovation Awards 2013 , which takes a look at some of the overall trends in the new era of innovation and selects top innovations in the industry.
• Princeton honors top students at Alumni Day, Princeton news.
• The Daily Princetonian, Feb 2010 for the Jacobus Fellowship. Newsletter can be accessed here.
• Princeton Equad News, Summer 2009 for the Jacobus Fellowship. Full magazine can be accessed here.
• Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University.
• The MITRE Digest for collaboration with MITRE.

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