Honors and Awards

Divisional Recognition Award
Intel Corporation
Received multiple divisional awards from Logic Technology Development (LTD) and Components Research (CR) for demonstrating excellence, meeting OKRs ahead of the deadline, and driving a material impact on overall project results.

Outstanding Reviewer Award (2018)
IOP Publishing
In recognition of the high quality and timeliness of peer reviews for Journal of Optics. This award is given to a very small number of reviewers who are judged by editorial teams to have provided exceptional service to the journal during the year.

Research Excellence Award (December 2016)
Graduate College, Iowa State University
The award recognizes “the best of the best” graduate students for outstanding research accomplishments as documented in their dissertations. These students are also expected to be academically superior and able to not only do research, but develop a well written product.

SPIE Travel Scholarship (May 2016)
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Awarded US$2000 for prospective long-term contribution that the granting of this scholarship will make to the field of optics and photonics.

Tau Beta Pi Member (April 2015)
Iowa Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi is the engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. Membership is granted based on distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as students in engineering.

Vice Chancellor's Gold Medal (July 2013)
Delhi Technological University, India
First position in the order of merit among the students of Bachelor of Technology (Software Engineering)

Photonics 2012 Best Paper Award (December 2012)
OSA 11th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Paper Title: A Microstructured Dual-Core Dispersion Compensating Fiber Design for Large-Mode-Area and High Negative Dispersion*

Best Paper Award (March 2012)
IEEE Students' Conference on Engineering and Systems, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India
Paper Title: Finite Element Analysis of Solid-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

Best Microtalk Award (December 2011)
OSA IONS-I Conference, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Title of Talk: Analysis of Solid Core Photonic Crystal Fiber using FEM

DTU Merit Scholarship
Delhi Technological University, India
First rank in Software Engineering batch in 4th, 5th and 7th semesters

Certificate of Merit (March 2009)
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
Top 0.1% of all successful candidates in India in subjects of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English in Class XII

State Topper (Punjab State, India)
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII Examination, 2009

Silver Medal Class XII (2009)
National Mathematics Olympiad (conducted by All India Mathematics Teachers' Association, New Delhi)

National Level Rank Holder Class XI and XII (2008 and 2009)
National Science Olympiad (NSO) (conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation, New Delhi)