- 2024: Fourth promotion in three years at Microsoft as an AI Scientist
- 2023: Third promotion in two years at Microsoft as an AI Scientist
- 2022: Ranked #1, NIST (US Gov.) TRECVid DVU: Multimodal Semantic Understanding
- 2021: Ranked #1, ACM Grand Challenge: (Multimodal Semantic) Deep Video Understanding
- 2020: Ranked #3, ACM Grand Challenge: (Multimodal Semantic) Deep Video Understanding
- 2019: Graduate Class Marshal (for demonstrating academic achievements), Columbia University
- 2018: CA Fellow (full tuition waiver for exceptional performance), Columbia University
- 2018: PDL Fellow (leadership), Columbia University
- 2018: Career Chair, Engineering Graduate Student Council, Columbia University
- 2018: Met with Trustees (on shaping future curriculum), Columbia Engineering
- 2018: Featured in Uber’s tech blog, Uber
- 2017: Admits : MS+PhD (Purdue), MS (Columbia), MS (UPenn), MS (UMass Amherst)
- 2016: Silver Award, Innovation: Pioneering with a purpose, Visa Inc.
- 2014: All India Rank 58, Codechef’s Algorithm April Long Challenge
- 2014: Honorary Mention, Goldman Sachs Quantify
- 2013: Asia Rank 79 ACM ICPC (Amritapuri Regionals Onsite)
- 2011: All India Rank 104, National Cyber Olympiad
- 2011: Certificate of Merit, National Physics Olympiad, India
- 2010: All India Rank 139, National Science Talent Search Examination
- 2010: All India Rank 324, National Cyber Olympiad
- 2009: State Rank 2nd in Orissa State Talent Search Examination, India
- 2008: All India Rank 354, National Science Olympiad
- 2007: Top 2% in the country, Computer Skills, University of New South Wales, Australia