Awards & Honors
A selection of awards and honors I’ve received throughout my academic career.
| Award | Organization | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finalist, Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2026 | UNC Graduate School | Oct 2026 | One of 10 finalists selected university-wide, for the talk Admitted, and still waiting… [Announcement] |
| Second Place, Poster Competition | Data Science Day 2026, School of Data and Information Sciences (SDIS), UNC Chapel Hill | Sep 2026 | For the poster Proactive Inpatient Bed Requests for Emergency Department Admissions, joint work with Qian Cheng, Nilay Tanik Argon, and Serhan Ziya [Poster] |
| First Place, Poster Competition | YinzOR 2026 Student Conference, CMU INFORMS Student Chapter | Aug 2026 | For the poster Proactive Inpatient Bed Request Policies for Emergency Departments, joint work with Qian Cheng, Nilay Tanik Argon, and Serhan Ziya [Poster] |
| Honorable Mention, Tom Ten Have Poster Competition | American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC) 2026 | May 2026 | For the latebreaker poster Estimation of a Common Local Average Treatment Effect with Multiple Instruments, joint work with Patrick Lopatto and P. M. Aronow |
| Best Methodological Rigor | Center for AI and Public Health (CAIPH) Datathon 2026, UNC Chapel Hill | Mar 2026 | For Machine Learning-Based Heterogeneous Causal Effects of SDOH on Cardiovascular Health Across Sociodemographic Characteristics [Certificate] [Slides] |
| Dr. Xin Ge Graduate Student Excellence Award | UNC Chapel Hill | Dec 2025 | Recognizing the best-performing first-year PhD student in the Statistics and Operations Research department (see page 15 of the department newsletter) |
| All India Rank 10, ISI M.Stat. Entrance Examination | Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) | May 2022 | Nationwide ranking among all applicants |
| Shriram Scholarship | Chennai Mathematical Institute | Aug 2019 | Full tuition waiver and monthly stipend for all six semesters |
| KVPY Fellow (SX & SA streams) | Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India | 2018, 2019 | |
| National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholar | National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) | 2017 | |
| Global 3rd Prize, NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest | International Space Development Conference | May 2015 | Presented in Toronto, Canada |