Academic Awards and Honors
1. ERC Consolidator Grant in 2019 awarded by European Research Council.
2. ERC Start Grant in 2011 awarded by European Research Council.
3. Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Award in 2011 for outstanding young faculty in
computer science awarded by Microsoft Research.
4. Golden Chalk Award in June 2016 for teaching excellence at IST Austria
5. Ackermann Award in 2008 for PhD Thesis awarded by European Association of
Computer Science Logic (EACSL) for “Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in
Computer Science”, 2008.
6. David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for PhD Thesis (awarded annually for a “truly
outstanding and innovative piece of research documented in written form”), University of California, Berkeley, 2008.
7. President of India Gold Medal (most prestigious academic award in IIT) in the
batch of 2001 for being the best student in order of merit among students of all B.
Tech (Hons) and B. Arch courses in IIT, Kharagpur.
8. Institute Silver Medal for the academic year 2000-2001 for being adjudged the best student in order of merit among students graduating with B. Tech (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Engineering.