Honours and Awards

Professional/Academic (for extra-curricular, scroll down)

• REDI BridgeTech Scholarship from MTP Connect Australia AUD 10,000 to work on AI for Proteomics [Link]


• Advanced Queensland Mid Career Industry Research Fellowship AUD 300,000 with an additional AUD 300,000 matched funding from QIMR-Berghofer and BrizBrain & Spine Neurosurgery clinic, Wesley, for my research + commercialization project: brAIn: Enabling Precision Treatment for Brain Cancers using Artificial Intelligence" (2020--2023) [Award]


• Selected into MTP Connect BridgeTech for medical technology commercialization programme 2020


• Presentation appreciation award, 13th Indo-Australian Biotechnology Conference "Omics in Health", Brisbane, Australia (Oct 2017).


• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar-in-Training Award (USD 1,000) - Supported by Susan G. Komen® - based on Abstract selection to attend the 2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2015, San Antonio, Texas, USA (08 - 12 Dec 2015) [Award letter] [CME certificate]


• Competitive travel award (AUD 1,600) from the Ian Potter Foundation (Australia) to attend San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2015, San Antonio, Texas, USA (08 - 12 Dec 2015) [Award letter]


• Post-doctoral work highlighted by Research Media (EU), International Innovation, issue 131:89-91, 2014 [Read here]


• Travel funding (AUD 1,000) from Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, to present at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference, Suzhou, China (Sep 2013)


• Travel award (JPY 50,000) from Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi) to present at Genome Informatics (GIW), Yokohama, Japan (Dec 2009) [Award letter]


• Competitive travel award (USD 500) from International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) to present at International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Florida, USA (Dec 2008)
  [Award letter] | [Receiving award from Prof Tan Chew Lim at ICPR 2008] [Award mention] **PREMIA (IAPR Singapore) selects 4 - 5 best student papers at every ICPR and supports their travel to the conference.


• NUS Research Scholarship (4 years) to pursue doctoral studies at Department of Computer Science (2008 - 2012) [Award letter]
  **Only a very small fraction of students admitted into the PhD programme every year receive the NUS Research Scholarship


• Letters of appreciation from the Heads of IT at Citibank Poland and Czech Republic, Warsaw Poland 2005


• Level-1 Performer award (~ USD 1,800) at Oracle Financial Software Services, Bangalore India 2004
  **One of the few fresh graduates in the whole of iflex to receive this award in the first year of joining [Vouch]


• Qualified and secured 90.67 and 97.23 percentiles in All India Graduate Aptitute Test in Engineering (GATE) (CS) 2002, 2003 [Score card]


• National Institute of Technology (NIT) Academic Proficiency Award for B.Tech. 2002 [Certificate]
  


• NIT University Topper Award (INR 250) for Semester 4 of B.Tech., NIT Calicut India 2001 [Certificate]


• The Reserve Bank of India Golden Jubilee Scholarship (4 years) to pursue B.Tech at NIT 1999-2003 [Certificate]


• Secured rank 1723 out of over 0.15 million candidates in All India IIT JEE Examination 1999


• Merit awards in school 1998, 1999 [Certificate1] | [Certificate2] **Secured highest in Biology in HSC (Std XII) - 96%


• Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Merit Award in All India Senior Secondary Examination (Std X) 1997 [Certificate] | [National Merit Scholarship] | [Award mention] **The only student in the history of the school for having secured 100% in Science until 1997.


• Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation Award for standing 8th in Gujarat state in CBSE Senior Secondary Examination (Std X) 1997 [Certificate] | [Award mention]

• Certificate of Achievement for Tandem Sky Diving from 14,000 feet


• Climber Certificate from Bridge Climb Sydney for climbing to the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge [Certificate]


• Literary and theatre awards during NIT (REC) 1999, 2000 [Certificate 1] | [Certificate 2]


• All India Taekwondo under-14 Bronze Medalist, Kakinada India 1992 [Certificate]
  **Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. I learnt and practiced Taekwondo between 1989 - 1994 in Madras and represented Tamil Nadu state in competitions in the under-14 category.


• South Zone India Taekwondo under-14 Bronze Medalist, IISc Gymkhana, Bangalore India 1991 [Certificate]


• Several awards at school and interschool levels for quizzing, debating, painting and essay writing, 1989 - 1999