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Scholarships and Awards

2022

Finalist for UMD Innovation of the Year Award

By Innovate UMD for our work on DeepFake Detection

2022

Outstanding Research Assistant Award

For AY 2021-22 by The Graduate School

2022

Adobe Research Fellowship Award

2021

Rising Stars 2021 EECS Workshop

Selected and Invited to participate in the Academic Career Workshop for Women, hosted virtually at MIT (October'21)

2021

CRA Grad Cohort for Women

Selected for attending (held virtually)

2021

Grace Hopper Celebration

Selected and Funded by Iribe Initiative for Diversity and Inclusion in Computing for attending in Orlando, Florida, USA (held virtually)

2021

Finalist for UMD Innovation of the Year Award

By Innovate UMD for our work on Multimodal and Context-Aware Emotion Perception

2020

Grace Hopper Celebration

Selected and Funded by Iribe Initiative for Diversity and Inclusion in Computing for attending in Orlando, Florida, USA (held virtually)

2019

Grace Hopper Celebration

Selected and Funded by Iribe Initiative for Diversity and Inclusion in Computing for attending in Orlando, Florida, USA

2017

The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS)

2014

Director's Merit List

For semester Fall 2013 and Spring 2018 in International Institute of information Technology, Bangalore

2009

National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship

Awarded by National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), India

Professional Service

Conference Reviewer

ACM MM 2021, ACM MM 2022, AAAI 2023, CVPR 2021, CVPR 2022, CVPR 2023, ECCV 2022, ICASSP 2023, ICCV 2021, WACV 2023, ICRA 2021

Journal Reviewer

EURASIP 2021, PeerJ Computer Science 2021, PeerJ Computer Science 2023, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2021, RA-L 2020, IEEE MM-CS 2021

Conference Volunteer

GHC 2019, AAAI 2020, GHC 2022

Teaching

Summer 2021

Project Co-lead at AI4ALL UMD Camp

Led a 2 week long project on 'Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data' for 5-6 high school students. Introduced them to various aspects of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

University of Maryland, College Park

Supervision: Prof. Dinesh Manocha

Spring 2021

Girls Who Code, UMD Chapter

Volunteered as a Python TA for the semester for the UMD Chapter of Girls Who Code.

University of Maryland, College Park

Spring 2019

CMSC 250

Led a Discussion session of 30 students twice a week covering concepts and discussing questions. Also, hold office hours 4 hrs every week.

University of Maryland, College Park

Course Instructor: Prof. Clyde Kruskal

Fall 2018

CMSC 250

Led a Discussion session of 40 students twice a week covering concepts and discussing questions. Also, held office hours 4 hrs every week.

University of Maryland, College Park

Course Instructor: Jason Filippou

Outreach

Technical Writing

Contributed articles for Skynet Today and Last Week in AI .

Following are some of the articles=

  • 1. Crashes caused by Tesla Autopilot are piling up, and there are consequences (Also featured on Weekly Robotics newsletter).
  • 2. Clearview AI is creating facial recognition at a massive scale, and concerns abound
  • 3. AI Fuels the Writers Strike with Concerns for Job Security.