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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 (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021); AAAI(2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021); CVPR(2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021); ECCV(2024, 2022); ICCV(2025, 2023, 2021); ICASSP(2023); WACV(2026, 2025, 2024, 2023); ICRA(2021)

Journal Reviewer

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

Conference Volunteer

GHC 2019, AAAI 2020, GHC 2022

Teaching

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.

Community Building

Serving as the Mentorship and Networking Chair for the WiML Workshop at NeurIPS 2025 Organizing Committee.

Teaching

Volunteered as a RoboticsForAll Teacher (Spring 2024)

Led a 8 week long course on teaching Python to a group of 10 middle school students online.

Teaching

Girls Who Code, UMD Chapter (Spring 2021)

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

University of Maryland, College Park

Teaching/Mentoring

Project Co-lead at AI4ALL UMD Camp (Summer 2021)

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