I am fortunate to have been mentored by several outstanding people, and have the fortune of mentoring several outstanding students. Thanks to them for everything.
- 2025 ASU Founders’ Day Award, for Research Excellence.
- 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.
- 2024 X-Prize (Rainforest Challenge), as part of Team Limelight.
- Spotlight paper (Poly-INR, top 10% of accepted papers or top 2.5% of submissions), CVPR 2023.
- Best Paper Award, Deep Learning meets Geometric Computing workshop (DLGC) 2023.
- CVPR 2023 Art Gallery Highlight Reel.
- Best paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2021.
- Outstanding Reviewer Mention, CVPR 2019.
- Top 5% Teaching Award 2019.Fulton Schools of Engineering,
- National Science Foundation, CAREER award 2015.
- Best paper award, Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop, 2015.
- IEEE Outstanding Faculty, Phoenix Section, 2016.
- Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Maryland, 2009.
- NSF Travel Award for CVPR Doctoral Consortium, 2009.
- Emerging Leader in Multimedia, IBM Corporation, 2008.
- Institute Silver Medal, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2004.
Research Grants
Some of the major research grants I have received are summarized here.
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