Awards & Grants

Honors, research grants, and grantmaking service

Awards & Honors

2022–2025

  • Spotlight Poster — ICML 2025
  • Best AI Art — CVPR 2024
  • Best Paper — ACM FAccT 2023
  • Best Paper, Runner-Up — ConPro 2022 (IEEE S&P Workshop)

2019

  • Best Poster — ECIR 2019
  • Dean’s Fellowship ($72K) — Northeastern University, for first-year PhD students
  • Institute Order of Merit — Technology — IIT Kharagpur

2016–2017

  • Best Internship Project — Xerox Research Centre (2017)
  • Silver Medal, Stock Market Analysis — Inter IIT Tech Meet, Kanpur (2017)
  • Gold Medal, Software Development — Inter IIT Tech Meet, Mandi (2016)

2010–2012

  • Governor’s Medal, National Rank 5, ICSE Board — Government of West Bengal (2012)
  • NTSE Scholar — National Talent Search Examination, NCERT (2010)

Received Grants

2025–2026

  • SFA Research Grant ($9K) — UConn School of Fine Arts (2026). Co·Agents: The Filipino Diaspora Pilot — A Multi-Agent System for Cross-Cultural Democratic Deliberation.
  • UCHI AI Seed Fund ($6K) — UConn Humanities Institute (2025). Beyond Polarization: Fostering Plurality in Large Language Model Design and Development.

2018

  • SGSIS Institute Challenge Grant (₹1M) — IIT Kharagpur

Grantmaking & Stewardship

2026

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