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full CV, pdf →Talks, papers, honors and awards, most recent first.
- Aug 2026Presented work on approximate dynamic programming for truckload freight markets to the Transportation and Mobility Group at Argonne National Laboratory.
- Jul 2026My research on neural embedded mixed-integer optimization was presented at the INFORMS TSL Conference at MIT.
- 2026Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, U.S. Department of Energy.
- 2026Top ten finalist, Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, Global Scholar track.
- 2026Our paper on extreme-scale EV charging infrastructure planning published in Transportation Research Part B.
- 2025–2026IISE Future Faculty Fellow, selected nationally.
- 2025Marcus Graduate Student Scholarship, Penn State, $10,000, one of six awarded from twenty-two nominees.
- 2025Honorable Mention, Poster Award, Penn State AI Hub. [coverage]
- 2025Travel Award, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop.
- 2025Paper accepted at the NeurIPS Workshop on Differentiable Learning of Combinatorial Algorithms.
- 2024Best Paper Award, IISE Logistics and Supply Chain Division.
- 2020Director’s Gold Medal, RGIPT, awarded to one graduating student across all disciplines.
- 2019S. N. Bose Scholar, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, sole petroleum engineering student selected from India. [programme feature]
- 2019DAAD WISE Research Scholarship, Germany.
- 2019AAPG L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Research Grant.
- 2019Second Runner-Up, Best Paper, SPE South Asia Regional Student Paper Contest.