Google

Completed 42 open-source tasks for the Sustainable Computing Research Group, contributing a new mobile application and Chrome extension. Top prize out of 3,500+ contestants from 78 countries.

Impact: One of 26 Grand Prize winners worldwide in 2018. Flown out to Google's San Francisco HQ for the winners' trip.

IIIT Hyderabad

Attended the national selection camp at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. Ranked 14 out of all national applicants after a series of tests and lectures on computational and societal linguistics.

Impact: Bronze at the national camp, ahead of most applicants in the country. Picked up a strong intuition for how languages structure information — directly relevant to NLP work I do today.

Major League Hacking (MLH)

Invited by Alibaba Tianchi to present 'ALM8 — Alzheimer's Mate' in China after the project placed in the top 3 globally on Codechef among 500+ open participants. Continued to Harvard during MLH Week 2019.

Impact: Top 3 finish on the global Codechef platform and a Harvard finals berth in the same year — both as a high schooler.

Central Board of Secondary Education, India

Felicitated by Mr. Anurag Tripathi, CBSE Secretary, and other government dignitaries for the project ALM8. Competed among 10,000+ schools across India.

Impact: National-level recognition for the ALM8 project, awarded in person by senior government officials.