Young Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), 2020.
Kavli Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, 2020.
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2019.
Sloan Fellowship, 2019.
NSF CAREER Award, 2017.
NSF CRII Award, 2015.
Google Faculty Research Award, 2016.
Yahoo Academic Enhancement Award, 2015.
Simons Berkeley Research Fellow, 2015.
Published numerous papers in top-tier venues including SODA, NeurIPS, ICML, FOCS, and STOC; some works received oral presentations (e.g., ICML 2024, 1.5% acceptance rate).
Research Experience
Currently The Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), affiliated with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.
Director of the National NSF TRIPODS Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science (EnCORE).
Previously a tenured Associate Professor at the University of California Berkeley.
Earlier served on the Computer Science faculty at UMass Amherst.
Former Senior Research Scientist at the AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory.
Affiliate faculty at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.