Recipient of the 2024 Qualcomm Faculty Award (India)
Ranked #71 globally (career) and #3 (single-year 2020) in Computer Hardware & Architecture in Stanford’s 2021 Top Scientists list; ranked #3 for 2019 in 2020 list
Research on mobile-phone usage detection praised by India’s Education Minister and covered by TOI, Hindu BusinessLine, etc.
Work featured in Phys.org, InsideHPC, SemiEngineering, HPCWire, and other technical media
Invited speaker at ISC 2016 (Germany) in the 'Memory for HPC Systems' session
Best Student Paper Candidate at SC 2014
Developed and open-sourced DESTINY, a memory modeling tool supporting SRAM, eDRAM, STT-RAM, ReRAM, PCM, etc.
ECpE Fellowship ($2500, 2008) and Peer Research Award ($200, 2013) from Iowa State University
Best Student Award from MHS High School, Jaipur (2004); consistent academic topper
Research Experience
Currently Associate Professor at IIT Roorkee and leads the CANDLE research lab
Former researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA; received 'Distinguished Contribution' (2013–2014) and 'Outstanding Contribution' (2014–2015) ratings (top 10%)
Principal investigator for consultancy projects with Bosch India (2024–2025) and TCS Research, India (2022–2025)
Lead of SERB Core Research Grant (2022) and SERB Early Career Research Award (2017)
Involved in SRC USA project on hardware accelerators for autonomous driving (2018)