Awards & Fellowships

  1. Awarded ₹10 lacs under Amrit Grand Challenge JanCare by BIRAC for developing a remote rehabilitation platform for stroke recovery.
  2. Received DBT’s Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship in August 2022 with ₹50 lacs research funding and ₹73 lacs for salary & overheads.
  3. Awarded ₹10 lacs under Nidhi Prayas program from DST for prototyping a post-stroke hand rehabilitation device using neuromuscular stimulation.
  4. Winner of Microchip Technology’s 2020 Get Launched Initiative for creating an open source neurostimulator (NeuroStimDuino) for researchers & hobbyists, available on Crowd Supply.
  5. Finalist in Innovation Pitch Competition held at 2017 National Science Foundation IUCRC Meeting, Arlington. Selected among 4 finalists from 25 contestants.
  6. Finalist for Poster Presentation at 2017 International Symposium on Wearable & Rehabilitation Robotics, Houston.
  7. Led a 2-member team in Coulter College 2016, a 6-months long entrepreneurship program, for commercializing medical devices.We were among the 15 teams, selected from across US.Received $25K fellowship and $2500 travel award from NIH.
  8. Won 3rd prize for poster presentation at 2016 Medical World Americas Conference and Expo, Houston.
  9. Recipient of 2012 Presidential Fellowship and Houston Endowment Fellowship for $3000 from University of Houston.
  10. Completed future faculty program, a two-semester long program to enhance research and teaching skills via grant writing, discussions with distinguished faculty, peer evaluations, course and lecture planning, and mock teaching sessions.