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Updated October 2025

Education

Projects

Work

  • 2021 - 2021

    Kanpur, India

    Research Associate
    Applied Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory
    Designed an intuitive GUI to display data from a gas pipeline health monitoring robot (PHMR), for a project commissioned by the Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL).
  • 2018 - 2019

    Kanpur, India

    Research Assistant
    Role of Object's Self Relevance in Attentional Guidance
    Designed and conducted behavioral experiments to understand the role of an object’s self-relevance when used as a distractor in visual search paradigms.
  • 2017 - 2017

    Hyderabad, India

    Research Intern
    Tribological Characterization and Coating Deposition
    Utilized a tribometer to characterize frictional properties of various coatings

Awards

  • July 2025
    Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute Fellow
    Templeton World Charity Foundation
    Vibrant network of early-career scholars who are devoted to bold, transdisciplinary inquiry into the origins, nature, and future of intelligences.
  • March 2025
    Kuczaj Memorial Travel Grant
    National Marine Mammal Foundation
    Awarded to students attending the Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3), administered in memory of Dr. Stan Kuczaj, who was a leader in the study of comparative animal cognition, and believed in pursuing challenging topics in human and animal cognition with rigor, candor, and the spirit of intellectual adventure.
  • September 2024
    Donald M. and Janet C. Barnard Fellowship
    University of Rochester
    Awarded by the School of Arts, Sciences & Engineering in recognition of achievements in research, mentoring, outreach, and service
  • October 2023
    Best Research Talk
    University of Rochester
    Best Talk at Gradaute Research Day