ABOUT ME

A Brief Background

I was born in Dharwad, Karnataka in 1998, and brought up and educated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. I studied at Chettinad Vidyashram, Chennai right from kindergarten to 12th Grade.

Since my childhood, I was popularly regarded as a gadget freak. As an aspiring technocrat, I firmly believe it is crucial not only to learn, but also understand, implement, develop and embrace technology.

Apart from academics, I take pleasure in shooting videos and editing them. I also maintain a YouTube channel which hosts videos of my projects, interesting tech stuff I work on, and travel montages of places I visit.

Selected Honours, Awards and Fellowships

  • Ranked first in the institute, first in the discipline and received Academic Excellence Awards for securing the highest CGPA in the B.Tech program of IIT Palakkad during the academic years 2016-17, 2017-18 & 2018-19.
  • Recipient of the prestigious IUSSTF Viterbi 2019 Fellowship, awarded annually to 15 students in India to carry out directed research at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, USA.
  • Awarded the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for excellence in basic sciences in 2016.
  • Invited by the Government of India to represent India at the 2018 India-China Youth Conference in Beijing, China.
  • Led a team of five to the Grand Finale of the 2018 Smart India Hackathon, making it to the top 50 among 17,000 teams.
  • Ranked among the top 0.5% of the candidates (in a pool of 1.2 million) in IIT-JEE 2016.
  • Ranked among the top 1% of the candidates in the 2015 National Standard Examination in Physics.
  • Awarded the Scholarship of Excellence in English (SEE) by the British Council in 2015.

“The greatness of a coach is to show the player how capable he is. The greatness of the player is to live up to the capability he has been shown.” - Mahatria Ra