Awards and Recognitions

• Top Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.

• Top Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020.

• Top Reviewer, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019.

• DST Early Career Research Award, 2018.

• IEEE ITSS Best Ph.D. Dissertation 2014 - Third Prize, awarded by IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS).

• Full oral presentation, Neural Information Processing Systems, 2013, for Actor-Critic Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive MDPs.

• IBM PhD Fellowship, 2012.

Student Awards

• Nirav Bhavsar: Biswajit Sain Memorial Prize for the best MS Thesis, 2021.

• Soumen Pachal: Bro. C. Selvam Endowment Fund Prize, 2026.