HONORS/AWARDS
- 2010 UPE/CS Award for Academic
Excellence
by the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society for the
Computing Sciences and the IEEE computer Society
- 2010 Richard E. Merwin Scholarship, as a recognition
of exemplary involvement in student chapter activities, excellent academic
achievement and willingness to act as a student ambassador
- 2009 Distinguished Graduate Achievement
Award, from
the Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of South Florida, Tampa
- Invited Paper in IEEE NANO
Conference, Dallas, Texas, Aug 2008.
- Best Student Paper Award Finalist in top 12 from
320 accepted submissions, IEEE MWSCAS, Aug 2006. Paper title: ‘Combined Integer and Floating Point Multiplication
Architecture (CIFM) for FPGAs and its Reversible Logic Implementation’
- Best Student Paper Award Finalist in top 12 from
320 accepted submissions, IEEE MWSCAS, Aug 2006. Paper title: ‘Reversible Logic to Cryptographic
Hardware: A New Paradigm’
- Travel Grant from IEE/IEEE ISOOC
Conference,
Korean Won 400K, Seoul, South Korea, 2005.
- Grant from State of Uttaranchal, India, INR 100K, for
Vedic mathematics research and travel, 2003.
- S.G.R.R. Trust Tuition Waiver Award, for ranking 1
out of about 165 students in Grades XI and XII
SELECTED INVITED TALKS
- ‘‘Reversible
Logic: From Fundamentals to
Applications in Emerging
Technologies,’ California State University, Fresno, CA, USA, May 2009
- ‘Workshop on
Vedic Mathematics,’ Fresno, CA, USA, May 2009
- ‘Vedic
Mathematics and Its Application in Scientific Research’, IEEE Computer
Society, University of South Florida student Chapter, Nov 2008.
- ‘Testable Reversible Latches for
Molecular QCA’, IEEE NANO 2008, Arlington, TX, Aug 2008.
PROFESSIONAL AND LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
- Editor-in-Chief,
“Channel”, the newsletter of local
chapter IEEE computer society, University of South Florida, Tampa, since
April 2010
- President,
IEEE Computer Society, USF Student
Chapter, since Jan 2010
- Vice
President, IEEE Computer Society, USF Student Chapter, Dec 2008 to Jan
2010.
- Technical
Program Committee Member:
i. PDPTA-International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications-
2009 and 2010
ii. CDES- International
Conference on Computer Design (CDES)- 2008 and 2006
- Local
Arrangements Committee: IEEE
Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2009 (ISVLSI’09), Tampa, May
2009
- Associate
Editor, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Computer
Design and Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2006
- Co-organizer,
First International Workshop on Future Computing Technologies (FC’06), Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2006. Proceedings available online at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/publications/cdes06/index_html