WORK EXPERIENCE:

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: