Talks, Awards & Service
Invited Talks & Presentations
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2026
Matching Rates and Optimal Allocation for Federated Probe-Logit Distillation
Poster, Conference on Statistical Foundations of AI (CSFAI), University of California, Santa Barbara
★ Travel Award
Poster, Statistics and Trustworthy AI for Cross (X)-Domain Acceleration (STAI-X), Harvard University
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2025
Most Powerful Test with Exact Family-Wise Error Rate Control: Necessary Conditions and a Path to Fast Computing
Invited talk, Optimisation for Statistics and Learning session, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Poster, Georgia Statistics Day, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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2025
LLmFPCA-detect: LLM-powered Multivariate Functional PCA for Anomaly Detection in Sparse Longitudinal Texts
Poster, Student Research Showcase, INFORMS Regional Analytics Conference (IRAC), Atlanta, GA
★ 2nd Place Paper Award
Awards & Honors
- 2026Top Reviewer, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- 2026Travel Award, Conference on Statistical Foundations of AI (CSFAI), University of California, Santa Barbara
- 20252nd Place Paper Award, Student Research Showcase, INFORMS Regional Analytics Conference (IRAC), Atlanta
- 2021 – 22Stewart Topper Fellowship Award, Georgia Tech (first-year Ph.D. academic performance)
- 2019Dr. P. V. Sukhatme Memorial Award, IIT Bombay (M.Sc. Rank 1)
- 2019All-India Rank 26, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Statistics
- 2018Pfizer Scholarship, IIT Bombay (M.Sc. first-year Rank 1)
- 2017All-India Rank 7, IIT Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (IIT JAM), Mathematical Statistics
- 2017Swami Asaktananda Award, University of Calcutta (highest B.Sc. academic distinction)
- 2016, 17Summer Research Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences (one of 65 in 2016 and 72 in 2017, in mathematics)
Teaching, Mentoring & Service
Teaching
Head Teaching Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech ISyE (2021 – 2025):
- ISyE 7406, Data Mining & Statistical Learning (graduate, 300+ students). TA: Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025 · Instructor: Prof. Xiaoming Huo
- ISyE 6414, Statistical Modeling & Regression Analysis (graduate, 300+ students). Head TA: Fall 2022, Spring 2023 · TA: Summer 2022 · Instructor: Prof. Nicoleta Serban
- ISyE 2027, Probability with Applications (undergraduate). Student Assistant: Fall 2021, leading tutoring sessions
Mentoring
- Kareena Mehta, undergraduate, Georgia Tech (Computer Science), Summer 2026
- Kevin Li, undergraduate, Washington University in St. Louis (Finance & Data Science), Summer 2026 and Fall 2026
Service
Conference reviewer (2023 – present):
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
★ Top Reviewer, NeurIPS 2026