Awards and achievements
- Distinctive Excellence, Circuit Cellar AVR Design Contest - 2006 for Shaft Encoder
- Awarded 1st position in 'Original hardware' at Innovision 2006, NSIT
- Awarded 1st position in 'AVR Challenge' at Innovision 2006-07, NSIT
- Awarded 1st position in '8085 Programming' at gates2k7, GTBIT
- Awarded 2nd position in 'Pre-defined Hardware' at Innovision 2006, NSIT
- Awarded merit scholarship at NSIT amounting to full tuition fee waiver
- 34th Rank in CEE – 2004 (out of ~65000 applicants), the annual entrance examination for admission to undergraduate programs in the University of Delhi
Extra-curricular activities
- Sugarlabs FOSS community building: Mentoring a group of students from various colleges to get involved in the Sugarlabs FOSS project.
- Embedded systems workshops: Conducted two Atmel AVR microcontoller based embedded systems workshops attended by over 200 people.
- Amateur astronomy and Amateur Telescope Making (ATM): Hand-figured an eight inch (diameter) f/7.4 parabolic mirror and built a Dobsonian telescope.
- Unconventional webcam (Lucky imaging) and DSLR Astrophotography
- Co-founder of Innovation for Social Change: A non profit organization committed to the betterment of society through innovation.
- Also, I tend to do photography whenever I get the time.