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Awards & Achievements

Recognition for excellence and dedication

Awards

Tech & Innovation

Crest Award Gold

Awarded the Crest Award Gold for outstanding achievement in STEM innovation and community impact through the Recompose project.

Sep 2025

Crest Award Gold

2nd Place Prize at Big Red Hacks($200)

The Lawrenceville School AI Council

Apr 2025

2nd Place Prize ($200) for our project Educade.

2nd Place Big Red Hacks

Best Education Hack

PantherHack (Princeton Day School)

Apr 2025

Best Education Hack award at PantherHack 2025.

Best Education Hack

Special Award for Psychology

American Psychological Association

Mar 2025

Awarded for the Recompose project at the Mercer Science and Engineering Fair.

APA Special Award for Psychology

3rd Place Prize

Mercer Science and Engineering Fair

Mar 2025

Third Place Prize at the Mercer Science and Engineering Fair.

Mercer Science Fair 3rd Place

Best Social Hack

PantherHack

May 2024

Best Social Hack award at PantherHack 2024.

Best Social Hack

HackBAC 24 3rd Place Prize ($500)

HackBAC

Mar 2024

Award given to 3rd place prize at HackBAC 24. Selected to participate from school.

HackBAC 3rd Place

UPenn PClassic First Place Team

UPenn

Dec 2023

Award for the first place team at the national PClassic coding competition in UPenn, with over 300 participants.

First Place in Hardware at PDS Hackathon

PDS Hackathon

2023

Given to the best hardware hack at the PDS Hackathon 2023 with over 150 participants.

First Place Hardware

Service & Leadership

Daily Point of Light

Recognized as a Daily Point of Light by the Points of Light Foundation for volunteer service and community leadership through Jdable nonprofit.

Dec 2025

Daily Point of Light

Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award

PVSA

Aug 2024

Award for completing more than a hundred hours of service over a year.

Gold PVSA

PDS Silver Service Award

Princeton Day School

2023

The service award given to students who complete more than 75 hours of service within one year.

PDS Silver Service Award

Other Achievements

Rural and Small Town Recognition Award

College Board

2025

Recognized by the College Board for academic achievement as a student from a rural or small-town community.

Rural and Small Town Recognition Award

Outstanding Achievement - Theatre Night Awards Foxy Nominees

Montclair State University

Apr 2024

Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Student Stage Crew for a Play and nomination for 2024 Theatre Night Awards. House manager for 'The Fastest Women Alive'.

Foxy Award Link

Publications

Recompose: Cognitive Composting

Journal: International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

Oct 8, 2025

A real-time vision and behavioral feedback system to reduce food waste. Combines depth vision with behavioral science and showed a 36.9% reduction during a five-day school pilot.

Smart Cane for Vision-Impaired Navigation

Conference: MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC)

Aug 22, 2025

An IoT assistive navigation tool integrating real-time computer vision with RT-DETRv3-R50 model and Intel RealSense depth sensing, achieving mAP of 53.4% and ~150ms latency.

Patents

Affordable Braille Keyboard for the Visually Impaired

Office: Indian Patent Office

Issued: Jan 10, 2025

Publication No.: 202541000052

2025

An affordable braille keyboard merging custom 3D-printed keycaps with refurbished laptop keyboards, keeping production under $10.

Jdable Navilo: Multi-Sensor Autonomous Wheelchair

Office: Indian Patent Office

Publication No.: 202511095332 A

2025

An autonomous wheelchair system integrating modular hardware, multi-sensor fusion, and open-source robotics software for intelligent mobility assistance.

Certifications

MATLAB Onramp

Issuer: MathWorks

Skill: MATLAB

Completed

Certificate of Appreciation

Title: Panelist for AI and Safe Progress

Issuer: Student Internet Governance Forum

Jul 2023

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