Awards/Honors
- Best Talk Award – JSMBS Research Day, 2024
- NETER Award Finalist and Second Prize Talk Winner – 35th Annual Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis, 20252018: Recipient of Taiwan Education Experience Program@ASIA Fellowship.
- 2018: Gold Medalist for the graduating class of 2018, Department of Microbiology, Pondicherry University, India.
- 2017: Recipient of INSA Summer Research Fellowship 2017 for early-start research opportunity, India.
Graduate School Activities
- Founder and Organizer- The Microbial Code: A Bioinformatics Initiative. It is a student-driven bioinformatics upskilling club held biweekly that bridges wet-lab and computational biology, teaching essential tools, fostering peer learning, and supporting members’ own research and career goals.
- International Student Consultant, PPBS Ambassador program
- Vice President, GSA Micro Club
- GEM Science Ambassador
- Tutor, Buffalo Elementary School of Technology, Buffalo
- Student member, DEI Committee, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Extracurricular Interests
Rowing a crew 8, Baking, Scriptwriting and Cinematography, Hiking