Fellowships, Awards, & Achievements


  • Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024
  • Early Career Research Program Award, U.S. Department of Energy, 2023
  • Three papers in highly cited papers list, Web of Science, 2022
  • Recognized as Google Developer Expert for Earth Engine, Google, 2022
  • Outstanding poster presentation as scored by peer-reviewers/other poster presenters, second place, Yale Climate Day, 2021
  • Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, 2021 (Declined)
  • Esri Innovation Program Student of the Year, Yale University, 2021
  • Teaching Innovation Project Grant, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, 2020
  • Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 2020
  • YIBS Fellowship, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 2020
  • Honorable mention for excellent presentation, American Meteorological Society AI for Environmental Science Conference, 2020
  • Conference Travel Fellowship, Yale Graduate Student Assembly, 2017, 2018, & 2019
  • FES Doctoral Travel Grant, Yale School of the Environment, 2017, 2018, & 2019
  • Climate Change Innovation Seed Grant, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, 2019
  • Dean's Fund for Research Workshops, Seminars and Colloquia, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Yale University, 2019
  • AI for Good summit attendance sponsorship, Microsoft, 2019
  • AI for Earth Azure Compute Grant, Microsoft, 2019
  • ComSciCon-AIP workshop attendance funding, American Institute of Physics, 2019
  • Digital Education Innovation Grant, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, 2019
  • Outstanding Poster, Yale Climate Day, 2019
  • CESM tutorial attendance funding, U.S. Department of Energy, 2018
  • Graduate student small allocation compute grant, Computational & Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2018
  • FES YIBS Research Grant, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 2017 & 2018
  • Funding to host data science workshops at Data 2.0 Hackathon, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, 2018
  • FES Doctoral Travel Grant, Yale School of the Environment, 2018
  • Full Silver Scholarship, Open Data Science Conference, East, 2018
  • Doctoral Pilot Grant, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 2017
  • 5-year doctoral fellowship, Yale School of the Environment, 2016
  • Academic Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014
  • 2-year Master's scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India, 2013
  • All-India Rank of 195 (99.71 percentile among over 67000 examinees), Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, Civil Engineering, 2013

    Leadership & Activities


  • Organizing Committee, HydroML Symposium, 2024
  • Session convener, Solar Radiation Modification, Clouds, Aerosols, and their Impacts on the Biosphere and Earth System, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2024
  • Session convener, Enhancing Geospatial Analysis with Google Earth Engine: Innovations, Applications, and Extensions, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2024
  • Session chair, Analysis and Modeling of Coastal Urban Environments, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2024
  • Session co-chair, Healthy Cities Under Climate Change, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2024
  • Session convener, Urban Areas and Global Change, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2021, 2022, 2023 (primary convener)
  • Session convener, Representing Urban Processes and Dynamics in Models Across Scales, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2023
  • Session convener, Compound Climate Hazards, Urbanization, and Public Health, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2023
  • Session convener, Integrated assessments of urban climate: Urban climate vulnerability in developing countries, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, 2023
  • Community Scientist , American Geophysical Union's Thriving Earth Exchange project on Assessing Heat Vulnerability in Olympia, WA, 2023
  • Session convener, Biosphere under ozone, changing aerosols, clouds, and solar radiation modification, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2023
  • Session co-chair, Blending Artificial Intelligence with Numerical Weather and Climate Models, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2021
  • Guest editor, Special issue "Coupling between Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands: Implications for Heat Stress" of the journal 'Sustainability', 2020 - 2021
  • Co-host, Earth Engine Virtual Meetup, 2020
  • Member of steering committee, Yale GIS Day, 2020
  • Founder and co-lead, Geospatial Colloquium at Yale, 2019 - 2020
  • Departmental representative, Graduate Student Assembly, Yale University, 2019 - 2020
  • Workshop organizer and member of organizing team, Yale GIS Day, 2018 - 2019
  • Co-founder and co-lead, Google Earth Engine working group at Yale University, 2017 - 2019
  • Transit & Safety session lead, Graduate Student's Orientation, Yale University, 2019
  • Organizor, workshop instructor, and hackathon mentor, Yale-NUS Data 2.0, 2018
  • Session co-chair, Google Earth Engine lightning talks session, Connecticut GIS Day 2017
  • Students' Senate representative, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee, Indian Insitute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014 - 2015
  • Postgraduate representative, Society of Civil Engineers, Indian Insitute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014 - 2015
  • Cultural secretary, Hall 8, Indian Insitute of Technology, Kanpur, 2013 - 2014