• Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, for AUVSI XPONENTIAL - 2025
• Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, for AIAA - 2025
• Splinter’s Fellowship Award, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2024
• Conference Fund, School of Computing, University of Nebraska - Lincoln,for AIAA - 2022
• Chancellor's Fellowship Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2019
• Student Research Travel Award Mississippi State University, for IELSX - 2018
• Conference Fund, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Mississippi State University,for ICCAS - 2017

• Accepted for Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) PhD Forum, 2025
• Got selected for the Nebraska I-Corps (Great Lakes region of NSF I-Corps) program
• Got selected for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Idea Challenge, AIAA SciTech, 2025
• Got selected for CPS Rising Stars Workshop (36 members got selected out of 220 applicants) awarded and sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), ACM SIGBED, & University of Vriginia, 2024
• 2nd place in Division Speech Contests, District 24, Toastmasters, 2024
• 1st place in Area Speech Contests, District 24, Toastmasters, 2024
• Triple Crown Achievement, Toastmaters, 2023
• 1st place in Advanced Robotics Competition, ASABE Robotics Competition, 2022.
• 3rd place in Most Educational Level Achievements, Toastmasters, 2021.
• Triple Crown Educational Achievement, Toastmasters, 2021.
• Outstanding Toastmaster, Toastmasters, 2020.
• Triple Crown Educational Achievement, Toastmasters, 2020.
• Got 4th rank in the ranking system of SYSS, whose aim is to identify the rural background merit students.
• Selected for RGUKT 6 year integrated B.Tech course among all the SSC pass students in our state.

• Research Shows How AI-Driven Systems Enhance Drone Functionality, Featured in Commerical UAV News, Dec 2024, News Link .
• UNL Robotics Team, Featured in ASABE Nebraska section newsletter, Aug 2022.
• Student robotics team takes first at international competition, Bits and Bytes ( UNL School of Computing) News, August 2022, News Link .
• Student robotics team takes first at international competition, UNL News, August 2022, News Link .
• Spotlight on a Toastmaster, Featured in Double Dozen (District 24 Toastmasters News Letter), October 2021, News Link .
• Improving Virtual Reality, Featured in Mississippi State University's State Spotlight, January 2019, News Link .

AIAA

• Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) ncrewed and Autonomous Systems Integration Committee (UASIC), May 2025 - Present
• Friend of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Technical Committee (ISTC), Jan 2024 - Present

IEEE

• IEEE Nebraska Computers Chapter Chair, Jan 2024 - Present
• IEEE Nebraska Computers Chapter Vice Chair, Jan 2021 - Dec 2023.
• Judge, Nebraska High School State Robotics Championship, 2022
• Judge, Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair (GNSEF), 2021

Toastmasters

• Division Director, Division C - District 24 Toastmasters, Jul 2022 - Jun 2023.
• President, EC Speakers, Jul 2022 - Jun 2023.
• Area Director, C23 - District 24 Toastmasters, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022.
• President, Capitol Voices Club, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022.
• President, Strictly Speaking Club, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022.
• Co-Contest Chair, Area C21 & C24 Speech contest, 2021.
• Area Director, C24 - District 24 Toastmasters, Jul 2020 - Jun 2021.
• Vice President (Education), Capitol Voices Toastmasters Club, Jul 2020 - Jun 2021.
• Vice President (Education), Strictly Speaking Toastmasters Club, Jul 2020 - Jun 2021.
• Vice President (Membership), Capitol Voices Toastmasters Club, Nov 2019 - Jun 2020.

Talks

• Towards Co-Design of Perception and Control for UAS-UAS Tracking, UNL Graduate Symposium, UNLAutonomous Agent Workshop, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 2022.
• Towards Co-Design of Deep learning based perception and Feedback Control, UNLAutonomous Agent Workshop, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 2021.

Selected Toastmasters Speeches

• Autonomous UAV to UAV Landing", Capitol Voices, Lincoln, December 2021.
• Implementing UAS-UAS Tracking with Deep Learning, Strictly Speaking, Lincoln, October 2020.
• Towards Co-Design of UAS-UAS Tracking, EC Speakers, Lincoln, September 2020.
• Automatic Broiler Mortality Identification using Computer Vision, Lincoln Toastmasters,Lincoln, March 2020.
• Artificial Intelligence: A Friend or Foe?, Capitol Voices, Lincoln, November 2019.

Moderator

• Moderator for the speech "Towards Robust Localization and Mapping in Challenging Conditions" given by Dr. Sebastian Scherer (Associate Research Professor, Robotic Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) at IEEE Nebraska webinars, Oct 2021.
• Moderator for the speech "FPGAs: Current Offerings and Future Opportunities" given by Dr. Miriam Leeser ( Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeaster University) at IEEE Nebraska webinars, Sep 2021.
• Moderator for Presidential and Vice President Election debate at Lincoln Toastmatsters, Apr 2021.
• Moderator for panel discussion on "Leadership", Aug 2020. The panel members are
  • Claire Titus - Divsion C Director, D24 Toastmasters
  • Stacy Carlson - CEO & Founder of Netizenly
  • Candi Sanders - Assistant Vice President, Union Bank
  • Kate High - Supervisor , Nebraska Dept of Health Service; Board Member, Nebraska League of Women Voters

Panelist

• Served as panelist for the panel "How to grow hobbies", moderated by Dr. Tania Biswas, Oct 2020.
• Served as panelist for the panel "Mindfullness", moderated by Dr. Kristin Malek, Jul 2020.

• Judge, Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair (GNSEF), 2021

Reviewer

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Scitech forum,2023.
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Scitech forum,2022.
• 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 2018.
• Internatinoal Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2019.

• Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon
• Student member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• Student member of IEEE - Computer Society
• Student member of IEEE - Robotics & Automation Society
• Student member of IEEE Young Professionals
• Student member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Student member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery)