🎤 Speaking Engagements

• Sustainable Energy for All: One of the speakers on the “Mainstreaming Gender & Youth for SDG7: Challenges and Opportunities for Young Women Entering the Workforce” panel during the 79th United Nations General Assembly (New York City, United States, 2024)

• NASA South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative Meeting: Presented a poster on Automated Coastline Extraction from Satellite Imagery using Machine Learning Techniques (New Delhi, India, 2024)

• Imperial College London - Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment One of four youth activists and speakers on “Women in STEM Seminar: Public Engagement with Climate Science" (Virtual, 2021)

• Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum GOALS for Girls Summer Technology and Engineering Program (Virtual, 2021)

• Youthtopia World Co-hosted a workshop on “Invention for Change” (Virtual, 2021)

• MAKERS Conference, India: One of the speakers on the “STEM Mindset: The Key to A Better Future for Girls in India” panel (Virtual, 2021)

• Dawson Summer Initiative (DSI) Virtual inaugural speaker for DSI in Boulder, Colorado (Virtual, 2021)

• Global Awareness Movement Panel on Climate Change and Climate Justice (Virtual, 2020)

• Global Innovation and Youth Leaders Summit Delivered a keynote on “Navigating the Innovation and Changemaking Spheres as a BIPOC Woman in STEM” (Virtual, 2020)

• Kyoorius Designyatra 2019 Youngest among 26 speakers at India’s largest design and innovation conference; spoke about design thinking and sustainable design. Shared the stage alongside accomplished designers like David Carson, Timothy Goodman, and Paul Sahre (Goa, India, 2019)

🏅 Awards

• Erasmus Mundus Scholar Recipient of the highly prestigious scholarship awarded by the European Commission (2024)

• Audi Environmental Foundation Scholar to attend the One Young World Summit in Manchester, UK (2022)

• 2020 Global Teen Leader of the We Are Family Foundation for work in sustainable urban development (2020)

• Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (erstwhile National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement) Received the highest civilian honor for Indian citizens under the age of 18, for exceptional achievements in the field of innovation from the President and Prime Minister of India (2019)

• College Board India Scholar Merit-cum-needs scholarship for high-achieving students in India (2020)

• The Mars Generation 24 under 24 Leaders and Innovators in STEAM and Space (2020)

• Grand Winner of the Infosys Science Foundation Nutrition Challenge (2019)

• Grand Winner of the United Technologies Future of Buildings and Cities Challenge (2018)

• Grand Winner of the Big Data Challenge sponsored by Medidata, Regeneron, and STEM Fellowship (2018)