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I try to mentor people from time to time, either through programs like GSoC or elsewhere. My work has fetched me what they call awards, etc. This page has an account of all that and a bit more.
Mentorship
- Launchpad Women Entrepreneurs (2019)
- Explore ML Academy, Hyderabad (2019)
- AI Hack Tunisia (2019)
- Class III (2019) of Launchpad Accelerator India (Tweet by GoogleDevsIN)
- Google Code-in for TensorFlow through December, 2019 - January 2020 (Certificate)
- Build For Digital India Bootcamps through January 2020 - February 2020 (Tweet by GoogleDevsIN)
- Explore ML Bootcamp, Hyderabad (2020) (Tweet by GoogleDevsIN)
- Google for Startups MENA Accelerator 2020 (this was formerly known as Launchpad)
- Google for Startups India Accelerator 2020, 2021
- Google Summer of Code mentor for TensorFlow:
- 2021 students: Aditya Kane and Vasudev Gupta 1
- 2022 students: Aditya Kane
- Deep Learning Indaba. Various university students from Africa since the mentorship program is Africa-focused (2021- 2022).
- Google for Startups India Women Founders Accelerator (2022).
- Mentored at KaggleX BIPOC 2023. Here is my certificate.
- Mentored Yatharth Gupta and Vishnu V. Jaddipal during the development of SSD-1B.
Apart from the occasions mentioned above, I have mentored individual students and sometimes, professionals. But I don’t have any recorded documents for these. I enjoy sharing my learnings with those in need and, in turn, learning from them.
Awards and recognition
- Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award for technical contributions to different Google products
- Led our team at PyImageSearch to the Top 10 at this CVPR 2021 competition. Paper is here.
- Finished 2nd (with Siddha Ganju) at this competition (2021) organized by the NASA Impact team (Certificate).
- Got full sponsorships from Google (ML Developer Programs Team) to attend the ML Community Summits (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026) for my technical contributions in the open-source community.
- Received (sometimes jointly) the #TFCommunitySpotlight award multiple times for projects with varying use-cases, tooling, and motivation. Details in the following tweets by TensorFlow: Tweet 1, Tweet 2, Tweet 3, Tweet 4, Tweet 5, Tweet 6, Tweet 7, Tweet 8, Tweet 9, Tweet 10, and Tweet 11.
- Top 10 at Applied Roots Blogathon 2021.
- Intel Top Innovator Award (2019).
- Google Cloud Innovator (Champion tier).
- Top Regional Contributor from India for TensorFlow, 2021. Blog post and Tweet from TensorFlow.
- Received NeurIPS 2021 AI4Science Workshop Travel Grant for this work.
- Google OSS Expert Prize
- Top Contributor to Papers With Code. Award link is here.
- Accepted to the Oxford ML Summer School (2022) for the healthcare track. Certificate link is here.
- Kaggle ML Research Spotlight Prize
- 2nd place in the first-ever Keras Community Prize Competition organized by Google for this project with Chansung Park.
- Financial aid for EuroPython’24.
- Scholarship for Open-Source Summit Japan 2024.
- Beacon Award 2024 by Google for Developers.
- PyTorch Contributor Award Nominee for 2025. Thanks to Aritra Roy Gosthipaty for nominating.
- Received Claude Max 20x for co-maintaining Diffusers (tweet). Thanks, Anthropic!
- Received ChatGPT Pro for the same. Thanks, OpenAI!
- Received a DGX Spark Founder’s edition (limited to a few in the world). Thanks, NVIDIA!
Misc
- Taught under-privileged children and managed operations for a TCS-CSR initiative called H20 (Helping Hand Organization) (2017)
- Moderator of the Artificial Intelligence channel of Campus Commune (Jan, 2018 - August, 2018)
- Book reviewer for Manning Publications Co (2019 - 2022)
- Co-organizer of GDG Kolkata (2019 - 2021)
- Organizer of TensorFlow User Group Kolkata (2020 - 2021)
Non-tech
- I love listening to all genres of music. A guitar player myself. Have played in a band Behest from 2013 to 2017.
- I love watching TV serials also (Narcos, Suits, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, Ozark being all-time favorites).
Footnotes
A blog post, documenting the mentorship experience.↩︎