Awards and honours
Senior Member, IEEE, 2023
Fellow, UK Higher Education Academy, 2020
Warwick Global Research Priority award, 2020
Outstanding Area Chair award, ICME 2020
Warwick Research Development award, 2019
Teaching Excellence certificate, IIT Kanpur, 2016, 2018
Mensa Canada Frank & Betty Woodhams memorial scholarship, 2012
Google Canada Anita Borg memorial finalist scholarship, 2012
Amazon Grace Hopper celebration scholarship, 2012
PhD tuition scholarship, 2008 - 2011
International graduate students scholarship (MSc), 2006 - 2008
Travel grants
CSIR International travel grant, 2017
USC WiSE travel grant, 2014, 2015
ACM travel grant, 2012
Students’ awards
Olly Styles, Best student paper award, CVPR Precognition Workshop, 2020
Rahul Sharma, Best Masters thesis award, IIT Kanpur, 2017
In the news
I was interviewed by the French daily La Monde to comment on a French project on automated analysis of movie content
Our research on automated gender analysis in media featured in New York Times, Washington Post, Google
Featured in the IEEE Canadian Review magazine (no. 69, issue: fall 2012) as a TISP-Canada Champion for high school outreach activities in Vancouver
IEEE Women In Engineering (WIE), Vancouver Section featured in the IEEE WIE Magazine, Jun 2012. I was the Co-Chair for WIE Vancouver in 2012 and the Chair in 2013