Services
Mentorship Roles
Mentoring as a part of Early Research Scholars Program; a research program at UC Santa Barbara, that seeks to give traditionally underrepresented students, the foundational knowledge and skills for engaging in research in the discipline.
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Worked with Priyanka Ballani, Zoey Nielsen, and Nicolas Santos during 2024-2025.
Project Title: Teaching Assistant Assignment. -
Working with Andrew Gao, Brian Kim, Arya Sadeghi and Mayank Shekhar (2025-current).
Project Title: Low Distortion Metric Embedding.
Professional Service
Reviewed for the following conferences: FOCS 2024, ITCS 2025, COCOON 2025, ESA 2025, STACS 2026, SODA 2026, IWOCA 2026.
Teaching Roles
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Teaching Assistant at UCSB for CMPSC 130B - Data Structures and Algorithms II.
With Prof. Subhash Suri; Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Winter 2025. -
Teaching Assistant at UCSB for CMPSC 130B - Data Structures and Algorithms II.
With Prof. Eric Vigoda; Winter 2024. -
Teaching Assistant at UCSB for CMPSC 130B - Data Structures and Algorithms II.
With Prof. Daniel Lokshtanov; Fall 2024. -
Teaching Assistant at UCSB for CMPSC 134 - Randomized Algorithms.
With Prof. Eric Vigoda; Spring 2025. -
Teaching Assistant at UCSB for CMPSC 40 - Foundations of Computer Science.
With Dr. Vaishali Surianarayanan; Summer 2024. -
Teaching Assistant at IISER-Pune for MTH 323 - Graph Theory.
With Prof. Soumen Maity; Fall 2022.
Awards
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Co-author of the paper that received the
Mihai Pātrașcu Best Paper Award
at SOSA 2026.
Title: A Quasi-Polynomial Time Algorithm for 3-Coloring Circle Graphs. -
Recipient of the
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
award at UC Santa Barbara, 2025.
Nominated by graduating seniors; awarded to one TA per department annually. -
Recipient of the Xytel Best Thesis Award in Mathematics at IISER Pune.
Awarded to one graduating student per discipline each year.