Major awards, fellowships, grants and honors

NIH Grants (as PI/MPI)

• 1R21DE036066-01 (with Christie Custodio-Lumsden): AHEAD-Adolescent Health and the EArly-life Dietary Exposome-Developing a Metabolomics-based Index of Healthy Eating to predict children’s health trajectories
• 1R21ES037112-01 (with Shoshannah Eggers): Prenatal metal exposures and childhood telomere length attrition

Awards, Fellowships and Honors

• Paper of the month (August 2025)
  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

• Invited talk at The third annual environmental epidemiology methods workshop (2024)
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• 2022 Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Prize Paper Award Finalist
  Society for Epidemiologic Research

• Graduate Alumni Society Award - 2019 & 2018
  Penn State College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University

• Ranked 3rd worldwide (among 87 teams)
  Kaggle BigData Cup Challenge 2019: Solar Flare Prediction
  (with Daniel McGuire and Renan sauteraud)

• Ranked 25th worldwide (among 193 teams, 3rd in US)
  Prudsys Data Mining Cup - International Student Competition 2018
  (with Daniel McGuire and Renan sauteraud)

• Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) - Indian National Science Academy (INSA) - The National Academy of Sciences (NASI)
  Summer Research Fellowship in Mathematics, 2014
  National Brain Research Centre

• All India Rank 22 in Mathematical Statistics-2014
  Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Admission Test for Masters (IIT JAM)

• Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship
  Indian Institute of Sciences and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2011 - 2016

• Best Paper Award in Mathematics-2012
  19th West Bengal Science and Technology Congress, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

• Best of Subject Category Award in Mathematics-2009
  Intel-IRIS National Science Fair, India

• Special Prize (Certificate of Merit)-2008
  West Bengal State Level Science Fair, India