Abhinav V. Sambasivan — Awards

  • Progressive Prize winner in the NIST: Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge ($1000 awarded to each of the top-4 submissions).

  • Ranked in top 0.3% among more than a million candidates in the All-India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE), 2010.

  • Ranked in top 1% among more than 400,000 candidates in the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE), 2010.

  • ‘‘Young Ramanujan" award for securing 100% in Mathematics in the CBSE Class X Board exam in 2008.

  • Silver medal in Mathematics among more than 1000 candidates in FIITJEE Talent Reward Examination (FTRE) 2009-10.

  • Topper (Ranked 1/350 students) in Math Olympiad, in 2008; was also placed in the top 5% in this olympiad consistently from 2005-2010.

  • Placed in the top 1% of India’s programming aspirants in the Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO), and qualified for the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI), 2010.

  • Recipient of the ‘‘Centre for Scientfic and Industrial Research Programme on Youth for Leadership in Science" program at CLRI, Chennai, India in 2008.

  • General Proficiency award for excellence in academics, 2001-2010.