Grants and awards
Grants and fellowships
(2022-23) Google Cloud Climate Innovation Challenge | Role: PI
(2022-24) CambridgeZero Fellowship: 'Public understanding of climate change' | Role: PI (£180,000)
(2022) Enrichment Award, The Alan Turing Institute: 'Growing the Future: People-centric transition and climate misinformation in emission reduction' | Role: PI
(2022-23) Tsinghua - Cambridge Joint Research Initiative Fund: 'LAND – Landscape Architecture for Net-zero Destination: Strategic research towards a climate and net-zero emission supportive landscape architectural industry' (£12,000) | Role: Co-PI
(2022-24) Sustainability Fellowship, Churchill College (£2,000/year) | Role: PI
(2021) Southern Partner Fund, Climate Compatible Growth: 'Just energy and material transition in Lao PDR' (£11,500)| Role: Co-PI
(2021) ESRC Festival of Social Science (FoSS) Short film Grant: 'Planned obsolescence of smartphones and its environmental impact' (£1500)| Role: Co-I
(2021) Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair: 'Negative emission and public perception of technology mining using Twitter interactions' (£5000)| Role: PI
(2021) Energy Transition Small Grant, Issac Newton Trust: 'Energy transition in Ghana for a net-zero future' (£2000) | Role: Co-PI
(2021-22) Keynes Fund for Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge: 'Energy Incentives and Market Mechanism in Slum Rehabilitation Housing for Distributive Justice' (£29,576) | Role: Co-I
(2020) Michigan Conservative Energy Forum Fellowship: 'Electric vehicle adoption analytics using Facebook' (£3000) | Role: PI
(2020) Cambridge Judge Business School Small Grant: 'Green propaganda in fossil industry using AI' (£5000) | Role: Co-I/RA
(2020) Energy Transition Small Grant, Issac Newton Trust: 'COVID-19 effects on residential electricity demand in India' (£1800) | Role: Co-I
(2020) Cambridge University Travel Grant for 8th Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore (£1000) | Role: PI
(2018) Santander Mobility Grant from the International Student Office, University of Cambridge (£500) | Role: PI
(2019) Gates-Cambridge Alumni Collaborative Grants: 'Human-computer interface in social research' (£1000) | Role: PI
(2018-22) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Cambridge Scholarship [OPP1144] 'Contextualising energy justice in poverty' (£200,000) | Role: PI
(2018) Trinity College MCSC Scholarship (Honorary), Trinity College, Cambridge (£1000) | Role: PI
(2017) Commonwealth-Shared Scholarship for engineering for sustainable development (£41,500) | Role: PI
(2016) Stanford University Visiting Grant from IRCC-IIT Bombay (£4000) | Role: Co-PI/RA
(2016) International Summer Fellowship, ETH-Zurich (£500)
(2015) International Summer Fellowship, Ben Gurion University of the Negev-Israel (£500)
(2014-16) Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, GATE-fellowship (£2300)
Awards
(2022-23) Google Cloud Climate Innovation Challenge Winner
(2022-24) CambridgeZero Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK
(2022) Postdoctoral Enrichment Award, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
(2022) Sustainability Fellowship, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK
(2021) Research on 'Planned obsolescence of smartphones' selected for short film at the 2022 ESRC Festival of Social Science (FoSS)
(2021) Awarded the Keynes Fund for Applied Economics by the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
(2021) Selected as a visiting researcher for September-2021 Data Study Group at the Alan Turing Institute (UK)
(2020) Selected as one of the top 20 academic posters at the AIUK 2020 conference, Alan Turing Institute (UK)
(2020) Scholar elect for 8th Global Young Scientist Summit (GYSS) - 2020 Singapore from School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge and National Research Foundation Singapore
(2019) Best presentation award, ASEAN Emerging Research Conference, Cambridge, UK
(2019) Best poster award, Gates Day of Research, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
(2018-22) Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(2018) Trinity MCSC Scholarship (Honorary), Trinity College, Cambridge
(2017-18) Commonwealth-Shared Scholarship by the Commonwealth Commission and Cambridge Trust