Recipient of award from Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program, 2011.
Best paper award at the International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2011 for the paper ''Minimally Infrequent Itemset Mining using Pattern-Growth Paradigm and Residual Trees''.
Best student paper award at the International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2010 for the paper ''Aggregate Skyline Join Queries: Skylines with Aggregate Operations over Multiple Relations''.
One of the top-five student paper awards at the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2005 for the paper ''ViVo: Visual Vocabulary Construction for Mining Biomedical Images''.