• 2023 Bakar Fellows Spark Award
• 2020 Gradutes of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award by IIT Delhi
• 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
• 2018 Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award
• 2017 AFOSR YIP Award
• 2016 Okawa Research Grant Award
• 2016 Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list of globally influential people changing science
• 2015 NSF CCISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award
• 2013 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
• 2013 Outstanding Graduating PhD Student Award at UCLA
• 2013 Josef Raviv Memorial Post-doctoral Fellowship
• 2009 Chancellor’s Prize ($10,000) at UCLA
• 2008 Best undergraduate thesis in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi

paper awards

• TCC 2025 Outstanding Paper Award
• FOCS 2023 Test of Time Award
• PKC 2020 paper invited to Journal of Cryptology
• EUROCRYPT 2020 paper invited to Journal of Cryptology
• EUROCRYPT 2018 Best Paper Award (and invitation for Journal of Cryptology)
• CRYPTO 2017 Best Paper Award (and invitation for Journal of Cryptology)
• STOC 2015 paper invited for the Special Issue of the SIAM J. of Computing
• CRYPTO 2014 paper invited to the Algorithmica Journal
• TCC 2014 paper invited to the Journal of Cryptology
• FOCS 2013 paper invited for the Special Issue of the SIAM J. of Computing. and CACM Research Highlights
• EUROCRYPT 2013 Best Paper Award (and invitation for Journal of Cryptology)