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Awards/Achievements/Honors

Industry

• Oracle India Fusion Middleware Special Appreciation Award, 2008-09 
• Oracle India UROC (pronounced you-rock) award , 2008-09
  
•  eleven Indian and US patents/disclosures. ,  2008 - 2009 
• Oracle Innovation award for special contribution, 2007-08

Academia

• 2nd Rank in C-Programming Contest in APOGEE-2006, An Inter-collegiate technical festival, BITS Pilani
• 2nd Rank in 24-Hour Programming Contest in APOGEE-2006, BITS Pilani
• 3rd Rank for conceiving and presenting a paper on “Unified hardware architecture for Cryptographic hash primitives “ in Paper presentation contest, APOGEE 2006,  BITS Pilani 
• Among Top 10%, Code for Bill programming contest, 2006.  
• Certificate of Excellence in Linux Programming , by Centre for Software Development (CSD), BITS-Pilani, Dec 2004
• Certificate of recognition for presenting a prototype of “An Automatic C-Code Generator –a mini Pascal language “ in APOGEE-2004 ,the XXII Inter-collegiate technical festival , BITS Pilani Mar 2004
• Best all-round student , Hr. Sec School ,  2002
  
• Rank 2 (out of > 100,000 candidates) in Jammu and Kashmir State Board class XII examinations , 2002 
• Recipient of Science Talent Promotion Scholarship (Rank 1) awarded by Department of Science and Technology, J and K state Council of Science and Technology (2001 – 2002) 
• Qualified 4th National Science Olympiad (State Rank 1 , AIR 200) ,conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation, New Delhi , July 2002
• All India Rank 30, Silver Merit Certificate holder (awarded to top 10%) in First National Cyber Olympiad conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation, New Delhi across 700 centers in India And Gulf, 2001-02
• National talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholar 2000 [2]
• Rank 10 (out of > 450,000 candidates) in Jammu and Kashmir State Board class X examinations , 2000 

Others

 I have held positions of "relative" prominence during my academic and after life, noteworthy (to some) of which may include

• Manager : Technology Team, VP Operations ,COO, CEO, BITSAA International
  
• Core member : Innovation team , Oracle India , 2007-09
  
• Secretary , Network Security Forum [NSF], BITS Pilani, 2006
• System Admin - BITS electronics lab , BITS Pilani , 2005-06
  
• Group leader a.k.a head "Cryptography group" , NSF, 2006
• Group leader a.k.a head "Web & shell hacking group", NSF, 2006
• Secretary , Kongposh - a regional association , BITS Pilani , 2004
• School President - high school , Jammu, J & K , India, 2000
  

• A dozen odd prizes in painting competitions  1997 - 2000