Awards
Best Student Paper Award at the Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC) 2004
National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate study
MIT Presidential Fellowship for first year of graduate study (awarded to best incoming graduate students at MIT)
David Mumford Award for best mathematician in the Harvard class of 2002 (awarded to 2 out of 1600 people in graduating class)
Summa Cum Laude graduation honors from Harvard (awarded to approximately 2% of graduating class)
Selected for Phi Beta Kappa junior year (one of only 24 people in Harvard class of 2002 awarded this honor)
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair--Intel Young Scientist Grand Prize Award (selected as one of top three projects out of 1200 international finalists at competition) (in high school)
Westinghouse Science Talent Search--8th place in U.S.A. (in high school)