- My macro-learning method Wizard and its co-participant planners Metric-FF and SGPlan clearly won 2 out of 6 domains in efficiency and obtained 2nd position in learning for improvement but 3rd and 4th position in overall performance among 13 participant systems in the 6th International Planning Competition 2008 Learning Track.
- My paper Learning Macro-Actions for Arbitrary Planners and Domains with J. Levine, M. Fox, and D. Long was nominated for the best paper award in the 17th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2007; [paper] [presentation]
- Commonwealth Scholarship to study PhD in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Learning in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, 2004--2007.
- International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS) to study PhD in Temporal Database in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia, 2004; did not avail.
- Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) and Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS) to study PhD in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Learning in Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology (GSCIT), Monash University, Australia, 2004; did not avail.
- Doctoral Consortium Scholarship, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2007.
- Dean's List Scholarship after different levels in Bachelor of Science Engineering for obtaining honours marks at those levels (1995--1999).
- University Merit Scholarship at Bachelor of Science Engineering for obtaining 16th position among top 3500 college leaving science students in a highly competitive admission examination (1994).
- Board Scholarship after Higher Secondary Certificate Examination for obtaining star marks (1994--1999).
- Board Scholarship after Secondary School Certificate Examination for obtaining star marks (1990--1992).
- Junior Scholarship after a competitive scholarship examination at the end of eight years of schooling (1987--1989).
- Special Prizes for obtaining 6th position in the Thana Level Central Final Assessment Exmination when leaving primary school (1984).
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