Harshil Jain

Harshil Jain

ML @ Meta | Masters in Computer Science @ UCSD | Ex-AI/ML @ JPMC | Ex MTS-2 @ Nutanix | CSE Alumnus @ IIT Gandhinagar

Scholastic Achievements

Institutional Accolades

  • Ranked 3rd out of 33 students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar.

  • Graduated in 3.5 years with a BTech with Honours in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar.

  • Awarded the Best Video Award for the research work presented at the Undergraduate Research Conclave 2020 at IIT Gandhinagar which was accepted at the SustaiNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2020. The certificate can be found here.

  • Awarded the A+ Grade (given to top 1% of the class) for exceptional performance in 3 courses - Advanced Calculus, Economics and World Civilizations and Cultures.

  • Appeared on the Dean’s List for 6 semesters for exemplary academic performance at IIT Gandhinagar.

Olympiads and Scholarships

  • Recipient of the most coveted and prestigious DAAD WISE Scholarship for pursuing a research internship in Germany during Summer 2020 which is awarded to approximately 130 students from India every year out of more than 2000 applications by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The scholarship certificate can be found here.

  • Awarded the prestigious NTSE (National Talent Search Examination) Scholarship in 2015 by N.C.E.R.T, New Delhi among 1000 selected students out of over 1 million candidates who appeared for the examination and felicitated by the then Education Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Vinod Tawde on the occasion of Independence Day, 15th August 2016 for this momentous achievement.

  • Recipient of the prestigious KVPY (Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana) Fellowship in 2015 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India among 1000 students selected out of over 50 thousand candidates who appeared for the examination in the SA stream.

  • Awarded the prestigious Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship to pursue summer research internship at IISc, Bangalore during Summer 2019 which is awarded to approximately 350 students every year from India.

  • Awarded the NTU India Connect Scholarship 2020 to pursue research at NTU Singapore during Summer 2020.

  • Received a scholarship of INR 51,000/- for securing International Rank 2 (throughout Asia) among 0.5 million candidates at the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) conducted by the Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) in 2013.

  • Recipient of the MTSE (Maharashtra Talent Search Examination) Scholarship awarded by Govt. of Maharashtra.

  • Secured 6th, 1st and 6th rank at the Mathematics Olympiad conducted by the Mathematics Association, IIT Bombay in 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively.

  • Among the top 10% scorers in the Junior Level of the NMTC (National Mathematics Talent Contests) conducted by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India (AMTI) in 2014 & 2015.