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Awards


▶ Award Highlights

Third Grand Award · Regeneron ISEF (Columbus, 2025)

Third Grand Award · Regeneron ISEF (Columbus, 2025)

Second Prize · EU Contest for Young Scientists (Brussels, 2023)

Second Prize · EU Contest for Young Scientists (Brussels, 2023)

Best Project Award · Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023)

Best Project Award · Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023)

🏆 Selected Honors

  • Third Grand Award - Regeneron ISEF (2025). Among ~1,700 finalists from 60+ countries. For NEPTUNE: predicting unseen exoplanets from transit-timing variations.
  • Second Prize - EU Contest for Young Scientists, EUCYS (2023), Brussels. The EU's flagship science contest (136 finalists from 36 countries); represented Canada. For algorithms determining asteroids' physical properties, applied to NASA's DART mission.
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2025). As a member of the DART Period Change Determination Team, for the first measurement of the change in an asteroid's orbital motion caused by a kinetic impact - part of NASA's Planetary Defense program.
  • Masason Scholarship (2024 - ongoing). Full undergraduate scholarship, awarded for planetary-defense research.
  • Canada's Top Young Scientist, 2022 and 2023. National recognition from Youth Science Canada, won back-to-back.
  • Foresight Fellow - Planetary Defense Fellowship (2025). A selective fellowship from the Foresight Institute.
  • Best Project Award - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023). Top project prize at Canada's national science fair (won 2022 and 2023).
  • Young Astronomer & Excellence in Astronomy Awards - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. From Canada's national astronomy society (RASC).
  • City of Toronto Open Data Award (2026). Second place, for the "Better My City" open-data civic project.
  • Public Spaces Champion (2026). Named by City Councillor Ausma Malik (Ward 10, Toronto) for civic advocacy on safer, more accessible public spaces.

🔭 Research Grants

  • Masason Research Grant - Planetary Defense Observatory (R60), Spain
  • MIT Solve - Solv[ED] Micro-Grant (2022)

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City of Toronto Open Data Award (2026)


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