UPitch Spring 2026 · UMass Amherst Entrepreneurship Club
Karnah: second place, $750
Second of nineteen student founders, with Rishav Chakravarty. Sponsored by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship.
Honors & Awards
Academic distinction, scholarships and grants, a publication, and a run of competitive program selections.
Apex Center for Entrepreneurs · Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
CalendAI: $500 award
Awarded to CalendAI, the machine-learning smart calendar built for students.
Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship · Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst
Trendify AI: Minute Pitch winner, $300
First place in the Minute Pitch competition.
Virginia Tech
Dean's List with Distinction
Awarded for academic distinction across qualifying terms at Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech
Undergraduate Research Excellence Program
Member of the program recognizing sustained undergraduate research contribution.
Virginia Tech
Buzz's Bunch Scholarship Award
Scholarship award winner for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
Virginia Tech
Student Affairs Scholarship
Scholarship winner, 2024.
Commonwealth of Virginia
Virginia Pell Initiative Grant
Grant recipient, supporting undergraduate study in Virginia.
Open-Source Apprenticeship Program
Competitive mentor-guided cohort pairing students with experienced open-source contributors.
Data Science for the Common Good
Selected cohort applying data science to public-interest problems.
Entrepreneurs Accelerator Program
Selected for the accelerator supporting early-stage ventures.
Grace Hopper Celebration
Selected to attend the largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists in the world.
AWS Artificial Intelligence Practitioner Learning PlanView certificate ↗
Fundamentals of Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceView certificate ↗
Exploring Artificial Intelligence Use Cases and ApplicationsView certificate ↗
Responsible Artificial Intelligence PracticesView certificate ↗
Developing Machine Learning SolutionsView certificate ↗
Developing Generative Artificial Intelligence SolutionsView certificate ↗
Optimizing Foundation ModelsView certificate ↗
Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI SolutionsView certificate ↗
Essentials of Prompt EngineeringView certificate ↗
Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)View certificate ↗
Security Awareness for End UsersView certificate ↗Also completed. The issuing platforms have since closed these accounts, so the certificates themselves are no longer retrievable.