Read the inspiring journey of Sushant Sachdeva, who achieved All India Rank 1 in 2004.
New Delhi: JEE- Joint Entrance Examination is one of the most challenging exams to crack. Every year, lakhs of candidates appear for the competitive examination and only a few crack the exam with All India Rank(AIR) 1. Today’s success story highlights the inspiring journey of Sushant Sachdeva, who achieved All India Rank 1 in 2004.
Meet IIT-JEE topper who got AIR 1, studied B.tech from IIT Bombay, worked in Google, now is… –
Sushant Sachdeva achieved All India Rank(AIR) 1 in the JEE exam in 2004. He completed his 10th grade at Rajhans School in Mumbai, scoring 92.4% in the exam. Later, he moved to Pune to complete his Class 12th grade at Army Public School. In 2002, he was awarded a gold medal in science from the Australian Academy, received a fellowship under the Government of India’s Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana, and secured fourth place in the National Science competition, news 18 Hindi reported. Besides IIT JEE, he also secured third place in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).
According to Sushant Sachdeva’s LinkedIn profile, he pursued a B.Tech at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Theoretical Computer Science from Princeton University in 2013. Sushant initially worked as a research intern at Microsoft in 2011. He then worked as a research intern at the Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago (TTIC), and later served as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.
At present, Sushant Sachdeva has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He also served as a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute. Presently, he has been working as a visiting research scientist at Google since January 24.
Prof. Sachdeva has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Sloan Research Fellowship (2023), FOCS Best Paper Award (2022), Ontario Early Researcher Award (2022), Google Faculty Research Award (2018), NSERC Discovery Award (2018), and the IITB President of India Gold Medal (2008).