Sai Kiran Putta was awarded a Certificate in Engineering Excellence in Big Data Analytics and Optimization from International School of Engineering on June 8, 2016. The certificate recognizes the successful completion of a 352-hour program between November 28, 2015 and May 15, 2016, followed by a project defense. The program curriculum covered topics in data science, statistics, machine learning, and their applications and was certified for quality by Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute.