 To her surprise, Amita won the 2006 Milton Prize for her dissertation on combinatorics, which Charlie, a previous recipient, presented to her.She decided to use the prize money to fund a trip to India with her grandmother in an attempt to become attuned with her heritage and help with the education costs of two Tamil girls she met through one of Don's cases.In season five, she puts her skills to use on a new artificial intelligence, but is nearly killed.