Awards and Honours

ACM Distinguished Speaker (2023 - )

Editor’s Choice Best Paper Award from Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, 2022.

Best Associate Editor Award 2021 for the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Best Paper Award in the Main track of 34th IEEE International Conference on Industrial, Engineering Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), 2021.

Co-authored algorithm ranked 1st in the Competitions on Real-World Single Objective Constrained Optimization at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC  2020), Glasgow, UK, 19-24 July 2020 and at Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO 2020), Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July 2020.

Ranks #4 in India by the 7th Edition of the 2021 Ranking of top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics at Guide2Research (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science/in).

Features in the updated science-wide author databases of the World's top 2% Scientists as per the standardized citation indicators, 2021 and 2022, maintained by Elsevier (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3 ).

Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award 2015

INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineers) Young Engineer Award, 2012.

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Professional Travel Grant for attending IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, Paris, France, 11 – 15 April, 2011.

Best paper Award in 1st Int. Conf. On Computational Problem-Solving, (ICCP2010), Li Jiang, China, Dec 3-5, 2010.

The Telegraph School awards for Excellence for highest marks in Science group in Higher Secondary, 1999.

Calcutta Police Association Award, for 2nd rank in all West Bengal in Higher Secondary   Exam, 1999.

Asoke Kumar Sarkar Memorial Award (Anandabazar Patrika Group), for 4-th Rank in   Madhyamik (Secondary Examination) 1997.