Awards & Honors

Awards and Fellowships

• Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2021, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2021 

• Early Career Research Award from Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India, 2016

• INSPIRE Faculty Award from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2015

• Travel supports from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, and Society of Petroleum Geophysicists (SPG) North America chapter for presenting a paper at SEG International Exposition & Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA, 2014

• International Travel Support (ITS) of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, for presenting a paper at the SEG International Exposition & Eighty-Third Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, USA, 2013

• Institute travel grants from IIT Kharagpur for presenting a paper at the Annual International Conference on Geological and Earth Sciences (GEOS 2012) in Singapore, 2012

• ONGC-IGU Best poster award at 49th Annual convention of Indian Geophysical Union, October 2012, PDPU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• Leading Edge Bright Spot mention for article published in Geophysics (2011)

• Best poster award at National Workshop on Advances in Exploration Geophysics for Young Researchers, 2010, SPG-NGRI, Hyderabad, India

• Senior Research Fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India, at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, July 2010–July 2013

• Junior Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. Of India, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, July 2008–July2010

Recognition for teaching at IITK

• Outstanding Teacher recognition for teaching at IIT Kanpur for the courses ES655A(2016-17-I), ES660A(2016-17-II, 2018-19-II), ES651A(2018-19-I, 2019-20-I), ES656A (2018-19-II, 2022-23-II)

Professional membership and activities

• Active member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

• Life member of the Indian Geophysical Union (IGU)

• Member of European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE)

• Reviewer of the National/International journals:  Geophysics (SEG), Exploration Geophysics (CSIRO publishing), Acta Geophysica (Springer), Natural Hazards (Springer), GeoResJ (Elsevier), Journal of the Geological Society of India (JGSI) (Springer), Journal of Earth System Science (Springer), Current Science (Indian Academy of Science)

Administrative responsibilities

• Convener of Department Post Graduate Committee (DPGC), Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur, October 2024 to present

• Member of Departmental Post-Graduate Committee (DPGC), Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur, October 2022 to September 2024

• Convener of Department Undergraduate Committee (DUGC), Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur, October 2017 to September 2019, October 2020 to September 2021

• Member of Senate Library Committee (SLC), IIT Kanpur, October 2015 - September 2017;  October 2019-September 2020