Dr. Mukundan was selected as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists 2024,” by Stanford University with the rank in the field of Optoelectronics & Photonics as 5405 out of 120816 authors. This achievement, based on extensive criteria including 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐡-𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐱, 𝐜𝐨-𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐦-𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐱, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 (𝐜-𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞), reflects contributions across 22 main disciplines and 174 sub-fields. Stanford’s analysis includes two significant lists: the Academic Career Scientific Influence Ranking (1960-2023) and the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠.⁣ I'm very grateful that 10 of my colleagues from the National Chung Cheng University are also in this elite list.

Won the best oral presentation award at the International Conference on Mechatronic, Automobile, and Environment Engineering, July, 15–16, 2022 in Penghu, Taiwan on the topic "Laser-Based Energy Transmission Module for a Mini Lunar Rover"

Selected as one of the ten Finalists in the Mars Colony Design Contest at the Mars Society Convention at the University of Southern California, October 17-20, 2019 on the topic "The Dvarka Initiative".

Winner of the best design award for Quadcopter Design conducted by Skyfii Labs at Chennai in June 2015.

Won the first prize in the short film competition conducted by the JKK Munirajah College of Technology at Astra 2K18 on the 23rd of March 2018.