Best Paper Award for the paper ``Smooth Hysteretic Models for Cyclic Response Simulation of Steel Materials and Components,'' Chinmoy Kolay, Baban Kumar, and Sukanya Karmakar, at the 12th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas (STESSA), IIT Delhi, Sept 7-9, 2026, under the theme Digital Modelling, Nonlinear Analysis & Monitoring
Best Paper Award for the paper ``Implementation of Hybrid Simulation and Its Application to Suspension Tower Subjected to Impact Load,'' Hironmoy Kakoty and Chinmoy Kolay, at the 12th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas (STESSA), IIT Delhi, Sept 7-9, 2026, under the theme Experimental Methods, Testing & Hybrid Simulation
Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2025, IIT Kanpur
Letters of appreciation from the Chairman, Academic Senate, IIT Kanpur, for excellence in teaching the following courses:
CE620: Structural Dynamics, 2025-26-I Semester
CE272: Structural Analysis, 2023-24-II Semester
ESO202A: Mechanics of Solids (tutor), Summer Term 2019
CE629A: Earthquake Analysis and Design of Structures, 2018-19-II & 2024-25-II Semesters
CE371A: Design of Steel Structures, 2018-19-I Semester
Gibson fellowship and Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science (RCEAS) fellowship, Lehigh University, Spring 2015
Yen fellowship, Lehigh University, Fall 2014
Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science (RCEAS) fellowship, Lehigh University, Spring 2013
Inducted into the elite group of P.C. Rossin Doctoral Fellows of Lehigh University, Apr. 2013
Dean’s Doctoral Student Assistantship, Lehigh University, 2011–2012
Academic Excellence Award, IIT Kanpur, Mar. 2009
Ranked Second in the Civil Engineering graduate class at IIT Kanpur, India (2007 - 2008)
36th All India Rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2007
First Class with Honours in Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, India, 2006