Qualified for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2019, conducted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India.
Awarded a fellowship by the MHRD, India, for the duration of my Ph.D. (2019–2024).
Qualified for the Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) in 2017, also conducted by the MHRD, India.
IEEE Travel Grant for a Conference (IEEE SSCI 2022) in Singapore, 2022.
Achieved the Premier Research Award from NIT Jalandhar, 2023.
Achieved the Best Poster Award for the paper, A competitive and collaborative-based multilevel hierarchical artificial electric field algorithm for global optimization, from NIT Jalandhar, 2023.
SERB-DST Travel Grant for a SIAM Conference (UQ24) in Trieste, Italy, 2024.
Outstanding Research Award for the paper, Optimizing the parameters of hybrid active power filters through a comprehensive and dynamic multi-swarm gravitational search algorithm, from NIT Jalandhar, 2025.
Received a top cited article, "An adaptive Artificial Electric Field Algorithm for Continous Optimization Problems, Expert Systems, Wiley, 2023", between Jan 2023- Dec 2023.
Achieved 1st Rank in the competition of the Real-parameter Single-objective Constrained Optimization Competition at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Conference 2024, Japan.
Runner-up in the competition of the Real-parameter Single-objective Bound Constrained Optimization Competition at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Conference 2024, Japan.
Conducted a competition on Large Language Models for Evolutionary Algorithms (LLM4EA) under the Summer School at NIT Jalandhar.
Achieved 2nd Rank in the competition of the Real-parameter Single-objective Constrained Optimization Competition at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Conference 2025, June 8–11, 2025, in Hangzhou, China.
Runner-up in the competition of the Real-parameter Single-objective Bound Constrained Optimization Competition at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Conference 2025, June 8–11, 2025, in Hangzhou, China.
Delivered a lecture at the Summer School on Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning (EvoML-2025), held on 16–20 June 2025 at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India.
Title: “Co-Evolving Intelligence: Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning”
Delivered an invited talk at the International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Energy Systems (ICMSOES 2025), held on 17–20 June 2025 at the University of Bengkulu, Indonesia.
Title: “Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning: A Synergistic Integration”
Delivered a lecture at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2025.
Title: “Importance of Demand Management and Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid”
Delivered an invited lecture at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, organized by Prof. Dipti Srinivasan and co-organized by GEMS, ECE, NUS, and the IEEE CIS Singapore Chapter, 2026.
Title: “A Synergy between Evolutionary Algorithms and Large Language Models for Real-World Applications”