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.
A lecture at the Summer School on Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning (EvoML-2025), June 16-20, 2025, at Dr B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. (Title of the lecture: "Co-Evolving Intelligence: Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning").
Invited talk at The International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Energy Systems (ICMSOES 2025), June 17-20, 2025, at the University of Bangkulu, Indonesia. (Title of the talk: "Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning: A Synergistic Integration").
A lecture at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. (Title of the lecture: "Importance of Demand Management and Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid").