Achievements

• 2024 | Bihar PWD Medal from the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) for the best paper award on "Road Research" for the research paper discussed during the 82nd IRC Annual Session at Gandhinagar (Gujarat) and conferred the medals during the 83rd IRC Annual Session at Raipur (Chhattisgarh).

• 2022 | Selected for International Travel Support Grant of the Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India) for attending and presenting papers at the 102nd Annual Meeting of Transport Research Board (TRB), Washington, DC, United States.

• 2022 | Best Paper Award to the paper: Sharma, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2022). Stabilization of open-graded asphalt friction course mixes with plant-based natural fibers. In Second International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS-2022).

• 2021 | First Prize (Winner) in the National Road Safety Competition 2021 organized by General Insurance Council (GIC) India for the paper: Kumar, A., Kumar, A., and Pathak, S. (2021). Night visibility: A major challenge for road users and innovative solutions.

• 2020 | Overall Best Paper Award to the paper: Kumar, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2020). Arrhenius-based high-temperature performance evaluation of asphalt binders modified with waste plastic pyrolytic char. In 2nd International Conference ICRDSI-2020, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

• 2020 | Best Paper Award for the paper: Choudhary, R., Kumar, V., Kumar, A., Pathak, S. and Kumar, A. (2020). Use of banana natural fiber as a stabilizing additive in open graded friction course. In the Session Themed 'Sustainability in Transportation Systems' in 2nd International Conference ICRDSI-2020, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

• 2020 | Best Oral Presentation Award for the paper: Kumar, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2020). High-temperature characterization of waste plastic pyrolytic char modified asphalt binders. In International Conference on Engineering Sciences and Technologies for Environmental Care (ESTEC-2020), CSIR-NEIST, Assam, India.

• 2019 | Best Paper Award for the paper: Kumar, A., Choudhary, R., and Kumar, A. (2019). Preliminary investigation on the use of sulphur with waste EPDM rubber for asphalt binder modification. In International Conference TIPCE-2019, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

• 2019 | Doctoral Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati under Ministry of Education, Government of India.

• 2017 | Masters Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.