Awards & Honors

2025 | NHERI Travel Award, 2025 to participate in NHERI SPARC Program ($1500) at TACC, UT Austin

2025 | NSF-supported ByteBoost Cybertraining Program, 2025 at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, PA

2024 | Prof. Baldev Raj Memorial Award for best PhD performance in the AcSIR-RMIT Cotutelle PhD program.

2024 | Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) – Best Doctoral Thesis Award

2024 | Travel award from DesignSafe at UT Austin and the NHERI SimCenter at UC Berkeley ($2,280) to attend the NHERI Computational Symposium 2025 at UCLA.

2022 | Winner - 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition from the School of Engineering at RMIT University.

2022 | People’s Choice Award in the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the university level by RMIT University, Australia.

2022 | Winner (Engineering category) - Saransh – 3 min national level thesis competition for Ph.D. students organized by Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) - the first and only recognized young scientist academy of India.

2021 | Science and Engineering Research Board India – Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship ($36,000) to pursue research for 18 months at Purdue University, USA (25 students are selected every year from various Institutes of Repute throughout the country).

2021 | Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research - RMIT University Cotutelle Ph.D. fellowship (HDR Fee Scholarship AU$ 53160 per year) to pursue Cotutelle PhD from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia.

2021 | CSIR – Senior Research Fellowship (SRF-Direct: $5400 per year) by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India's largest research and development organization under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India.

2021 | Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Engineering Prize by the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia. The prize is given to only one HDR candidate from the School of Engineering.

2021 | Springer Nature Best Paper Award for the paper, “Stochastic response surface based probabilistic analysis of geosynthetic reinforced soil slope under pseudo-static conditions.” Presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (7ICRAGEE 2021). IISc Bangalore, India, July 12-15, 2021. 

2021 | 3rd place - (Engineering category) - Saransh – 3 min national level thesis competition for Ph.D. students organized by Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) - the first and only recognized young scientist academy of India.

2020 | Springer Nature Best Paper Award (1st runner-up) for the paper, “Probabilistic Analysis of Reinforced Soil Retaining Structures using FORM and Surrogate-based Monte-Carlo Simulation.” Presented at the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2020, organized from Dec 17-19, 2020.

2016 | Postgraduate fellowship by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Ministry of Education, Government of India, for qualifying for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2016 (GATE – 2016) (Percentile: 98.35) organized by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.