Other Activities

• • Guest Editor, Engineering Research Express, IOP Science. Special Issue On: Auxetic Metamaterials: Progress and Emerging Applications. 

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I have been a Teaching Assistant for the following courses. My responsibilities involved conducting lab sessions, designing assignments, grading the assignments and exams.

• Basic Biomedical Laboratory (BMP743) - (Semester II, Session 2021-22).

• Mechanics of Biomaterials (BMV705) - (Semester I, Session 2022-23).

• Soft Tissue Characterization and Applications (BML774) - (Semester I, Session 2022-23).

• Soft Tissue Characterization and Applications (BML774) - (Semester II, Session 2022-23).

• Soft Tissue Characterization and Applications (BML774) - (Semester I, Session 2023-24).

Additionally, as part of my PMRF-TA responsibilities, I taught Engineering Mechanics and Manufacturing Technology to undergraduate students at G.B. Pant Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University, Okhla-I Campus, from July 2022 to September 2024, working in coordination with the primary course instructors.

• • Recipient of Dogra Educational Endowment Award for the best publication in Biomedical Engineering for the session 2024-25 (August 2025).

  • Awarded IOP Trusted Reviewer status by IOP Publishing in January 2025.

  • Recipient of Research Excellence Travel Award (RETA) from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi for significant research contribution (November 2024).

• Top Cited Paper Award 2023 by IOP Publishing for my review article, "Mechanical Properties of Whole-body Soft Human Tissues: A Review".

• Recipient of the most prestigious Ph.D. fellowship in India, the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), in the May 2021 cycle.

• Ph.D. Fellowship by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.