Awarded Best Oral Presentation award for the talk titled "On Turbulent Nature of Fragmenting Interfaces" at the ME Annual Research Symposium (MARS), Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore, 30-31 October 2026.
Awarded Best Poster award for the poster titled "Turbulence of Fragmenting Interfaces" at the International Conference on Interfacial Phenomena in Droplets, IISc Bangalore, 5-7 October 2026.
Awarded Dr. Arkal Shenoy Research Endowment Award in Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bengaluru, for outstanding academic achievements and research excellence, November 2025.
Awarded travel grant by ANRF (formerly SERB) through the ITS scheme to present papers in the 77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 24-26 November 2024.
Awarded 3rd prize for the 3-minute video presentation titled "The soul of a bubble" in the 2nd Divisional Research Symposium, Mechanical Sciences, IISc Bangalore, 10-11 May 2024.
Awarded Best Poster award for the poster titled "Dispersion size measurement in multiphase systems using Depth from Defocus technique" at the Workshop on Interfacial Engineering at Multiple Spatio-Temporal Scales, IISc Bangalore, 29-31 January 2024.
Awarded Best Poster award for the poster titled "Dispersion size measurement in multiphase systems using Depth from Defocus technique" at Compflu 2023, IIT Madras, 18-20 December 2023.
Awarded Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF), January 2022.
Our paper, "Secondary Atomization of Droplets at Extreme Conditions," is the most-read article in the 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.
January 2026
Our flow-visualization titled, "Blast induced fluid fishbones," is highlighted in the International Symposium on Flow Visualization
August 2026
Our flow-visualization titled, "Soul of a bubble," is highlighted in the International Symposium on Flow Visualization
October 2026
Our work featured in Shashtraa magazine, IIT Madras.
"Rest in pieces" by Pallab Roygupta
Jan 2026
https://shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/special-feature/rest-pieces
Our work featured in New Scientist.
"Inflating soap bubble reveals surprising fluid dynamics"
27 June 2024
https://youtu.be/Z5mVx0nsajM?si=QJC6h30Z_CErWzay
Our work covered by IISc's Kernel magazine.
"Blowing in Bubbles" by Sandeep Menon
09 August 2024
https://kernel.iisc.ac.in/blowing-into-bubbles/
Our work featured in FYFD!
"Inside a Soap Bubble" by Nicole Sharp
08 January 2024
Our work covered in Times of India.
"No child's play! Soap Bubbles' physics opens doors to study heart chambers and more" by Chethan Kumar
7 June 2024