Academic Awards, Fellowships, and Distinctions
Academic Awards, Fellowships, and Distinctions
• 2025 – Winner of Business Games Award for the business idea developed and presented to the committee on the topic "GreenVerbund Challenge - A nod to BASF's Verbund concept and the sustainability theme" at 142nd BASF ISC.
• 2025 – Fully funded 142nd BASF International Summer School, Ludwigshafen, Germany
• 2024 – Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, Energy Science & Engineering, IIT Guwahati – Certificate & Medal
• 2023 – SERB International Travel Support (ITS), Young Scientist Category – Attended & presented at International Conference on Algal Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts, USA (~USD 3500)
• 2022 – Best Paper Award, VII International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC)
• 2022 – Best Keynote Speaker Award, 3rd International Conference on Biofuel and Biomass
• 2022 – DBT-CTEP Travel Grant – Poster at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2022) (~USD 1750)
• 2022 – Springer Best Paper Award, North-East Research Conclave
• 2022 – First Prize (Consolation), Essay Competition, CSIR-CLRI, Tamil Nadu (Swachhata Pakhwada)
• 2022 – Best Young Scientist Award, 2nd International Webinar on Biofuel & Biomass
• 2021 – Best Oral Presentation Award, XVIII BRSI Annual Convention (BREEECH-2021)
• 2020 – Best Interactor Award and 1st Rank in Quiz competition – E-assessment, International FDP on “Artificial Intelligence and IoT – Heuristic Transdisciplinary Perspectives”
• 2020 – Best Project Award, HackBio Virtual Internship Program (Team Genomics-II)
• 2019 – International Travel Grant – 4th Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society Conference (AOSS-4) (~USD 2000)
• 2018–2023 – Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), Ministry of Education, India (~USD 66,500)
• 2017 – AcSIR Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Summer Training Fellowship – Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (~USD 400)
• 2015–2018 – Post-Matric Scholarship, Govt. of Bihar (~USD 3000)
• 2015–2018 – CREC Silver Jubilee Endorsement Trust Scholarship, NIT Calicut (~USD 600)
• 2018 – Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE – BT) – 92.47 percentile
• 2017 – Qualified JGEEBILS (Joint Graduate Entrance Exam for Biology & Interdisciplinary Life Science) – PhD admission eligibility
• 2014 – Qualified JEE-Mains – Undergraduate admission to Institutes of National Importance
• 2014 – Top 1 percentile, Bihar School Examination Board (Intermediate Exam)
• 2012 – Rank 1 in school, Bihar School Examination Board (Secondary School Exam)
Featured in local news articles: Dainik Jagran, Prabhat Khabar
Featured four times on the webpage of the School of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati