Academic awards
Academic awards
• 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
Addressed Seminar on the topic "To Identify the Molecular Targets of Small Molecules Using Drug Affinity Responsive Target Stability (DARTS) " at School of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India on March 15, 2018.
Participated in TEQIP II Sponsored TWO Days National workshop on "Algal technology and Its Applications" organized by Dept. of Mechanical, Chemical and School of Biotechnology of National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India during March 17-18, 2017.
First International Conference on Energy & Environment: Global Challenges (ICEE 2018) held at Dept. of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India during March 9-10, 2018.
Karan Kumar, Anveshika Manoj and Kausar Mahmood Ansari, "A Review on Food Additives Toxicity (khaady yojakon kee vishaaktata par ek sameeksha)", Vishvigyan Sandesh, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India vol. 30, pp. 11-14, 2018-19, ISBN: 0972-1746.
Karan Kumar, Darpan Raghav, and Rathinasamy Krishnan, "Recent advances in carbon-based nanostructured materials (CBNs) and their biomedical applications", in First International Conference on Energy and Environment: Global Challenges (ICEE-2018), Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India (abstract published).
Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored Two Days National Seminar on "Advances in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering" organized by Dept. of Chemistry and School of Nano Science and Technology, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India from October 17-18, 2016.