Named among World's Top 2% Scientists, according to the latest profile review (2025) conducted by Stanford University / Elsevire released at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8.
Member, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) Chemical and Environmental Engineering PAC (Program Advisory Committee) for Advanced Research Grant (ARG) program.
10th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2025) bestowed the BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD to "Rashi Verma, Suryanarayana Kolluri, Kishalay Mitra, Optimal Multi-Stage Constant Current Charging Strategy for Lithium-ion Battery Adopting a Multi-Objective Approach" at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India during Dec 16-19, 2025.
International Conference on AI and Materials for Sustainability (AIMS 2025) bestowed the BEST POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD for the research titled "Keerthi N. Pujari, Shivam Yadav, Sakshi Manekar, Kishalay Mitra, Debaprasad Shee, Data-Driven Catalytic Depolymerization of Lignin: A Sobol–Bayesian Optimization Framework for High-Yield Guaiacol Production", at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Abu Dhabi during Dec 15-17, 2025.
79th Annual Technical Meeting of The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM ATM 2025) bestowed the BEST POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD to "Gaijinliu Gangmei, Kishalay Mitra, Santu Rana, Bernard Rolfe, Saswata Bhattacharyya, Accelerating 𝜃 Precipitates Prediction in Al-Cu Alloys with Physics-informed Neural Operator" at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad during Dec 4-6, 2025.
DST-PURSE supported 24th National Symposium on Catalysis (CATSYMP-24) organized by Catalysis Society of India (CSI) bestowed the BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD to "Sakshi Manekar, Rashi Verma, Kishalay Mitra, Debaprasad Shee, Reductive depolymerization of lignin using supported Ni-M (M=Pd, Ru and Rh) catalysts to produce aromatic chemicals" at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology during February 24-26, 2025.
Named among World's Top 2% Scientists, according to the latest profile review (2024) conducted by Stanford University / Elsevire released at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7.
Review Committee Member, Programme Office, Open Competition Domain Science - M, Dutch Research Council, 2024-25.
Core member, Coal India Limited (CIL) Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Clean Coal Energy and Net Zero (CLEANZ) at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
Named among World's Top 2% Scientists, according to the latest profile review (2023) conducted by Stanford University / Elsevire released at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6.
Appointed as Member, Research Advisory Committee, Indian Institute of Pertoleum Engineering, Vishakhapatnam.
Appointed as Member, Board of Studies, for Chem Engg Dept, CBIT, Hyderabad.
Selected as distinguished faculty to present research before the 46th Board of Govornor's meeting @ IIT Hyderabad (2024).
Apponted as Chair, Prime Minister's Research Fellowship Cell, IIT Hyderabad (2023-26).
Outstanding Reviewer Awards by IOP Publishing (2023).
Prime Minister's Research Fellowship has been awarded to the PhD student Ms. Aswitha Tadepalli (2023).
Prime Minister's Research Fellowship has been awarded to the PhD student Ms. Rashi Verma (2023).
IIT Hyderabad Faculty Research Excellence Award, 2021 – 2022 (192 publications including Journal, conference, book chapter & patents (Google Scholar Citations 2669, h-index 31, i-10 index 69) & executed ~10 crores of project).
Named among World's Top 2% Scientists, according to the latest profile review (2022) conducted by Stanford University / Elsevire released at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.
Named among World's Top 2% Scientists, according to the latest profile review (2021) conducted by Stanford University / Elsevier released at https://lnkd.in/ecV9y9Tv.
Best Project Award, 2021 (B. Tech category) awarded to Ms. Sakshi Naik by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) working under Prof. Kishalay Mitra.
Prime Minister's Research Fellowship has been awarded to the PhD student Mr. Utkarsh Deep Tiwari (2021).
Apponted as Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad (2020-23).
Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS 2020) bestowed the BEST PAPER AWARD to "Gumte, K., Mitra, K., Strategic biofuel supply chain network design and techno-economic-environmental analysis for an Indian scenario"
Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) designated AI track leader along with Senior Professor from IISc (Prof. Umesh Wagmare) on “Surrogate Modeling, Uncertainty optimization, Data Science and ANN” showing the national capability while preparing the ICME Materials Research roadmap for INDIA (INAE plans to submit recommendations to Govt of India).
BATTERY 2030+, a long-term roadmap for forward-looking battery research in Europe, prepared by the EU Horizon 2020 initiative mentions our work in the Li+ Battery space (Dawson-Elli, N., Kolluri, S. K., Mitra, K., Subramanian, V., "On The Creation of a Chess-AI-Inspired Problem-Specific Optimizer for the Pseudo Two-Dimensional Battery Model Using Neural Networks", J Electro Chemical Society, 166, 2019, A1-A15; the document quotes "Additionally, there are some incipient activities in which modelling is applied to cell design, which will open up new opportunities to explore new cell formats and designs.")
Selected as one of the panel members for the BHAIBHAV Summit on Climate Change, October 16, 2020 (Invited lecture on "Meeting Climate Change Challenges through Hand Shaking with AI").
Selected as an academic partner by IBM Research, India under Open Science Collaboration Program (OSCP)
Associate Editor, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series E, Springer (https://www.springer.com/journal/40034/editors).
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Taylor & Francis (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=lmmp20).
Member, Board of Studies, Department of Instrumentation and Control, College of Engineering Pune, Pune (https://www.coep.org.in/departments/instru/paqicbosiab).
Visiting Professor, June - Aug 2018, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Visiting Professor, April - July 2017, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Visiting Professor, May - July 2014, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Visiting Professor, July - August 2013, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.