Awards, Honors & Recognitions

Member of the Executive Committee of Tribology Scoeiety of India, Jan 2024-present.

Subject Matter Expert/Mentor, TataSteel MaterialNEXT 5.0 2024. 

International Technical Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing Engineering (MSME 2024), Singapore, 18th-20th Jaunary 2024.

Invited Speaker, 7th International Indentation Workshop (IIW7), Hyderabad, 17th-21st December 2023.

Invited Speaker, International Conference on Metallurgical Engineering and Centenary Celebration (METCENT 2023), IIT BHU, Varanasi, 26th-28th October 2023.

Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Tribology (Triboindia 2023), Sustainable Development through Tribology, NIT Srinagar, 5-7 October 2023.

Member of National Advisory Committee, International Conference on Tribology (Triboindia 2023), Sustainable Development through Tribology, NIT Srinagar, 5-7 October 2023.

Invited Speaker, 15th Summer School in Tribology, Indian Institute of Science, IISc Bangalore, India (2023)

Guest Editor, "Nanoscale Mechanics and Tribology of 2D Materials and Thin Films", a special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).

Member of the Sub-Committee on Technical Textiles Research Development & Innovation (2022)

Invited Speaker, 2022 International Conference on Engineering Tribology and Applied Technology, ICETAT 2022, 4-6 November, Taiwan.

Co-Chair, Tribology for Energy, Environment and Society, 11th International Conference on Industrial Tribology (ICIT), 12-14 December 2022, New Delhi, India.

Advisory Committee Member, Failure and Preventive Maintenance of Machineries (FPMM-2022), 8-9 March 2022.

Member of the Advisory Board, 2nd Virtual International Tribology Research Symposium, SRM University, India, 8-10 December, 2021.

Invited Speaker, 2nd Virtual International Tribology Research Symposium, SRM University, 8-10 December, 2021.

Member of the Advisory Board, Triboindia 2021, Tribology for Sustainable Environment and Industry 4.0, Saintgits College of Engineering, India, 2-4 December, 2021.

Second Prize in International image competition: "Beauty of the Nanoworld", Nanosurf, Switzerland, June 2021.

Member of the Advisory Board, International conference on Sustainable Material, Manufacturing and Energy Technologies (SM-MET), 11-12 June, 2021.

Invited Speaker, 12th International Symposium on Fuels and Lubricants, Haryana, 15-17 March 2021

Distinguished Speaker, Nanotribology, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST), Hyderabad, 14-19 Dec 2020

Invited Speaker, AFM in Liquids: Friction, Wear and Tribochemical Reactions at the Nanoscale, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Dec11th, 2020.

Invited Speaker, Soft Matter: Young Investigators e- Meet 2020 (e-SMYIM), IISc Bangalore-IIT Madras, 3-5 December, 2020

Invited Global Webinar, Nanosurf, Liestal, Switzerland, 10 Nov 2020,

Keynote Lecture, In situ nanoscale study of tribochemical processes under lubricated contacts, IOCL Triboconnect, 26 Oct 2020

Invited Speaker, Bruker webinar, 20-21 Oct 2020

Keynote Speaker, Recent Advances in Tribology and Surface Engineering, Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala,14th Oct, 2020

Member of the Advisory Board, International Conference on Substantial Developments in Science (ICSDS-2020), Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University Gurugram, 29-30 August 2020.

Invited Speaker,12th Summer School in Tribology, Indian Oil Corp., Gurugram, India (2020).

Invited Speaker, Dissipation Mechanisms in Nano/Mesoscale Tribological Systems, Trieste, Italy (2020).

Invited Speaker, 11𝑡ℎ Summer School in Tribology, Indian Oil Corp., Gurugram, India (2019).

Keynote Speaker, IndiaTrib2019, IISc Bangalore, India (2019).

Invited Speaker, International Nanotribology Forum, Goa, India (2018).

Invited Speaker, Beilstein Nanotechnology Symposium, Potsdam, Germany (2018).

Invited Speaker, 10th Summer School in Tribology, Indian Oil Corp., Gurugram, India (2018).

Invited Speaker, Advances in Surface Engineering, Delhi Technical University, New Delhi, India (2016).

Invited Speaker, 9th Summer School in Tribology, Indian Oil Corp., Gurugram, India (2017).

Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Industrial Tribology, Kolkata, India (2017).

Session Chair, International Conference on Industrial Tribology, Kolkata, India (2017).

Session Chair, 54th National Metallurgist’s Day & 70th Annual Technical Meeting, IIT Kanpur, India (2016).

Invited Speaker, 54th National Metallurgist’s Day & 70th Annual Technical Meeting, IIT Kanpur, India (2016).

Invited Speaker, Recent Development and Challenges in Materials and Manufacturing Process, Delhi Technical University, New Delhi, India (2016).

Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board, India (2016).

Session Vice-Chair, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Tribology Frontiers Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA (2015).

Invited speaker, Young Investigator Meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA (2015).

Grand poster prize, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, Waltham, MA, USA (2014).

Discussion leader, Gordon Research Seminar on Tribology, Waltham, MA, USA (2014).

Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Germany (2009).

Visiting scientist at the Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2008).

Best poster award, MRS-S, Conference on Advanced Materials, Singapore (2008).

Best poster award, Nonosikkim-III, Mechanics and Friction at the Nanoscale, India (2008).

PhD research scholarship from the National University of Singapore (2004).

Ranked among top hundred students in India in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in metallurgical engineering (2003).

Department rank holder (Overall 2nd) in B.Tech. (2003).

Ranked among top 2% of the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE, 1999).