Achievements

2025:

• Outstanding Reviewer Award 2024 from the Institute of Physics (IOP) for reviewing for the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics.

2022:

• Held in reserve status for my Newton International Fellowship application on High-Performance Printed CMOS Processing Engine for E-skin. Even though I was not successful in managing the final funding 😔.

2021:

• National Award for Research Excellence in the area of Nano Innovation for my PhD thesis from the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS). 

• Sudarshan Bhat Memorial Prize for the best thesis in the Dept. of MME, IIT Madras.

• Institute Research Award (IRA) from IIT Madras in recognition of the Quality and Quantity of my research work.

2020:

• Best poster award in the 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (IEEE-ICEE 2020) for my presentation on flexible touch sensors.

• Won third prize for ‘Science through my eyes’, a science film competition organised by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in Doctoral students and Post-doctoral fellows category, as a group event of 2 members.

2019:

• Won AWSAR Award 2019 for popular science writing from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. The article was published as a book chapter.                                      

• Won first prize in the innovation pavilion contest for my transparent wearable heater as the best research innovation during ADMAT 2019, Hyderabad, organised by DRDO-DMRL. 

• Financial Assistance from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore and Travel Assistance from IIT Madras Alumni Association to attend the ICMAT 2019 conference in Singapore

2018:

• RSC Molecular Systems Design and Engineering poster prize at the ICSM conference, Jaipur, for my presentation on transparent conducting electrodes.

• Best poster award at the ICSM conference, Jaipur, for my presentation on transparent conducting electrodes.

2013:

• Second rank in B. Tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, Kerala.