• Won the BioSolveIT Scientific challenge ‘Spring 2016’ at first place.

• First prize for Hackathon session on “Setting up simulation” and “Software carpentry” in the Macromolecular simulation software workshop, at CECAM- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, DE-JUELICH, 12-17 Oct. 2015.

• Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) fellowship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service for Sandwich model Ph.D. to perform one year research at Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany from Sept. 2013 to Sept. 2014.

• Young Scientist International Travel Grant awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), to attend the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB’2012), 9-12 Sept. 2012, Basel Switzerland.

• NIPER fellowship for Doctoral study awarded by NIPER S.A.S. Nagar (July 2010 – Dec. 2014).

• Secured All India Rank 179 in NIPER-JEE-2008 conducted by NIPER, Mohali.

• MHRD fellowship awarded for Master’s study (July 2008 – June 2010)

• All India Rank 527 with 98.08 percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2008 (Pharmaceutical Sciences) conducted by IISc. Bangalore.

Projects granted

• DBT-BMBF Indo-German 2018 project funding for 3 years in collaborative research on Drug-polymer interactions between Heidelberg University, Germany and NIPER SAS Nagar India.

• High-Performance Supercomputing time granted at HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany during year 2016-2017.

• Research funding proposal to Department of Biotechnology, India (year 2011-2014). “Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Homology model of CYP1A1, Structure-Based Drug Design And Virtual Screening of Potential Ligands that Modulates the Biological Function of CYP1A1”