Awards

Selected Academic Honours and Awards

2019 IEEE Senior Member

2018 Rolls-Royce Inventors Award

2015 Poster Award, Self-healing and damage sensing in magnet polymer composites, International conference on materials for advanced technologies (ICMAT) and IUMRS-ICA

2014 Best Poster Award, 6th MRS-Singapore Conference on Advanced Materials and Workshop on Chemistry of Energy Conversion: From Molecular design to Advanced Materials, Singapore.

2013 Nanyang Education Award, Nominee

2011 IEEE Magnetics Society (Singapore Chapter) Best Poster Award

2011 Best Poster Award, Nano 2011, Cochin, India

2011 Fellow, American Society for Materials, USA.

2010 Best Poster merit award, IEEE Magnetics Society, Singapore Chapter

2010 Acta Best Paper Award.

2010 Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Sciences.

2007 Best Oral Paper (Runner-up) Award, “Proposed novel dual-therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma-utilizing superparamagnetic nanoparticles for targeted delivery of doxorubicin and concomitant hyperthermia”, Gastroenterological Society Annual Meeting, Singapore.

2005 Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching

2002 Chair’s Fund Award, Gordon Research Conference, USA

Student Mentee Awards: Design project competition winner. IEEE Magnetics symposium prizes. Young inventor’s award. Poster awards. Kauffman global scholarship. International young person’s lecture competition.

Research Related Recognition

Adv. Healthcare Materials, Invited Review.

Rolls-Royce Inventors Award

J. Micromech. Microeng., 25, 124001. Highlight of Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 45, 2998-3009 (2014). Nominated for ASM International Henry Marion Howe Medal and Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award

Top 25 hottest” articles in the academic year Oct. 2009-Sep. 2010. Winner of the Acta Best Paper Award.

J. Appl. Phys., 107, 114701. Selected for Virtual J. Nanoscale Sci. Tech. This journal, published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, covers a focused area of frontier research. 3rd most downloaded article from J. Appl. Phys. website in June 2010 and 2nd most downloaded article in July and Aug. 2010

Adv. Mater., 20, 2679-2683 (2008). Work on “nanosculpture” of branched core-shell thermoelectric architectures was Science News in several leading Science portals. [Tier 1, I.F. 21.950]

Phys. Rev. B., 74, 224408-1 to 224408-7. Selected by American Inst. of Physics and American Phys. Soc. for J. of Nanoscale Sci. Tech., Dec. 26, 2006

ROAR, Research Outstanding and Award Recognition, NTU

Teaching Awards / Recognition

  1. University Teaching Council
  2. Education Committee, TMS (USA)
  3. Nanyang Education Award, Nominee
  4. Invited textbook and pedagogical encyclopedia chapters for Magnetic nanomaterials (MS7055), biomedical materials (MS4013).
  5. Mentored Design project competition winners
  6. Mentored for best student paper Acta award
  7. Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching
  8. Mentored IEEE Magnetics symposium prizes.
  9. Successfully mentored candidate for Kauffman global scholar Program
  10. Mentor, Poster awards.
  11. Mentor, Young inventor’s award.
  12. Mentor for International young person’s lecture competition winner