• 09-2025: National Science Foundation-funded AGU25 Faculty Award to attend 2025 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orelans 

• 03-2025: National Science Foundation-funded Award to attend a workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado

• 02-2025 2025 TTU Open Access Publication Initiative Award 

• 12-2024:  Nominee, Co-Editor in Chief of UK Royal Meteorological Society Journal Weather

• 10-2024: Nominee, Editor in Chief for the AGU journal Earth and Space Sciences Open Archive (ESSOAr). Interviewed/Not selected for an award

• 03-2024: National Science Foundation-funded NCAR CORE [The Collaborative Opportunities for Research Engagement (CORE - 2023-24) Award. 

• 01-2024: NSF-funded AMS Faculty Travel Grant to attend the 104th AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

• 09-2023: Recognized for publishing a top-cited paper in the AGU journal Earth and Space Sciences, AGU Hallmark Certificate. 2023

• 10-2022 Nominee, 2022 College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Research Award. Not selected for an award

• 10-2022: TTU Open Access Publication Initiative award 2022.

• 08-2022: Recognized for publishing a top-cited paper as the lead author in the AGU Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 

• 10-2020: Nominee, 2020 Nancy J. Bell Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award; Not Awarded.

• 08-2020: Recipients of the NASA Group Achievement Award 2020 (Certificate of Recognition being potential member of the team), Citation: “For Exceptional Scientific Achievements of the ACT-America Earth Venture Suborbital Mission”. NASA Langley Honor Awards Ceremony, 2020.

• 08-2020: Recognized reviewer for Optical Society of America Journals for providing quality scientific peer review and completing more than 2 manuscripts in 2020; Awarded by Dr. Joseph N. Mait (Chair, Board of Editors)

• 02-2020: Open Access Award for Publications (currently known as, Open Access Week Award), 2019.

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• Young Scientist Award in 7th COPS workshop, Strassbourg, France, 2008, awarded by COPS International Scientific Steering Committee (ISSC of COPS) for outstanding performance in COPS project. 

• Best Poster Award in DACH conference, Hamburg, Germany, 2007, organized by German Meteorological Society (DMG) for presenting four posters in a row on four different topics during a single session. 

• New Hot Paper in the field of Geosciences: Co-authored a paper published a high-impact journal (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society) on the results obtained from COPS Field Campaign in 2007 in Europe.

• Recognized reviewer of the Elsevier journal Urban Climate: May 2015: Awarded by The Editors of Urban Climate, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

•  Visiting Scientist Medal, Pune, India, 2010: Awarded by the Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India.

• Certificate for attending UGC (University Grant Commission, India) sponsored seminar (Renewable Energy) in St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, University of Calcutta, India, 2010. Awarded by Dr. M. K. Chakravorty, Principal St. Paul’s College.

• Funding awarded to pursue Ph.D. in Stuttgart, Germany, 2004 by University of Hohenheim and the Ministry of Environment and Transport of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. 

• Certificate for an excellent oral presentation in PRL, Ahmedabad, India: 2003: Received from the organizing committee of the 4th Planex workshop, Physical Research Laboratory, India.

• Recognized reviewer of the Elsevier journal Luminescence: June 2015: Awarded by The Editors of Urban Climate, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• National Scholarship, India, 1995, by the Ministry of Education, Government of India for securing high rank in the board exam in the state level.