Awards and Honors

Awards, Fellowships, Chair Professorships, and Scholarships for Research and Academic Excellence

1. Excellence in Teaching Award 2023, Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur (September 5, 2023)

2. Sanjay and Rachna Pradhan Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur (May 2017 - May 2020)

3. Research award of Overseas Partners Invitation Program, as part of Asia Bridge Program, Shizuoka University, Japan (January - March 2015). These competitive awards are for accomplished researchers from Asian Universities to spend a semester at the host university in Japan.

4. Australian Government Endeavour Research Award - 2010. The prestigious Endeavour Awards are the Australian Government's, internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing high-achieving individuals with a unique opportunity to undertake study, research or professional development.

5. Buti Foundation Award - 2009. This National Award is instituted by Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, and is given biennially to a person below 45 years for innovative and outstanding research work done in India in the field of Plasma Science and Technology.

6. Distinguished (Special) Postdoctoral Researcher (Kisotokken) - (1999 - 2001). Basic Science Program at a flagship National Laboratory - The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan. RIKEN's program for Special Postdoctoral Researchers was instituted to provide young and creative scientists the opportunity to be involved in autonomous and independent research that is in line with RIKEN objectives and research fields. All areas of mathematical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology, medical science, and scientific and technological engineering that relate to research being conducted at RIKEN are considered in this researcher award. 

7. Japanese Government Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Monbusho) - (1996 - 1999). Carrying out Doctoral work in Japan.

8. Norwegian Government Specialist Exchange Scholarship - 2006. Collaborative Research (Under cultural agreement between Norway and India) (December 8 - 27, 2006).

Other awards in form of travel and research grants

1. Center of Excellence (COE) Award - 2007, 2009. Special invited lecture and research collaboration at the Advanced Research and Education Center of Nano Vision Science, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan (December 14 - 20, 2007, November 28 - December 15, 2009).

2. IUPAP Travel Grant Award - 2007. Attending the XXVIII International Conference on the Phenomena of Ionized Gases (ICPIG), Prague, Czech Republic, July 15 - 20, 2007.

3. IEEE Early Career Travel Grant Award - 2003. International Microwave Symposium (IMS2003) at Philadelphia in June 2003 (three out of fourteen applicants were selected, published in IEEE Microwave Magazine, pp. 119, December 2003).

4. Student Travel Award - 1998. Joint 51st Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) and 4th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP), October19-23, 1998, Hawaii, USA.

Director's commendation for teaching at IIT Kanpur

Received Director commendation letters for several courses for outstanding teaching performance at IIT Kanpur based upon student evaluation.