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 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Kisotokken)- (1999 - 2001). Basic Science Program at a National Laboratory - The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan.

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.