Awards and Recognition

1. Merit Scholarship from Government of West Bengal, 1993.

2. Co-recipient of H. D. Govindraj Memorial Research Award for the best research paper presented in International Welding Congress held at Chennai, India on 8-10^th January, 2008.

3. Recipient of ‘Royal Arc Award – 2009’ from Indian Institute of Welding for the best PhD thesis in welding.

4. Received best technical paper award (student: Dr. Bipul Das) for the paper presented in 2nd International Conference on Advances in Cutting, Welding and Surfacing (CWS), 05-07 August 2015, Coimbatore, India.

5. Received best poster award (student: Dr. Bipul Das) in Research Conclave 2017, Organized by Student Academic Board, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

6. N. Yadaiah, S. Bag, C. P. Paul and L. M. Kukreja: Efficient Finite Element Modeling of Fiber Laser Welding Process under Conduction Regime on 316 Stainless Steel Plate, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Sciences 2014, Hyderabad, India, from 9th to 11th January 2014, pp. 24-31. (Awarded the best research paper presented from International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Sciences 2014).

7. N. Yadaiah and S. Bag: Development of egg-configuration heat source model in numerical simulation of autogenous fusion welding process, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 86, pp. 125-138, 2014. (Science Direct top 25 list of most downloaded articles (Rank 8^th for July-September, 2014 and 19^th for October-December, 2014).