"Managing the Leidenfrost Effect in Manufacturing", American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Aug 2025 (Research highlighted in a press release on ASME website)
"Levitating lubricant: the Aerodynamic Leidenfrost Effect", Mechanical Engineering (ME), Purdue University, Jun 2025 (Research highlighted in a press release on Purdue ME news website with an interview video posted on YouTube)
"IIT-Kgp robot to help keep your crop pest-free", The Times of India, May 2025 (Undergraduate thesis research, which led to a patent, was highlighted in a national press release)
Featured publication (Editor’s selection) in STLE monthly TLT magazine, March 2024
Perry Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, July 2024
STLE – Chicago Section Academic Scholarship, March 2023
O.P. Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship, O.P. Jindal Industries, Dec 2018
O.P. Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship, O.P. Jindal Industries, Dec 2017
INSPIRE Scholarship, Department of Science and Technology, Dec 2015
REB Best Young Presenter Award, STLE Annual Meeting 2025, Sep 2025
2025 Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award, Purdue University Teaching Academy, May 2025, Link
Robert Erck Best Poster Award (Platinum category), STLE Annual Meeting 2025, May 2025, Link
Walter D. Hodson Best Paper Award, STLE, May 2025, Link
Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Apr 2025, Link
Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Apr 2025, Link
REB Best Young Presenter Award, STLE Annual Meeting 2024, Jan 2025
Best Poster Award (Platinum category), STLE Annual Meeting 2024, May 2024, Link
Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Award, STLE, May 2023
Third prize, Poster Session, Shah Lab I2D Expo, Purdue University, Apr 2023
Runner up, Best Oral Paper Presentation, IndiaTrib-2022 conference, Dec 2022
Certificate of Student Invention, IPR Cell, IIT Kharagpur, Aug 2019
Exemplary Bachelor’s Thesis Project, ME Department, IIT Kharagpur, Apr 2019
Ranjita Memorial Award, R.P. Hall of residence, IIT Kharagpur, Apr 2019
College of Engineering Travel Grant Award, Feb 2025
Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grant Award, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025
Reviewer, Mechanical Systems and Signals Processing, Sep 2025 - Present
Reviewer, IMechE Journal of Engineering Tribology, Jan 2025 - Present
Reviewer, AIP Physics of Fluids, Feb 2025 - Present
Reviewer, ASME Journal of Tribology, Jan 2025 - Present
Reviewer, ASME Journal of Fluids, Jan 2025 - Present
Reviewer, STLE Tribology Transactions, Jan 2025 - Present
Vice Chair, Rolling Element Bearings Technical Committee, STLE, Jun 2025 – May 2026
Paper Solicitation Chair, Rolling Element Bearings Technical Committee, STLE, June 2024 – May 2025
Vice-Paper Solicitation Chair, Rolling Element Bearings Technical Committee, STLE, June 2023 – May 2024
Student Member, American Physical Society (APS), 2025 - Present
Student Member, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), 2022 - Present
Student Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023 - Present
Academic chair, OMEGA, Purdue University, May 2023 – June 2024
Department representative, Undergraduate Students’ Council, IIT Kharagpur, July 2018 – Apr 2019
Head, Brakes Team, Electric Vehicles Group, IIT Kharagpur, July 2017 – Apr 2018