- Awarded ₹10 lacs under Amrit Grand Challenge JanCare by BIRAC for developing a remote rehabilitation platform for stroke recovery.
- Received DBT’s Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship in August 2022 with ₹50 lacs research funding and ₹73 lacs for salary & overheads.
- Awarded ₹10 lacs under Nidhi Prayas program from DST for prototyping a post-stroke hand rehabilitation device using neuromuscular stimulation.
- Winner of Microchip Technology’s 2020 Get Launched Initiative for creating an open source neurostimulator (NeuroStimDuino) for researchers & hobbyists, available on Crowd Supply.
- Finalist in Innovation Pitch Competition held at 2017 National Science Foundation IUCRC Meeting, Arlington. Selected among 4 finalists from 25 contestants.
- Finalist for Poster Presentation at 2017 International Symposium on Wearable & Rehabilitation Robotics, Houston.
- Led a 2-member team in Coulter College 2016, a 6-months long entrepreneurship program, for commercializing medical devices.We were among the 15 teams, selected from across US.Received $25K fellowship and $2500 travel award from NIH.
- Won 3rd prize for poster presentation at 2016 Medical World Americas Conference and Expo, Houston.
- Recipient of 2012 Presidential Fellowship and Houston Endowment Fellowship for $3000 from University of Houston.
- Completed future faculty program, a two-semester long program to enhance research and teaching skills via grant writing, discussions with distinguished faculty, peer evaluations, course and lecture planning, and mock teaching sessions.