Awards

• STE Green Excellence Award (2022).
• Shri Ram Arora Award (2010). Felicitated at TMS - 2010: Annual Meeting and Exhibition. San Diego, CA.
• American Academy of Mechanics, Founders' Prize and Grant (2005).
• Multiple times: Citation for Excellent Teaching, Head of the Institution (Director), IIT Kanpur.

Recognitions

• DST funded project was highlighted by Ministry of Science and Technology on Press Information Bureau website
• Interview filmed by Mrs. Neha Tripathi (Science Journalist) on our wound dressing materials and published on Youtube
• Films made by Technopark, IIT Kanpur, on our Biodegradable polymers work (Youtube Link)
• Paper was featured in Canadian magazine, Advances in Engineering (Article Link)
• Invited to attend 2nd Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2010 organized jointly by DST and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010)
• Invited lecture: The 2nd Workshop on Advance Material and Instrumentation in Bio Medical Engineering (AMIBE 2015). IIIT Allahabad
• Invited lecture: Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (CAMP-2015) from Dec 02-04, 2015. Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur
• Invited lecture: Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute (UPTTI), 2016
• Invited lecture: International Conference on Materials Engineering (ICME-2017) from Jun 02-04, 2017. Indian Institute of Metals (IIM)

Awards/ Scholarships during PhD

• Received Third Prize in poster presentation titled “Biomotor Patterning and Nanoengineered Cellulosic Material” at Crossover 2007 conference.
• Received Second Prize in a poster presentation at ESM Today (2005). Presented a poster titled “Motor Surface Processing Approaches”.
• Received scholarship to attend a conference sponsored by The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning and National Science Foundation (2006). Developed the skills to communicate with a diverse audience and to mediate a balance between interdisciplinary groups. The scholarship was given to selected PhD students with exceptional background and who wanted to pursue their career in academia.