Member - National Academy of Inventors, Northeastern Chapter - 2025
Symposium Organizer - 2025
Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, USA
CAPS Fellowship - 2025
Hawker Family Fund & Chemspeed Technologies,NSF BioPACIFIC MIP @ UCLA & UCSB, USA
Grant Reviewer - 2024
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Expert, Interdisciplinary Projects Panel - 2024
Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), Belgium
Blueprint Program for Tough Tech Founders - 2024
The Engine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Conference Grant for Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) - 2024
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Associate Editor - 2023
Frontiers in Chemistry - Nanoscience
Guest Associate Editor - 2023
Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology, Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
Grant Reviewer - 2022
Helmholtz Sustainability Challenge($16M), Germany
Future Faculty Mentoring Program - 2022
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Education Division
New England Future Faculty Program - 2022
Harvard Medical School and Northeastern University
STAT Wunderkind Award - 2022
(Selected for my work on Engineered Living Materials)
Rising Star, Synthetic Biology Young Speaker (SynBYSS) - 2022
Judge - 2022
National Collegiate Research Conference
(Largest platform for Undergraduates from 100+ universities across America)
World’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35 - 2020
Technology Review, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
(Selected for my work on Engineered Living Materials)
Grand Prize Winner - 2020
American National Science Foundation (NSF) Idea Machine (Big Ideas) Competition for the Idea and Vision of Engineered Living Materials
(Selected from over 800 applicants - The Competition was held to help set the USA agenda for Future Investments in Science & Engineering Research and Education)
Semifinalist of MIT Water Innovation Prize - 2020
Semifinalist of Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge - 2020
Selected to Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubation Program - 2020
Deep Tech Pioneer - 2019
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge, Paris, France
(Selected from over 5000 applicants from 128 countries)
Selected to Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubation Program - 2019
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology - 2017
Selected for the prestigious Innovation Scholars In-Residence Program at Rashtrapati Bhawan (President’s House) by the President of India - 2014
Corporate Finalist at 3M-CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) - 2014
(Student Innovation Challenge)
Invited for Exhibition of Innovations at Delhi Organized by National Innovation Foundation, India -2014
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI-Appreciation) under SRISTI Technological Edge / Strategic Innovation category - 2013
Best Speaker at Winter School on Frontiers in Materials Science - 2012
Best Poster Award at Chemistry of Functional Materials - 2011
Best Poster Award at JNCASR In-house Symposium - 2009
Prof. C. N. R. Rao Education Foundation’s Gold Medal - 2008
Jayamma & Mudegoudra Veerabhadrappa Gold Medal - 2008
First Rank in Integrated M.Sc. (Hons)- 2008
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)- 2008
Selected for Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP)- 2007
(One out of 100 selected from all over India)
Selected for Project Oriented Chemical Education Program (POCE)- 2004-2006