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        Diamond Jubilee Research Intern Award (2004), National Metallurgical Laboratory, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, IndiaGraduate Research Assistantship, Ministry of HRD (2005-2010)Best Poster Award at ICONSAT-2008, February 26-28, 2008, Chennai, India.Best AFM Micrograph in Micrography Contest 2009 organized by Materials and Metallurgical Department, IITK3rd Prize in Best SEM Micrograph in Micrography Contest 2009 organized by Materials and Metallurgical Department, IITK.Best Poster Award in an International Symposium on Hydrogen and Energy Storage as a part of Energy Conclave-2010, Jan. 14th, 2010, IIT KanpurIITK Excellence Award for Community Services-2011Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE)'s Innovative Students Project award for Best Doctoral Thesis, 2011DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, 2014Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (Technological edge category) 2014DST Young Scientist Award, 2015Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award 2015SERB Indo-US Fellowship 2016, by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF), New DelhiInstitute of Engineers (India) Young Engineer Award 2016 in Chemical Engineering DivisionMember, Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) (2017-22)NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award 2017Member, National Core Committee, INYAS (2018-20)Guest Editor, Special Issue on Carbon-MEMS in Nature's Microsystems and Nanoengineering Journal (To be published in July 2019)Member, National Academy of sciences, India (NASI), 2019DST-TSDP Project on Direct Recycling of Polystyrene Waste is highlighted as a success story in DST Annual report 2017-18. Special coverage on National and International print and electronic mediaFounding Director, M/s. Restyro Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (A Start-up incubated at IITH)Member, Expert Advisory Committee on Waste Management, DST-TSDP (2019-22)Associate Editor, Special Issue on Carbon-MEMS in Nature's Microsystems and Nanoengineering Journal (December 2019)DAE Young Achiever Award for the contribution in the area of Condensed Matter Physics, Dec. 2019Member, SERB-SUPRA Screening Committee, Engineering Sciences, Jan. 2020, Jan. 2021Special Invitee of Project Advisory Committee (PAC) - 'Materials & Engineering Sciences' of International Bilateral Cooperation Division (IBCD), Department of Science & Technology, GoI, Feb. 2020Elected as Chairperson, Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), 2020-22. INYAS is only recognized young scientist's academy of India working towards scientific capacity building, science communication and popularization especially among young students. As a Chair, INYAS, taken several initiatives for women in STEM, women leadership in Science, science communication in local languages and international collaboration with other National Young academies for Science promotion.Member, Global Young Academy (GYA), (2020-25)Co-Lead, GYA Young Scientists Ambassador Program (YSAP); Organized a virtual mission between India and Netherland for Scientific knowledge exchange between research scholarsDST-SwarnaJayanti Fellowship in Engineering Sciences, 2020Member, Executive Committee, FUTURISTIC AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING FORUM OF INDIA (FAMFI), NIFFT, RanchiPAC Member, Technology Development Programme under Technology Development & Transfer Division, DST |