Awards

Awards

 Joined the Editorial Board of the Nature - Scientific Reports as Editor through invitation, Since 2025



Joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clays and Clay Minerals as Associate Editor through invitation, Since 2023




Member of the Expert Advisory Committee (EAC) of Waste Management Technologies (WMT) program of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, 2022 – 2025



Editorial Board member of the Indian Geotechnical Journal as Editor through invitation, 2020



Best Reviewer EBM (Editorial board member) award? for the best for "Reviewer of the Year 2020 (EBM)" award based on your contribution to the Indian Geotechnical Journal, presented at Valedictory function of IGC-2021


Prof. A.V. Shroff Biennial Award for the best paper published on Grouting Tech/Environment Tech published through Indian Geotechnical Society, 2017


IEI - Young Engineers Award, by Institution of Engineers, India, 2013



    INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) Faculty Award, for consucting the research, by Department of Science and Technology (DST), 2013



      Smt. Indira Joshi Biennial Prize, for the best paper published in International/National conferences during 2009-2010, by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), 2010



        GSEP fellowship (worth $10,000 CAD, for 6 months), by Canadian Bureau for International Education, Canada, 2009



          Nominated and Selected by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) as a young delegate (to represent India) for the paper presentation in 4th International Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference (iYGEC), Alexandria, Egypt, 2009



          Nominated and Selected by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) as a young delegate (to represent India) for the paper presentation in 4th International Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference (iYGEC), Alexandria, Egypt, 2009


            Selected for organizing a special session on natural computation techniques in IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium-2008, Missouri, USA, 2008 



            Best performance award for the presentation at 6th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2008



            Outstanding Student � Paper Award (cash: $800USD), for two papers in �IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium�, Missouri, USA, presented by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society � Nature inspired problem solving, USA, 2008



            Travel grants:
            - Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), India, to represent IGS and present research paper at 4th iYGEC, Egypt, 2009
            - Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, to present research paper at �IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Missouri, USA�, 2008
            - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, to present research paper at �GeoCongress-2008, Louisiana, USA�, 2008
            - Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India, to present research paper at �GeoCongress-2008�, Louisiana, USA, 2008