Awards
Awards
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
First prize (cash: Rs. 5000/- and certificate) for best presentation and best paper at “2nd Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (IYGEC)”at JNTU, Kakinada, 2009
Selected for organizing a special session on natural computation techniques in IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium-2008, Missouri, USA, 2008 (4th session in the web link: http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/?q=node/5)
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 grant(s)
by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS), India, to represent IGS and present research paper at 4th iYGEC, Egypt, 2009
by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, to present research paper at “IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Missouri, USA”, 2008
by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, to present research paper at “GeoCongress-2008, Louisiana, USA”, 2008
by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India, to present research paper at “GeoCongress-2008”, Louisiana, USA, 2008
Second Prize (only prize given) by Institute of Engineers, Bangalore, India, for the best paper and presentation, 2001