Awards & Recognitions

International Recognitions

Qualcomm Faculty Award
by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA. 2022
Winner of "Connecting the Unconnected" Award
at Impact Engineered event hosted by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Engineering for Change (E4C), New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Brooklyn, New York, October 11, 2018
Winner of Mozilla Open Innovations Challenge
for our Gram Marg solution for Rural Broadband. 98 submissions were made from 27 countries and our solution was adjudged as the best in a presentation in New York and declared Winner
Brussels, March 29, 2017
IEEE Standards Medallion
awarded by IEEE Standards Association, USA for accomplishments that have resulted in revolutionary changes to Indian Technology, Policy and Standardization
New Jersey, USA, December 2016

Best Paper award in Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Small Cells, Modelling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)
Hammamet, Tunisia, May 12-16, 2014
Finalist for the Best Paper award in National Conference on Communications (NCC)
IIT Kanpur, February 28 – March 2, 2014
Finalist (one of the three) for the Best Paper award in IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Florida, USA, October 22-25, 2012
Best Paper Award in ACM Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoC)
Louisiana, USA, May 18-21, 2009

IIT Bombay Research Award for Impactful Research
2017
VASVIK Industrial Research award for Electrical and Electronics Sciences and Technology
2013
National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI)-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application oriented Research
2012
Hari Om Ashram prerit Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award
2009
Prof K Sreenivasan Memorial Award of IETE
2006
Prof SVC Aiya Memorial Award by Prof SVC Aiya Trust
2006
Dr PK Patwardhan Technology Development Award of IIT Bombay
2004

Fellow of IETE
Nominated member of academic senate of IIT Bombay (during the tenure of Associate Professor)
2004