Honors and Awards

SERB Startup research grant starting June 2016.
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Research Grant starting August 2015.
Post-doctoral Fellowship starting from January 2014 from the Nanocenter at Tel Aviv University. Appended with the PBC Israel-India Fellowship for the second academic year.
Post-doctoral Fellowship from July 2011-Dec. 2013 at the International Institute of Physics - UFRN, Brazil.
Regent's Fellowship and Dean's Fellowship, 2006-07. UC Santa Cruz.
Ranked 1242 in a pool of over 150,000 candidates in the (all India) Joint Entrance Exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology, 2002.
Ranked 8th in Karnataka Regional Mathematics Olympiad, 2000.
Ranked 22nd in the All India National Level Science Talent Search Exam, 2001.