Best PhD Dissertation award at Duke 2024.
2023 RTNN Collaborative Research Award.
2nd place speaker award at at Carolina Science Symposium 2023 presented by Micross.
Most outstanding student speaker award for the annual Fitzpatrick Institute of Photonics, Duke seminar series 2023.
Best image award at the contest 'Envisioning the Invisible', organized by Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University in 2023.
Best speaker award at Carolina Science Symposium 2022 presented by RTNN.
Research paper nominated for best poster award at 2022 Materials Research Society, Fall meet at Boston.
Best undergraduate research thesis award in the class of 2018.
Two times winner of Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) for doctoral study (2018 & 2019): One among a total of 25 selections across Interdisciplinary sciences throughout India.
Springer’s best speaker award for research paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Thin Films 2017, New Delhi, India.
Research paper nominated for best poster award at 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion 2018, Hawaii, USA.
Featured on the cover of Nature Review Materials.
First authored journal paper ranked among the top 60 most cited and most accessed articles published during the 60th-anniversary celebration of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Communications in 2023.
Selected graduate speaker at 10th annual Duke GradX.
Research work highlighted in the international magazine "Perovskite-info" in 2020 and 2023.
Cumulative performance index (CPI) in B.Tech - 8.5/10 (Ranked 3rd in the class size of 84).
Recipient of Merit-Cum Mean Scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India for all four years of undergraduate study.
National Level Examinations:
NCAT (National Creativity Aptitude Test, 2015) : All India Rank 18
JEE (Joint Entrance Examination for B.Tech, 2014) : All India Percentile 98.27
KVPY (Young Scientist Encouragement Program, 2014) : One among total 79 selections across India
NDA (National Defense Academy, 2014) : Screened in candidate for Air Force
NTSE (National Talent Search Examination, 2008) : Fellow from 2009 – 2013