Honors & Awards

Press Highlight of Newsworthy Research (2022)
APS March Meeting
Invention of context-aware neuron selected for press coverage, ~ top 0.3% out of 10,000 technical papers

UT Research Showcase (2020)
Office of the Vice President for Research, UT Austin
Discovery of giant spin Hall effect showcased among the highest quality and highest impact research conducted across the entire university

Meet the New Faculty Candidates (2020)
Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting
Selected amongst top faculty candidates in materials science at MRS Fall Meeting

Feature Story (2020)
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Discovery of giant spin Hall effect featured by TACC amongst top 2% out of ~3,000 projects conducted

Editors’ Suggestion (2017)
Phys. Rev. B
Paper selected by editorial board for its importance and impact, top 5% of published papers

Institute Academic Reform Student Committee (2007)
IIT Bombay
Selected to propose institute-wide reforms to the academic curriculum at IIT Bombay

Student Mentor (2006 – 2007)
IIT Bombay
Selected as a student mentor for the incoming Freshmen

Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship (2004)
Indian Academy of Sciences
Awarded a fellowship to conduct research by the Indian Academy of Sciences

National Fellowship KVPY run by Indian Institute of Science (2001 – 2003)
Human Resources and Development Ministry of India
Awarded by HRD Ministry of India to 12 scholars all over the country, Top 3%

Singapore Airlines Scholarship (2000)
Singapore Airlines
Scholarship awarded to high-school students for further studies (declined)

Service

  • Frontiers in Neuroscience, Invited Reviewer 2023 – Present
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Invited Reviewer 2022 – Present
  • Magnetism, Member, Reviewer Board 2022 – 2023
  • Physical Review Letters (PRL), Invited Reviewer 2022 – Present
  • Communications Physics, Invited Reviewer 2022 – Present
  • Cell Reports Physical Science, Invited Reviewer 2021 – Present
  • Physical Review Materials, Invited Reviewer 2020 – Present
  • Physical Review B, Invited Reviewer 2018 – Present
  • Condensed Matter, Invited Reviewer 2019 – Present
  • Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Invited Reviewer 2015
  • Surface science, Invited Reviewer 2014
  • Nano, Invited Reviewer 2013
  • Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Invited Reviewer 2012
  • Crystals, Invited Reviewer 2012