Honors/Awards:

  • Faculty Excellence Award by IIT KGP, 2022
  • Received CII best IP profile for IIT Kharagpur among different academic
    organizations in India in 2021-22 during the tenure of PIC-IPR and IR
  • SBAOI – Best PhD Thesis Awards Committee member
  • TIFAC: Technology status and forecast of bioprinting technology
  • Evaluation Committee: BIRAC
  • Cover page image in Materials Today (December, 2017) by winning microscopy
    competition organized by Zeiss
  • Leadership/Scientist Award for TERMIS-AM 2016 Conference by Two students
    (Mr. K. Kapat and Dr. B. Das) and TERMIS-AM 2017 Dr. P Dadhich
  • Awarded gold medal in the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth
    Programme (IIGP) 2016, a PAN India Innovators’ Competition held at Federation
    House (FICCI), Tansen Marg, New Delhi for ‘Simple low cost processing of
    metallic foam for diverse applications’
  • BIRAC SRISTI GYTI award at organized at Rastrapati Bhawan, New Delhi in
    March’2016 for ‘a simple cost effective titanium foam for skeletal tissue reunion’
  • Selected among Top 8 Business plan in the ‘Honourable Mention category at
    TERMIS World Congress 2015 held at Boston, USA on 8-11 September 2015
  • Awarded gold medal in the 2015 DST – Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth
    Programme (Joint initiative of the DST, FICCI, Lockheed Martin Corporation;
    Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Stanford Graduate School of Business
    and University of Texas)
  • ‘Bone grafts designed via biomimetic approach from natural origin
    materials’
  • ‘Development of X – ray visible polymers for non – invasive imaging
    applications’
  • For best concept note ‘Bone graft Designed via Biomimetic Approach from
    Natural Origin Materials’ under ‘Health Tech Innovations – 2015’ organized by
    DeitY, SAMEER in technical collaboration with NHSRC & ICMR under theme
    ‘Technology Innovations in Treatment of Disease’ organized on 9th-10th January,
    2015
  • BIRAC SRISTI GYTI award 2015 at Rastrapati Bhawan for contribution entitled
    ‘Development of X-ray visible polymers via in situ iodination–crosslinking for
    non-invasive real time imaging’ on 8th March, 2015
  • BIRAC fellowship for Entrepreneurial learning under Ignite program at University
    of Cambridge in 2014
  • EPSRC fellowship UK 2004-2006
  • Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists (FAST) funded by DST, Govt. India
    (2010)
  • Highlighted in the MRS Bulletin News, 30 [9] 628 (2005) for ‘Synthesis of Nano
    Crystalline Alumina Using Egg White’
  • Awarded a silver medal for excellent technology based innovations ‘Protein
    Coagulation Casting of Ceramics’ at Incubiz (Anveshan III) organized by IIM
    Ahmedabad in March 2005
  • Selected to present in the student’s session at the Annual Indian Ceramic Society
    Conferences held at Hyderabad (January 2001) and Jaipur (January 2002),
    respectively
  • ‘Challenges and opportunities in ceramic manufacturing via gelcasting’
  • ‘Direct casting of ceramic foams–microstructure and processing
    relationships’
  • Best posters and presentations awards in eight occasions