Research contributions made by the faculty of the department have always been noteworthy, and they have got recognition over the years from numerous national and international bodies, through awards, editorship of top journals, and Fellowship/Membership of prestigious bodies. Some of the awards and recognition received by faculty members of the department are listed below.

• Adjunct Professor, SSSIHL, Prasanthinilayam
• Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
• Batch of 1993 Young Faculty Fellow, IIT Kanpur
• Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award by Junior-ISBA
• C L Chandana Award
• Chebyshev grant, ICM
• Commendation from the selection committee for the ‘Teaching Innovator Award-2016’ (an award initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) for experimenting Flipped Classroom Blended Mode of Teaching
• Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT Kanpur
• M. N. Das Memorial Young Scientist Award, Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications
• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, The Netherlands
• Endowed Rahul and Namita Gautam Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur
• Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Kanpur
• Fellow, International Rough Set Society
• Fellowship of Indian Academy for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation (IAMMS)
• FICCI Award
• General Secretary IAMMS
• Google India Research Award
• Gopal Das Bhandari Distinguished Teacher Award, IIT Kanpur
• IISA Young Researcher Award: Theory Category, International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)
• Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award
• INSA Medal for Young Scientist
• INSA Teacher Award
• INSPIRE Faculty Award
• Jacob Wolfowitz Award
• Jal Jeevan Mission Professor Chair
• Jan Tinbergen Award
• Mahalanobis Memorial Medal
• Meghnad Saha Award
• Member of Committee on Logic in East Asia, Association for Symbolic Logic
• National Award in Statistics in honour of Prof. C. R. Rao awarded by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India in 2019
• P V Sukhatme Gold Medal
• K. Jain Award by Indian Mathematical Society
• K. Kelkar Young Research Fellow, IIT Kanpur
• Pandit Girish Ranjan and Sushama Rani Pathak Chair Professorship, IIT Kanpur
• Pradhip Sindhu Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur
• President ISTAM 2017
• President, Bharat Ganita Parishad, Lucknow
• President, Indian Mathematical Society
• Professor P.C. Mahalanobis Distinguished Educator Award, The Operation Research Society of India
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
• Shri Deva Raj Chair Professor of IIT Kanpur
• Steering Committee member, Indo-European Research and Training Network in Logic
• Sushila and Kantilal Mehta Award, IIT Kanpur
• Vigyan Ratna Samman, Council of Science & Technology, Uttar Pradesh
• Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences
• Member, National Statistical Commission
• Executive Editor, Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering