Awards  
 
 
Professor R. P. Chhabra, Department of Chemical Engineering and Professor Faiz Ahmed Khan, Department of Chemistry, have been elected to the Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
 
Professor Ashok K Mittal, Industrial and Management Engineering Department, has been conferred the M.C. Puri Memorial award for the year 2010 by Operational Research Society of India.
 
Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande,Director IITK, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) in recognition of his contributions in the fields of technical education and engineering research and technology by Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, on 12 December 2011.
 
Professor Kalyanmoy Deb, Mechanical Engineering Department, has been elected as an IEEE Fellow
 
Dr. Binod Sreenivasan, Mechanical Engineering Department, has been awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship for the year 2010-11 by the Department of Science and Technology
 
Professor Kalyanmoy Deb, Mechanical Engineering Department, has been awarded the very prestigious Infosys Prize for the year 2011 in the area of Engineering and Computer Sciences.
 
Professor Manindra Agrawal, Computer Science and Engineering Department, has been awarded the H. K. Firodia award for excellence in Science and Technology.
 
Professor Kalyanmoy Deb, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the National J. C. Bose fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
 
Dr. Priyanka Ghosh , Department of Civil Engineering, has been selected for the “IEI Young Engineers Award 2011-2012” in the Civil Engineering discipline by the Institution of Engineers (India).
 
Dr.Sri Niwas Singh , Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) U.K
 
Dr. Dipankar Chakrabarti , Department of Physics, has been invited to be a member of the Editorial Board of ISRN High Energy Physics journal.
 
Professor J. K. Bera , Department of Chemistry, has been chosen to receive the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the area organometallic chemistry of transition metals and its application to catalysis.
 
Professor Anoop Singh , Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, has been invited to join the Working Group on Power for the 12th Five Year Plan (Subgroup on Legislative and Policy Issues) of the Planning Commission.
 
Dr. J. Ramkumar , Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected for the “IEI Young Engineers Award 2011-2012” in Production Engineering discipline.
 
Dr. Prashant Bagad , Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been awarded the Erasmus Mundus Academic Staff Scholarship.
 
Dr. Tapobrata Sarkar , Department of Physics, has been recently invited to join the editorial board of the upcoming journal ISRN High Energy Physics to be published by Hindawi.
 
Dr. Shalabh, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, has been selected for the Professor C R Rao National Award for Young Statisticians
 
Professor Kalyanmoy Deb, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award 2011 by IIT Kharagpur.
 
Dr. Binod Sreenivasan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has co-authored a paper entitled "Melting of the Earth's Inner Core". This paper appeared in the prestigious journal "Nature".
 
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, recipient of the 2011 "The Syed Husain Zaheer Medal" of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
 
Professor Santosh K Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering, a special invited session in the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Oct 2011.
 
Dr. Tarun Gupta, Department of Civil Engineering, has been chosen to receive the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) young scientist medal in their Atmospheric Sciences and Earth Sciences Division for the year 2011.
 
Professor Ghoshdastidar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor of "Heat Transfer Research", an international journal published by Begell House, USA.
 
Dr. Krishanu Biswas, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected for the BOYSCAST fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology.
 
Dr. Priyanka Ghosh, Department of Civil Engineering, has been conferred with the "Outstanding Young Investigator Award" by the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG).
 
Professor Suchitra Mathur, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been chosen for the Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial Distinguished Teacher Award-2011.
 
Dr. Mohua Banerjee, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, has been invited to join the Editorial Baord of the journal FUZZY SETS AND SYSTEMS.
 
Professor Vijay.K. Jain, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Manufacture (Proceedings of IMechE - Part B) published by Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd., London (U.K.).
 
Professor Narendra K. Sharma, Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Board of Accreditation..
 
Professor Dipak Mazumdar, Professor and Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been selected for the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Chair Professorship.
 
 
Professor R. R. K. Sharma, Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, has been appointed as the Editor of the American Journal of Operations Research.
 
Professor Bikramjit Basu, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been elected as, Editorial board member, "Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation-IJMatEI", published by INDERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS, UK.
 
Professor Bikramjit Basu, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been elected as Editorial board member, "International Journal of Biomaterials", published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA.
 
Professor Bikramjit Basu, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been invited to be the Associate Editor of the Journal "Bioceramics Development and Applications" published by Ashdin Publishing, Belgium.
 
Professor Bikramjit Basu, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been elected member, International Editorial Board, Indian Institute of Metals-University Press Series.
 
Professor Bikramjit Basu, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been awarded the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award-2011.
 
Professor G. Neelakantan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, was one of the two scholars who were felicitated at the International Seminar on Humanistic Language and Literature Teaching, Anna University, Chennai (February 18-19,2011) in recognition of his significant research contributions to Contemporary American Literature.
 
Professor G. Biswas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, currently Director, CMERI, Durgapur, has been awarded the prestigious National J. C. Bose Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
 
Professor T. K. Chandrashekar, Department of Chemistry, now at NISER Bhubaneshwar as its Director, has been conferred the D. S. Kothari Gold Medal by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 3rd January during the Indian Science Congress at Chennai.
 
Professor Sandeep Verma, Department of Chemistry, has been elected to the fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
 
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, received the first Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science on January 6, 2011 in Mumbai given by the honorable Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. The award cited Prof. Sharma's work on "Fundamental contributions to mechanics, materials and manufacturing on small scales including self-organization and instabilities, nano-patterning and functional multiscale interfaces." http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/    (Photo)
 
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, received the R. C. Mehrotra Memorial Life Time Achievement Award of the Indian Science Congress Association, 2010-2011, January 2, 2011 in Chennai given by the honorable Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh.
 
Professor J. N. Moorthy, Department of Chemistry, has been invited to join the Editorial Board of New Journal of Chemistry for a period of three years. This journal is published jointly by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), U. K. and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the French National Center for Scientific Research.
 
Professor B.K. Pattnaik, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been invited to be a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Bangladesh Sociological Studies: An International Bi-Annual Journal (ISSN: 1815-2163).
 
Dr. D. P. Mishra, Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been felicitated with Vikash Prerak Award 2010
 
Professor Gautam Biswas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been chosen as a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences (IJEMS).
 
Professor Manindra Agrawal, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, has been awarded Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt Forschungpreis in German).
 
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award, 2010-11 of the Indian Science Congress Association and also has been selected for the 'MRSI Distinguished Lecturership' award for the period 2011-2012 by the President, Materials Research Society of India.
 
Dr. Anindita Chakrabarti, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has received the prestigious Professor M. N. Srinivas Memorial Prize 2010 awarded by the Indian Sociological Society.
 
Dr. Krishanu Biswas, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected for the IEI Young Engineers Award 2010-2011 in Materials Science and Engineering discipline.
 
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, has won the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Engineering and Computer Science
 
Professor Mukesh Sharma, Department of Civil Engineering, was elected as Vice President of Indian Association of Air Pollution Control (IAAPC) for a period of two years
 
Dr. Kantesh Balani, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been awarded the '2010 Young Metallurgist of the Year'
 
Professor Manindra Agrawal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been awarded the prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in Mathematics, for the year 2010
 
Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected as a fellow to the TWAS
 
Professor R. P. Chhabra, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
 
Professor Bikramjit Basu, Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been selected for the Ministry of Steel funded "Best metallurgist of the year" award
 
Professor Sanjay G. Dhande (Director), Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the Dewang Mehta Business School Award, for his outstanding contribution to higher education in India.
 
Government of India has nominated Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande to work in the “National Innovation Council” set up by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India. The Council will prepare a roadmap for the Decade of innovation 2010-2020 and will also promote the setting up of State and Secor Innovation Councils to help implement strategies for innovation in States and for specific sectors.
 
Professor Sandeep Verma, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the year 2010 in Chemical Science, for his significant contribution towards mimicking enzymes through metal-mediated systems and studying ordered peptide assemblies as artificial models of neurodegenerative protein aggregation
 
Dr. D. P. Mishra, Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for the year 2010
 
Dr. Jayant Kumar Singh, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been recommended for the Amar Dye-Chem Award for the year 2010
 

Professors Debashish Chowdhury (Physics), Kalyanmoy Deb (Mechanical Engineering), Sanjay Mittal (Aerospace Engineering) and VK Singh (Chemistry) have been elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy

 
Dr. Vivek Verma, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been selected for the Shri Ram Arora Award for 2011.
 
Dr. S. Mahesh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award 2010.
 
Dr. Kantesh Balani, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award 2010.
 
Professor V. Chandrasekhar and Professor R.N. Mukherjee, Department of Chemistry, have been chosen to receive the Chemical Research Society of India Silver Medal for the year 2011 in recognition of their extensive and outstanding contributions to research in chemistry.
 
Professor P.K. Bhattacharya, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the Hiyoshi Think of Ecology Award - 2010 of Hiyoshi Corporation Japan for Outstanding contribution to applied study for Environmental Conservation and Protection.
 
Prof. Y. D. Vankar, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
 
Dr. Shalabh, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, has been selected for the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (MMM) - National Award for the year 2008.
 
Dr. S. Ganesh, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, has been selected for the DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Award of the Department of Atomic Energy.
 

Dr. Ashok K. Mittal, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, has been honoured with Life Time Achievement Award 2010

 
Dr. Krishanu Biswas, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been chosen for INSA Young Scientist Medal 2010
 
Dr. Ashish Garg, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the Australia India Science and Technology Research Awards (AISTRA)
 
Professor Manindra Agrawal, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, has been selected for Rajib Goyal Prize for young scientist-2007 in physical sciences
 
Dr. Balaji Prakash, Department of Biological Sciences & Bio-engineering, has been awarded the DBT-National Bioscience Award for 2009
 
Dr. P. K. Bharadwaj, Department of Chemistry, has been conferred the prestigious J. C. Bose fellowship
 
Dr. Sameer Khandekar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Medal for Young Researcher by the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer
 
Dr. Balaji Prakash, Department of Biological Sciences & Bio-engineering, has been awarded the DBT-National Bioscience Award for 2009
 
Dr. S. N. Tripathi, Department of Civil Engineering. has been selected for the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award for 2009 in the area of Earth Sciences
 
Dr. R R K Sharma, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, has been awarded Outstanding Management Researcher Award
 
Prof. Y. D. Vankar, Department of Chemistry has been elected as a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. This is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Organic Chemistry over a period of time.
 
 
Dr. Kantesh Balani, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, has been selected for the Young Scientists Award
 
Dr. Dipak Mazumdar, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, has been selected to receive the GD BIRLA Gold Medal-2009
 
Dr. Anish Upadhyaya, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, has been selected for the 2009 Metallurgist of the Year Award
 
Dr. R Balasubramaniam, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, has been selected to receive the inaugural IIM Distinguished Educator Award 2009
 
Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Department of Physics, has been chosen for the Buti Foundation Award in the field of Plasma Science and Technology for the year 2009
 
Dr. Shantanu Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been chosen for IEI Young Engineers Award 2009-10
 
Dr. Yogesh M Joshi, Department of Chemical Engineering, recepient of the Amar Dye Chem Award for 2009
 
Prof. P.Shunmugaraj, Mathematics & Statistics, recipient of Distinguished Teacher Award-2009
 
Dr. Jayant K. Singh, Department of Chemical Engineering and Dr. Surender Baswana, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Dr. Tarun Gupta, Department of Civil Engineering, have been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award 2009
 
Dr. Kantesh Balani, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, has been selected for Dr R L Thakur Memorial Award-2009
 

Dr. S.Ganesh, Department of Biological Science and Bio-engineering, has been awarded the B.M. Birla Science Prize in Biology for the year 2008

 
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been bestowed with the UGC National Hari Om Ashram Trust Award. The award is entitled Homi J. Bhabha Award for Applied Sciences for the year 2007 in recognition of his outstanding scholarly contribution in his chosen field of work
 
Professor S. Sundar Manoharan, Department of Chemistry, has received the award of Gold Medal at the Innovators competition for the DST-Lockheed Martin India, Innovation growth programme 2009 held between 11-13th June 2009 at FICCI, New Delhi.
 
Professor Sandeep Verma, Department of Chemistry, has been selected for the 'CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research' for the year 2009
 
Prof. B. K. Mishra, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, has received the prestigious National Mineral Award at a special function held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 13th February 2009
 
Dr. Krishanu Biswas, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, got Young Metallurgist of the Year 2008 (Indian Institute of Metals) by Ministry of Steel and Mines
 
Dr. S. Ganesh and Dr. R. Sankararamakrishnan, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, have been selected for the National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2008
 

Dr. Jayant K. Singh, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the BOYSCAST Fellowship for the year 2008-2009

 
Prof. Sandeep Verma, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Rajib Goyal Young Scientist Prize in Chemistry
 
Professor Narendra K. Sharma, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, has received the IAAP-PPA Best Psychologist Award 2008
 
Dr. K. Srihari, Department of Chemistry, declared the winner of the "Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial Distinguished Teacher Award" for the year 2008
 
Dr. Avinash K. Agarwal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, awarded "Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008" from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, USA
 
Dr. Ashish Garg, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, chosen for the INSA award 2008
 
INSA Young Scientist award for 2008 has been given to Mr. Sagnik Dey, Ph.D. Student, under the supervision of Professor S.N. Tripathi of the Department of Civil Engineering
 
Professor Kalyanmoy Deb, Department of Mechanical Engineering, chosen by the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making for the 2007 MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto award
 
Professor J P Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering, chosen for the award of I P C L Award by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
 
Professor Manindra Agrawal (CSE) elected Fellows of two academics: the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and the National Academy of Sciences
 
Dr. J Ramkumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, selected for the 'Young Scientist Award (2007-08) - Engineering Sciences' by the Indian Science Congress Association
 
Professor YN Mohapatra, Department of Physics and of Materials Science Programme, awarded the 'MRSI Medal' by the Materials Research Society of India
 
Professor VK Jain, Mechanical Engineering Department, invited to join the Editorial Board of the 'IJSurfSE - International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering' being published by Inderscience Enterprises (UK).
 
Professor G Neelakantan, Humanities and Social Science Department, elected to membership of the 'International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE)', an apex body in English language and literary studies
 
Professor V Chandrasekhar of Department of Chemistry has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
 
Prof. Gautam Biswas become a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.
 
Professor Amalendu Chandra, Department of Chemistry, chosen for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences for 2007 year
 
Professor Gautam Biswas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, elected as an Indian representative to the apex body for the promotion of research in mechanics, viz., International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for four years with effect from January, 2008
 
Professors V Chandrasekhar and RN Mukherjee, Department of Chemistry, elected Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
 
Professor Amalendu Chandra, Department of Chemistry, chosen for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences for 2007 year
 
Professors V Eswaran and Prabhat Munshi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, elected as Fellows of Indian National Academy of Engineering
 
Nitish Srivastava has been chosen as "The Aditya Birla Scholar" for the class of 2007-08
 
Dr. Animangsu Ghatak, Dr. Yogesh M Joshi, and Dr. V Shankar, Department of Chemical Engineering, selected for 'Diamond Jubilee Young Achiever's Awards' of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
 
Professor Dheeraj Sanghi (CSE) invited to join the steering committee of the 'Data Security Council of India', a major national initiative in the area of computer security
 
Dr. Bikramjit Basu (MME) invited to join the editorial board of the journal 'Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications'. The journal is published by Elsevier
 
Dr. Ashok Kumar (BSBE) invited to join the editorial board of the journal 'Nanoscale Research Letters' as an Assistant Editor. The journal is published by Springer, New York
 
Professor Jitendra Kumar (MSP) nominated as the Editor of a special volume of 'Solid State Phenomena', published by Trans. Tech. Publications, U.S.A./ Switzerland; the special volume will be on 'Hydrogen Energy Storage Materials'
 

Dr. A. K. Agarwal (ME) invited to join the Editorial Board of the 'Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering', by Bentham Science Publishers

 
Dr. Anil Kumar Ghosh (Math) selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences