Awards
- DST Young Scientist Award (2002 2005) by Govt. of India, Ministry of Science and Technology. This award carries a grant to carry out a research project entitled "Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Modern Control Systems"
- Summer Research Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2005): Density Functional Theory and Quantum Control of Systems. (Worked at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune on with Professor BD Kulkarni, Head of Chemical Engineering Division.)
- UKIERI (www.ukieri.org) Major Award (2007 2011): Towards Reliable and Smart Air-Vehicles. This is a UK India collaborative project awarded to Prof. Ian Postlethwaite et. al., Control & Instrumentation Research Group at the University of Leicester, Prof. M. Seetharama Bhat, Dept. of Aerospace Engg. at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc. Bangalore), Dr. J.R. Raol, Flight Mechanics & Control Division at the National Aerospace Laboratories (FMCD, NAL Bangalore), Prof. B. Bandyopadhyay, Interdisciplinary Programme in Systems & Control Engg., at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay, Mumbai), and Dr. A. Ramakalyan, Dept. of Instrumentation & Control Engg., at the National Institute of Technology (ICE, NIT Tiruchirappalli).
