Honors
- Classified by US Citizenship Services both as an alien of exceptional ability in US National Interest (EB2-NIW, 2008) and of Extraordinary ability (EB1-EA, 2009)
- Recipient of JITC’s Golden Eagle Award (Highest civilian contractor award by US government) for the project GENETSCOPE in the capacity of Lead Architect and Developer (2006)
- National Training Simulation Association (NTSA) award for Best M&S Development in Cross-functional area for project ATC-Gen (as a team-member at NGIT) (2006)
- Nominated for outstanding Research Assistant/Staff award at Graduate Professional Students Association (GPSA) among 8000/36000 graduate students at the University of Arizona
- Appointed as one of the judges for evaluation of Travel Grant Applications at Graduate Students Professional Council (GPSA) at University of Arizona (2006)
- Graduate Research Assistant Scholar at ECE Department from Fall 2001 to Fall 2005
- ‘Herculean Effort’ Leadership award by ECE Department, University of Arizona, 2004
- Official Research Assistant for the largest of NSF funded ULN (Ultra Large Networks) Workshop, Nov. 2001
Dec 11: Co-I for research grant ($4.5M) titled "Developing Autonomic Sensing Framework Using Neuromorphic Computing Methods on a High-performance Computing Platform", a cross-directorate initiative, at WPAFB, OH