​​    Awards and Honors

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• Selected as a "Member" of the prestigious Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) - the only recognized young scientist academy in India for a period of 5 years (Jan, 2023).  

• Elected as Member of the Executive Council, SPG Hyderabad Chapter, India (Aug, 2022).

• Received the prestigious "NASI -Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Medal 2020" in the field of Earth Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics from the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India's First Science Academy (Feb 2021).

• Recognized as an "Assistant Professor," Faculty of Physical Sciences, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) in Aug 2020.

• Recipient of "Young Scientist Award-2019" by Telangana Academy of Sciences (TAS), Telangana (2020).

• "Young Scientist Award" in the category of National Geoscience Awards 2017, Ministry of Mines (Govt. of India) from the President of Republic of India (2018).

• Conferred Springer Thesis Prize 2017 by Springer Nature Publishers, Germany in Feb., 2017 (2017).

• Awarded Inspire Faculty Award (a component under Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE)), a flagship programme of the Dept. of Science and Tech., Government of India (2016).

• Awarded International Travel Grant from Science and Engg. Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India (2016).

• Travel Grant by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) in March, 2016 to present a scientific paper at the 78th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Vienna from May 30-June 02, 2016.

• Awarded Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)/ExxonMobil Travel Grant to get training in Student Education program (SEP), SEG in Prague from July 10-17, 2015.

• ONGC-Indian Geophysical Union (IGU) Best Researcher Award (Best Poster/1st prize) for two times in the 50th and 52nd Annual International Convention organized by IGU in Jan, 2014 and Nov, 2015, respectively.

• One of the participants from India was selected for the SEG European Challenge Bowl-2015, SEG European Chapter in Prague, Czech Republic.

• Second Prize in Hindi Scientific Article Writing during Hindi Day Celebration at CSIR-NGRI, Uppal, Hyderabad in September 2015.

• CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, New Delhi in October 2014.

• Awarded Best Speaker for delivering research outcome on foundation day, CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad, in October 2014.

• Secured Rank-8 in the Science Direct Top-25 list of hottest/most downloaded articles for the paper published in Jour. of Applied Geophysics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.05.004), Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam (2013).

• Secured 1st prize in the Debate competition conducted by CSIR-NGRI in September 2013.

• Received All India Rank-30 in Graduate Aptitude Engineering Test(GATE)-2011.

• Recipient of National Merit Scholarship based on academic performance, with support from the University Grants Commission (UGC).

• First prize in the poster presentation, SEG Student chapter program, Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad (Sept., 2009).

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Vice President, Young Earth Scientists (YES) for the period 2020-2022.

Vice President,  Student Chapter of Society of Petroleum Geophysicists (SPG), CSIR-NGRI (2014-2015).

Placement Representative, Student section, Department of Applied Geophysics at Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad (2010-2011).

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Cultural Secretary, International Conference on “ Recent Advances in Geosciences (RAG)-2011” & All India Student Interaction Program during 6th -8th August, 2010 organized by SEG- Student Section, ISM Dhanbad. ​​​​​