Awards

• Awarded the IEEE SPS UP Chapter Academic Leadership Award for the Year 2023, for significant 15 years of service to IEEE SPS and contributions in the domain of Signal Processing.
• Umang Gupta Chair Professor, awarded to select professors at IIT Kanpur for excellence in their areas of research, 2018 – 2021.
• Outstanding Contributor, TRAI Committee on CAS/SMS Standard; P.K. Kelkar Research Fellow, awarded to select young faculty at IIT Kanpur for excellence in their areas of research, 2009 – 2012.
• Senior Member, IEEE, awarded to select professionals by IEEE, 2017.
• Exemplary Teacher: Director’s appreciation letter for student feedback greater than 3.5 on a scale of 4.0, 2009, 2016, and 2017 at IIT Kanpur.
• Best UG Design Project Mentor, awarded for mentoring the best undergraduate engineering design project at Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego, 2005 – 2006.
• Best Student Paper Award Finalist, NCC 2009, 2014 and SPCOM 2020.
• Mentor for the student team that won First Place in North Zone at DRDO Robotics and Unmanned Systems Exposition (DRUSE), 2005 – 2006.
• ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Grant, INTERSPEECH – ICSLP 2004 at Jeju, S. Korea, 2004.
• Karnataka State Government (India) Merit Certificate for being ranked among top 100 in X, 1985.