Awards & Fellowship

    1st Prof.S.N.Mitra Memorial Award, IETE, 1995

    Awarded Finalist Best of the Show for NovaSwitch 2400 Ex, InterOp + Networld'96, Las Vegas, USA

   Awarded the Prize and Trophy for the Best Product on Fibre Optics Educator Kit at Elecrama 1996, Bangalore

    Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, India since 1994

   Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi since 1999

    Fellow of The National Academy of Science, Allahabad since 1999

    Awarded Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997 towards the contributions and achievements in the field
        of Electronics, Informatics, Telematics & Automation

    Awarded For the Sake of Honour Award by Rotary Club of Madras Central for the year 1998-99 towards the
        achievements in the field of Electronics, Telecommunications.

    Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Sciences for the year
        1998.

    Awarded Distinguished Alumnus by IIT Kanpur, September 1999

   Awarded Millennium Medal by CSIR during Indian Science Congress held in January 2000 at Pune

    Awarded for Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Lecture for the year 2001 by The National Academy of Sciences, India

    Awarded Rajasthan Shree Award from Rajasthani Association Tamilnadu, August 2001

    Awarded Silicon Indian Leadership Award for "Academic of the year 2001", California

    Awarded Padma Shri Award 2002 for distinguished service in science and engineering, telecommunications.

    Awarded H.K.Firodia Award for excellence in Science & Technology for the year 2002

    Awarded Dataquest IT Pathbreaker Award for the year 2003 on 19th December 2003 at New Delhi.

    Awarded the Outstanding Academician Award 2003 Instituted by Sarsawathi Ammal Educational Trust at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai on 26th December 2003.

    Awarded the "Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry" (FICCI) Award for the year 2002-03 for the significant work in the category of "Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Based Industries" by the Hon'ble President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at FICCI's 76th Annual General Meeting, New Delhi on 7th January 2004.

    Awarded UGC Hari Om Ashram Trust Award - Ourstanding Social Scientists: Science & Society for the year 2003 by University Grants Commission on September 1, 2004, New Delhi.

    Awarded the 27th IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal for outstanding contribution in the field of Electronics and Communication Engineering in the broadband sense, during the last ten years by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers on 26th September 2004 at Ahmedabad.

    Selected for Skoch Challenger Award for the year of 2005 by Business India.