(2012) Listed in Forbes India, top 18 Indian Scientists who are changing the world; http://forbesindia.com/article/innovation-special/18-indian-minds-who-are-doing-cutting-edge-work/32312/0.
(2011) Radio interview by The American Entrepreneur (TAE radio.com), Pittsburgh.
(2010) Board of Visitors' Faculty Award (2010) for the most accomplished faculty in the Swanson School of Engineering.
(2010) Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE).
(2009) Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS).
(2009) Interviewed by the American Ceramic Society.
(2004) Interviewed by Anne Devlin on the Pittsburgh Community News Channel (PCNC) Anne Devlin TV show, related to Fuel Cell research.
(2003) Featured in the Science and Technology Edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(2003) Listed in Marquis's WHOS's WHO in American Education.
(2001 - 2005) Listed in Marquis's WHO's WHO in World.
(2000 - 2005) Listed in Marquis's WHO's WHO in America.
(2000 - 2005) Listed in Marquis's WHO's WHO in World, Millennium edition.
(1999 - 2005) Listed in Marquis's WHO's WHO in America.
(1999 - 2005) Listed in Marquis's WHO's WHO in Science and Engineering.
(1998 - 2005) Listed in Marquis's WHO's WHO in Science and Engineering.

Research Initiation Award from NSF, Grant for $ 90,000. Duration 3 years..

As the main principal PI of the NSF-NIRT award on Ink Jet Printing of Nanostructured Matrices for Non-Viral Gene Delivery, I was involved in coordinating the activities of four co-principal investigators, and more than a dozen graduate students as well as half a dozen post doctoral fellows..

Interviewed by Tanya Caruso for Fuel Cells related research in the "On Q" program on the Pittsburgh WQED TV channel related to Fuel Cells research.

Served on several review panels for the National Science Foundation.

Served on the Biomaterials and Bio-interfaces Study Section for the NIH-NIBIB.

Interviewed by New York Times, June 11th regarding expert opinion on A123 Company investments in batteries and federal government strategies on energy storage.

Summer Faculty Fellow, Award from AFOSR, to spend the summer of 1993 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base..