1 Award for being consistently meritorious in high school. 1990, St. Gabriel’s High School, Warangal, India
2 Top rank (99 percentile - 192 rank) in EAMCET - statewide engineering common entrance test, AP, India, 1996, AP State Entrance Board, for entrance to premier engineering colleges
3 Obtained a high score (1320/1600) in quantitative and analytical sections in paper version GRE, 1998, Educational Testing Service ETS, USA
4 Merit based tuition scholarship for masters in biomedical engineering, WPI, USA, 2001
5 Mentor based fellowship, American Diabetes Association, USA, 2002
6 Merit based doctoral fellowship at Penn State University, National Institutes of Health NIH, USA, 2002.
7 COSAT summer fellowship, Neutrogena, Johnson and Johnson Inc, USA, 2003
8 Teaching with technology certificate, the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2008
9 Graduate school teaching certificate, the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, 2008
10 Global Centers of Excellence GCOE Fellowship, Osaka University, Japan, 2010
11 Goethe University Clinic Foundation Award, Goethe University Medical School, Germany, 2011
12 Chair, Gordon Research Seminars (GRS), Barriers of the CNS, Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), USA, 2012
13 Editorial board member for the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (JCBFM), 2014
14 Shortlisted for Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Science Young Faculty, Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, 2015
15 Sphingonet Young Investigator Award, Sphingonet Consortium, Leducq Foundation, USA, 2016
16 Senior author paper selected for cover page with commentary, Journal of Neurochemistry, USA, 2018
17 The Mildred- Scheel- Nachwuchszentrum young faculty nomination, The Mildred - Scheel- Nachwuchszentrum, Frankfurt, Germany, 2019
18 Chosen as PI for SFB DFG consortium grant application, Center for Personalized Translational Epilpesy Research (CEPTER), Frankfurt, Germany 2022