Honors and Awards

1. John W. Graham Jr. Faculty Research Award, Clarkson University, 2006
2. International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Best Paper Prize, 2002-2005, for the paper "Application of Signed Digraphs-Based Analysis for Fault Diagnosis of Chemical Process Flowsheets " in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal in the category - Aplication-oriented paper on Symbolic AI Aproaches (Co-authors Mano Ram Maurya and Venkat Venkatasubramanian)
3. Best Paper of the Session award at the American Control Conference, Boston, 2004.
4. Omega Chi Epsilon, Professor of the Year Award (Chemical Engineering), Clarkson University, 2003.
5. Keynote Lecture delivered at the 4th IFAC Workshop on On-line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process Industries, Korea, 2001
6. Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award for the year 2000 awarded to outstanding engineers by the Academy
7. Awarded the "CAST Director's Award" for the best poster presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, 2000.
8. John Wiley & Sons, NY, USA in their Newletter Inside R&D published a story "Networking Sensors - No Easy Task" on our work on sensor location.
9. A news item "Online Cures, Online Prevention" on my Ph.D work on Qualitative Trend Analysis was published in Hydrocarbon Online, April 27, 1999.
10. Guided a project "Qualitative Simulation in Process Engineering" that was selected by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for award as one of the most innovative projects at the Bachelor's level (all disciplines), 1999.
11. David Ross Fellowship while at Purdue, USA, 1991-1993.
12. Awarded Undergraduate Merit scholarship while at IIT Madras, 1986-1990.