| 2015: | Lifetime Achievement in Engineering Award, Central Florida Engineers, 2015 |
| 2012: | Selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by the U.S. National Academies to work for one year at the U.S. State Department in advising on science policy matters., 2012 |
| 2011: | Listed by Thomson Reuters as one of the top 100 researchers (actual number is 40) in the field of materials science who achieved the highest citation impact scores for their papers published since January 2000. |
| 2003: | Listed by the Institute of Scientific Information as one of the 214 most cited researchers in materials science from 17 countries (including USA, UK, Japan, Germany, France, …) |
| 2012: | University of Central Florida Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 2012 |
| 2012: | Alternate member, University Senate, 2012 |
| 2012: | Member, University RIA Committee, 2012 |
| 2012: | Member, CECS RIA Committee, 2012 |
| 2012: | Member, CECS Awards Committee, 2012 |
| 2012: | Chairman, MMAE Honors and Awards Committee, 2012 |
| 2010: | MMAE Teacher of the Year Award (Undergraduate level) |
| 2009: | MMAE Teacher of the Year Award (Graduate level) |
| 2009: | Member, Joint Commission on Metallurgical and Materials Transactions |
| 2008: | Senior Visitor Award by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. |
| 2008: | Lee Hsun Research Award by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China. |
| 2007: | ASM-IIM Lectureship Award |
| 2006: | University of Central Florida Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award |
| 2005 – to date: | Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Materials and Manufacturing Processes, published by Taylor and Francis. |
| 2004 – 2007: | Graduate Coordinator, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida |
| 2003 – to date: | Member, Editorial Advisory Board of International Materials Reviews, published by ASM International and Institute of Materials, London, UK |
| 2003 – to date: | Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, published by Springer. |
| 2003 – to date: | Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America |
| 2003: | University of Central Florida MMAE Department Researcher of the Year award |
| 2001: | International Expert on Mechanical Alloying to advise scientists at the GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany. |
| 1999 – to date: | Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Metastable and Non-Equilibrium Materials, published by TransTech Publications. |
| 1999 – to date: | Member of Editorial Committee, Powder Metallurgy Briefs, published by Metal Powder Industries Federation |
| 1998 – to date: | Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Materials Science and Engineering A, published by Elsevier. |
| 1998: | Awarded the DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD by Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India |
| 1995: | Elected Fellow of ASM International |
| 1994 – to date: | Member, Board of Reviewers, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A of TMS |
| 1994: | Elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, London, UK |
| 1993: | Awarded the Best Technical Paper Award by the Steel Authority of India Ltd., Ranchi for 1992-1993 |
| 1992: | ASM-IIM Lectureship Award |
| 1986: | Visitor to Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield Universities in U.K. under the British Council program of Academic Links Interchange Scheme (ALIS). |
| 1983: | NATIONAL METALLURGIST'S DAY AWARD of the Union Ministry of Steel and Mines, Government of India, for significant contributions to the field of "Rapid Solidification of Metals" |
| 1983: | Editor, Bulletin of the Electron Microscope Society of India |
| 1979 – 1980: | Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for collaborative research at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
| 1974: | YOUNG SCIENTIST'S MEDAL of the Indian National Science Academy for outstanding contributions to "modern metallography" (for persons below 30 years of age) |
| 1973: | Royal Society Commonwealth Bursary to carry out research at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. |
| 1972: | Pandya Memorial SILVER MEDAL of the Indian Institute of Metals for the paper adjudged to be of highest merit among those published in their TRANSACTIONS by Associate Members |
| 1967: | Banaras Hindu University GOLD MEDAL for securing the highest percentage of marks in the M.S. (Met. Eng.) Examination |
