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Recent Awards & Honors
Awards and Honors
- VAIBHAV (Vaishvik Bharatiya Vaigyanik) Fellow, Indian Government Ministry of Science and Technology, 2025
- Distinguished Alumni Award, National Institute of Technology Calicut, 2023
- Elected Fellow of AIAA, 2022
- Named Fellow of IEEE, 2021
- Dirk Brouwer Award, American Astronautical Society, 2020
- IEEE Control Systems Society Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control, 2020
- Elected to International Academy of Astronautics, 2020
- American Geophysical Union Charles A. Whitten Medal, 2024
- NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal, 2018
- European Geosciences Union Vening-Meinesz Medal, 2016
- William T. Pecora Team Award, U.S. Dept. of Interior and NASA to GRACE Team, 2007
- Honorary doctorate awarded from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Lyon, France, 2024
- Ranked No. 2 Best Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists on Research.com, 2024
- Elected Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, 2023
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering established the Oden-Hughes Award for Best Paper, 2023
- Highly Cited Researcher, 2022
- Monie A. Ferst Award, 2022
- William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics, 2022
- Named Highly Cited Researcher, 2021
- Honorary Member, Japan Association for Computational Mechanics, 2021
- SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize, 2021
- A.C. Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 2020
- Ranked No. 1 in Applied Mathematics, 2020
- O.C. Zienkiewicz Medal, 2019
- ASME Medal, 2018
- Received Johannes Kepler Award, Institute of Navigation, 2023
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, 2021
- Elected Fellow of Institute of Navigation, 2020
- Walter R. Fried Memorial Award, Best Overall Paper, 2012, 2020, 2023
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2019
- Named to the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 2023
- Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2023
- Named a Member of the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, 2022
- Received MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Award), 2022
- Named to the Explorers Club 50, 2022
- Neo4j Graphie Award for ASTRIAGraph, 2021
- Selected TED Fellow, 2019
- Elected AIAA Fellow, 2019
- Inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) College of Fellows, 2024
- Elected to the Board, Society of Engineering Science, 2023
- Elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022
- Named Highly Cited Researcher, 2022
- Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, 2022
- Takeo Yokobori Gold Medal, 2023
- William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 2020
- ASME Daniel C. Drucker Medal, 2015
- Theodore von Kármán Prize, 2024
- J. Tinsley Oden Medal, USACM, 2023
- Named to the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 2023
- Elected to the IACM Community Executive Council, 2022
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2022
- AIAA Best Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Paper Award, 2020
- Elected AIAA Fellow, 2019
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2025
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Academic Development Funds for “Enhancing ASE 324L Aerospace Materials Lab with Digital Image Correlation, Machine Learning Data Analytics, & Large Language-Based Strategy,” 2024-25
- Haythornthwaite Initiation Grant, Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022
