1)    Faculty Advisor for the Regional Student Group-India of International Society of Computational Biology.

2)    Genome Engineering/Editing Technology (GETin) Fellowship through IUSSTF and DBT to work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley (Feb 2018-Feb 2019).

3)    Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship 2014-2019, by the Department of Biotechnology, India.

4)    Associate Editor, Plant Biotechnology (speciality section of Frontiers in Plant Sciences and, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology).

5)    Founding Member, Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Interaction and Networking Society.

6)    Lifetime Member, Indian Society for Plant Physiology.

7)    Certificate of appreciation for witnessing the Republic Day Parade, 2005 as a guest of Honourable Prime Minister of India in recognition of academic performance in post-graduation.

8)    National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET) qualified in 2003 among top 20%.