Awards and Recognitions:

  • 2010 Technical Achievement Award SPIE
  • 2010 Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2009 Visiting Professor of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • 2009 Inaugural Speaker Spanish URSI Meeting
  • 2008 Visiting Professor of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • 2008 PSES Premier Research Award College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2008 Plenary Speaker 7th Iberian Vacuum Meeting
  • 2008 Distinguished Lecturer Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas
  • 2007 Plenary Speaker SPIE Optics & Electronics
  • 2007 University Distinguished Alumnus University of Utah
  • 2006 Nano 50 Innovator Award Nanotech Briefs
  • 2005 Nano 50 Technology Award (for sculptured thin films) Nanotech Briefs
  • 2005 Visiting Scholar in Management Communications University of Waikato
  • 2005 Faculty Scholar Medal Pennsylvania State University
  • 2005 PSES Outstanding Advising Award College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2005- Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor Pennsylvania State University
  • 2004-2007 Visiting (Adjunct) Professor of Physics Imperial College London
  • 2004 Visiting Professor of Physics University of Otago
  • 2003-2005 Distinguished Professor Pennsylvania State University
  • 2003 International Council's Traveling Fellow (Kyrgyzstan) Optical Society of America
  • 1996 Fellow SPIE
  • 1996 Fellow Institute of Physics (UK)
  • 1996 PSES Outstanding Research Award College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
  • 1995 Visiting Scholar in Mathematics University of Glasgow
  • 1995 Scottish Amicable Visiting Lecturer Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow
  • 1994 Certificate of Appreciation IEEE Electromagnetics Compatibility Society
  • 1993 International Lecturer (India) Optical Society of America
  • 1992 Traveling Lecturer (Argentina) International Commission for Optics
  • 1992 Visitante Profesor Titular (con máxima antiguedad), Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires
  • 1992 Fellow Optical Society of America
  • 1990 Visitante Profesor Titular (con máxima antiguedad), Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires
  • 1982 University Graduate Research Fellowship University of Utah
  • 1979 Gold Medal Banaras Hindu University
  • 1975 National Merit Scholarship India
  • 1974-1979 Undergraduate Scholarship University Grants Commission, India
  • 1974 National Science Talent Search Award India
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