Awards and Recognitions:

·  2024 Gold Medal SPIE

·  2023 Fellow Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

·  2022-2024 Distinguished Lecturer Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

·  2022-2023 Jefferson Science Fellow US State Department

·  2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Radio Club of America

·  2022 Distinguished Achievement Award IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

·  2022 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award SPIE

·  2020-2023 Honorary International Chair Professor National Taipei University of Technology

·  2019 Otto Mønsted Guest Professor, Technical University of Denmark

·  2019 “Alumnus of the Century in Making” Award Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

·  2018-2020 Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Professor Government of India

·  2018 Outstanding Reviewer Optical Society of America

·  2012 Certificate of Appreciation SPIE

·  2017 Fellow Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (United Kingdom)

·  2016 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

·  2016 PSEAS Outstanding Teaching Award College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

·  2016 Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom)

·  2016 Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

·  2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi

·  2013 Honorary International Professor National Taipei University of Technology

·  2012 Fellow American Physical Society

·  2012 Distinguished Reviewer Optical Society of America

·  2011 Faculty Trading Cards Pennsylvania State University

·  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

·  2005-2024 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