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