- 2024 Elected Honorary Member of University of Chicago's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter.
- 2024 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- 2023 U Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement
- 2023 Effie Award Silver Medal (Miller beer commercial)
- 2021 University of Virginia, Distinguished Researcher Award
- 2019 Rhodes Trust Inspirational Educator Award.
- 2019 Jubilee Chair Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences.
- 2018 Prose Award, Assoc. of Amer. Publishers.
- 2017 DST International Film Festival, Best Film Prize.
- 2017 Eleanor Main Graduate Mentoring Award (Emory U).
- 2017 National Science Film Festival, Technical Excellence Award.
- 2014 Alfred E. Levy Award for Scientific Research.
- 2012 Named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
- 2007, 09 Favorite Instructor Award, UW Madison Housing.
- 2005 NSF Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award.
- 2003 John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
- 2002 H. I. Romnes Fellowship.
- 1999 Presidential Early Career Award (awarded by Pres. Clinton).
- 1999 David and Lucile Packard Research Fellowship.
- 1999 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
- 1998 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 1997 National Security Agency Young Investigator