Honors and Awards

2017-18 USF Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Honorable Mention.

2015 - Current
Vice Chair of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working
Group 10.5 (Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems).

Best Paper Nomination at 2014 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Inte-
gration (VLSI-SOC).

USF Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award for 2013

2012 SIGDA Service Award, In Appreciation for Contributions To ACM/SIGDA.``

2009 Certificate of Recognition by USF Computer Science & Engineering
Department, ``For his leadership and outstanding service as Graduate Program Director,`` for service from May 2006 to April 2009.

Elevated to Senior Member Status in Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

In appreciation for my commitment to advancing under-represented minority students in mathematics, science and engineering and for my leadership in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. Program.

Recieved USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award for the academic year 2007-2008.

2005 National-level IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award. Nominated by IEEE Florida West Coast Section.

2005 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Florida Council Award (Region 3), Nominated by the IEEE Florida West Coast Section (FWCS).

Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientic Research Society, 2004 (By Invitation)

2004 Elevation to Senior Member Status, IEEE

Recognised by IEEECS student chapter and awarded with ``2003 Outstanding Chapter Award,`` under Dr. Katkoori's Advisorship.

Best Paper Nomination at 2003 International Conference on Asian and South-Pacic Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC).

2003 University of South Florida Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award.

2001 Faculty Early Career Development Grant (CAREER), National Science Foundation, Design Automation Program, to conduct research for ve years on ``Interconnect centric High Level Synthesis in Deep-Sub-Micron Regime.``

1997-98 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Honorable Mention, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati.

Awarded sponsorship to attend NATO Advanced Study Institute Workshop entitled ``Low Power in Deep Submicron Electronics,`` Italy, August 20-30, 1996.

Research Assistantship, Digital Design Environments Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, June 1993-95, 1996-97

University Graduate Scholarship, University Of Cincinnati, Fall 1992 - 1997

Third Place at Under-Graduate level AP State Mathematics Olympiad, India, 1990.