Honors/Awards

• IBM Faculty Award, 2005.
• IBM Faculty Award, 2004.
• Penn State Dept of Computer Science and Eng. Faculty Teaching Award, 2003.
• IBM Faculty Award, 2002.
• NSF Faculty CAREER Development Award, 1997
• Graduate Research Assistant award in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech for outstanding research, 1995.
• Participated in the 1991 Summer Institute on Parallel Computing at Argonne National Laboratory (25 students selected nationwide).
• Admitted with financial support for a Course on the Structure of Parallel Machines at Fibonacci Institute, Italy, in 1991 (10 students selected worldwide with financial support).
• National Talent Search Scholarship (a Govt. of India undergraduate fellowship), 1983-1989.
• All India 1st Rank in the Senior School Certificate Examination (Grade 12), 1985.
• All India 39th Rank (out of 100,000) in the Joint Entrance Examination to the Indian Institute of Technology, 1985.
• Major General Virendra Singh Gold Medal for standing first in Mathematics in India, 1985.