Best Paper, ASME Computer-Aided Product and Process Development Technical Committee's Prakash Krishnaswamy Best Paper Award, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013.
Best Paper Finalist, Bio-inspired robotics category, 15th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2012), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 23-26, 2012.
Outstanding Book Chapter, Handbook of Swarm Intelligence, Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, Vol. 8, Springer-Verlag, 2010
Best PhD Thesis (Prof. A.K. Rao Medal), Department of Aerospace, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
J R D TATA Research Fellow 2007-2008 (offered to one student in the university, in every 2 years)
Best Paper, Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pune, India, 2005. (Best paper among 250 papers accepted out of 700 submissions from 45 countries)
Best Paper, ASIAD In-house Symposium, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India, 2005.
Best Masters Thesis (NASAS Medal), Department of Aerospace, IISc, Bangalore, India, 2004.