AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
D. Sc. (Honoris Causa), University of Engineering and Mangement, Kolkata, January 17, 2026.
Nihil Ultra Award, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, January 16, 2026.
Shikshak Sanman Award 2025 : Life Time Achievement, Lions International, District 322B2, Sep 6, 2025.
Pride of Bengal Award, Indian Chamber of Commerce Young Leaders Forum (ICC-YLF), April 26, 2025.
Shera Bangali, ABP Ananda, November 8, 2024.
DLitt (Honoris Causa), Sister Nivedita University, May 9, 2023.
Padma Shri, Science and Engineering, Government of India, March 2022.
Management Excellence Award in the category Leadership in Institutional Excellence, Calcutta Management Association (CMA), 2021.
INAE Woman Engineer of the Year Award, 2020.
Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis Distinguished Educator in Engineering Science Award, Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), 2019.
Third World Academy of Sciences Prize, 2018.
Infosys Prize, 2017.
J. C. Bose Fellowship, Engineering Sciences, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2017-2022, 2022-2027.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Engineering Sciences, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Govt. of India, 2010.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany, 2009-2010.
Senior Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 2013-2019.
Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Engineering Sciences, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2006-2007.
Silver Jubilee Young Engineers Award, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2012.
National Women Bioscientist Award (Young), Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, 2012.
Best Paper Award, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational Systems (RAICS), Trivandrum, 2013.
Young Engineers Award, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Delhi, 2002.
Young Scientist Medal, Engineering Sciences, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, 2000.
Young Scientist Award, Computer Sciences, 87th Indian Science Congress, Pune, January 3-7, 2000.
Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma Gold Medal from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, for being adjudged the best all-round post graduate performer in all disciplines of the year 1993-94.
Silver Medal from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, for being adjudged the best performer in M. Tech. Examination in Computer Science and Engineering, 1994.
A. K. Chowdhury Memorial Award for being adjudged the best student of B. Tech., Computer Science, Calcutta University, 1991.
Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose National Science Award, Science Association of Bengal, 2011.
Best Post Graduate Student Paper Award, Workshop on Soft Computing, High Performance Computing (HiPC), Hyderabad, 2003.
Outstanding Young Person, Kolkata, Science and Innovation, North Calcutta Junior Chamber, Kolkata, India, 2002.
