HONORS AND AWARDS
2010, Invited Participant at the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and
Science of Texas Annual Conference
2008, Invited Participant at the National Academies Indo US Symposium
on Frontiers of Engineering (IUSFOE)
2007, Sloan Foundation Award for Minority Student Mentoring
2006, Top 25 hottest articles
in the International Journal of Solids and Structures based on most highlydownloaded articles in June-Sept. 2004 (See Journal Paper J24)
2005, Journal of Applied Physics Paper (See Journal Paper J27)
selected as one of the best papers Amongst all applied physics papers for
publication in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science
& Technology, Vol. 11, Issue
13, April 4, 2005
2005,
Nanotechnology Journal (See Journal Paper J19) Top 100 most highly downloaded articles
in 2004
2004-2005 Professor of the Year Award for
exemplary undergraduate teaching, CEVE, Rice
2003, Elected as Honorary Member of
Chi-Epsilon
2000, Best
Paper Presentation Award, American Control Conference, Chicago
1999-2000,
Professor of the Year Award for exemplary undergraduate teaching, CEE, Rice
1998, National
Science Foundation CAREER Award
1980-1982,
National Merit Scholarship, Government of India, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
1980,
Bangalore Univ. Gold Medal, Graduating Class of 1980, Dept. of Civil Eng.,
Bangalore Univ.
1976-1980,
President's Honor List, Bachelor of Engineering (Summa cum laude), Bangalore
University, India
INVITED PLENARY/KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Invited
Keynote Speaker, “Adaptive Stiffness Systems: Time Frequency methods for
Identification and Control” 5th World Conference on Structural
Control and Monitoring, Tokyo, July 12-15 , 2010
Invited
Keynote Speaker, “Recent Developments in Supplemental Damping, Base
Isolation and Tuned Mass Dampers” Structural World Congress, Bangalore,
Nov. 2-7, 2007
Invited
Keynote Speaker, “Current directions in Structural Control”
Structural Engineering Convention, Indian Institute of Science, India, December
16, 2005
Invited
Plenary Speaker, “Current directions in Structural Control in USA”
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, November 15, 2005
Invited
Speaker, “Future Directions of Structural” organized by Professor Takuji Kobori, Kajima Research
Institute, Japan, November 14, 2005
Invited
Plenary Speaker, "Recent Advances in Control of Civil Infrastructures in
USA" US-Korea
Workshop on Smart Structures, Seoul, Korea, 2004
Invited Plenary Speaker, Kobori
Panel, "Future Directions of Structural Control", 3rd World Conf. on
Struct. Control, Como, Italy, 2002
Invited
Keynote Speaker, "Smart Sliding Isolated Buildings," Int. Conf. on
Civil Eng., ICCE-2001, Indian Institute of Science, India, 2001
NOMINATIONS/INVITATIONS
Invitation: National Academies Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering
(NAE), 2007
Nomination: ASCE State of the Art Award, 2004-2005.
Nomination: Hershel M. Rich Outstanding Invention Award, 2002
Invitation: National Academies Sixth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of
Engineering (NAE), 2000
Nomination:
Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Graduate Educ., Univ. of Missouri, Columbia,
1998
Nomination:
Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, 1998