Honours, Awards and Grants

• Silver Medal for the best performance in Mathematics, Master of Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1984.
  
  
• TWAS Research Grant Award of US $ 2,500 for a one year project on Computational Methods in Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, November 1993.
  
  
• Research Fellowship from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France and travel grant from the National Board for Higher Mathematics of India for a month's visit to the Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille, June 1996.
  
  
• A grant from the Curriculum Development Programme (CDP), IIT Bombay, for the Preparation of Course Material for Computer aided instruction of the B.Tech. course MA 103 : Mathematics I, November 1997 [jointly with Prof. B. V. Limaye].
  
  
• AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers, All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, January 1998.
  [This award entails a payment to IIT Bombay by the AICTE of my entire salary for 3 years starting March 1998 so as to enable me to "devote maximum time to research and study with minimal teaching responsibilities ", and, in addition, a provision of a research grant of Rs. 2,00,000.]
  
  
• ``IMU Travel Grant for Young Research Mathematicians from a Developing Country'' from the International Mathematical Union and a special grant (along with a waiver of the Registration Fees) from the German Mathematical Society, for participation in the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM-98), Berlin, Germany, August 1998.
  
  
• A grant from the Curriculum Development Programme (CDP), IIT Bombay, for the preparation of a book entitled `A First Course in Calculus and Analysis', September 2000. [jointly with Prof. B. V. Limaye].
  
  
• Grant for Local Expenses from the Chinese Mathematical Society (along with a waiver of the Registration Fees) and a Travel Grant from the National Board for Higher Mathematics of India for participation in the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM-2002), Beijing, China, August 2002.
  
  
• Otto Mønsted Professorship in the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, May--July 2010.
  
  
• Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India , October 2010.
  
  
• IIT Bombay Research Paper Award for the year 2011 (for the MMJ paper with G. Lachaud), IRCC IIT Bombay, September 2012. (See here, and here for more details.)
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Miscellany: I was featured in a Marathi book Adhunik Bharatiya Ganitee (meaning Contemporary Indian Mathematicians), authored by Prof. S. P. Deshpande and published by Nachiket Prakashan, Nagpur at a ceremony held at Ruia College, Mumbai on 18th June 2011. Some excerpts from this book are here in PDF format.