Academic Awards/Honors
- NSF-CAREER Award – January, 2006
- Service Award, IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2006
- Certificate of Appreciation, International Conference on Collaborative Computing, 2006
- Listed in “Who's Who of Emerging Leaders” since 2007
- Listed in “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering” since 2005.
- Honored for faculty accomplishments in 2007 Honors Convocation of the University of Pittsburgh.
- Honored for faculty accomplishments in 2005 Honors Convocation of the University of Pittsburgh.
- Listed in “Who’s Who in America” since 2003.
- Student Author Travel Award, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, August 2000, New York
- Colombo Plan Scholarship for pursuing BE Computer Science & Engineering degree at MNNIT, India
- Gold medal for standing 7th in Nepal in School Leaving Certificate Examination (10th Grade)
- Academic Scholarship Awards for the last three years in high school for standing first in class