Awards

Personal Honors

  • NRSM – URSI Associate Member – Inducted into USNC-URSI as Associate Member  – 2021

  • IEEE Senior Member – Elevated to IEEE Senior Member – 2021

  • Young Scientist Award – International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS 2019)

  • Best Paper Award – XXXIInd International Union of Radio Science General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – URSI GASS 2017

  • Student of the Year Award 2017 – ElectoScience Laboratory, the Ohio State University 

  • Student Fellowship Grant Award – U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science, USNC–URSI, 2016 & 2015

  • Honorable Mention  – IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, IEEE-APS,  2016 & 2015

  • John D. and Alice Nelson Kraus Memorial Award (Best Poster) – Annual Graduate Student Poster Competition, The Ohio State University, 2015
  • Academic Excellence Prize (1st Prize) – National Institute of Technology, Thiruchirappalli – 2006
  • Honor Society Induction – Phi Kappa Phi Society Honor – 2015

Honors by Students Mentored

  1. Honorable Mention at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 2021, for the paper “28 GHz Millimeter-Wave Digital Beamformer : Design and Experimental Evaluation,” by K. Ullah, S. B. Venkatakrishnan and J.L. Volakis, 2021 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting APS/URSI, Singapore, 2018.

  2. Honorable Mention at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 2018, for the paper “Improved Probes for Fully-Passive Wireless Recording of Neural Activation,” by C. Moncion, S. B. Venkatakrishnan and J.L. Volakis, 2018 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting APS/URSI, Boston, MA, Jul. 9 – Jul. 13, 2018.

  3. Honorable Mention at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 2018, for the paper “Wideband Beam Steering Using a 4-Arm Spiral Array for Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) Operation,” by A. Hovsepian, S. B. Venkatakrishnan, E. A. Alwan and J.L. Volakis, 2018 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting APS/URSI, Boston, MA, Jul. 9 – Jul. 13, 2018.