Awards & Honours

I.LEVERHULME OVERSEAS FELLOW - 1981 by Leverhulme Trust, U.K.

II.J. C. BOSE MEMORIAL AWARD - 1986 for best Eng.Sc. oriented paper published in JIETE.

III.M. N. SAHA MEMORIAL AWARD - 1989 for the best Engineering Science oriented paper and best Applications oriented paper published in journal of Institute of Elec. and Telecom. Engineering.

IV.HOMI BHABHA FELLOWSHIP AWARD - 1992. for the development of computer work station for the visually handicapped.

V.M. N. SAHA MEMORIAL AWARD - 1992 for the best Engineering Science oriented paper and best Applications oriented paper published in journal of Institute of Elec. and Telecom. Engineering.

VI.Dr. VIKRAM SARABHAI RESEARCH AWARD -1995 for outstanding contribution in Informatics and Telematics.

VII.C. ACHUTA MENON PRIZE -1996 for best paper on computational linguistics published in an Indian Journal.

VIII.FELLOW, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION (FIAPR), USA - 1998

IX.FELLOW, INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (FIEEE), USA. - 2000

X.HOMI BHABHA AWARD: APPLIED SCIENCES – 2003 for contribution in Indian language and script technology development.

XI.JAWAHARLAL NEHRU FELLOWSHIP AWARD – 2004 for work on Indian language OCR problems.

XII.RAM LAL WADHWA GOLD MEDAL – 2005 for outstanding contribution in Electronics and Telecom Engineering during the last ten years.

XIII.FELLOW, INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY (FNA) – 2006 for pioneering research on Indian language technology including OCR.

XIV.J. C. BOSE FELLOWSHIP AWARD – 2010 for pioneering contribution in the field of language processing, OCR and pattern recognition.

XV.FELLOW, THIRD WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (FTWAS) – 2011 for pioneering contribution in the field of language technology.

XVI.OM PRAKASH BHASIN FOUNDATION AWARD – 2012 in the field of electronics and information technology.