Awards and Fellowship received

• National research fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

• Student best paper award by the Computer Society of India in 1995

• Certificate of Merit by the Indian Science Congress Association in 1997;

• CIMPA (International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics) -UNESCO fellowship in 1993 to participate in a summer school on Man Machine interfaces in France;

• CIMPA-UNESCO-CHINA fellowship to participate in a school in China, in 1999.

• Post Doctoral Fellowship from INRIA, France.

• Received ICDAR Outstanding Young researcher award from International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) for his significant impact in the research domain of Indian language Optical Character Recognition.

• The Best paper award from the International Conference on Cognition and Recognition, 2005.

• JSPS Fellowship from Japan government for collaborative work with Mie University, Japan in 2007.

• The paper entitled "Multi-Oriented and Multi-Sized Touching Character Segmentation using Dynamic Programming" co-authored by Partha Pratim Roy, Umapada Pal, Josep Llados and Mathieu Delalandre received the best Student paper award from the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009.

• The paper entitled "Document-Zone Classification in Torn Documents" co-authored by Sukalpa Chanda, Katrin Franke and Umapada Pal received the IAPR best student paper award at the 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2010.

• Received International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Fellow award in 2014 for his research contributions to Indian multi-script document processing and handwriting recognition, and service to the IAPR.