Honors and Awards Received:

• UW Electric Energy Industrial Consortium’s Research Poster Award, 3rd Place, Graduate Category, 2008.
• UW Electric Energy Industrial Consortium’s Research Poster Award, 2nd Place, Graduate Category, 2006.
• IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society’s Graduate Fellowship for 2003 – 2004.
• IEEE Travel Grant awarded to attend IEEE Sensors Conference, 2003.
• Student grant to attend the Eighteenth International Forum Process Analytical Chemistry, IFPAC, 2004.
• “Diamond Ring” for consistent academic excellence, Vel-Tech Engineering College, 2001.
• 7 “Gold Rings” for academic excellence, Vel-Tech Engineering College, 1997- 2001.

Peer Reviewer Activities:

• Peer reviewer for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
• Peer reviewer for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
• Peer reviewer for Nanotechnology
• Peer reviewer for IEEE Sensors Journal.
• Peer reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.
• Peer reviewer for IEEE Transactions in Instrumentation and Measurement.
• Peer reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Professional Memberships:

• Officer of Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (UW Chapter) since 2005.
• Member of IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers since 2002.
• Member of DEIS — Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society since 2003.
• Member of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering since 2005.