Peer Recognition

  1. Received "certificate of excellence 2024" from Director, IITK
  2. Editor’s Choice Free Access Recognition for Paper titled “Ternary Interdiffusion Analysis in b-(Ni,Pt)Al System Pertaining to Bond Coat Applications”; Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A; 55A; 2024; pp. 2200-2212
  3. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE671, Heat Treatments and Surface Hardening, 2023
  4. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE617, Mathematics and Computational Methods, 2022
  5. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE670, Solidification Processing, 2022
  6. Invited talk in Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL 2022) at Florence, Italy; “Recent Progresses in Understanding Interdiffusion Porcess and defect Kinetics in Multicomponent Alloys”; 2022
  7. Reviewer for: Scripta Materialia, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Materials Science and Engineering A, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Journal of Materials Performance and Characterization, Journal of Materials Science, Materials and Design, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, IIM Transactions, Current Science, Journal of Electronic Materials
  8. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE648, Diffusion in Solids, 2021
  9. Gordon E. Pike Prize for JMR Paper of the Year 2020
  10. Reviewer Appreciation Certificate for Excellent Review from Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of IIM; Feb 2021
  11. Invited talk in HEA World Congress 2021 at Charlotte, North. Carolina, USA; “Experimental Studies of Interdiffusion and. Vacancy Kinetics in Multicomponent Alloys”; 2021
  12. Invited talk in MRSI, New Delhi; “Investigations into Interdiffusion Kinetics of Lightweight Titanium Alloys”; 2021
  13. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE616, Thermodynamics of Materials, 2019
  14. Invited talk at ASM Pune Chapter; “Investigations of Interdiffusion in Multicomponent Alloys”; 2018
  15. Invited talk at Purdue University, USA; “Investigations of Interdiffusion in Multicomponent Alloys”; 2018
  16. Invited talk at GM R7D, Warren, USA; “Investigations of Interdiffusion in Multicomponent Alloys”; 2018
  17. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching MSE 672, Introduction to Lightweight Alloys for Automobile Applications, 2017
  18. Best Research Paper Award in 4th Annual International Conference on Materials Science, Metal and Manufacturing (M3 2017); organized by Global Science & Technology Foundation, Singapore
  19. Invited Talk at Sandvik Asia, Pune; “Investigations of Interdiffusion in Multicomponent Solids”; 2017
  20. Invited Talk in NMD-ATM 2017 at Goa; “Diffusion in Multicomponent Systems: Applications to Lightweight Titanium Alloys”
  21. Invited talk at International Workshop on High Entropy Alloys organized at University of Hyderabad: “Interdiffusion in High Entropy Alloys: Significance of Diffusional Interactions”
  22. Invited by Prof. Enrique Lavernia, Provost and Executive VP, UC Irvine to train his students on experimental and analytical multicomponent diffusion; Summer 2015 (then at UC Davis).
  23. Editor’s Choice Award for 2013 from Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion for the manuscript: Kaustubh Kulkarni and Alan Luo; “Interdiffusion and Phase Growth Kinetics in Magnesium-Aluminum Binary System”; Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion; Vol. 34; 2013; pp. 104-115
  24. Invited Talk at Tata Consultancy Services, Pune: “Multicomponent Diffusion and Phase Equilibria for Alloy and Process Design”; 2016
  25. Invited Talk in the International Symposium on ICME at NMD ATM 2015: “ICME for Automotive Industry”; 2015
  26. Invited Talk at General Electrics Technology Center, Bangalore in a symposium on “Structural Metallic Alloys” organized by GE Global Research; 2015
    Title of the talk: Investigations of Interdiffusion in Multicomponent Alloys
  27. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE670, Solidification Processing, 2017
  28. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE648, Diffusion in Solids, 2016
  29. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE648, Diffusion in Solids, 2015
  30. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE616, Thermodynamics of Materials, 2014
  31. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE201, Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria, 2014
  32. Invited Co-convener of Symposium on Materials for Automotive Industry in NMD-ATM 2014, Pune
  33. Henry Ford Award for the best graduate student in engineering (2007)
  34. President, MSEGSA, Purdue University (2005-2006)
  35. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching (Spring 2005)
  36. Elected Senator in Purdue University Graduate Student Government (April 2005 to April 2006)