at Orthocrafts Innovations Private Limited and Amps Innovations Private Limited and is the co-founder and adviser of BioMed Innovations, a start-up established at the NCL Venture Center. He is the president of the Indian Society of Rheology and is a member of Rheologica Acta, the official journal of the European Society of Rheology, since 2010. He is also a member of the Society of Rheology, USA as well as the Indian chapter of the Society of Polymer Science, and sits in the Management and Advisory Team of IPUA Virtual Technical Center. He was a member of the National Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Polymer Science and Technology held in Thiruvananthapuram in January 2017 and has delivered several keynote or invited talks; the list includes the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology at Portland, Maine in October 2006 and COMSOL Conference 2015 where he presented a paper on Sensitivity Analysis of MEA Parameters on the Performance of HT-PEM Fuel Cell via COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling. He has also guided several doctoral scholars in their studies. Selected patents Awards and honours Lele won two honours during his college days, S. G. Kane Gold Medal and Sohrab Coomi Mistry fellowship of the University of Mumbai for being class topper in his bachelor's degree class in 1988. At University of Delaware, he was selected for the Competitive Graduate Research Fellowship in 1988 and later, he was chosen for the R. L. Pigford Best Teaching Assistant Award in 1992. Back in India, he received the Young Scientist Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1996, followed by the Young Scientists Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1998. His alma mater, UDCT, honoured him in 2003 with the UAA Distinguished Alumnus Award, and The Week magazine included him in the list of India's 50 Emerging Stars the same year. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2006. The same year, he was elected as a fellow by the Indian National Academy of Engineering and he became an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2010. Infosys Science Foundation chose him for Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computing Science in 2013. Selected bibliography See also Finite element method Complex fluids Fibroin Polymers Notes References External links Further reading Recipients of the Shanti