Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology for the year 2008–09 and this fellowship assisted him in pursuing his researches on gold nanowires. In 2009, one of his articles earned him the Darlington Best Paper Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the same year as he received the Young Faculty Recognition Award of IIT Madras. Technomentor Award of India Electronics and Semiconductor Association reached him in 2010 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2012. IEEE Solid State Circuits Society honored him again in 2016 with the Distinguished Lecturer-ship and he received one more honor from IIT Madras in the form of Mid-career Research and Development Award in 2016. He was elected as IEEE fellow in 2018 for his contributions to Delta-Sigma Modulators and analog filters. He was also a member of the 2019 Fellow Evaluation Committee for the elevation of the 2020 Class of Fellows via the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. See also Very-large-scale integration References External links Further reading Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science 1973 births Scientists from Chennai Indian scientific authors Indian electrical engineers IIT Madras alumni Academic staff of IIT Madras Columbia University alumni Living people 20th-century Indian inventors Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering 21st-century Indian inventors