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Recognition
Awards, grants, and honors for excellence in research and innovation
12
Awards
$500K+
Funding
3
Invited Talks
6
Grants
Awards & Honors
Academic Recognition
Featured
2025
AI Academic/Researcher of the Year
Finalist, Australian AI Awards 2025
Recognition for pioneering work in AI-integrated point-of-care diagnostics and machine learning applications in biosensing.
Australia
Featured
2025
AINSE Early Career Researcher Grant
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Competitive grant supporting research on highly tunable conical nanopores for biomolecular sensing.
Australia
2024
Neville Fletcher Early Career Research Award
RSPhys DMP/EME Award, Australian National University
Departmental recognition for outstanding early career research contributions.
Australia
2023
Elsevier NIMB Young Researcher Award
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B
International award recognizing outstanding achievements of young researchers within 10 years of PhD completion.
Japan
2022
The Jak Kelly Award
Royal Society of New South Wales
Prestigious award for excellence in physics research.
Australia
2022
Award for Postgraduate Excellence in Physics
Australian Institute of Physics
National recognition for exceptional postgraduate research in physics.
Australia
2022
John Carver Prize
Research School of Physics, Australian National University
School-level prize for outstanding research contributions.
Australia
2019
AINSE Postgraduate Research Award
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
$30,000 competitive award for PhD research on hybrid solid-state nanopore membranes.
Australia
2019
Australian Government Research Training Program
International Scholarship
Full PhD scholarship from the Australian Government for international students.
Australia
2018
University Gold Medallist (Rank-1)
M.Sc. Physics Honours - Guru Nanak Dev University
Highest academic achievement in Master's program with GPA 9.75/10.
India
2017
Charpak Master's Scholarship
Embassy of France in India
Prestigious French government scholarship for research internship at LOA, Paris.
France
2016
University Gold Medallist (Rank-1)
B.Sc. Physics Honours - Guru Nanak Dev University
Highest academic achievement in Bachelor's program with GPA 9.92/10.
India
Research Funding
Grants & Funding
Total secured: $500K+ (Cash) | >$1M (In-Kind)
$198,767
2025
Lead Entrepreneur
Australia's Economic Accelerator - Ignite Grant
A solid state nanopore sensor for rapid, inexpensive, and non-invasive early-stage detection of Alzheimer's disease.
$192,872
2024
Collaborating Entrepreneur
Australia's Economic Accelerator - Seed Grant
MiniGrav: a drone-deployable miniaturised absolute gravimeter for subsurface mapping.
$75,000
2022
Co-Investigator
ANU Connect Ventures - Discovery Translation Fund
Versatile solid-state membranes.
$30,000
2019
Lead Investigator
AINSE Postgraduate Research Award
Investigation of hybrid solid-state nanopore membranes fabricated using ion track technology.
$16,000
2022
Lead Investigator
NVIDIA Corporation - GPU Grant
A novel nanopore sensor for early detection of Alzheimer's and MS disease. Hardware support for ML model development.
$1,049,088
2018-2025
In-Kind
ANSTO-Australian Synchrotron - SAXS Beamtime
13 successful proposals for Small Angle X-ray Scattering experiments supporting nanopore characterization.
Speaking
Invited Talks & Presentations
Fukuoka, Japan
Annealing of swift heavy ion tracks in amorphous silicon dioxide
21st International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators
2023Helsinki, Finland
Exploring ion tracks and nanopores using small-angle X-ray scattering
29th ICACS & 11th SHIM
2022Darmstadt, Germany
Versatile solid-state nanopore membranes
GSI MAT Seminar (Virtual)
2022Recognition Highlights
Award Ceremony
Conference Talk
Research Lab
Research Collaboration