Awards & Recognitions
| S.No. | Name of the Award | Awarding Agency | Year |
| 1 | DST-AWSAR Award for best popular science stories (PDF category) | Department of Science and Technology (DST) | 2021 |
| 2 | Young Scientist Award (2018) | Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India) (AFSTI) | 2020 |
| 3 | SERB – National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) | Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. | 2019 |
| 4 | DST-International Travel Grant | SERB, DST, Government of India. | 2016 |
| 5 | CICS-International Travel Grant | Centre for International Co-operation in Science (CICS), Chennai. | 2016 |
| 6 | Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research | SERB, DST, Government of India & Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) | 2014 |
| 7 | DST-INSPIRE Fellowship | Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. | 2012 |
| 8 | AFSTI Gold Medal, for securing highest marks in the University Examination of M.Sc., Food Technology | University of Mysore | 2012 |
| 9 | Prof. (Dr.) Jiwan S. Sidhu Gold Medal for securing highest CGPA and marks in the Subject of Grains, Legumes, and Oil Seeds Technology in the M.Sc. degree examination of Food Technology | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore | 2012 |
| 10 | Giridharilal Gold Medal for securing highest CGPA in the M.Sc. degree Examination of Food Technology of the University of Mysore | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore | 2012 |
| 11 | Nirula Foundation Gold Medal for securing highest CGPA and aggregate marks in the M.Sc. degree examination of Food Technology of the University of Mysore | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore | 2012 |
| 12 | Gowramma Raghunathaiah Gold Medal for the girl student securing highest aggregate marks in the M.Sc. degree examination of Food Technology of the University of Mysore | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore | 2012 |
| 13 | Scholarship instituted by the Federation of Biscuit Manufacturers of India for carrying out an investigation in the area of biscuit technology. | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore | 2012 |
| 14 | Best Student Award | Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India) (AFSTI) | 2011 |
| 15 | Food Ingredient Specialties Private Ltd. Scholarship for securing highest GPA in the first semester of M.Sc., Food Technology | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore | 2010 |
| 16 | Ranganna Setty Memorial Award for Best Dissertation Thesis | CFTRI Alumni Association | 2011 |
| 17 | Best Poster Award for the paper entitled “An improved model for bubble growth and coalescence in bread dough” during ICFOST 2015, 18th-19th December 2015, College of Food Technology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth (VNMKV), Parbhani, Maharashtra. | Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India) (AFSTI) | 2015 |
| 18 | Best Poster Award for the paper entitled “Bubble growth during the bread baking process” during ICFOST 2014, 13th-14th December 2014, at NIFTEM, Kundli, Haryana. | Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India) (AFSTI) | 2014 |
| 19 | Best Poster award for the paper entitled “Spray-Freeze-Drying Technique for Soluble Coffee Production” at the 7th IFCoN, held during 18th-21st December 2013, at CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore. | Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India) (AFSTI) | 2013 |
| 20 | Best Technical Trainee Award – Dependable 2012 | Management of Nestle India Ltd., Gurgaon | 2012 |
| 21 | 2nd place in the “Factory Problem Solving Day” for leading an investigation project on methods to avoid trade complaints. | Factory Management of Nestle India Ltd., Nanjangud | 2012 |
| 22 | Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 – Recognized as one of the most read in Journal of Food Processing and Preservation | Wiley | 2020 |
| 23 | Ranked 11th on the ScienceDirect Top 25 for the Trends in Food Science & Technology – January to March 2015: Spray-freeze-drying: a novel process for the drying of foods and bioproducts. | Elsevier Publishing Company | 2015 |
| 24 | Ranked 11th on the ScienceDirect Top 25 for the Journal of Food Engineering – October to December 2014: Spray-freeze drying approach for soluble coffee processing and its effect on quality characteristics. | Elsevier Publishing Company | 2014 |
| 25 | Ranked 20th on the ScienceDirect Top 25 for the Food Bioscience Journal – July to September 2014: Fructooligosaccharide – Retention during baking and its influence on biscuit quality. | Elsevier Publishing Company | 2014 |