Awards, Grants, and Patents

Prizes/Awards (Scientific)

• Humboldt Fellow, 1983;
  
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1988;
  
• Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society, 1995;
  
• Engineering Sciences Medal, The World Academy of Sciences, 2002;
  
• Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Science, 2003;
  
• International Prize and Gold Medal, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 2006;
  
• President Dr. Zakir Husain Memorial Award, Indian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2007;
  
• Nusselt-Reynolds Prize, Assembly of the World Conference on Experimental and Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 2009;
  
• G.I. Taylor Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 2019;
  
• von Karman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers; Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineering Pi Tau Sigma, 2020;
  
• Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society, 2020;
  
• Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society, 2022
  

Honors (leadership)

• National Order of Scientific Merit Certificate, Brazilian Government and Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2007;
  
• UNESCO Medal for Promoting International Scientific Cooperation and World Peace, World Heritage Centre, 2007;
  
• Dwight Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach, American Physical Society, 2008;
  
• Award for International Scientific Cooperation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009;
  
• Multicultural Leadership Award of the National Diversity Council, 2011;
  
• Corporate Social Responsibility Award from City and State, New York, 2016;
  
• Brooklyn-building Award, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, 2017
  

Member/Fellow

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
  
• US National Academy of Engineering;
  
• US National Academy of Sciences;
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Physical Society;
  
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers;
  
• Academy of Sciences for Developing World (TWAS); Indian Academy of Sciences;
  
• Indian National Academy of Sciences;
  
• Indian National Academy of Engineering;
  
• African Academy of Sciences;
  
• Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome;
  
• Accademia Torre e Tasso;
  
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.