Awards, Special Attainments, Distinctions, etc.:

• I Rank for the State in the Mysore S.S.L.C. Examination of April 1966 (89.9% Marks)

• National Science Talent Search Scholarship, awarded by the N.C.E.R.T.,India, from 1967 to 1972.

• I Rank for Bangalore University in the B.Sc. (Hons) degree Examinations of April 1970 (80.8% Marks) and Winner of State Award for academic distinction.

• I Rank in each Semister of M.Sc. (Physics) at I.I.T. Kanpur during 1970 - 1972 (10.0 CPI) and Winner of Certificates of Merit and the Physics Proficiency Prize.

• Teaching Assistantship at the Department of Physics, Cornell University 1972 - 1973.

• IBM Graduate Fellowship, awarded by IBM Fellowship Foundation at the Department of Physics, Cornell University 1973 - 1976.

• Selected for the 1977 Summer Faculty Programme, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, New York.

• Awarded the "Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists" for the year 1983 by the Indian National Science Academy.

• Elected "Young Associate" of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1983.

• Elected to the Editorial Board of Pramana-J.Phys, 1989.
          Associate Editor, Pramana-J.Phys, July 1992-June 1998.  
         Editor, Pramana-J.Phys, July 1998 - .

• Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1990.

• Elected Honorary Senior Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research , Bangalore, India, Oct. 1990 .

• Elected to Current Science Association,Bangalore,India, 1992.

• Member,Project Advisory Committee on Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Department of Science and Technology ,Govt. of India (1995- 1997)

• Elected Fellow of the Indian national Science Academy 1997.

• Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences ,India 1997.

• Elected Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, (1998- )

• DAE-Raja Ramanna Prize of the JNCASR, Nov 2000

• Member, Physics Sectional Committee, Indian Academy of Sciences (2000-2004)

• MSIL Chair Professor, IISc from Oct 2003 to Sept 2006

• Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Science for 2006, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

• J C Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, May 2006 -

• Member, Management Board, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, India, 2008 -

• Convener, Physics Sectional Committee, Indian Academy of Sciences, (2010 - 2012)

• Elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), 2011

• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2015

• "CNR Rao Vijnana Puraskara" by the "Swadeshi Vijnana Andolana, Karnataka", Sept. 2016