•  2003: National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
•  2000: Elected President, Maryland Chapter, American Statistical Association.
•  1998: American Statistical Association (ASA) Award for Best Contributed Paper in Statistical Computing in the 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Dallas, Texas, USA. This paper (Clustering Massive Datasets) was judged the best out of over 80 entries submitted in this category.
•  1998: Elected Vice-President, Maryland Chapter, American Statistical Association.
•  1997: Nominated for the Francois Erbsman award (only statistician) for young scientists under 35 years of age, for the paper (Synthetic Resampling Methods for Variance Estimation in Parametric Images) at the XXII International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) in Poultney, Vermont, USA.
•  1997: Appointed Co-Chair and Liasion, Continuing Education, of the Section on Statistical Computing of the American Statistical Association at Anaheim, California, USA.
•  1996: American Statistical Association (ASA) Award for Best Student Paper  in Statistical Computing. This paper (Estimating Precision in Functional Images) was one of four selected, out of 22, for presentation at the 1996 Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
•  1996: Award for the Best Poster "Estimating the Variability in Reconstructed PET Images" at the Student Poster Competition of the 1996 Spring Pacific Northwest Statistics Meetings in Seattle, Washington, USA.
•  1995: Award for Best Presented paper "Estimating Variability in PET Reconstructions" at the Student Paper Competition of the Western North American Region (WNAR) of the International Biometric Society, at the Joint WNAR/IMS Meetings in Stanford, California, USA.
•  1987-92: Awards for excellent performance in the degree programs at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.