Awards/Honours (Post-PhD):
1) Elevated to (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) IEEE Fellow, 1 Jan 2015
2) Elevated to (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ASME Fellow March 2014
3) IBM faculty award for year 2008-09
4) IBM Blue Chip award (Corporate award given by IBM Chairman's office)
5) Outstanding Innovation Award, IBM Corp, San Jose CA
6) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corp, San Jose CA
7) Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Leadership award (twice, 1998 & 2003)
8) INSIC Distinguished Contribution Award (2008)
9) Temasek Professor, NUS, Singapore
10) Chairman of Magnetic Data Storage tribology, ASME, USA
11) Team Leader for the INSIC?s 10Gb/In2, 100Gb/In2, 1Tb/In2 & 10Tb/In2 Tribology project.
12) Faculty at UC Berkeley USA (IBM faculty loan program) 1989 and 1994
13) Visiting Industrial Fellow to CML, ME Dept UC Berkeley, Berkeley USA(1987-2007)
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