The Infosys Prize 2013 for Engineering and Computer Science, Infosys Science Foundation awarded for Prof. Rao's "wide-ranging contributions to nanoscale electronics, for insightfully integrating chemistry with mechanics and electronics to invent new functional devices, and for innovation and entrepreneurship in creating technologies and products of societal value."
2005 "Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences" presented by the Hon'ble Prime Minister, Govt.of India (S.S.Bhatnagar Prize) (the highest scientific award for researchers in India)
2020 IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Education Award "for educational leadership and establishing Nanoelectronics research programs in India." (the highest global award given annually by the IEEE Electron Devices Society for Education)
H. H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences, IIT Bombay (2012)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao Bangalore INDIA NANO Science Award (2016)
J.C.Bose National Fellowship, 2016 JC Bose National Fellowship
Techno-Visionary award from the Indian Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) (2020).
Telangana State Award for Science & Technology, awarded by the Chief Minister of the state on the Telangana Formation day (2016).
The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Research for Physical Sciences, 2014 (NASI)-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award
Prof. Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture Award for 2021 from National Academy of Sciences, India.
Prof. M.G.K. Menon Lecture Award from the National Academy of Sciences India (2018)
2010 "DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator" award from the Department of Atomic Energy-Science Research Council (DAE-SRC), an apex body of DAE, Govt. of India.
2009 Indian Semiconductor Association's (ISA) TechnoMentor Award
'Swarnajayanti Fellowship' Award (2003-04), Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (Swarnajayanti Fellowship) (this prestigious fellowship is instituted by Govt. of India in 1997 to mark 50 years of India's independance)
IIT Bombay "Industrial Impact Award" in 2008 for undertaking research work that caused maximum industry impact
2016 VASVIK Award in the category of Information & Communications Technology
Fellow, IEEE (Elected in 2017 "for his contributions to CMOS System-on-Chip technologies") (IEEE USA)
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy (TWAS)
Editor, Applied Physics Reviews (American Institute of Physics) (2023-25) (IF: 19.16)
2008 'The Materials Research Society of India (MRSI)-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Prize' (presented at the 19th Annual General body meeting of the MRSI by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, President, MRSI)
Best Research Paper Award, Global Interposer Technology (GIT) Workshop: Design, Technologies, Applications, Markets and Manufacturing Infrastructure, November 14-15, 2011, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia USA (decided by an eminent jury of industry professionals)
(a) IETE M.N.Saha Memorial Award for the best application oriented paper in 2004 in a IETE journal; (b) Best paper award, 2005 IMAPS India National conference; ( c) Best Research Paper award, 2008 Intel Asia Academic Forum, Taiwan
Over 480 Research Publications in refereed International Journals and International Conference Proceedings (Over 200 publications in IEEE Transactions and other reputed journals), 49 patents/patent applications (18 issued US parents) & Over 200 keynote & invited talks at various international conferences, workshops, academic institutions and industries all over the world in the area of Electron Devices/Nanoelectronics.
Listed in the "Who's Who in Nanotechnology in Europe and India", prepared by the European Commision Framework Programme INCO - International Scientific Cooperation, 2007
Chief Investigator, ("Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics") project @ IIT Bombay
Prof. Rao interacts closely with semiconductor industries such as Intel, IBM, Infineon, International Rectifier Corporation,IMEC, Texas Instruments etc., and has many ongoing industry sponsored projects in the area of Silicon CMOS devices. Prof. Rao's work on fringing field effects in high-k gate dielectric MOSFETS & circuits is widely cited by the industry, while his work on Lateral Asymmetric Channel (LAC) devices has been successfully applied in reducing the sub-threshold leakage in mobile devices. Prof. Rao is founder of two deep technology startups which have successfully commercialized products which are available in the market. Please visit: "NanoSniff.com" & "Soilsens.com" for more details.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES/EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Distinguished Lecturer (DL), IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer Program)
Lead Editor, Materials Research Society (MRS), "Nanofunctional Materials, Nanostructures and Nanodevices for Biomedical Applications II", Symposium Proceedings, Fall Meeting, 2010, Boston, MA, USA
Editor, NanoTrends - http://www.nstc.in/journal*
Editor, IETE Journal of Education (2008-2011)
Honorary Editor, IETE Journal of Research in the area of "Electronics Devices & Components" (2007-2010)
Editor, VSI Vision, VLSI Society of India (2005-2007)
Consulting Editor, ICFAI Journal of Nanotechnology
Panel member, IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Industry Short Course program (IEEE-EDS Industry Short Course Program)
Member, IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Membership Committee (2006-2007)
General Chair, 9 th International Workshop on Nano-mechanical Cantilever Sensors (NMC 2012)
Chairman, Organizing Committee, 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTRON DEVICES AND SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY (IEDST 2009), June 1-2, 2009, Mumbai, India (www.ee.iitb.ac.in/iedst)
Chairman, MEMS/NEMS Committee, 2nd Asia Symposium & Exhibits on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED 2010, 2011 & 2012)
Co-convener, Local Organizing Committee, International Conference on "Nano Science & Technology" (ICONSAT 2010), February 17-20, 2010, Mumbai
Chairman, Organizing Committee, 17 th International Conference on VLSI Design, Mumbai, 2004
Chairman, Organizing Committee, 2005 IMAPS India National Conference on "Microelectronics & VLSI"
Chairman, Organizing Committee, 14 th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD), Dec 16-20, 2007, Mumbai (IWPSD 2007)
Co-chair, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Nanotechnology & Health Care Applications (NateHCA - 07), Oct 11-13, 2007, Mumbai
Member, Emerging Applications and Technologies (EA&T) sub-committee, Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference)(2006-2008)
Publicity Co-chair, Nano-Net 2006: International Conference on Nano-Networks, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2006
Member, Technical Program Committee, (Chairman, Technology Sub-committee), 20 th International Conference on VLSI Design, January 6-10, 2007, Bangalore
Member, Technical Program Committee, 2007 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED' 06), Portland, USA, August 27-29, 2007
Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE VLSI Design & Test Symposium (VDAT) (2007-2009)
Organizing/Advisory committee member for various national/international conferences/workshops held in India
Reviewer for multiple International Journals / IEEE Transactions & Conferences.
Member, Program Committee, 24th International Conference on VLSI Design and 10th Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSI 2011), Chennai, India, Jan 2-7, 2011
NATIONAL LEVEL ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Chairman, Board of Governors, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Sonepat, India (http://www.niftem.ac.in/) (2022-2025)
Chairman, Council of Management, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India (https://www.jncasr.ac.in/) (2022-2025)
Chairman, Scientific Advisory committee, National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India (https://nmicps.in//) (2022-2025)
Chairman, Working Group on Nanotechnology, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt of India, 2022-2024
Chairman, Expert Committee (PG colleges), Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Universities & other Higher Educational Institutions (FIST), Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India, 2022-2025
Chairman, Expert Committee on Waste-to-Wealth standardization, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Govt of India, (2023)
Chairman, National Coordination Committee, Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) Programme for Doctoral students (2019-2021)
Chairman, Expert Committee to Review Charter of DRDO Labs, 2020
Chairman, Expert Advisory Group on Biomedical Device and Technology Development Programme, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2020-2022)
Chairman, MHRD-DRDO Task force for "DRDO-Academia Interactions for Achieving Leadership in Futuristic Technologies", 2019
Chairman, Expert Group for evaluation and recommendation of various proposals for training and skill development, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India (2019-2022)
Distinguished Fellow, Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST) India (https://fast-india.org/) (Since 2022)
Member, Governing Council (2019-2021), C-DAC
Chairman, Research Council, Solid State Physics Laboratory, DRDO (2019-21)
Chairman, Industry Relevant R & D (IRRD) Scheme of SERB, Govt. of India (2018-2021)
Chairman, Research Council, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh (2017-2020)
Chairman, Governing Body, The Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2018-2021)
Member, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) (2018-2021)
Chairman, Prime Minister's Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research (jointly operated by CII, DST and FICCI), Govt. of India (2017-2020)
Chairman, Nano Applications and Technology Advisory Committee (NATAG), DST Nano Mission, Govt. of India (2018-2020)
National Coordinator for Nanotechnology domain, IMPacting Research INnovation and Technology (IMPRINT-1), India (2015-17)
Co-Chairman, Indo-Taiwan Joint Committee on Science & Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Govt.of India (Ended)
Chairman, Nano Applications and Technology Advisory Group (NATAG) Proof-of-Concept Expert Committee (NATAG-POCC), Nano Mission, Govt. of India (Ended in 2022))
Vice-President, Materials Research Society of India (2015-2018)
Council Member, DST Nano Mission, Govt. of India (Ended in 2022)
Member, Research Council, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, Kerala (2015-2017)
Member, Research Advisory Board, Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences, Bangalore (an autonomous institute under the DST, Govt. of India) (Ended)
Member, Planning & Development Advisory Committee (PDAC), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt. of India (Ended)
Member, Institute Governing Body, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum (Ended)
Member, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt. of India (Ended)
Member, Expert Committee for "Development of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)" under the Technology Systems Development Programme (TSDP), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India (Ended)
Chairman, Working Group on Nanotechnology for North Eastern Region, Nanotechnology development programme of Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India
Member, Industry Advisory Committee, Modified Special Incentives Package Scheme (M-SIPS), Electronics System Design & Manufacturing Sector, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt . of India
Member, Board of Governors (BoG), Institute of Nano Science & Technology (INST), Mohali (Punjab)
Member, Governing Council, National Centre for Molecular Materials Research (NCMMR), Thiruvananthapur
Chairman, Innovation Council on Nanoelectronics, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India (since 2011)
Member, Governing Council, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI) Hyderabad (since 2012)
Member of Research Council, "Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani" (since 2010)
Member, Expert Committee, DST; India-U.S. Grand Challenge: Affordable Blood Pressure Measurement Technologies for Low-Resource Settings in India and the U.S
Member, Vision Group on Nanotechnology, an apex Advisory Body for promotion of Nano-Science and Technology in the State of Karnataka, Govt of India (since 2010).
Member, Core committee, National Semiconductor Vision 2020, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA)
Member, "Working Group on Nanotechnology", Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India (2005)
Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC), Electrical, Electronics & Computer Engineering, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India (since 2007)
Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC), Bio-medical Engineering, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India (since 2008)
Member, Programme Advisory & Review Committee (PARC-4), National Programme on Micro and Smart Systems (NPMASS), Govt. of India
Member, Academic and R&D Initiatives in the area of Info-Nano-Biotechnology for the 11 th Five Year plan, Govt of India
Member of Academic Planning, Advisory & Evaluation Boards of various Universities and Educational Institutions in India
Member/Chairman of various research project monitoring committees including the (i) Electronic Design Centre project, SAMEER, Chennai (ii) Nano-Metrology facility at the National Physical Laboratories, Delhi (iii) Nano-device Characterization project at VNIT, Nagpur (iv) Nano-scale MOSFET project at Punjab University (v) Explosive Detection project at SSPL, New Delhi etc.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS PAST/ONGOING INTERACTIONS/RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS:
(interactions that resulted in joint publications/projects/joint guidance of students)
Centre for Materials & Microsystems (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Trento (TN), Italy (Current)
Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (Current)