• Sir. M. Visvesvaraya Award for Senior Scientsts for life time achievement awarded by the Karnataka State Government, September 2024
  • Professor M.C. Puri Memorial Award, 2018, of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), for Contributions to Operations Research in India
  • Varshney Award, 2014, of the Systems Society of India, for Contributions to Systems Science
  • Shared University Research (SUR) Grant (2014-2016) from IBM Research Labs on Incentive Design for Enhancing Efficiency and Participation in Online Education.
  • Systems Society of India (SSI) – Rajkumar Varshney Award for Lifetime Contribution to Systems Theory – 2014
  • ACCS-CDAC Foundation Award (2014) by the Advanced Computing and Communications Society, for Pioneering Contributions in Game Theory and Mechanism Design.
  • Faculty Award from Adobe Research Labs, Bangalore, 2014-16.
  • J.C. Bose National Fellowship Awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2010-2015; 2015-2020
  • Faculty Award from IBM Research for 2010
  • Faculty Award from General Motors R & D for 2010
  • Fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy (FNA) effective from January 1, 2010
  • Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) effective from January 1, 2009
  • The Alumni Award for Research Excellence in Engineering for the Year 2009, awarded by the Indian Institute of Science
  • IEEE Fellowship awarded by IEEE, New York, effective from January, 2008
  • Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad, effective from January 1, 2007.
  • Homi Bhabha Fellowship for 2005-2007 awarded by the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council, Mumbai
  • Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), effective from January 1, 2003.
  • Sir  C.V. Raman  Young Scientist Award  for outstanding research in the area of Computer Science in 1998, awarded by the Government of Karnataka.
  • Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, awarded in April 1997 – January 1998.
  • Rajiv Gandhi – Ronald Reagan Fellowship (Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship) for collaborative research, awarded by the Department of Science and Technology and the United States Agency for International Development, 1992.
  • The Alumni Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Science for the Best Thesis in the Division of Electrical Sciences for the year 1987-88.
  • The University Gold Medal for obtaining First Rank for the Bangalore University in B.Sc., 1979.

Editorial Boards

  • Associate Editor, Current Science (since January 2013)
  • Associate Editor, CSI Journal of Computing (since January 2012)
  • Coordinator for a Special Section in Current Science, on Game Theory (November 2012 Issue)
  • Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2008-2013
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2003-2007
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998-2008
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 1998-2002
  • Guest Editor for two Special Issues of Sadhana, Indian Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, on the topic of Competitive Manufacturing Systems (February 1997 and April 1997 Issues).
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Sadhana, Indian Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, on the topic of E-Commerce and E-Business, April – June 2005.

Best Paper Awards and Citations

  • The 2008 Googol Best Application Paper Award for the paper “A Theory of Mechanism Design for Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auctions” (selected as the best Paper exploring a contemporary application among all papers published in IEEE Transactions in Automation Science and Engineering during 2008)
  • The 2004 Googol Best Application Paper Award for the paper “Design of Six Sigma Supply Chains” (selected as the best Paper exploring a contemporary application among all papers published in IEEE Transactions in Automation Science and Engineering during 2004)
  • The paper “Object Oriented Modeling and Decision Support for Supply Chains” (authored by Shantanu Biswas and Y. Narahari) is ranked 12th among the most requested papers of the Journal: European Journal of Operational Research (Number of requests in 2004: 1362)
  • IEEE India Council Award in the Student Paper Contest, 1984, for the paper entitled Modelling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems by Petri Nets.
  • For citations on scholar.google.com click here

Sabbaticals

  • Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, June 1992 – January 1993. Area of Research: Performance Analysis and Dynamic Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems
  • Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, April 1997 – January 1998. Area of Research: Integrated Methodologies for Design for Manufacturing.