- Received Grant of Rs. 3.5 Lakhs for coordinating FDP on "Emerging Trends in Semiconductors" under Advanced Teaching and Learning (ATAL) FDP by AICTE Year: 2023-24
- Received Grant of Rs. 5 Lakhs for project "Development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Fault Detection and Diagnosis System for Solar Photovoltaic Panels" under Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) Year: 2023-24
- Book "Artificial Intelligence Applications and Reconfigurable Architectures" Edited by Anuradha D. Thakare and Sheetal Umesh Bhandari, published by Scrivener Publishing (ISBN: 9781119857297 )
- Elevated as "Senior Member" by IEEE.
- Received SPICES grant for Project Title: Scheme for Promoting Interest, Creativity and Ethics amongst Students (SPICES), Grant-in-aid sanctioned: Rs. 1,00,000/-, Funding Agency: AICTE, Year: 2020-21
- Selected for the training program as Subject Matter Expert for SLA-Student Learning Assessment Program organized by AICTE-Stanford University 2020-21.
- Part of team that submitted and received Grant of 7.3 Lakhs under PRERANA scheme from AICTE (2019-21).
- Certified trainer for “Spinoff-Entrepreneurship program” by Entrepreneurship Centre, Singapore Polytechnic, 4th to 7th Sept 2018.
- Received SPDP grant for Project Title: Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre for SC/ST Students (SPDP), Grant-in-aid sanctioned: Rs. 21,16,471/-, Funding Agency: AICTE, Year: 2017-20 (Three years)
- Successfully implemented First International Conference on Computing, Communication, Control and Automation (ICCUBEA) in association with IEEE Pune chapter in 2015 as General Chair for ICCUBEA-2015. Till today five ICCUBEA are conducted successfully at PCCoE and I worked as Advisory and Finance chair for all succeeding four conferences.
- Received MODROB grant for Project Title: Development of state-of-the-art research lab for VLSI and Embedded systems to accommodate facilities for simulation, verification, testing, debugging and experimenting on latest technologies and serve as a pilot project for future many VLSI and Embedded projects. Grant-in-aid sanctioned: Rs. 7,25,000/-, Funding Agency: AICTE, Year: 2013-14
- Worked at Politechnico Di Milano, Italy as visiting researchers during Feb 2011 to May 2011. I received a letter of appreciation and Prize of 1000 Euro for exceptional contribution in the Hardware Evolution in Reconfigurable Architecture (HERA) project at Microlab, PoliMi, Italy.
- Hold University Rank-1 position at Pune University in ME 2006 examination.
- Work as reviewer for various conferences and journals.
- Working as Single Point of Contact (SPoC) for two foreign collaborations of PCCoE. St. Cloud State University, Minnesota and University of Johannesburg, South Africa.