Awards & Fellowships:
•  Emerging Investigator Invitation from Chem. Comm., 2026
•  Dr. H. C. Srivastava Memorial Award-2025 by Association of Carbohydrate Chemists &
   Technologists (India)
•  Joined the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry” published by         Taylor & Francis for a period of 5 years from 2023 to 2028.
• DST Early Career Research Award.
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship from NIH, USA
• Junior & Senior Research Fellowships from CSIR-UGC.

Invited Lectures & Posters:

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27. Delivered an award lecture titled “Organocatalysis for Stereoselective Glycosylation” at Japan-NER Academia-Industry Technology Cooperation Symposium 2026 (JNTCS 2026) held at IIT Guwahati from March 9-10, 2026.

26. Delivered an award lecture titled “Strained Ion-Pair Catalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry” at International Conference on Organic Synthesis & Advanced Materials (ICOSAM-2026) held at NIT Warangal from February 26-28, 2026.

25. Delivered an award lecture titled “Organocatalysis for Stereoselective Glycosylation” at CARBO-XXXIX: International Conference on Emerging Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology held at Banaras Hindu University from November 21-23, 2025.

24. Delivered a lecture titled “Strained Ion-Pair Catalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry and Beyond” at International Conference on Chemistry for Sustainability (ICCS-2025) held at IIT Hyderabad from July 13-16, 2025.

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 23. Delivered a lecture titled “Organocatalytic Glycoside Bond Formation by Sterically Hindered Pyridinium Salts” at ACS Meetings Global Virtual Symposia Spring 2025 held online on March 5, 2025.

22. Delivered a lecture titled “Frustrated Bronsted Pair Catalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry and Beyond” at NOST-XXIV-OCC held at Jaypee Palace Agra on March 3-6, 2025.

21. Delivered a lecture titled “Development of Glycosyl o-[1-(p-MeO-Phenyl)vinyl]benzoates (PMPVB) as Universal Glycosyl Donors” at CARBO-XXXVIII conference held at Gauhati University, in December 2024.

20. Delivered a lecture titled “Frustrated Bronsted Pair Catalysis for the Glycoside Bond Formation” at Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, from August 05-07, 2024.

19. Delivered a lecture titled “Development of Organocatalytic Methods for 2-Deoxyglycoside Synthesis” at ICOC conference held at Goa in November, 2023.

18. Delivered a lecture titled “Strained Bronsted Pair Catalysis for Glycoside Bond Formation" at 12th Conference of the Asian Community of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology held at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad in November 8-11, 2023.

17. Delivered a lecture titled “Strained/Frustrated Bronsted Pair Catalysis for the stereoselective Glycoside Bond Formation” at Gordon Research Conference held at Holderness School in New Hampshire, United States from June 18-23, 2023.

16. Delivered a lecture titled “Development of organocatalytic methods for the stereoselective construction of glycosidic bond” at National Institute of Technology Warangal (NIT Warangal) on 27th April, 2023.

15. Delivered a lecture titled “Frustrated Bronsted Pair Catalysis for Glycoside Bond Formation” at a conference “Emerging Trends in Glycochemistry, Glycobiology and Technology” held at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on 5th December, 2022.

14. Delivered a lecture titled “Organocatalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry” on March 27, 2022 as part of CRSI-NSC 28 special lectures held at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

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13.. Delivered a Flash Presentation titled “Sterically Strained Bronsted Pair Catalysis for Carbohydrate Chemistry” at XXI NOST-Organic Chemistry Conference held from November 25-28, 2021 at The Leela Palace Hotel, Chennai.

 

12. Delivered a lecture titled “Sterically Strained Bronsted-Pair Catalysis for the Stereoselective Synthesis of 2-Deoxyglycosides” on June 24, 2021 in Asia Glyco-webinar” Organized by Osaka University, Japan.

 

11.Delivered a lecture titled “Role of Organocatalysis in Carbohydrate Chemistry” on March 3, 2021 as a part of "Teaching and Learning of Green Chemistry: Nurturing a new generation of chemists” Sponsored by MHRD, Govt. of India under PMMMNMTT SCHEME, organized by NIT Warangal.

 

10. Delivered a lecture titled “2,4,6-tri-tert-butylpyridine in carbohydrate chemistry: Beyond a proton trapping agent” at ICarE-meetings organized by IISER Pune on DEc 18, 2020.

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9. Delivered a lecture titled “The Curious Case of the Non-nucleophilic Base 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylpyridine: Development of its Salts as Organocatalysts” at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India, March 05, 2020.                            

 

8. Delivered a lecture titled “Organocatalytic synthesis of 2-deoxyglycosides” in a symposium “Contemporary Facets in Organic Synthesis” at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, December 22-24, 2017.

 

7. Delivered a lecture titled “Glycochemistry enroute to Glycobiology” at IISER Mohali, Punjab, India, February 9 – 10, 2017.

 

6. Delivered a lecture titled “Organocatalysis” as a resource person for the KIC-TEQIP short term course on “Novel Catalysis for Industrial Use” hosted by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India, Aug 24th 2016.

 

5. Presented a poster titled “First Organocatalytic Dehydrative Glycosylation of 2-deoxysugars” in “100 years of Chemical Bonding” Symposium at IICT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, August 4 – 5, 2016.

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4. Presented a poster titled “A journey from polymeric heparin to comprehensive HS tetrasaccharide library” at Division Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125.

 

3. Delivered a lecture titled “Dissecting the Influence of Oxazolidinones and Cyclic Carbonate Groups in Sialic Acid Chemistry” in “The 8th Annual Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium,” Wayne State University, MI United States, October 4 – 5, 2012.

 

2. Presented a poster titled “Chemistry of 2-nitroglycals: Synthesis and their utility” ILS-Merck Joint symposium in “Chemical Technology in Drug Discovery” NOVOTEL Hotel, Hyderabad, India, April 22 – 24, 2011.

 

1. Delivered a lecture titled “Chemistry of 2-Nitroglycals: A One pot three component approach towards 2- C-branched glycosides” in 5th JNOST conference held by National Organic Trust Symposium in IIT Kanpur, December 4 – 9, 2009.”