Honors

Prof. Deblina Sarkar

• Named as a finalist in MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition (2023-24)


• Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award (one of the 3 awardees worldwide) (2023)


• Nano Research Young Innovators Awards in Bio-inspired Nanomaterials (2023)


• Distinguished Scientist Award (one of 3 awardees nationwide) (2023)


• Early Career Distinguished Presenter at Materials Research Society (2023)


• Science News 10 Scientists to Watch (2023)


• Featured in Nature Neuroscience (2023)


• MIND Prize (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery) (2023)


• Abundance 360 Scholar (2022-2023)


• AT&T Career Development Chair Professorship (2019-2023)


• Featured in Association for Women in Science (AWIS) News Brief (2022)


• NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2022)


• Perfect and Rarely Achieved Impact Score of 10 from NIH (2022)


• “Explorer of the Nano Age” feature by MIT.nano which highlighted eight pioneering nanotechnology researchers at MIT who are working to make our world a better place (2022)


• Innovative Early Career Engineer by National Academy of Engineering (2022)


• IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award (only awardee worldwide)(2022)


• Leading next generation scientist by United For Medical Research (2021)


• iCANX Young Scientists Award (2021)


• IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) feature 2021


• Featured by Imagination in Action: series highlighting some of the world’s most compelling people (2021)


• Featured in Neuron (2020)


• Young Scientist Excellence Award at Microsystems and Nanoengineering (Nature) (2020).


• Distinguished Alumnus Award as a "Young Achiever" from IIT (2020)


• Technology Review's Innovators Under Age 35 (one of 10 from India) (2018)


• NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (2018)


• MIT Translational Fellow (2017)


• One of the top 3 dissertations throughout USA and Canada in the field of Mathematics, Physical sciences and all departments of Engineering (2016)


• Lancaster Award for the best PhD Dissertation in the field of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and all departments of Engineering at UCSB in the period 2014-2016 (2016)


• One of the 4 young scientists worldwide to present a master class on physics in structural biology and medical diagnostics Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2016)


• MRS Graduate Student Award (2015)


• Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2015)


• Falling Walls Lab Young Innovator Award at UCSD (One of the 3 winners) (2015)


• "Bright Mind" honor at KAUST-NSF Conference (one of 4 honorees from USA) (2015)


• Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB (2014)


• IEEE EDS PhD Fellowship Award (only one from the Americas and one of the 3 students worldwide to win it) (2011)


• US Presidential Fellowship for pursuing graduate research (2008)


• Outstanding Doctoral Candidate Fellowship (2008)

Student and Postdoc Achievements

• Baju Joy receives the Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship Award (2023)


• Benoit Desbiolles receives the MIT Excellence Award (2023)


• Yubin Cai receives the MIT Presidential Fellowship Award (2022)


• Shivam Kajale gives a TEDx talk on need to develop sustainable AI (2022)


• Marta Airaghi awarded the Novartis Innovation Fellowship (2023)


• Sarah Cao wins the Outstanding UROP Student Award (2023)


• Anna Haddad selected for the MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations Program (2023)


• Shivam Kajale awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI Collaborators (2023)


• Baju Joy's Cell Rover technology featured on the NAE's Frontiers of Engineering homepage (2023)