| July 2025 | Inducted in the ACM SIGIR Academy. |
| December 2024 | IEEE Award on "Pioneering Leadership in Trustworthy AI". |
| October 2024 | ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award. [Press Release] |
| November 2023 | AAHSL/GIR Nina Matheson Lecture Award. |
| October 2023 | SIG USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award. |
| December 2022 | Inducted as ACM Distinguished Member. [Press Release] |
| April 2022 | Inducted as IEEE Senior Member. |
| July 2021 | Inducted as ASIS&T Distinguished Member. |
| December 2019 | Karen Spärck Jones award. Accepted at ECIR 2020. |
| October 2019 | Best paper award at ASIST 2019. Melbourne, Australia. |
| October 2017 | Inducted as ACM Senior Member. |
| June 2017 | Chancellor's Scholar Award |
| November 2016 | ASIS&T Chapter Event of the Year Award (accepted as the Chair of the New Jersey Chapter. |
| June 2016 | Best Student Paper award at ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) conference. Newark, NJ. |
| November 2013 | James M. Cretsos Leadership Award at ASIST 2013. Montreal, Canada. |
| November 2013 | SIG USE Best Poster Award at ASIST 2013. Montreal, Canada. |
| May 2012 | Dept. of Library & Information Science (LIS) Research Award |
| May 2011 | Best Paper Award in the Political Communication category at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual meeting. |
| September 2010 | Best Political Science Software Award to ContextMiner by American Political Science Association. |
| November 2009 | SIG USE award for interdisciplinary travel ($200). |
| August 2009 | 3rd prize ($500) for the paper at "YouTube and 2008 Elections Cycle" conference. |
| April 2009 | Student travel grant from ACM to attend CHI 2009 at Boston. |
| July 2008 | Best paper award ($1,000) at SIGIR 2008. Singapore. |
| May 2008 | Student travel grant from ACM to attend SIGIR 2008 at Singapore. |
| June 2007 | Student travel grant from ACM to attend SIGIR 2007 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
| 2006-2007 | Lester Asheim Merit-based Fellowship at SILS, UNC Chapel Hill. |
| June 2004 | Student travel grant from ACM to attend SIGIR 2004 at Sheffield, UK. |
| May 2002 | 3rd prize in IEEE's regional Student Paper Contest based on paper competition in IEEE Region 10, which includes many Asian countries. Name inducted in IEEE Student Paper Contest Hall of Fame. |
| May 2001 | Scholarships by IIT Madras Alumni Association at USA and IEEE for attending ICASSP 2001 at Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. |
| September 1999 | Best Student Paper award in IEEE's regional paper contest. Gujarat, India. |
| July 1997 | Best Student Paper award at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, India. |
| January 1997 | 2nd prize at national level in student paper contest. Chennai, India. |
| August 1995 | Prime Minister Award for outstanding academic achievement. New Delhi, India. |
| July 1994 | 2nd in State Board Exam, Gujarat, India. |
| March 1993 | Golden Boy of School award. Madresa, Navsari, India. |