• Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay 2021

• International Advisory Board Member, CIMTEC 2020 - 15th International Ceramics Conference on Modern Materials & Technologies, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 15-23 June 2020.

• Associate Editor, SADHANA – Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences (2017-).

• Scripta Materialia 2015 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing.

• Materials Chemistry and Physics Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing for 2015

• Guest Editor, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, ISRS-2014 Special Issue.

• Member, Board of Studies of the M. Tech. programme in Materials Science & Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India.

• First place in the poster competition at 'Thermal Barrier Coatings III', an international conference organised by Engineering Conferences International, at Irsee (Germany), 7-12 August, 2011.

• Member, Materials Panel of Naval Research Board, DRDO, India (2007-09).

• ASM International – Chennai Chapter Outstanding Contribution Award 2008-09, for the organization for student activities.

• Dr. K.S. Krishnan Fellowship for doctoral research (1997-2001).

• Doctoral research featured as news articles in Nature News India, 2004, and Deccan Herald, 2003.

• Award for First Rank, B.E. Metallurgical Engineering, Nagpur University, 1992.

• Best Oral Presentation Award, 45th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, Ranchi, November 1991.

• The following awards were won by the Material Advantage Chapter of IIT Madras under the guidance of Ashutosh S. Gandhi as Faculty Advisor (2007-08)

1. Chapter of Excellence Award (US$ 500)

2. Most number of new members recruited (US$ 500)

3. Grant for outreach programme (US$ 800)

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Membership of Professional Organisations

• Life Member: Indian Institute of Metals, Indian Ceramic Society;

• Ex-Member: ASM International, The American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society (USA).

• Ex-Faculty Advisor, Material Advantage – IIT Madras Chapter.

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Activities

• Former Faculty Advisor, Material Advantage Chapter of IIT Madras (2007-08 & 2008-09). The IIT Madras Chapter won the 'Chapter of Excellence Award' for the year 2007-08.

• Member of Executive Committee, ASM International - Chennai Chapter (2008-)

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