| September 2012 | NSF's Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR) for project "Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research with SOCRATES: SOcial and CRowdsourced AcTivities Extraction System" (Sept. 2012-Feb. 2015; $219,126) |
| July 2012 | Early Faculty Career Development Grant from IMLS for project "CIS3: Collaborative Information Seeking Support and Services in Libraries" (Sept. 2012-Aug. 2015; $272,996). |
| May 2012 | Dept. of Library & Information Science (LIS) Research Award |
| October 2011 | National Leadership Grant from IMLS with Dr. Marie Radford (Rutgers) and Dr. Lynn Connaway (OCLC) for project "Cyber Synergy" (Oct. 2011-Sept. 2013; $250,000). |
| August 2011 | Yahoo! Campus Innovation Award for project "Reimagining and Reinvigorating Information Seeking with a Novel Approach to Collaborative Information Seeking" ($20,000). |
| May 2011 | Best Paper Award in the Political Communication category at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual meeting. |
| January 2011 | OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP) for project "Modalities, Motivations, and Materials: Investigating Traditional and Social Online Q&A Services" ($14,408). |
| 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. |
| September 2008 | NSF award for $448,071 beginning Sept 1, 2008 and running for 3 years titled "Result Space Support for Personal and Group Information Seeking Over Time" (proposal written with Gary Marchionini and Rob Capra). |
| July 2008 | Best paper award ($1000) at SIGIR 2008. |
| 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, Gujarat, India. |
| March 1993 | Golden Boy of School award. Madresa, Navsari, India. |
