National Research Council's Senior Research Associates Award from National Academies, 2018-2019.

ACM Distinguished Scientist, Citation: "contributions in data management in mobile computing", 2016.

Missouri S & T Faculty Research Excellence Award (Excellence in Research) in years 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 (given to about 8 faculty members out of about 300+ every 2 years, not eligible anymore being a distinguished professor since 2018).

UMR (now Missouri S & T) Faculty Excellence Award (Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service), 2007 (given to 5 faculty members out of about 300+ every 2 years, not eligible anymore being a distinguished professor since 2018).

American Society for Engineering Education Faculty Fellowship Award at Air Force Research Lab (award by AFOSR).

Missouri S & T Intelligent System Center's Distinguished Investigator Award, 2016 (given to one ISC member faculty for research performance (grants+pubs+PhDs) over the years).

IEEE Best Paper Award for the paper "Distributed Attribute Based Access Control of Aggregated Data in Sensor Clouds" by Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria at 34th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2015).

IEEE Best Student Paper Award for the paper "Toward Energy Efficient Multi-stream Collaborative Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks" in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), Miami, Florida, 2014.

Associate Editor, Knowledge and Information Systems, 2017-C.

Associate Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC) , 2014-2018.

Associate Editor, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DPDS), 2014-C.

IEEE Golden Core Award, 2013.

National Research Council's Senior Research Associates Award from National Academies, 2012-2013.

IEEE Best Paper Award (runner up) in 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2012 for "MELOC: Memory and Location Optimized Caching in Small Ad Hoc Networks".

IEEE Best Paper Award in 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2011 for "Energy Efficient Real Time Data Compression in WSN".

IEEE Best Paper Award for "Energy Constrained Dominating Set for Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks" in 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2010.

An Efficient and Secure Data Sharing Framework using Homomorphic Encryption in the Cloud is in the best two papers in I-Cloud workshop with VLDB 2012.

Ranked third most prolific author for Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (1985 - 2007) in a paper published in 2007 (Editor In-Chief: Peter Chen, ACM and IEEE Fellow).

Invitational Fellow Award for Eminent Scientist, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2006.

Selected Speaker under IEEE Distinguish Visitor Program, 2007-2010.

Selected Speaker under ACM Distinguish Visitor Program, 2007-Continue.

IEEE Senior Member Award, 2001.

DEXA Award for Web and E-commerce Research Contributions.

Outstanding Teaching Award by Dean, School of Distance Education, UMR, 2005.

Speaker at various NSF-sponsored workshops (by invitation only) in the area of mobile computing, energy and security.

The paper titled "Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing Using Relational Database Systems" was selected as one of the top 5 papers in flagship Entity-Relationship Conference in 2004.

The paper "Dynamic Replica Management in Mobile Ad hoc Networks" appeared in IEEE Transaction in Mobile Computing voted as top 10 papers by Osaka University, Japan by internal voting of all the researchers in the university.

IEEE Appreciation Certificates in 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2011 for service activities.

IEEE Meritorious Service Award, 2013.

Listed under various Marquis' Who's Who Publications including Life Achievement Award.

Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi, India. Given to those who hold Junior Research Fellowships based on performance during two year tenure as Joint Research Fellowship.

Junior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi, India (was given to 40 all over India based on Nation-wide written test in the subject).

Director, Missouri S & T and AFRL Cooperative Program for Students and Faculty.