Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras Professor RI Sujith has been awarded the Distinguished Fellowship of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). He is the first Indian to be awarded this fellowship, IIT Madras said.
Prof Sujith, also an alumnus of IIT Madras, is currently the D Srinivasan Chair Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras.
“This fellowship has given my group greater recognition and visibility. I plan to collaborate actively with IIAV in various activities including their international conferences, workshops, seminars and publications,” Prof Sujith said.
Professor RI Sujith is also a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the Technical University of Munich.
He has been awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship and the JC Bose Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Indian Academy of Sciences.