2024: Obaid Siddiqui award, Sastra University, Elected International Honorary member, AAA&S

2023: DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Senior Investigator Award Renewal; Molecular Ecology Prize; featured in "Women in the Wild: stories of India's most brilliant wildlife biologists",Juggernaut.

2021: Beacon Award, Society for Conservation Biology; Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences,Kalpana Chawla Young Woman Scientist Award, Karnataka State

2020: Fellow, Indian National Science Academy; Homi Bhabha award for Science Education

2019: Featured in '31 fantastic adventures in science' a book on Indian women scientists

2018: Featured in Indian Women in Science Calendar

2017-2022: DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Senior Investigator Award

2016-: International Core Faculty, Program in Conservation Genomics, Stanford University

2016: Parker Gentry Conservation award; Fulbright Fellow

2015: Bass Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

2014: WIRED Innovation Fellow (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-innovation-fellows)

2013: INK Fellow (http://inktalks.com/fellows/about)

2012: Outstanding Scientist Award, Department of Atomic Energy

2011: Senior Research Visiting Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore

2010-2015: Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

2010-2013: Member, National Board for Wildlife, Government of India

2006: Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences

2005: Research Fellow, Wildlife Conservation Society, India program

1994- 1996: MSc fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, India