Awards & Honors

Spreading Code for NavIC L1 SPS Signal: Incorporation by ISRO, of the IZ4 Family of Spreading Codes of which he was the lead designer, into the L1 band civilian signal of NavIC.

Quaternary Uplink Short Scrambling Code for 3G WCDMA: A Designer of the Low-Correlation Sequence Family S(2) that was adopted into the 3G WCDMA global, cellular communication standard, 2001 and introduced in:

• P. V . Kumar, T. Helleseth and A. R. Calderbank, A. R. Hammons, Jr., "Large Families of Quaternary Sequences with Low Correlation", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, March 1996.

IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award, 1995:
A. R. Hammons, P. V. Kumar, A. R. Calderbank, N. J. A. Sloane and P. Sole,"The Z4 linearity of Kerdock, Preparata, Goethals, and related codes", in IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, March 1994.

IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper/Best Paper Award of 2011/2012:
K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah and P. Vijay Kumar, "Optimal Exact-Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage at the MSR and MBR Points via a Product-Matrix Construction", IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, August 2011.

IEEE DCOSS Best Paper Award, 2008:

• N . E. Venkatesan, T. Agarwal and P. V. Kumar, "On the average case communication complexity for detection in sensor networks", presented at the 4th IEEE Int. Conf. on Distr. Comp. in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '08), Santorini Island, Greece, June 2008. Received the Best Paper Award (Algorithmic Track).

USC-School-of-Engineering Senior Research Award, 1994.

Prof. Rustum Choksi Award, IISc, 2013, for Excellence in Research in Engineering

The Advanced Computing and Communications Society and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (ACCS-CDAC) Award, 2018

Invited Plenary Speaker at the IEEE ISIT, 2014.

Tata Chem Chair Professor, IISc, 2013-2015.

IEEE Information Theory Society:

• TPC Co-Chair, ISIT 2015, Hong Kong.

• Chair, Conference Committee (2019-21)

• Member, Board of Governors, (2013-2015), (2019-2021), (2025-27);

• Members, Fellows Committee, (2004-2009) (2015-2017);

Fellow, IEEE, 2002.
(for contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and low-correlation sequence design)

Fellowship in the Indian Academies:

• Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2014.

• Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2017.

• Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 2017.

J. C. Bose National Fellowship, 2017-2022.

Other Fellowships

• NetApp Faculty Fellowship(2012-14), (2018-20).

• Y. C. Cheng Engineering Fellowship, University of Hong Kong (2009-2010).