Awards & Honors

Recognition for teaching excellence, research impact, and professional service

Teaching & Research Awards

  • NEDAASC Best Teacher Award for 2023 (December 2024)
  • NEDUET Best Researcher Award (March 2024)
  • Best Final Year Project Award for 2024 — UNESCO Chair, NEDUET (December 2024)
  • Financial Rewards for Publications in HEC-recognized journals — August 2021, May 2022, November 2023, May 2024, October 2024 (5 awards)
  • Session Best Paper Award — 2nd International Conference on Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Sciences (ICCBES'15), Dubai (May 2015)

Professional Recognitions

  • Lifetime Member, The Chemical Society of Pakistan
  • PEC STEM Ambassador for the year 2024

Panelist / Keynote Speaker / Session Talks

  • Led session and conducted training on "Proposal Writing: Securing SRSP-SHEC Grant" for Researchers and Faculty Members at NEDUET (October 27, 2025)
  • Session talk: "Proposal Writing Excellence: Securing Through Sindh Research Support Program," Dawood University of Engineering and Technology (October 24, 2025)
  • Panelist at "Innovation Landscape of Pakistan," organized by Sindh HEC in collaboration with Institute of Business Management, Karachi (April 24, 2025)
  • Keynote Talk on "Climate Change and Biodiversity," 2nd ICGSE-2024, SMIU (February 2024)
  • Session talk on safety measures, "Fire Fighting Training Session," Department of Chemistry, NEDUET (January 17–18, 2025)
  • Delivered two talks — "Introduction to High Performance Liquid Chromatography" and "Interpreting Chromatogram" — at the Hands-on Workshop on HPLC, Department of Chemistry, NEDUET (December 23–24, 2021)

Session Chair / Moderator

Session Chair:

  • 2nd International Conference on Green and Sustainable Environment (ICGSE 2024), SMIU (February 2024)
  • 1st Global Research Congress, SMIU (March 9, 2023)
  • 1st ICAMSEE, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, NEDUET (June 2021)

Session Chair:

  • Three sessions of the National Idea Bank (NIB) City Level Competition (2022–23)

Conference Secretary / Organizing Committee

  • Conference Secretary, 1st IICC-2021 (February 2021) and 2nd IICC-2023 (March 2023), Department of Chemistry, NEDUET
  • 1st ETFP-2024, Department of Food Engineering, NEDUET (April 2024)
  • ICAPE-2021 — Head of Editorial Board, Department of Physics, NEDUET

Judge

  • STEAM Muqablo-2026, Karachi Central District Round, Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Allama Iqbal, F.B. Area (January 27, 2026)
  • STEAM Muqablo-2025, Regional Round, KMC Sports Complex, Karachi (February 2025)
  • STEAM Muqablo-2025, District Round, Govt. Comprehensive Girls School, North Nazimabad, Karachi (December 2024)
  • Sindh Provincial Science Fair, organized by Intel Pakistan Corporation (October 2015)

Academic Awards

  • HEC Indigenous Scholarship, Batch IV (2007)
  • Qualified Graduate Assessment Test, conducted by National Testing Service (January 2007)