(i) Best Paper award on ‘Pile foundation’ for the paper “Behavior of Instrumented pile  under vertical loading – A field Investigation” by K. Muthukkumaran, R. Sundaravadivelu and S. R. Gandhi.

 

(ii) Member, Advisory committee, Chilika development Authority

 

(iii) Bureau of Indian Standards – Ports, Harbours and Offshore Installations Sectional Committee, CED 47 member from 2006 and CHAIRPERSON from 2023

 

(iv) Member, UPSC, Selection committee

 

(v) Member, Executive Council, Indian Maritime University and CRRI

 

(vi) Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering

 

(vii) Coordinate DAAD program for exchange of students from Germany to India

 

(viii) Member, Organizing Committee, OMAE conference organized by ASME

 

(ix) Fellow of the Indian Geotechnical Society