- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) 2021. Admitted as a FELLOW of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) in November 2021.
- Among top 2% of scientists (from India) in the world and field of Optoelectronics & Photonics: Highlighted as one in the top 2% of scientists in the field of Optoelectronics & Photonics. The original list (prepared from a Stanford University study) comprises the top two percent of the world's best 1,00,000 scientists. The world rankings are based on the h-index, authorship, and article citations in 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-divisions. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918
- Elected as a full member of Sigma Xi, 2021
- Editorial Board Member, Defence Science Journal, India: Nominated and selected as an Editorial Board Member of the Defence Science Journal, DESIDOC, DRDO, India. (Since November 2020). https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/dsj/Editorial_Board
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Physics/Astronomy & Space Sciences/Materials: Selected to the board of Optics and Photonics (specialty section of Frontiers in Physics, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences and Frontiers in Materials) as Associate Editor (Since February 2021) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/sections/optics-and-photonics#editorial-board
- Editorial Board Member, Opto-Electronic Advances, 2021: Selected as an Editorial Board Member of the journal Opto-Electronic Advances. http://www.oejournal.org/J/OEA/EditorBoard (Since February 2021)
- Fellow, RSC, UK, 2020. Admitted as a FELLOW of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK in August 2020.
- Topical Editor, Optics Letters, OSA. Topical Editor of the journal Optics Letters of the Optical Society of America since April 2020. https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/journal/ol/about.cfm
- Publons Peer Review Award 2019. For being in the top 1% of reviewers in the Physics, Chemistry & Cross-Field categories during the year 2018-19.
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK (2019). Selected for the fellowship of the Institute of Physics (IOP), London, United Kingdom, 2019.
- Listed in Asia Pacific Who’s Who (2019). Listed in Asia Pacific Who’s Who (Vol. XVII)
- Publons Peer Review Award 2018. For being in the top 1% of reviewers in the Physics & Chemistry categories during the year 2017-18.
- Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Sciences. Selected as the Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Sciences, Telangana, India for the year 2018.
- Winner of the Chancellor’s award from University of Hyderabad for the year 2016. The committee that screened the applications recognized my overall contribution to the University – academically and the corporate life of the campus.
- Selected as member of permanent editorial board in the capacity as a “Review Editor” within the section “Optics and Photonics” of “Frontiers in Physics” journal.
- Selected as Associate Editor for the journal RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) from November 2015.
- Selected as ASSOCIATE MEMBER of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, AP for the year 2013-14.
- NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for the year 2012. The award carries a trophy, citation, and cash award of INR 75000. 48 applications were received in the Physics category from different academic
and research institutions across the country, from which panelists shortlisted 5 candidates after intensive deliberations and scrutiny. Following presentations and a questions & answers session, the panel was unanimous in selecting me as the winner.
Key notes given by the panellists in support of my award: (a) Establishment of a world class experimental setup (b) Excellent Publications with high citations
- Elected as SENIOR MEMBER of IEEE, USA in 2013 .
The grade of Senior Member is the highest for which application may be made and shall require experience reflecting professional maturity. For admission or transfer to the grade of Senior Member, a candidate shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive, or originator in IEEE-designated fields for a total of 10 years and have demonstrated 5 years of significant performance.
- Elected as SENIOR MEMBER of OSA, USA in 2013.
http://www.osa.org/en-us/membership/member_categories/senior/2013_osa_senior_members/
http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/newsreleases/2013/the_optical_society_announces _2013_class_of_senior/
OSA Senior Members are well-established individuals with a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within their field that sets them apart from their peers. Senior Members have at least 10 years of significant professional experience and are active OSA Individual Members.
- Elected as SENIOR MEMBER of SPIE, USA in 2012. http://spie.org/x19144.xml
SPIE Senior Members are Members of distinction who will be honored for their professional experience, their active involvement with the optics community and SPIE, and/or significant performance that sets them apart from their peers. While similar in some ways to the Society's Fellows program, Senior Member recognition is a separate category that will be more accessible to active Members earlier in their careers, as well as other Members in a broader constituency.
- Member of OSA advisory network.
https://eweb2.osa.org/eWeb/dynamicpage.aspx?site=osac&webcode=MyCommitteeDetail&commkey=22267FB7-39C9-4864-9579-E555C2989896&pos=Member
- Member of the National Coordination Committee on “Strong Field Science” under the XI plan proposal constituted by Department of Atomic Energy.
- BEST ORAL PRESETNATION award for “Theoretical and Experimental Nonlinear Absorption Studies in Presence of High Energy Materials: A Case Study of Zn Phthalocyanine,” P.T. Anusha, L. Giribabu, S. Venugopal Rao presented at HEMCE 2014, 9th International High Energy Materials Conference and Exhibit, 13-15 February 2014, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
- BEST POSTER award for Nanoscale silver and copper fabricated using ultrafast laser ablation in liquids for SERS studies of explosives nanostructures authored by G. Krishna Podagatlapalli, S. Hamad, Surya P. Tewari, S. Venugopal Rao, INDO-US International Workshop on Nanosensor Science & Technology (IWNST-2013) 27th February - 1st March, 2013, Berhampur, Odisha, India.
- BEST POSTER award for Ultrafast laser double ablation of silver nanoparticles and nanostructures authored by G. Krishna Podagatlapalli, S. Hamad, S. Sreedhar, M.D. Prasad, Surya P. Tewari, S. Venugopal Rao, Frontiers in Physics 2012, September 26-28, 2012, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
- BEST POSTER award for V. Rakesh Kumar, S. Sreeja, Ch. Leela, Surya P. Tewari, S. Venugopal Rao, P. Prem Kiran, “Sharply focused femtosecond pulses in atmosphere – Filamentation characteristics,” TC 2012, BRNS-ISAMP Topical conference on Interaction of lasers with atoms, molecules, and clusters, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, January 09-12, 2012.
- BEST POSTER award for “Ultrafast Degenerate Pump-Probe Studies of SI-GaAs.” P.T. Anusha, Debasis Swain, Surya P. Tewari, S. Venugopal Rao, XXXVI OSI SYMPOSIUM on Frontiers in Optics and Photonics (FOP11), IIT Delhi, December 3-5, 2011.
- FIRST Best Poster award for Synthesis and characterization of Aluminum nanoparticles obtained using femtosecond laser ablation 8th International High Energy Materials Conference and Exhibit (HEMCE 2011), 10-12 November, Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh, India.
- FIRST Best Poster award for Sub-100 femtosecond pulse propagation in nonlinear optical crystals at Meghnad Saha
memorial symposium on Emerging Trends in Lasers & Spectroscopy and applications, Allahabad, 23-25 March 2009
- ONE of the FIVE BEST POSTERS presented at National Laser Symposium, BARC, January 13-17, 2010. Paper Details: K.L.N. Deepak, D. Narayana Rao, S. Venugopal Rao,
“Electron spin resonance (ESR), laser confocal, and micro-Raman studies of the femtosecond laser modified regions in Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) (PMMA) and Poly (Dimethyl Siloxane) (PDMS),”
- Member of the local organizing committee , “Discussion Meeting on Frontiers of Electronic Structure Calculations and their Applications” January 14-17, 2011, at ACRHEM, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Chaired a session at National Conference on Advanced Materials (NCAM-2009), held at Tirunelveli, 27-29 August 2009.
- Chaired a session at National workshop entitled, “Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Nanostructured Materials,”
held at Sri Sathya Sai University, Prashanthi Nilayam, Puttaparthi, A.P. from 27-28 February 2009.
- Program Committee Member for the forthcoming OSA conference on “Optics and Photonics for Energy and the Environment” (E2). This will be one of four comprising the 2014 OSA Optics and Photonics Congress for Light, Energy and the Environment (LEE), to be held on 2–5 December 2014 in Canberra, Australia.
- Convener, RAOS conference (Recent Advances in Optical Sciences), University of Hyderabad, April 25-26, 2014.
- Member of the local organizing committee, International Conference on Ultraintense Lasers 2014, Goa – India October 12 To 17, 2014
- Listed in the 2007 edition of “Marquee’s International Who’s Who Historical Society”
- Listed in the 2008-2009 edition of “Madison’s Who’s Who”
- Received research Fellowship from Singapore Government funded project
- Recipient of research Fellowship from European Union Grant OFCORSE II (Optical Frequency COnveRsion in SEmiconductors)
- Qualified for the Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE) examination, 1994.
- Recipient of the Junior and Senior Research Fellowships (1994-1999) from University Grants Commission, India
- Always among top two in the class until B.Sc. and among top five during M.Sc. in the university.
- Recipient of merit scholarship from the Andhra Pradesh state government, India until M.Sc.
- Evaluated theses from India, Singapore (National University of Singapore), South Africa (University of Rhode Island), Canada (McGill University), and Israel ( Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
- Serving/served as referee for several international journals such as Applied Physics Letters, J. Appl. Phys., Nanoscale, Optics Express, Optics Letters, Applied Optics, J. Phys. Chem., Inorganic Chemistry, RSC Advances, Chem. Phys. Lett., Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom., AIP Advances, J. Biophotonics, J. Mater. Chem. C, Industrial Engineering Chemistry, Spectrochimica Acta A, Optics and Laser Technology, J. Mod. Opt., Applied Physics A, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Materials Science and Engineering B, Chinese Optics Letters, Microfluidics Nanofluidics, Opt. Commun., Physics Letters A, ISRN Optics, Bulletin of Materials Science, Microelectronic Engineering, Solid State Sciences, J. Alloys & Compounds, Defense Science Journal, Pramana, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B., Physics Letters A, Journal of Optics A, Physica Scripta, Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids.
- Reviewed several papers submitted to (a) Photonics 2006, held at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, from December 13-16, 2006 (b) Photonics 2010, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, December 11-15, 2010 (c) National Laser Symposium NLS-22, MIT, Manipal, Karnataka, January 8-11, 2014 (d) National Laser Symposium NLS-23, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, December 03-06, 2014 (e) National Laser Symposium NLS-24, RRCAT, Indore, December 2-5, 2015 (f) HEMCE-2016, February 11-13, 2016, Hyderabad organized by DMRL and ASL (g) National Laser Symposium NLS-25 to be held at KIIT, Odisha, December 20-23.
- Served as a referee for articles in Handbook of Computer Networking, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
