2008: Best paper award Thermans (second): DAE-BRNS Sixteenth National Symposium on Thermal Analysis for the paper “Investigation of nanocrystalline ceria by temperature programmed reduction” by M. Kamruddin, P.K. Ajikumar, G. Mangamma and A.K. Tyagi .
2000: Sri Venkataraman Sundaram Trust, Kalpakkam Science and Technology Award under Basic Sciences Category, for the work entitled “ An Indigeous EGA-TGA-MS facility for Materials Research” for M. Kamruddin, P.K. Ajikumar, Sitaram Dash and A.K. Tyagi.