At least 37 people of South Asian origin have been named 2012 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
According to a press release issued by the group, fellows are elected based on their efforts to advance science or its applications.
The fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Feb. 16 during the group's annual meeting in Boston.
Those elected are:
Anurag Agarwal of Cornell University for contributions to understanding plant-herbivore interactions.
Ashutosh Kotwal of Duke University for his work on fundamental particles.
Srinivasrao Mohan of Georgia Institute of Technology for work on liquid crystals.
Raghu Kalluri of Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess for contributions to matrix biology.
Darsh Wasan of Illinois Institute of Technology for research in colloid and interface science
Arun K. Somani of Iowa State University for work on computing and networking systems
Lakshmi Devi of Mount Sinai School of Medicine for work on G protein-coupled receptors.
Ashok Srivastav of NASA Ames Research Center for contributions to the field of intelligent systems.
Rapak Rao of the National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH for drug abuse research.
Ajit Tamhane of Northwestern University for excellence in statistical research.
Prabir Dutta of Ohio State University for work on zeolite formation and applications.
Rama Krishna Yedavalli of Ohio State University for work on mechanical and aerospace systems.
Soundar Kumar of Pennsylvania State University for research in industrial engineering integrating, manufacturing, computing, complex networks and operations research.
Nitin Samarth of Pennsylvania State University for contributions in the emerging field of semiconductor spintronics.
Priya Davidar of Pondicherry University, India, for work on biodiversity and conservation biology.
Ilhan Akshay of Princeton University for contributions to materials processing and transfer of new technologies to industry.
Ali Yazdani of Princeton University for scanning-tunneling microscopy experiments.
Avtar Krishan Handa of Purdue University for work on postharvest biology.
Sanjaya Rajaram of Resource Seed Mexicana for contributions to global wheat production.
Rama Venkatasubramanian of RTI International for work on nanoscale thermoelectric materials.
Yogesh Jaluria of Rutgers University for contributions to thermal science and engineering.
Manish Parashar of Rutgers University for work on high-performance parallel and distributed computing.
Krishna Kumar of Tufts University for contributions to the field of chemical biology.
Surajit Sen of University at Buffalo for research on solitary waves.
N. Rama Krishna of University of Alabama for work on proteins and protein-ligand complexes.
Prasant Mohapatra of University of California at Davis for work on computer networks
Ali Sayed of University of California at Los Angeles for work on statistical signal processing.
Ratnesh Lal of University of California at San Diego for nanomedicine and work on understanding of membrane protein structures.
Aneesh Manohar of University of California at San Diego for contributions to elementary particle physics.
Suhada Jayasuriya of University of Central Florida for work on nonlinear and multi-agent systems.
Prabir Bhattacharya of University of Cincinnati for contributions to computer and information sciences.
Nitis Mukhopadhyay of University of Connecticut for sequential analysis and dedication to preserving statistical history.
Ranga Narayanan of University of Florida for work on interfacial fluid mechanics.
Mrinalini Rao of University of Illinois at Chicago for contributions to the gastroenterological field.
Aravind Srinivasan of University of Maryland at College Park for work on algorithms, probabilistic methods and networks.
Kattesh Katti of University of Missouri-Columbia for transition metal and nano-scale chemistry.
Amit Bandyopadhyay of Washington State University for materials science and engineering.
Raj Jain of Washington University in St. Louis for contributions to the field of computer networking
D.C. Rao of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for work on genetic epidemiology and human genetics.
