National Scholarship by State Government, West Bengal,
India, 1996
National Scholarship Scheme by MHRD, Govt. of India,
1998
INSPIRE faculty award by Department of Science and
Technology, Govt. of India, 2012
Best research paper award by Optical Society of
America, Int. conf. Photonics 2008
Best research paper award by Department of Physics, IIT
Delhi, Open House - 2009
Best research paper award by Optical Society of
America, Int. conf. Photonics 2010
Best research paper award by Organizing comm.,
Frontiers in optics and photonics 2011
Best research paper award by Organizing comm., Recent
advances in Photonics 2011
Best paper award by Organizing comm., International
Conference of Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS-2018) on
December 12-15, 2018 at IIT-Delhi, India
Best Paper award by SPIE, International Conference on
Optics & Electro-Optics (ICOL), 19-22 October 2019, IRDE,
Dehradun, India
Best Paper award by Organizing comm., International
Symposium on Photonics and Plasmonics (ISSP-2019) on September
23-24, 2019 at Central University of Rajasthan, India
INSPIRE-Faculty Award 2012, DST-INSA India
Dr Somnath Ghosh has been awarded "Research Excellence Award 2020" of IIT Jodhpur for the category of researchers below the age of 40 years.