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Internal
- 2022: University Outstanding Performance Award.
- 2019 - 2020: University of Waterloo Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision.
- 2019 - 2020: Faculty of Engineering Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision.
- 2019: Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award.
- 2018: University Outstanding Performance Award.
- 2015: Research Excellence Award, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
- 2009: University Outstanding Performance Award.
- 2008: Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award.
- 2006: University Outstanding Performance Award.
- 2004: Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award.
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External
- 2024 CIGRE “Distinguished Member” for long-standing collaboration to the work of the Association.
- 2024 IEEE Canada P. D. Ziogas Electric Power Silver Medal for important contributions to the field of electric power engineering.
- 2021: CIGRE Pioneer 2020 e-session Achievement Award.
- 2018: CIGRE Technical Council Award for contributions to Study Committee C5: Electricity Markets and Regulation.
- 2017: (Class of 2017) Fellow IEEE for contributions to Electricity Markets and Reactive Power Ancillary Services.
- 2015: Best Paper Award, T. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids, IEEE Electric Power & Energy Conference (EPEC 2015), London, Ontario, October, 2015.
- 2014: Best Paper Award from Elsevier Science: Optimal Planning and Design of a Renewable Energy Based Supply System for Microgrids, Journal of Renewable Energy, Vol.45, 2012 (Omar Hafez and K. Bhattacharya).
- 2001: ABB Sweden Gunnar Engstrom Foundation Award, for Research in Power System Economics.
- 2001: Best Paper Award, IEEE T&D Conference 2001, Atlanta, GA, "Automatic Balance Services for Frequency Regulation" (with J.Zhong).
- 1996: Runner Up Award for "Application of Operations Research to Development", from International Federation of Operations Research Societies for the paper, "Transmission Planning for the Indian Power Grid: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach" (with J.Parikh and R.K.Chaturvedi).