1. Received highly prestigious AL-Marai Prize for Innovative Research in the area of waste water treatment using nanocatalysts in the Field of Environment for year 2010/2011.
2. Received Distinguished Professorship Award from the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, academic year 2009-2010 and 2012-2013
3. Received Excellent Oral Presentaion Award during Interntional Confernce on Optoelectronics and image processing (ICOIP 2015) held at Chicago (July 2-4, 2015) USA, sponsored by American Society for Research (ASR).
4. Received Best Project Award from NSTIP/KFUPM for academic year 2014 for National Stretgic Technology and Innovation Plan (NSTIP) Project # NAN93-4; Applications Of Nanoscale Materials (Metal Oxides) for waste water treatment and corrosion inhibition using Laser Induced Photo-Catalytic Process among 200 projects.
5. Received Distinguished Researcher Award from the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, academic year 2010-2011.
6. Best Paper Award entitled “Detection of Ozone using Fourth Harmonic of Nd:YAG Laser, 1st International Conference & Exhibition on Laboratory Technology, Manama Bahrain (Oct 20-22, 2008).
7. Received Best Project Award from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, academic year 2008-2009. Sabic project # SABIC - 07004 entitled “Laser induced photo-catalytical removal of phenol for waste water treatment”
8. Received Distinguished Researcher Award from the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, academic year 2005-2006.
9. One of the Recipient of Best Paper Award entitled, Plastic Deformation of Steel Surface due to Laser Shock Processing, by B.S. Yilbas, A.F.M. Arif and M.A. Gondal (2006) published in Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Volume 220, Number 6, 2006, pp. 857-867(11) by British Mechanical Engineers for 2007.
10. Received HRH Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd Best Team Award for Excellence in Research, 1995.
11. Seven published papers listed in Top 25 hot Papers or Top Cited as awarded by Science Direct.