Awards / Honours / Recognitions

  • Ranked Number 4 among 278 Law and Legal Studies Scholars in India. This ranking is done by The AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index). https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/k-jaishankar/355913 The AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index), unlike other systems that provide evaluations of journals and universities, is a ranking and analysis system based on the scientific performance and the added value of the scientific productivity of individual scientists.
    This new index has been developed by Prof. Dr. Murat ALPER (MD) and Associate Prof. Dr. Cihan DÖĞER (MD) by using the total and last 6 years’ values of the i10 index, h-index, and citation scores. The “AD Scientific Index” World Scientist and University Rankings is the first and only study that shows the total and the last six-year productivity coefficients of scientists based on the h-index and i10 index scores and citations.

  • Ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists in the World during 2010-2020. The rankings of the 25 most influential criminologists were comprised of academics working in criminology whose ideas have significantly impacted the academic discipline of criminology and criminal justice during 2010-2020.
    https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/most-influential-criminologists-today

  • Invited Expert by the United Nations Office of Counter - Terrorism, for the Closed Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on “Cooperation between Civil Society Organizations and  International Authorities for Victims of Terrorism in Asia-Pacific” held at Singapore City, Singapore during 18-20, June 2019.

  • Invited Expert by the UNITED NATIONS Office of Counter - Terrorism, for the Closed Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on “Rights of Victims of Terrorism in Asia-Pacific” held at Seoul, South Korea during 27-29, March 2019 (Moderator).

  • Invited Expert by the UNITED NATIONS Office of Counter - Terrorism, for the Closed Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on “Assistance and Support for Victims of Terrorism in Asia-Pacific” held at Bangkok, Thailand during 26-28, February 2019 (Key Presenter).

  • TEDx Speaker: Invited by TEDxNITTrichy, an independently organized TED event and delivered a TEDx talk on my Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes on 11th August 2018.

 

 

  • Invited Expert Speaker by the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore for a Cybercrime Workshop held during 13 to 14 November 2017.

  • Expert Delegate of the High level Delegation of the Raksha Shakti University for forging international collaborations with Southampton Solent University, University of Southampton, University of Portsmouth, and University College, London, UK during 4-10 September 2017.

  • External Expert (Referee) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

  • Peer Reviewer by the National Research Foundation, South Africa.

  • Prominent Speaker, 18th World Congress of Criminology (International Society of Criminology), 15-19, December, 2016, at O.P. Jindal Global University, organized by the Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences, O.P. Jindal Global University, NCR Delhi, India.

  • Recipient of the ISC - Prof. S.S. Srivastava Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research in Criminology Received the Award at the 38th ISC Conference organized by the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India held during 15-16, October, 2015.

In the photo: Dr. Justice P. Jyothimani, Member, National Green Tribunal presents the award to Dr. K. Jaishankar

 

 

  • Presenter: Paper selected in a competition; out of 206 submitted papers only 24 was selected for presentation. “Role of Social Media in the Awareness Creation by NGOs' Working on the Prevention of Online Victimization” (with Debarati Halder) in the The International Conference on Social Media for Good (organized by Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) an international non-governmental organization), 14-16 May 2015 at Istanbul, Turkey.

 

  • Invited Distinguished Guest Lecturer at Elsevier Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, during 27th to 29th January 2015 at Amity University, Noida, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi on the Topic: “Protection of Youth from Internet Crimes”.

  • Invited Speaker at the the International Cyber Security Summit, December 1-2, 2014, at Doha, Qatar, organized by Tangent Link, UK and supported by Ministry of Defence & Ministry of ICT, Qatar (Invited Speaker).

In the photo: Mr. S. Jaipal Reddy, Honorable Minister of Science & Technology of the Ministry of Earth Sciences India

 presents the award to Dr. K. Jaishankar. Youngsuk "Y.S." Chi, Chairman of Elsevier looks on.

 

 

 

  • Former (Honorary) Member of the International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada (2013-2018).

  • Awarded Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship – 2009-10, tenable at University of Leeds, UK.

  • Honorary Lecturer in the Online Training Program of the Virtual Forum against Cybercrime established by the Korean Institute of Criminology and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria.

 

  • Invited Keynote Speaker and Chair of a Workshop “Victimology in the Academy”, at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held during 20 – 24, May 2012, at The Hague, The Netherlands.

  • Invited Speaker at the International Conference on “Cybercrime: Global Phenomenon and its Challenges”, organized by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), in cooperation with United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) & Korean Institute of Criminology (KIC) during December 2 – 4, 2011 at Courmeyeur, Mont Blanc, Italy.

  • Invited Speaker at the International Conference on “Protecting Children from Sexual Offenders in the Information Technology Era” organized by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), in cooperation with United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) during December 11- 13, 2009 at Courmeyeur, Mont Blanc, Italy.

  • Appointed as Member of UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) core group of experts on Identity-related crime (2007-2008) and participated in the deliberations of the group in the first meeting held at Courmeyeur, Mont Blanc Italy during 29-30 November 2007.

  • Invited Speaker at the International Conference on “The Evolving Challenge of Identity-Related Crime: Addressing Fraud and the Criminal Misuse and Falsification of Identity”, organized by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC), in cooperation with United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) during November 30 – December 2, 2007 at Courmeyeur, Mont Blanc, Italy.

  • Co-winner of International Opportunities Fund competition of SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-06 of a research grant worth $CAD143,471 with the applicant Dr. Shaheen Shariff, McGill University. (Ranked 4th out of 114 applicants, only 7 grants were awarded and only 2 projects got 2 year funding).

  • Outstanding Contribution to Criminal Justice Education Plaque, Lehigh Valley College, Pennsylvania, USA, February 2007.

 

  • Secured 2nd Rank in the GIS evaluation of Training and Experience Examination and placed in the eligible list (Now expired), Police Services, conducted by the Civil Service Board of City of New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.