Parashar has earned several prestigious awards for his groundbreaking contributions to computing, cyberinfrastructure, and artificial intelligence. In 2024, he received the Computing Research Association (CRA) Distinguished Service Award for his impactful service to the computing research community. He was also honored with the HPCwire Editor’s Choice Award for Best Use of High-Performance Data Analytics & AI for the National Data Platform (NDP) project. In 2023, he was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award for his pioneering work in distributed high-performance computing systems, data-driven workflows, and translational science, as well as the Achievement Award in High-Performance Distributed Computing at the ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing for his leadership in computational methods, data management, in-situ computing, and global cyberinfrastructure advancements. Additionally, he received the Outstanding Paper Award: AI for Social Impact at the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20).
Parashar has been elected Fellow of AAAS, ACM and IEEE for his contributions to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and has received numerous awards and recognitions for his research and development activities and their impact. These include best paper, poster, presentation award at conferences such as AAAI, SC (paper and poster awards), CCGrid (SCALE award), Australian Computer Society (ACS) (best published paper in 2006), UCC Cloud Challenge award, etc., a R&D 100 Award for the DataSpaces software framework, and multiple IBM faculty awards. He also received an NSF Career award and the Enrico Fermi Award for Argonne National Laboratory.
At Rutgers, Parashar has received the University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar Award from the School of Engineering, and awards for research, mentoring and outreach from the department and the faculty and students.
Parashar has also received multiple honors from professional societies for his leadership and service including the IEEE T&C Distinguished Leadership Award, IEEE Computer Society Golden Core award, outstanding leadership, and service awards from various IEEE societies such as TCPP and TCSC.