Saket Bhargava joined the chemical engineering Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois in the fall of 2017, with an exemplary record from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) – Pilani in India. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including Chateaubriand Research Fellowship, Embassy of France in USA (2021), Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC (2020), Hanratty Conference Travel Award, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC (2020), IEEE Division Student Achievement Award, Electrochemical Society ECS (2020), Link Energy Fellowship, Link Foundation (2019), and 3M Corporate Fellowship, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC (2018).