Hyderabad, April 28: Dr Dibakar Roy Chowdhary, Professor of Physics at Mahindra University (erstwhile Mahindra Ecole Centrale) has been conferred with the prestigious SERB Science and Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR), instituted by the SERB, Government of India, to recognize and reward outstanding performance of Principal Investigators (PIs) of SERB Projects.