Questionnaire For I-140 National Interest Waiver Cases

1. List and attach copies of any awards or prizes for national or international
outstanding achievement that you have received which relate to your research in the
academic field of your specialty. Examples include awards from well-known national
institutions, well-known professional associations, doctoral dissertation awards, and
awards recognizing presentations at nationally or internationally recognized conferences.
Please include the criteria used to grant the awards or prizes, the number of prize
recipients, and the pool of competitors, if known.

Federation of Indian Chambers of commerce and Industry (FICCI) Best Energy

starup of the year award 2022
EMobility+ 40Under40 given to entrepreneurs making difference in the renewable
energy field under the age of 40.
Award from government of Uttar Pradesh for being largest volume exporter in
home textiles
Having been recognized for excellent research in the field of Astrodynamics was
chosen to present research paper at the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics specialist
conference in Portland, Maine

2. List and attach copies of your published research (articles, books, book chapters,
abstracts, government publications, conference proceedings, etc.) in scholarly
publications with international circulation in the field. In order to qualify under this
criterion, you must be a listed author of the submitted article(s), but need not be the sole
or first author. Examples include publications in professional journals and published
conference presentations at nationally or internationally recognized conferences. In
addition, the research must be scholarly. In the academic arena, a scholarly article reports
on original research, experimentation, or philosophical discourse. It is written by a
researcher or expert in the field who is often affiliated with a college, university, or
research institution and the article is normally peer-reviewed.

Research paper presented at Astrodynamics specialist conference titled Low thrust

transfers between Halo orbits in the Earth-Moon system

3. List and attach copies of media articles or professional (journal or trade publications)
articles written about you or your work or contain an extended discussion of your
work (more than one paragraph), if any. Examples include professional or major print
publications (newspaper articles, popular and academic journal articles, books, textbooks,

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 or similar publications) regarding you or your work, professional or major online
publications regarding you or your work, or a transcript of professional or major audio or
video coverage of you and your work. Published material that includes only a brief foot
note or endnote citation or passing reference to your work is not “about” you, relating to
your work in the field, as required under this criterion. However, you and your work need
not be the only subject of the material; published material that covers a broader topic but
includes a substantial discussion of your work in the field and mentions the beneficiary in
connection to the work may be considered material “about” you relating to your work.
Further, you may provide material that focuses solely or primarily on work or research
being undertaken by a team of which you are a member, provided that the material
mentions you in connection with the work, or other evidence in the record documents
your significant role in the work or research. Please include the title, date, and author of
the published material.

Emobility+ magazine
The Indian Express
Climatetech startups of India

4. List and attach documentation of your professional memberships and leadership roles
in professional organizations related to your work, specifically those which require
outstanding achievements of their members, as judged by recognized international
experts. This can also include fellowships with notable organizations or institutions. Any
listed memberships should NOT be based on (1) solely an applicant’s level of education
or years of experience in a particular field or (2) payment of a fee or by subscription to an
association’s publications.

CEO of Sonik Mobility – An ev charging solution startup based out of India

Director of Sidra Homestyles Pvt. Ltd – An export house based out of India

5. List several (3-5) of your past original scientific or business-related contributions to

your field. Briefly describe the significance of each accomplishment and how your work
has impacted the field. For each original scientific or business-related contribution, please
provide 8-10 sentences describing the nature of the contribution and its impact on the
scientific or business community.

Co-Founder and CEO of a new age deeptech startup called Sonik Mobility working in
the field of electric vehicle charging solutions especially for residential
complexes/buildings etc in India. The startup is incubated at the prestigious and one of its
kind facility ‘IIT-Madras research park’. Prior to this no company has been able to crack
the residential charging market in India, but we at Sonik Mobility have cracked it and
thriving in it. We have created a business model that allows companies to earn alongwith

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 customer retention, which until now seemed impossible for companies in the Indian
residential charging landscape.

Research paper on Low thrust transfers between Halo orbits in the Earth-Moon
system. The first research in this are using low thrust engine at the Penn State
University and as a result of which future students have been able to utilize to further
advance their researches using elliptical orbits instead of circular orbits.

6. State the total number of citations to your published research, if any, and attach a copy of
your Google Scholar citation record, if available:

7. List any patents granted or pending in your name and provide copies of the abstracts.
Also state whether you have made any invention disclosures:

8. If your work has been licensed or commercialized for furtherance in the U.S., please
describe and provide evidence, including contracts, agreements or licenses demonstrating
this licensing or commercialization:

9. List any activity in which you served as a judge of the work of others in your field,
including the names of journals, conferences or organizations for which you performed
peer-reviewing or judging of any kind. Examples include being a reviewer of abstracts or
papers submitted for presentation at scholarly conferences in the respective field, being a
peer reviewer for scholarly publications, being a member of doctoral dissertation
committees, and being a peer reviewer for government research funding programs. You
must show that you have not only been invited to judge the work of others, but also that
you actually participated in the judging of the work of others in the same or allied field of
specialization. For example, you may submit a copy of a request from a journal to you to
do the review, accompanied by evidence confirming that you actually completed the
review.

10. List and provide documentation of your participation in scientific or technical

committees or as a conference, symposium or session organizer. To qualify, you must
have judged the work of others in these roles, not just merely served in an administrative
or organizational role.

11. If you have received inquiries from around the world regarding your scientific work,
indicate the approximate number of inquiries and attach copies of the e-mails or other
correspondence:

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12. If there has been use or application of your research methods/findings, please identify
the research group or publication which confirms use of your work, briefly describe how
they applied your work and provide documentation:

13. List and provide documentation of your receipt of competitive scientific or business
grants, if any. For example, if you were named as an investigator, scientist, or researcher
on a peer-reviewed and competitively funded U.S. government grant or stipend for
STEM research, please describe and provide evidence. If you worked on a project that
was funded by a grant even if you were not named on the grant, please still provide this
evidence:

Received a grant of $25000 from the government of India for our startup Sonik
Mobility and it’s work.

14. If you have received investment from U.S. investors, such as venture capital firms,
angel investors, or start-up accelerators, to support your U.S. endeavor, please provide
evidence and list the funding amounts, as applicable.

15. List each solicited or unsolicited invitation to speak or present your research at
nationally or internationally recognized conferences in the field:

16. If you have a business model or plan that you have developed to
advance your endeavor in the U.S., please provide:

We are currently in the process of raising our first round of funding to

expand into the US market of residential EV charging.
We are in the process of establishing connections with several
residential/home builders to setup EV charging stations as our entry to
market.

17. Please list all employment or research experience with major research institutions and
universities:
Research assistant at the Pennsylvania State University

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18. If the above criteria do not readily apply to your field, please identify other
accomplishments/documents that evidence that you have risen to the top of your field and
have been recognized in the field:

19. Please list the offered position title and salary in the United States.

20. Please provide a copy of your signed job offer/employment contract for your U.S. role.

21. Please provide a detailed job description for your U.S. role.

22. Please provide copies of your diplomas and transcripts.

B.S in Aerospace Engineering and M.S in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania
State University

23. Please identify and describe 5 major projects that you have worked on/are currently
working on at your sponsoring employer, including the following:
o Description of the project and your role in the project in layman’s terms.
 If you have played a leading or critical role in the project, please describe.

o The business value or strategic commercial importance of the project to the

sponsoring employer.

o How you have enabled the project to advance, if you possess specific expertise or
attributes that others at the sponsoring employer do not.

o The importance of the project or product to the United States scientific or

business community or population at large. Why is the project or product of
substantial merit and national importance (i.e, why should the U.S. care and why
it this endeavor in line with a stated U.S. scientific, economic, environmental,
manufacturing, healthcare, etc. goal?)?
 Is the project or product:
 Filling a critical market gap?
 Bridging gaps in existing research/business capabilities to enable
new science/business?
 Advancing critical research/business that is limited by existing
research/business capabilities?
 Providing more affordable research/business?
 Providing more efficient research/business?

o Please describe the business loss that the sponsoring employer would suffer if
your were unable to continue your employment. As appropriate, also explain how

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 this loss would impact the United States scientific or business community or
population at large.

24. Which independent/unbiased authors (those who you have never worked with directly in
an employer/employee or academic setting) around the world can write letters on your
behalf?

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala ( Director IIT-M research park)

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