2017, Mavalvala won the first Lahore Technology Award launched by Information Technology University[31][32] 2017, the Carnegie Corporation of New York honored Mavalvala as one of its Great Immigrants awards recipients. The awards go to "naturalized citizens who have made notable contributions to the progress of American society."[33] 2016, co-recipient Gruber Prize in Cosmology [34] 2016, co-recipient Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics [35] 2014, NOGLSTP recognized Mavalvala as the LGBTQ Scientist of the Year.[36] 2014, OSA Fellow[37] 2013, Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science by the American Physical Society [38] 2010, MacArthur Fellow [39] 2010, American Physical Society Fellow [40] 2007, Edgerton award for faculty achievement at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [41] 2005, Sloan Research Fellowship[42] 1990, Phyllis Fleming Award for Excellence in Physics[43]