Major awards and recognitions conferred to him are: Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2004);[3][4][5] Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2005);[4][6] Professor H. H. Mathur Award for "Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences 2006"[7][8] by IIT Bombay; "Excellence in Aerospace Education Award 2008"[9] by the Aeronautical Society of India; Aerospace Engineering Division Gold Medal of the Institution of Engineers (India)[9] for the year 1992-93 for his research on polymer matrix composites and "Shri Hotchand M. Lala and Shrimati Jamuna H. Lala Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013"[9] by IIT Bombay.

With 42 years of experience as a faculty in Aerospace Engineering Department,[9] he has made major contributions to teaching, research and development at IIT Bombay.

The discipline "Polymer Matrix Composites" was evolving and attracting the attention of engineers and scientists about 4 decades ago.

For multi-directional and out-of-plane loading cases, textile composites are widely used as high performance structural materials.

Considering the importance of this subject, many investigations are being carried out to understand the behavior of textile composites under different loading conditions during the last four decades.

He has presented analytical methods to the scientific community for elastic and thermal analysis of different 2D / 3D textile composites.

Indian patent with invention title "Strength Enhancing Insert Assemblies"[17] is granted to him.

United States Patent with invention title "Strength Enhancing Insert Assemblies" is also granted to him.

Aircraft Production[18] and High Velocity Impact[19] laboratories at Aerospace Engineering Department are outcome of efforts of Naik.

Professional Society Affiliations: Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India[25] (F-596); Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India),[26] Aerospace Engineering Division (F/100972/5); Life Member of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (L/241); Life Member of the Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers (L 150/468) On the Editorial Board: The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, Published by Professional Engineering Publishing Limited, London, 2009 – 2014; Guest Editor for a special issue on High Velocity Impact Behavior of Composites, Volume 47, Issue 7, October 2012 India – Japan Bi-national Seminars[27]: India-Japan Bi-national Seminars on Manufacturing Science of Advanced Composite Materials; The seminar was sponsored by Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), India; Indian Team Leader and Seminar Organizer: 2001 – 2005; Indian Team Delegate: 1998 – 2000 ResearchGate:[12] Score is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members, RG Score 44.56 Google Scholar:[11] h-index 40, i10-index 87 Source:[10] BOOKS AUTHORED: Naik, N.K.

Woven Fabric Composites,[13] Technomic Publishing Company, Inc., Lancaster, PA, USA.

Chapter title: Woven-Fibre Thermoset Composites, Chapter 10, pp 296–313, Book title: Fatigue in Composites, Edited by: Bryan Harris, Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, England.

Chapter title: Ballistic Impact Behaviour of Composites: Analytical Formulation, Chapter 15, pp 425–470, Book title: Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures, Edited by: V. V. Silberschmidt, Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited, an imprint of Elsevier, Cambridge, England.

Chapter title: Analysis of Woven Fabric Composites for Ballistic Protection, Chapter 8, pp 217–262, Book title: Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection, Edited by: Xiaogang Chen, Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited, an imprint of Elsevier, Cambridge, England.