Awards

AIMS Lab students have won several awards at competitions and conferences alike! These recognitions are testament to the high standards we set ourselves as a group.

• Poulami Mandal, Vivekanand Dhakane and Avani Kulkarni awarded Best Poster Award at the 2^nd International IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (IEEE APSCON 2024), Goa (January 2024)
• Ankur Agarwal and Sagar Mahajan awarded grant under DST NIDHI PRAYAS program (managed by SINE IIT Bombay) (Aug 2023)
• Dr. Pallabi Das awarded Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research for the year 2021-2023 (Aug 2023)
• Vivekanand Dhakane awarded Best M.Tech. thesis project award, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (Aug 2022)
• Aryan Lall awarded undergraduate research award (URA 03) for outstanding research contributions in Dual Degree (M.Tech. thesis) project (July 2022)
• Shruti Ahuja awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) (Oct 2021)
• Ruchira Nandeshwar awarded the prestigious BIRAC SITARE Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award (Oct 2021)
• Sanjoli Narang awarded Ramesh Chandra Sinha Academic Excellence Award for best performing graduating undergraduate woman student at IIT Bombay (Aug 2021)
• Indrani Mukherjee awarded Best M.Tech. thesis project award, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (Aug 2021)
• Sanjoli Narang and Vaibhav Malviya awarded undergraduate research award (URA 02) for their outstanding research contributions in B.Tech. project (July 2021)
• Sanjoli Narang, finalist for best student paper award at 2021 joint meeting of the European Frequency and Time Forum and International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF-IFCS) (July 2021)
• Vivekanand Dhakane awarded grant under DST NIDHI PRAYAS program (managed by SINE IIT Bombay) (Oct 2020)
• Ruchira Nandeshwar, Jinit Patil, Rutuja Ekatpure and Jasmeen Kaur (BSBE), finalists and joint winners at 2020 Anveshan Design Fellowship organized by Analog Devices India Pvt. Ltd. (Oct 2020)
• Keyur Mistry awarded Best M.Tech. thesis and Academic Excellence awards, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (Aug 2020)
• Shlok Vaibhav Singh awarded undergraduate research award (URA01) for outstanding contribution in R&D course project (Aug 2020)
• Sanjoli Narang and Sudhanshu Nimbalkar awarded undergraduate research award (URA 01) for their outstanding research contributions in R&D course project (Feb 2020)
• Durgesh Tamhane and Indrani Mukherjee, winner of first prize at IEEE International Sensors and Measurement Student Contest at 2019 IEEE Sensors conference, Montreal, Canada (Oct 2019)
• Neharika Jali, Bhuyashi Deka and Sheetal Gupta, winner of second prize at the 3rd INAE Youth Conclave held at IIT Delhi on August 9-10th 2019 (based on work done for EDL course EE344)
• Hrishikesh Iyer, Ruchira Nandeshwar and Supriya Asutkar, finalists at the 2019 Anveshan Fellowship organized by Analog Devices India Pvt. Ltd. (July 2019)
• Indrani Mukherjee, winner of TATA Power Future Think competition at 2018 TechFest, IIT Bombay (Dec 2018)
• Ruchira Nandeshwar, winner of best student paper (poster) award at the 2018 IEEE Sensors conference, New Delhi, India (Oct 2018)
• Durgesh Tamhane, winner of first prize at IEEE International Sensors and Measurement Student Contest at 2018 IEEE Sensors conference, New Delhi, India (Oct 2018)
• Pranav Agarwal and O. Girish, winners of the third prize in the 2018 Anveshan Fellowship organized by Analog Devices India Pvt. Ltd. (Aug 2018)
• Durgesh Tamhane, Supriya Asutkar and Ruchira Nandeshwar, third prize in <I_HACK> hackathon organized by E-Cell during E-Summit at IIT Bombay (Jan 2018)
• Pallabi Das, finalist in best student paper competition at 2017 joint meeting of the European Frequency and Time Forum and International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF-IFCS), Besancon, France (Jun 2017)

Pre-group

• Siddharth Tallur, best poster award, Cornell Nanoscale Facility (CNF) annual meeting, Cornell University (2013)
• Siddharth Tallur, best PhD thesis research award, Cornell University (2013)
• Siddharth Tallur, best student paper award, IEEE Photonics Conference, Burlingame CA, USA (2012)
• Siddharth Tallur, best paper award, U.S. Advisory Committee to the International Commission for Optics (USAC/ICO) (2012)
• Siddharth Tallur, best student paper finalist, International Frequency Control Symposium, Newport beach CA, USA (2010)
• Rajeev Dokania et al. (including Siddharth Tallur), best student paper finalist and design contest winner, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Austin TX, USA (2010)