received the Best Paper Award in 2019 from International VLSI Design Conference

received the Excellence in Teaching Assistantship in the course “Electromagnetic Waves (EE 301)” in 2019 from EE Dept. IIT Bombay

received the Lifetime Contributions Award in 2018 from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

eceived the Appreciation in Teaching Assistantship in 2018 from EE, IIT Bombay

Appreciation in Teaching Assistantship for the course “EE614- Solid State Microwave Devices and Circuits and their Applications”

received the S P Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018 from from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

S P Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching in September 2018, based upon cumulative teaching performance record at IIT Bombay, for the ten years prior to that date

received the Appreciation in Teaching Assistantship in 2017 from EE, IIT Bombay

Appreciation in Teaching Assistantship for the course “EE609- Radiating Systems”

received the Membership of IIT Council in 2017 from by the Visitor to the IITs (Hon. President of India)

Nominated by the Visitor to the IITs (Honourable President of India) to the IIT Council for a period of 3 years, from June 2017, as one of three to five nominee members from the country, other than ex-officio members, based on contribution to education, science and technology

received the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Teachers’ Award in 2017 from from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)

Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Teachers’ Award in December 2017: national level award, less than 80 awardees up to that point in time from the country, since the institution of the award circa 2012

received the Prof. C.N.R. Rao Bangalore INDIA NANO Science Award in 2016

Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao has received prestigious Prof. C.N.R. Rao Bangalore INDIA NANO Science Award

received the Invited Participant at X Science Fair, Mountain View, CA in 2016 from X, Mountain View

Proposal on location-unaware sensing selected to participate at the X (Google) Science Fair at its Headquarters in California. The team comprised of Charvi Rastogi (Dual degree student), Divya Arora (PhD student), and Animesh Kumar

received the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion for accomplishments that have resulted in revolutionary changes to Indian Technology, Policy and Standardization in 2016 from IEEE Standards Associatoin

IEEE-SA Standards Medallion for accomplishments that have resulted in revolutionary changes to Indian Technology, Policy and Standardization

received the NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award in 2016 from NASI Council

NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovations in Physical Sciences for the year 2016.

received the 2016 IET Premium (Best Paper) Award in 2016 from IET Electric Power Application

“Design Procedure of Segmented Rotor Switched Reluctance Motor for Direct Drive Application,” IET Electric Power Application, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 77-88, March 2014 by R. Vandana and B.G. Fernandes.

received the Best Thesis Award for Doctoral thesis of Saurabh Nikam in 2016 from IIT Bombay

Entitled “Investigations into the Performance of Switched Reluctance Motor for Commercial Applications”

received the Young Scientist Award and Finalist for Student Paper Competition at URSI. in 2015 from URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conferences (AT-RASC)

Pragati Patel is a Ph.D student of EE department under Prof. Jayanta Mukherjee and working on “Wideband Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antennas”. Recently, she has received “Young Scientist Award” for my paper “Novel S Shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wireless Communication” at Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC 2015) which is going to held in Gran Canaria, Spain, from 18-22 May 2015. The Young Scientist Awards are presented at the General Assemblies of URSI and at the URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conferences (AT-RASC) to recognize an international group of individuals who have made innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves in Gran Canaria, Spain. More at young scientist award and Student paper competition

received the Fellowship in 2015 from Indian National Academy Of Engineering (INAE)

received the IIT Bombay Research Paper Award for 2014 in 2015 from IRCC – IIT Bombay

received the IIT Bombay Research Paper Award for 2014 in 2015 from IRCC – IIT Bombay