Department of Electrical Engineering

Awards & Distinctions

Faculty members of EE, IITB are recipients of many distinguished awards such as Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Prof. K. Sreenivasan Memorial Award, Prof. SVC Aiya Memorial Award, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, Ram Lal Wadhwa Award, INAE Young Engineer Award, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and many others. Many faculty members are Editors of IEEE and other national and international journals. They are also Fellows of organizations like IEEE, IETE, INAE, IASc, NASI and INSA. Some of the distingushed and the most recent awards are listed below.

Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the in 2017 from 1st prize in Mozilla's Innovation Challenge for the Project "Gram Marg Solution for Rural Broadband".

Won the 1st prize
Patil Ashlesha Harshadip received the Best Poster award at the Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, Jerusalem, Israel in 2017

Ashlesha Patil presented a novel semiconductor device idea for electronic nose (gas sensing) applications which was inspired by what we understand of natural olfaction.
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao 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
Prof. Abhay Karandikar 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
Prof. Subhananda Chakrabarti 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.
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) 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.
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) 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”
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) received the Innovative student project award to Abhijit A Datta in 2016 from IIT Bombay

Design and Development of a novel 2.5 KVA Two-Stage Transformer-Less Grid-tied PV System Based on SiC Devices with Emergency Battery-Backup
Pragati Patel 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
Prof. Shreevardhan A. Soman received the Fellowship in 2015 from Indian National Academy Of Engineering (INAE)
Prof. Anil Kottantharayil, sganguly received the IIT Bombay Research Paper Award for 2014 in 2015 from IRCC - IIT Bombay
Prof. Anil Kottantharayil received the IIT Bombay Research Paper Award in 2015 from IRCC - IIT Bombay
Prof. Pradeep R. Nair received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015 from IIT Bombay
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the Impactful Research Award in 2015 from IIT-Bombay
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) received the POSOCO Power System Award for Doctoral Thesis of Vishal Vekhande in 2015 from IIT Bombay

Entitled "Current-fed Converter Topologies for Interconnecting Solar Photovoltaic, AC and DC Grids”
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) received the POSOCO Power System Award for Maters thesis of Nimish Kothari in 2015 from IIT Bombay

Entitled “Islanding Detection of Single-Phase Grid-Connected Inverter”.
anc received the IESA TechnoVisionary - Life Time Achievement Award 2013 in 2014 from India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA)
Prof. Abhay Karandikar, animesh received the Finalist for the Best Paper award in NCC in 2014 from National Conference on Communications (NCC)
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the Richard Feynman Prize in 2014 from ICE (Institute of Civil Engineers), UK

The best paper published in ICE Journal of Emerging Materials Research in 2013.
Anil Kamma received the CST University Publication Award 2014 in 2014 from CST microwave studio

Anil Kamma has received award for “Multi-Band Notch UWB Band Pass Filter with Novel Contiguous Split Rings Embedded in Symmetrically Tapered Elliptic Rings.” A. Kamma, S. R. Gupta, G. S. Reddy, and J. Mukherjee Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 39, 133-148, 2013. Prize consists of a one year free upgrade of the existing CST software license.
Prof. Shreevardhan A. Soman, gopal received the Award for best paper in Power Systems in 2014 from 18th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC)

Auto detection of power system events using wide area frequency measurements
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Infosys Science Foundation Award 2013 in 2013 from Infosys

The Infosys Science Foundation today announced the winners of the Infosys Prize 2013 across six categories: Engineering & Computer Science , Humanities, Life Sciences , Mathematic al Sciences , Physical Sciences and Social Sciences . The winners were recognized for their outstanding achievements and contribution s to scien tific research . T he Infosys Science Foundation also announced an increase in the prize purse by Rs . 5 Lakhs to Rs. 55 Lakhs for each category for 2013 . The prize for the Humanities category will be split equally between the two winners. The seven winners were chosen based on significant progress showcased in their chosen spheres , as well as for the impact thei r research will have on the specific field . In addition to the prize purse, each category award includes a gold medallio n and a citation certif icate . The winners of the Infosys Prize 2013 were evaluated by a panel of jurors comprising eminent scientists and professors from around the world. The jury chairs of the six categories are: Prof. Pradeep K. Khosla , Engineering & Computer Science; Prof. Amartya Sen , Humanities; Dr. Inder Verma , Life Sciences ; Prof. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan , Mathematical Sciences; Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni , Physical Sciences; and Dr. Kaushik Basu , Social Sciences.
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the First place award in the Design Contest in 2013 from International Conference on VLSI Design

Priyanka Kabara (Final year M.Tech. student), Sanket Takor (intern) and Prof. Maryam Shojaei won the firs place award in the Design Contest, organized as a part of International Conference on VLSI Design, India, 2013. They also won the firs place award in Cadence Design Contest India, 2012. They also were one of finalist teams in Student Project Contest in International Conference on VLSI Design 2012, India.
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the ISA Technovation Award for Most Promising Startup 2012 in 2013 from India Semiconductor Association (ISA)

NanoSniff Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has won the prestigious ISA Technovation - Most Promising Startup Company Award - 2012 by the Indian Semiconductor Association. The company is founded by Prof. V.Ramgopal Rao (EE) and Prof. Soumyo Mukherji (DBSE) out of the work carried out in the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
anc received the Life Time Achievement Award, International Conference on VLSI Design in 2013 from VLSI Society of India

Prof A.N. Chandorkar was conferred the "Life Time Achievement Award" in the recently held "International conference on VLSI Design 2013" for his contributions to VLSI Field and Education in India. The conference is rated fourth (4th) in the world of VLSI Design area. This conference is organised by VLSI Society of India which represents VLSI Community of India and abroad.
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Rakesh Mathur Awards for Excellence in Research 2012 in 2013 from IIT Bombay
Prof. Juzer M. Vasi received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 from IIT Bombay

The Lifetime Achievement Award, instituted by the Senate of IIT Bombay, is meant to recognize sustained and outstanding contributions across a broad spectrum of activities (such as teaching, research, Institution building, etc,) by a faculty member who is close to retirement (superannuating before the Foundation day for the year) or who has just retired (usually, up to two years earlier).
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra received the IBM Faculty Award in 2013 from IBM

The award has been given to recognize contribution in the area of CMOS device reliability and to foster collaboration in this area.
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the VASVIK Industrial Research Award for Electrical and Electronics Sciences and Technology in 2013 from Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK)
Prof. Udayan Ganguly, Prof. Saurabh Lodha received the Best paper award at IEEE Indicon in 2013 from IEEE
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) received the Best Thesis Award for Doctoral thesis of S. Anand in 2013 from IIT Bombay

Entitled “Interface Circuits and Controllers for Effective Utilization of Solar Photovoltaics"
Prof. Animesh Kumar, akshata received the Best Student Paper Award in 2012 from SPCOM

Akshata Athawale and Animesh Kumar received the Best Student Paper Award for the paper titled "On Dithered A\D Conversion of Multidimensional Smooth Non-bandlimited Signals" at Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) conference in July 2012 held at IISc Bangalore.
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the NASI - Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award in 2012 from National Academy of Sciences, India

He received The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award (2012) for Application Oriented Innovation in Physical Science.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the M. S. Huzurbazar Memorial Lecture, Bombay Mathematical Colloquium. in 2012 from Ruia College, Mumbai.
Prof. Jayanta Mukherjee received the award in 2012 from DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme 2012

The technology “Low Power Bio Medical Transmitter” was one among top 50 selected technologies for the “DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme 2012”
anc received the Member, IEEE, (USA) in 2012 from IEEE
Prof. Shreevardhan A. Soman received the IIT Bombay Industrial Impact Award in 2012 from IIT Bombay

For PowerAnser Labs with Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) received the Best Poster Award in 2012 from IEEE

For Paper entitled, “"Teach a 1000 Teachers": A Methodology for the Rapid Ramp-up of Photovoltaics Manpower required for India's National Solar Mission
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Finalist (one of the three) for Best Paper award in IEEE LCN in 2012 from IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN)
Prof. Saurabh Lodha received the Young Investigator Award in 2012 from IRCC, IIT Bombay
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the Best Paper Award in 2011 from IEEE ISVLSI Symposium
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay in 2011 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Award for Excellence in Teaching is awarded to faculty members based on the course evaluation feedback during the last 5 years.
Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar received the IEEE UG Teaching Award in 2011 from IEEE
Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri received the G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research in 2011 from K.K. Birla Foundation
Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri received the NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovation in 2011 from The National Academy of Sciences,India
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the First place award in Cadence Design Contest in 2011 from Cadence Design Systems India

Anvesha Amaravati (M. Tech. student) and Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini won the first place award in Cadence Design Contest India in 2011. Anvesha Amaravati also won the first place in Student Project Contest in International Conference on VLSI Design 2012, India. He and Deepesh Kamani also won the first place in Anveshan Design Contest and Fellowship Program held by Analog Devices (healthcare category), all over India , 2010-2011.
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Prof. D. K. Sharma received the Best Paper Award in 2011 from IEEE ISVLSI Symposium

Naveen K. Kancharapu (M. Tech. student), Marshnil V. Dave (Ph.D. student), Veerraju Masimukkula (M. Tech. student), Prof. Maryam Shojaei and Prof. Dinesh Sharma won the Best Paper Award in IEEE ISVLSI Symposium.
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra received the Fellow in 2011 from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Best Research Paper Award in 2011 from Global Interposer Technology (GIT) Workshop: Design, Technologies, Applications, Markets and Manufacturing Infrastructure, Nove
Prof. Anshuman Shukla received the Young Engineer Award (Electrical Engineering) in 2011 from The Institution of Engineers (India)
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the SSI Varshney Award in 2011 from Systems Society of India (SSI)

SSI Varshney Award 2011 from the Systems Society of India (SSI), conferred at the Inaugural Function of XXXV National Systems Conference 2011.
Prof. Anil Kottantharayil received the “PULSED DC REACTIVE SPUTTER DEPOSITED ALUMINUM OXIDE FOR SURFACE PASSIVATION OF P-TYPE SILICON FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS” in 2011 from IIT Bombay

Best poster award at the IIIrd International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2011) by Meenakshi Bhaisare, Gaudhaman Jeevanandam and Anil Kottantharayil.
Prof. Vivek Agarwal received the IETE Bimal Bose Award for contributions in the field of power electronics in 2010 from IETE
Prof. Mukul C. Chandorkar received the Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay in 2010 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Apurba Laha received the Nominated among the best three researchers from Leibniz Universitat Hannover for Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Price of German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2010 from Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Prof. Apurba Laha received the Cited in Marquis Who's Who in Science, in 2010 from Marquis Who's Who
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the Runner up award in Cadence Design Contest India in 2010 from Cadence Design Systems India

Sanjay Joshi and Viral P. Thaker (M. Tech. students) awarded runner up place in Cadence Design Contest, India, 2010. They were also one of finalist teams in international chip design competition in ISIC 2011, Singapore.
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator in 2010 from Department of Atomic Energy-Science Research Council (DAE-SRC), an apex body of DAE, Govt. of India
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the TWAS Award in Engineering Sciences in 2010 from Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Shri Hari Om Ashram prerit Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 2009 from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Prof. Prasanna Chaporkar received the Best Paper Award in ACM MobiHoc in 2009 from SIGMOBILE

SIGMOBILE recognizes achievements in mobile computing and communications through awards including the SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award, the SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award, the MobiCom Best Student Paper award and the MobiSys Best Paper Award.
Prof. D. Manjunath received the S.V.C Aiya Memorial Award for Excellence in Telecom Teaching in 2009 from IETE
Prof. Pradeep R. Nair received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2009 from School of ECE, Purdue University

Outstanding Dissertation Award: School of ECE, Purdue University, 2009.
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the TechnoMentor Award in 2009 from Indian Semiconductor Association's (ISA)
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Shrikrishna A. Khaparde received the DSK Energy Award 2009 in 2009 from The Institute of Engineers (India), Pune Local Centre

For Outstanding Contribution in Energy Sector
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Best Paper Award, IFIP Wireless Days in 2009 from IFIP Wireless Days

2009.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Fellowship in 2009 from National Academy of Sciences, India
Prof. Swaroop Ganguly received the IBM-IUSSTF Fellowship in Nanotechnology in 2009 from IBM;Indo-US Science & Technology Forum
Prof. Debraj Chakraborty received the IFAC Foundation Young Authors Support Programme in 2008 from 17th IFAC World Congress
Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri received the Prof. H.H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences in 2008 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao, Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini received the IIT-Bombay Industry Impact Award in 2008 from IRCC IIT-Bombay

Mayank Shrivastava (Ph.D. student), Prof. Ramgopal Rao and Prof. Maryam Shojaei won IIT-Bombay Industry Impact award in 2008.
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Prof. D. K. Sharma, Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Best research award in the circuit design category in 2008 from Intel Corporation AAF

Mayank Shrivastava, Rajesh Thakker and Angada B. Sachid (all Ph.D. students), Prof. Maryam Shojaei, Prof. Dinesk Sharma and Prof. Ramgopal Rao won the best research award in the circuit design category in Intel Corporation AAF 2008, Taiwan.
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra received the Tan Chin Tuan fellowship in 2008 from Singapore government

To visit Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Best Research Paper award in 2008 from Intel Asia Academic Forum, Taiwan
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Industrial Impact Award in 2008 from IIT Bombay

For undertaking research work that caused maximum industry impact
Prof. Juzer M. Vasi received the TechnoVisionary Award in 2008 from India Semiconductor Association
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Research Paper Award in 2008 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

IIT Bombay Research Paper Award for the Year 2008 for the paper, Sudarshan Shinde and Vikram M. Gadre, "An Uncertainty Principle for real signals in the fractional Fourier Transform domain", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 2001.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Best paper award in 2008 from VALUETOOLS
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Prasant Chandra Mahalanobis Medal in 2008 from INSA
Prof. Gaurav S Kasbekar received the Graduate Fellowship in 2007 from University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra received the Graduate Faculty appointment in 2007 from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, USA

(for the duration 2007 - 2016).
Prof. Swaroop Ganguly received the Who's Who in America listings in 2007 from Marquis
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Prof SVC Aiya Memorial Award in 2006 from The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)

The award is instituted by the students of Prof S V C Aiya in memory of their professor at IISc Bangalore. The Award is given annually to a person for providing guidance in electronics and telecommunication research work during the last 5 (five) years. The award consists of a medal, cash prize and a citation. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture on the work leading to the award on a suitable occasion at the IETE centre nearest to the location of awardee.
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Prof K Sreenivasan Memorial Award in 2006 from The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)

The award is instituted by the students of Prof K Sreenivasan in memory of their professor at Madras Institute of Technology, Madras. The Award is given annually for outstanding performance in teaching electronics and telecommunication engineering during the last 5 (five) years. The award consists of a medal, cash prize and a citation. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture on the work leading to the award on a suitable occasion at the IETE centre nearest to the location of awardee.
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay in 2006 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Juzer M. Vasi received the Mathur Award in 2006 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

For Excellence in Research
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Honorary award in 2006 from Society for Cancer Research and Communication

Felicitation from Society for Cancer Research and Communication (SCRAC), India for the Doctoral Thesis work of PhD student, Shri Ajay Deshmukh, supervised by Prof V M Gadre, done in collaboration with members of the society in the medical profession.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the J. C. Bose Fellowship in 2006 from Government of India
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Abdi Memorial Lecture in 2006 from Ramanujan Math. Society
Prof. Gaurav S Kasbekar received the CEDT Design Medal in 2006 from Center for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Awarded the “CEDT Design Medal” in Aug. 2006 for being adjudged the best M.Tech. student of the year at the Center for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Invited speaker in ‘Control and Optimization’ session in 2006 from International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Aug.
Prof. Saurabh Lodha received the Logic Technology Development Award in 2006 from Intel Corporation

For outstanding contributions to development of 45nm and 32nm CMOS Technologies. Awarded five times in 2006, 2008, 2008, 2009, 2010.
Prof. Apurba Laha received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2005 from Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2005 from Govt.of India

The highest scientific award for researchers in India
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Best paper award in 2005 from IMAPS India National conference
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the SVC Aiya Memorial Award in 2005 from Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

Sixth SVC Aiya Memorial Award for Telecom Education from IETE Pune Centre.
Prof. Anil Kottantharayil received the Minimization of the MuGFET Contact Resistance by Integration of NiSi Contacts on Epitaxially Raised Source/Drain Regions” in 2005 from Grenoble, France

Best paper award at the ESSDERC 2005 held at by A. Dixit, K. G. Anil, R. Rooyackers, F. Leys, M. Kaiser, R. Weemaes, I. Ferain, A. De Keersgieter, N. Collaert, R. Surdeanu, M. Goodwin, P. Zimmerman, R. Loo, M. Caymax, M. Jurczak, S. Biesemans, and K. De Meyer.
Prof. Abhay Karandikar received the Dr P K Patwardhan Technology Development Award in 2004 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Jayanta Mukherjee received the Texas Instruments Fellow in 2004 from The Ohio State University
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra received the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2004 from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

For early career research work done after joining IIT Bombay as an assistant professor
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the IETE M.N.Saha Memorial Award in 2004 from IETE journal

For the best application oriented paper
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Prof K Sreenivasan Memorial Award in 2004 from Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

11th IETE Prof K Sreenivasan Memorial Award in recognition of distinguished contribution in the field of teaching electronics and telecommunication engineering during the past five years.
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof. Girish Kumar received the Best paper award in 2004 from National Communication Conference (NCC), I.I.Sc. Bangalore, India

Received best paper award in experimental category
Prof. Girish Kumar received the Professor Extraordinario in 2004 from the Univ. of Navarra, San Sebastian, Spain
anc received the Best paper in the 17th International Conference on VLSI DESIGN in 2004 from Best paper in the 17th International Conference on VLSI DESIGN

Design of RF Tuner for Cable Modem applications paper authored by A. N. Chandorkar, Veeresh Babu and Sumantra Seth was adjudged as A.K.Choudhary Best paper in the 17th International Conference on VLSI DESIGN, 2004 recently held in MUMBAI. This award carries a citation and Rs 10000/- as cash prize.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Fellowship in 2004 from Indian National Academy of Engineers
Prof. Valipe Ramgopal Rao received the Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award in 2003 from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

This prestigious fellowship is instituted by Govt. of India in 1997 to mark 50 years of India's independance
anc received the Fellow in 2003 from Maharashtra Academy of Sciences

Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Sciences.2003 Member, Faculty of Technology, University of Mumbai (3year term)
anc received the Mayor’s guest in 2003 from Mayor of City of Kitakyushu Japan

Was invited by Mayor of City of Kitakyushu, Japan to present an Invited paper in the Second “Asian University Workshop on Semiconductor Design”in December 2003. Was India’s representative and the out come of this Workshop is that we can now have collaboration on projects and students exchange program be started between IIT Bombay and University if Kitakyushu, University of Waseda and Kyushu University at Fukokova. This conference was follow up of the first similar conference in January 2003, which was also attended by him as Mayor’s guest.
Prof. Baylon G. Fernandes
(Currently, Head of the Department) received the Best Teacher Award in 2003 from IIT Bombay
Prof. Apurba Laha received the Best Poster Award in the National Seminar on Ferroelectrics and Dielectrics (NSFD), Bangalore, India. in 2002 from AMF 2003
Prof. Animesh Kumar received the Institute Silver Medal in 2001 from IIT Kanpur, India

Awarded for the best performance among B.Tech students of Electrical Engineering graduating in the year 2001 at IIT Kanpur, India
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra received the Innovation Potential of Students Projects Award 2000 in 2001 from Doctoral Level, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

for research work done during Ph.D
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the INAE Young Engineer Award in 2001 from Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE)
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Fellowship in 2001 from IEEE
Prof. Juzer M. Vasi received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
anc received the Vice-Chairman in 2000 from International Society of Reliability Engineers

Vice-Chairman, International Society of Reliability Engineers, Bombay Chapter.
anc received the Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers,New Delhi, India in 2000 from Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers,New Delhi, India. Year 2000.
anc received the Motivating Research in Microelectronic Devices for past 10 years in 2000 from IETE

IETE’s 6th SVC Aiyya award for “Motivating Research in Microelectronic Devices for past 10 years, Year 2000.
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2000 from I.I.T. (Mumbai)
Prof. Jayanta Mukherjee received the Gold Medalist, Bachelor of Engineering, BIT Mesra in 1999 from BIT Mesra
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
anc received the EXCELLENCE in TEACHING in 1999 from IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay’s most prestigious award for EXCELLENCE in TEACHING, for the year 1999
Prof. Anil Kottantharayil received the Siemens AG doctoral research fellowship from July 1997 to September 2001 in 1997 from Siemens

“Youth and Knowledge” program.
Prof. Juzer M. Vasi received the Sreenivasan Memorial Award in 1997 from IETE

For distinguished contributions to teaching of electronics in India
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Fellowship in 1996 from Indian National Science Academy
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the The Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 1995 from Homi Bhabha Fellowship Counci
Prof. Swaroop Ganguly received the Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search Scholar in 1995 from JBNSTS
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Student Journal Award in 1994 from IETE
Prof. Saurabh Lodha received the National Merit Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 1994 from Govt. of India
Prof. Apurba Laha received the National Talent Scholarship in 1993 from Govt. of West Bengal, India
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the Fellowship in 1993 from Indian Academy of Science
Prof. Madhu N. Belur received the 3rd prize, IIT Bombay Mathematics Olympiad (Junior category) in 1993 from Mathematics Department, IIT Bombay
Prof. Swaroop Ganguly received the National Talent Search Scholar in 1993 from NCERT
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the Adarsh Ratna Bhagat Award in 1992 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award (Engg. and Technology) in 1992 from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Prof. Vikram M Gadre received the President’s Gold Medal in 1989 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

President’s Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1989, for cumulative performance during B.Tech.
Prof. Girish Kumar received the Elwyn F. Chandler award in 1989 from University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA

For superior teaching and special commitment to and relationships with undergraduate and graduate students
Prof. Vivek Shripad Borkar received the IEEE Control Systems Best Transactions Paper Award in 1982 from IEEE
Prof. Vivek Agarwal received the POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) in from Power System Operation Corporation, POWERGRID, Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT, Delhi.

Dr. Pooja Sharma and Dr Rupesh Wandhare have received POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA). Both completed PhD work under the guidance of Prof. Vivek Agarwal, IEEE Fellow. For more information click here