AIMS Lab students have won several awards at competitions and conferences alike! These awards are testament to the high standards we set ourselves as a group.
Student awards
| Annirudh K. P. awarded Institute Technical Citation 2026 by IIT Bombay (May 2026) |
| Annirudh K. P. and Sanika Joshi, finalists for best student poster award at 2026 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS), Tampa FL, USA (May 2026) |
| Annirudh K. P. awarded the Qmet PARIMANA PG Fellowship 2025 (Oct 2025) |
| Dr. Ruchira Nandeshwar awarded Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research for the year 2023-2025 (Aug 2025) |
| Shruti Ahuja awarded Best Poster Award at the International Conference “Pandemic preparedness – Achievements, current challenges, and new frontiers” organized by the Area Science Park, in conjunction with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy (Nov 2024) |
| Poulami Mandal, Vivekanand Dhakane and Avani Kulkarni awarded Best Poster Award at the 2nd International IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (IEEE APSCON 2024), Goa (Jan 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) |
STallur awards
- C1973 Faculty Awards for Research Excellence (FARE), IIT Bombay (2025)
- INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2017)
- Best poster award, Cornell Nanoscale Facility (CNF) annual meeting, Cornell University (2013)
- Best PhD thesis research award, Cornell University (2013)
- Best student paper award, IEEE Photonics Conference, Burlingame CA, USA (2012)
- Best paper award, U.S. Advisory Committee to the International Commission for Optics (USAC/ICO) (2012)
- 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)