• ECE Department, IIT Roorkee has achieved a major milestone with the FLORA dataset and NeRA adapter—India’s first fashion-sketch dataset—enabling AI-driven fashion sketch generation, led by Prof. Sparsh Mittal and aligned with India’s national AI and innovation initiatives.

• Congratulations to Prof. Sandeep Singh (ECE, IIT Roorkee) for securing the VAIBHAV Grant in Quantum Technology, in collaboration with Prof. Prem Kumar (Northwestern University, USA).

• Heartiest congratulations to Faraz Ahmad (Batch of 2025), who is currently pursuing his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Bishnu Prasad Das, on being awarded the Part-time Visvesvaraya Fellowship.

• A paper authored by Prof. Sparsh Mittal (ECE Deptt., IIT Roorkee), Mr Priyanshu Tyagi (ECE Deptt, IIT Roorkee) and Aayush Gautam (UIET, Panjab University), entitled “A 98.5-TOPS/W and 0.73-TOPS/mm² Digital Compute-In-Memory Macro with a Novel 6T+MUX Bitcell for Sparsity-Aware MAC Operations,” has received the Best Paper Award at the VLSID 2026 conference.

• The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Roorkee, achieved notable recognition at the 39th IEEE VLSI Design and 25th Embedded Systems Conference (VLSID 2026)**, one of the most prestigious platforms for semiconductor and system design innovation. Amandeep Singh, Dr. Anu Verma, Anshul Verma won the Best Digital IC Tapeout Award – VLSID 2026 under the guidance of Prof. Bishnu Das Prasad, while Dr. Dinesh Kushwaha received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award – VLSID 2026 under the supervision of Prof. Sudeb Das Gupta and Prof. Anand Bulusu.

• Congratulations to the following faculty members for securing research funding from ANRF, ISRO worth a total of ₹11 crore: Prof. Anand Bulusu, Prof. Dr. Ashish Kumar Chowdhary, Prof. Abhay Sah, Prof. Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu, Prof. Ekant Sharma, Prof. Sourajeet Roy, Prof. Avirup Dasgupta, Prof. Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay, and Prof. Nagendra Pathak.