• The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering congratulates Mr. Vimal Kumar on winning First Prize in the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Presentation at the ECE Research Conclave held on 20th February 2026. Congratulations are also extended to his supervisor Prof. Akhilesh Mohan and the RF and Microwave Engineering community.

• Congratulations Mr. Malak Chakrborty, ECE Deptt, receiving the Best Poster Award (PhD CNSP) at ECE Research Conclave 2026. The team was also honored with the Best Hardware Demo Award for their innovative demonstration on AI-enabled adaptive beam steering using custom RIS.

• Prof. Avirup Dasgupta and his student Mr. Abhishek Kumar, ECE, Deptt, the grant of their patent titled “Ferroelectric field effect transistor and method to perform the multi-bit operation using the Ferroelectric field effect transistor” (Patent No. 580662, dated 13/02/2026). The Department commends their significant contribution to research and innovation and wishes them continued success in their future academic and research pursuits.

• The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Roorkee, congratulates Prof. Abhay Kumar Sah and Dr. Sateesh Kumar Awasthi on the grant of their patent, “A System and Method for Estimating the Location of a Base Station Using RSSI Available on the Mobile Station,” by the Intellectual Property Office, Government of India.

• 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).