• 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.
Dr. Amandeep Singh,
Dr. Anu Verma,
Dr. 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.
• AMRIT Lab, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Roorkee, has been recognized as 3rd in the 100 5G Use Case Lab Institutions under the Gradation Framework Assessment.The prestigious recognition was conferred by the Hon’ble Minister of Communications, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, in the presence of the Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications, Shri Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani.
Read More... • Prof. Gaurav Sharma (B.E. E&C, 1990), now a Professor at the University of Rochester, visited IIT Roorkee on 25th November 2025 and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA) 2024 for his contributions to image processing, data science, and computational imaging. During his visit, he met with the Dean of International Relations along with Prof. Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu, ECE Department, to discuss future academic collaborations, including joint research, faculty exchange, and student mobility.
• The ECE Department, IIT Roorkee hosted the 6th A.K. Kamal Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, CEO and Chairman of C-DOT. During the event, IIT Roorkee and C-DOT signed an MoU to establish a Centre of Excellence for advanced communication technologies, strengthening India’s leadership in next-generation telecom innovation.
Read More... • We are thrilled to announce that Shubhi Gupta, B.Tech 3rd Semester ECE at IIT Roorkee, has been selected among the Top 75 Women Engineering Students in the prestigious
Women in Tech (WIT) Program – Batch 4, a national initiative empowering women engineers.
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