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Awards & Honors

Beyond their academic achievements, our faculty are also dedicated mentors and role models for the next generation of engineers and educators. They actively engage with students through mentorship programs, research collaborations, and extracurricular activities, fostering a supportive and inclusive learning environment that encourages creativity, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Our faculty’s passion for teaching and commitment to student success are evident in the numerous awards and accolades they have received for their outstanding contributions to education and mentorship.

Dr. Dharmendra Singh
  1. Satellite based Agriculture Information System developed at IIT Roorkee by Prof. Dharmendra Singh and his team has received the National “Gold” Award for e-governance for Outstanding Research on Citizen-Centric Services by Academic/Research Institutions
Dr. Amalendu Patnaik
  1. URSI (International of Radio Science) Young Scientist Award – 2005
  2. IETE-J C Bose Memorial Award – 2000 for best Engineering oriented paper
Dr. Meenakshi Rawat
  1. Received Young Scientist Award in URSI- RCRS 2020.
Dr. Debidas Kundu
  1. Received young faculty research fellowship (YFRF) award under Visvesvaraya programme of Meity, digital India Corporation in March 2019.
  2. Received best paper award in The Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group (ARFTG), Tempa Florida, June 2014.
Dr. Abhay Kumar Sah
  1. Shortlisted (Top-15) for Best PhD Thesis Award 2018 by INAE across all departments.
  2. Received DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship July 2017.
  3. Received DST Travel Grant for attending ICC 2017.
  4. Received Travel Grant for attending COMSNETS 2016.
  5. Received Samsung Citizen Award 2019 for the contributions in LTE rel. 14 features development.
  6. Received Samsung Spot Award 2018 for developing LAA-OTAR feature in a short span of time.
Dr. M V Kartikeyan
  1. Elected as IEEE Fellow
Dr.Dharmendra Singh
  1. Erasmus Mundus MERIT Fellowship to Visit  Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
  2. Received of Sciences (CAS) and of for the Developing World (TWAS) Award to work at the of , from 20.6.2006 to 5.8.2006.
  3. French Government Fellowship to work at the Institute for National Research in Information and Automatics (INRIA), , 2004.
  4. University Corporation of Atmospheric Research Fellowship, to work at , 2002
  5. European Research Computer Informatics & Mathematics Fellowship, to work at the Institute for National Research in Information and Automatics (INRIA) , 2001-2002.
  6. Japan Government Fellowship, to work at Niigata University, Japan, 1999-2000.
  7. Visiting Associate Award for remote sensing by University Grants Commission, , 2001.
  8. Visiting Associate Award for remote sensing by University Grants Commission, , 1996.
Dr. Amalendu Patnaik
  1. BOYSCAST Fellowship – (2003-04)
Dr. N. P. Pathak
  1. Member Editorial Board:
    (a) Asian Journal of Scientific Research
    (b) Space Research journal
Dr. A.K. Saxena
  1. Member, Overseas Advisory Board of IEICE Trans. on Electronics of
  2. Honorary Editor, IETE
Dr. Anshul Tyagi
  1. Member Editorial Board, Intl. Jour. Of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems
Dr. Sourajeet Roy
  1. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Dr. N. P. Pathak

  1. Title: Devices for coupling suspended stripline and NRD guides Document Type & Number: United States Patent 20070069839 Kind Code: A1

Dr. Karun Rawat
  1. Karun Rawat received Young scientist award (finalist) in the category of Innovation in Engineering and Physical Science from National Academy of Science (NASI) and Scopus for high citations of his research work in 2019k
Dr. Meenakshi Rawat
  1. “Baseband controlled linearization of high power amplifiers”, Meenakshi Rawat, Girish Chandra Tripathi, Indian patent applied [application no. 201911014390, March 2019].
Abhay Kumar Sah
  1. S.K. Vankayala, R. Gundeti, Abhay Kumar Sah, I. Kommineni, A. Nigam, S. Shetty, and G.S.V. Uma, “A Novel Iterative Method for LLR” (202041014792).
  2. Abhay Kumar Sah, S.K. Vankayala, and G.S.V. Uma, “Power Efficient and Low Complexity Receiver for a Wireless Communication and its Operating Method Thereof” (202041013448).
  3. S.K. Vankayala, Abhay Kumar Sah, A. Nigam, G.S.V. Uma, and T. Mittra “Method for Optimal HARQ Chase Combining for 4G/5G/VRAN/CRAN Systems” (SRIB-20180917).
  4. S.K. Vankayala, S. Madhurapantula, A. Nigam, A. Bhat, Abhay Kumar Sah, and Sudharsan Parthasarthy, “Base Station CQI prediction using ML” (SRIB-20180623).
  5. Abhay Kumar Sah, S. K. Vankayala, Uma Kishore Godavarti, and Ashok K. Reddy Chavva, “Method and system for combining incoming signals” (202041004871).
  6. S.K. Vankayala, J. Akhtar, Abhay Kumar Sah, N. Srinivasan, G.S.V. Uma, and R. Gundeti, “Methods and Systems for Detecting Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) in a Wireless Network” (201941013045).
  7. Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi, “Low Complexity Detection in Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems” (201811029113).
  8. Abhay Kumar Sah and A.K. Chaturvedi, “A Neighborhood Search based Large Multiple Input Multiple Output Detector” (201811029143).