Recognition
Celebrating our students, faculty and alumni.
Arjun Badola and Dikshit Hegde have won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2026 for their proposal on transparent 3D Gaussian splatting, advised by Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman.
Arjun Badola (QIF 2026 winner); Dikshit Hegde (QIF 2026 winner); Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman (Faculty adviser)
Ayush Shrivastava and Rohit Narayanan have been selected for the TCS Research Scholar Program, Cycle 20, with fellowships effective 1 July 2026.
Ayush Shrivastava (advised by Prof. Nipun Batra and Prof. Mayank Goel); Rohit Narayanan (advised by Prof. Balagopal Komarath)
Naren Kumar, Manvendra Singh, and Dikshit Hegde have been awarded IndiaAI PhD Fellowships.
Naren Kumar (advised by Prof. Mayank Singh); Manvendra Singh (advised by Prof. Anirban Dasgupta); Dikshit Hegde (advised by Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman)
Department announcement
The paper on deterministic, protocol-driven AI-native network diagnostics was named Graduate Forum Best Paper Runner-up.
Devansh Lodha, Mohit Panchal, and Prof. Sameer G. Kulkarni
COMSNETS awards
The CSE/NLP doctoral student is recognized for work with the Lingo Research Group under Prof. Mayank Singh.
Himanshu Beniwal and Prof. Mayank Singh
IITGN Connections v18i1
The team won gold at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 14.0 for solving computational problems under strict time and memory constraints.
Anurag Singh and Nishchay Bhutoria
IITGN Technical Council
The team won silver at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 14.0 for a polished playable game with strong mechanics, level design, and coding architecture.
Divyansh Sharma, Hem Tilva, Nilay, and Shubham
IITGN Technical Council
The team won silver at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 14.0 for applying machine learning and remote-sensing methods to satellite imagery and geospatial data.
Umang, Karan, Laksh, Romit, Shreyans, and Viraj
IITGN Technical Council
The fellowship recognizes doctoral work in privacy, safety, and security.
Gayatri Priyadarsini Kancherla
Google Research recipients
The ACM India dissertation award recognizes work advised by Prof. Bireswar Das.
Dr. Dharaben R. Thakkar and Prof. Bireswar Das
ACM IndiaProf. Batra was recognized with ACM SIGEnergy Rising Star and e-Energy Test-of-Time awards.
Prof. Nipun Batra
ACM SIGEnergyThe team won silver at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 13.0 for a system to distinguish AI-generated images from real images.
Shreyans Jain, Birudugadda Srivibhav, Chandrabhan Patel, Viraj Vekaria, Karan Gandhi, and Rugved Patil
IITGN Technical CouncilThe team won bronze at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 13.0 for predictive modeling of solar waste and scalable recycling solutions.
Parth Deshpande, Siddharth Shah, Nakul S Raj, and Manasi Kulkarni
IITGN Technical Council
The STOC 2024 award recognizes the lasting impact of the paper “A Sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform,” co-authored with Ravi Kumar and Tamás Sarlós.
Anirban Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar, and Tamás Sarlós
Cornell Bowers CIS