Awards & Recognition

2025

  • Commendation for Outstanding Research (PhD) - Dr. Rishiraj Adhikary (PhD Alumnus) (June 2025)
    IIT Gandhinagar Convocation 2025
    Rishiraj Award Ceremony 1 Rishiraj Award Ceremony 2

  • Test of Time Award for NILMTK - Prof. Nipun Batra (June 2025)
    For significant long-term impact and contributions to the energy disaggregation research community
    Test of Time Award Test of Time Award Announcement Test of Time Award Certificate

  • SIGEnergy Rising Star Award 2025 - Prof. Nipun Batra (June 2025)
    Citation: “For contributions to reproducible toolkits, scalable models, and uncertainty-aware approaches for practical energy disaggregation.”
    SIGEnergy Rising Star Award SIGEnergy Award Announcement SIGEnergy Rising Star Certificate

  • Excellence in Teaching Award - Prof. Nipun Batra (January 2025)
    Citation: “Based on his contributions and achievements in teaching, as evidenced by students’ feedback on his teaching, including outstanding organization and conduct of courses as well as the adoption of active learning strategies.”

  • Third Prize in Simply Speaking 4.0 Competition - Shataxi Dubey (January 2025)
    Organized by Leadership Development Initiative, IITGN

  • Third Prize in Undergraduate Research Showcase - Shrimay Shah and Dhruv Gupta (January 2025)
    Project: “Brick Kilns Detection and Compliance Study” (guided by Prof. Nipun Batra)

2024

  • Bhalodia-Khetan Summer Research Excellence Award - Devodita Chakravarty
    Project: “ML for Sustainability: Satellite Data Preprocessing for Detecting Pollution Sources Using Computer Vision”
    ₹50,000 cash prize and Certificate of Excellence

2023

  • Young Alumni Award - Prof. Nipun Batra (November 2023)
    From IIIT Delhi [Link]

  • UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award Finalist - Rishiraj Adhikary
    [Details]

  • Gold Medal for Outstanding Research - Ankita Jain
    IITGN Convocation 2023 [Link]

  • President’s Gold Medal, MTech - Ankita Jain
    IITGN Convocation 2023 [Link]

Student Fellowships

2024

  • Microsoft Research India PhD Award - Zeel B Patel
    [Details]

2022

  • Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship - Rishiraj Adhikary
    USIEF Fellowship [Details]

  • Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) - Rishiraj Adhikary
    [Details]

Honorable Mentions & Recognition

2024

  • Heidelberg Laureate Forum Selection - Rishiraj Adhikary
    One of only 200 individuals worldwide selected to meet laureates from various fields, including Turing Award winners
    [Details]

2022

  • Co-author in “Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics” - Zeel B Patel
    Book authored by Kevin P. Murphy [Link]

  • Google Summer of Code Contributor - Zeel B Patel
    At TensorFlow under mentorship of Kevin P. Murphy [Details]

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