Awards & Recognition

Faculty Awards

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

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

Third Prize in Simply Speaking 4.0 Competition - Shataxi Dubey
Organized by Leadership Development Initiative, IITGN
Third Prize in Undergraduate Research Showcase - Shrimay Shah and Dhruv Gupta
Project: “Brick Kilns Detection and Compliance Study” (guided by Prof. Nipun Batra)

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

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]

Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship - Rishiraj Adhikary
USIEF Fellowship [Details]
Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) - Rishiraj Adhikary
[Details]

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

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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