Awards

Personal

• Qulacomm 6G research grant.

• CNR Rao award from IIT Kanpur for architecting and designing the indigenous 5G network.

• IIT Kanpur Excellence in Teaching Award 2022 [Link].

• Visvesvaraya Fellowship from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

• Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).

• Teaching Excellence Certificates for following regular courses

1. MIMO Wireless Communications

   1. 2023-24, I Semester.

   2. 2021-22, I Semester.

   3. 2020-21; I Semester.

   4. 2019-20, I Semester.

   5. 2018-19, I Semester.

   6. 2017-18, II Semester.

2. Machine Learning in Wireless Communications

   1. 2024-23, II Semester.

   2. 2023-22, II Semester.

   3. 2020-21, II Semester.

3. Simulation-Based Design of 5G Wireless Standard

   1. 2022-23, I Semester.

   2. 2018-19, II Semester.

4. Digital Communications

   1. 2017-18, I Semester.

5. Introduction to Electronics

   1. 2021-22, II Semester.

• Teaching Excellence Certificates for following eMasters courses

1. Applied Linear Algebra for Wireless Communications

   1. 2022, III Quarter.

• IIT Madras research award for the quality and quantity of research work done in the Ph.D.

• Finalist for the best student paper award in IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, Jul. 2014.

Students

• Outstanding PhD thesis award for Dheeraj Amudala in 2024 convocation.

• Dr. Vijay K. Varma Talent Award for Om Prakash for his M. Tech thesis in 2024 convocation.

• CDoT Star fellowship for PhD student Yash in June 2024.

• PMRF fellowship for PhD student Sourasis Chatterjee in Nov. 2023.

• IITK ‘‘Best All-Rounder Girl Student of 2-year Master's Program Gold medal" to MS student Khushbu Kishnani in July 2023.

• IITK ‘‘Dr. Prateek Mishra Memorial Gold Medal" for obtaining the highest CPI to Dual Degree student Milind Nakul in July 2023.

• IITK ‘‘Dr. Prateek Mishra Memorial Gold Medal" for obtaining the highest CPI to B.Tech student Ayan Banerjee in Dec. 2021.

• IITK best undergraduate project award for B. Tech student Nitsh Desphande in Dec 2021.

• PMRF fellowship for PhD student Soumyadeep Datta in Dec. 2020.

• IITK Director's Gold medal, IITK Excellence in Community Services, Prof. Samares Kar Memorial Gold Medal for Dual Degree student Soumyadeep Datta in Oct. 2020.

• IITK Best PhD thesis award for Ekant Sharma in Oct. 2020.

• Best PhD thesis award for Ekant Sharma in IEEE SPCOM 2020.

• TCS fellowship for PhD students Anupama, Dheeraj and Vishal in July 2020.

• Pratibha: An Eaton Excellence Award for M.Tech student Neha Gupta in Feb. 2019.

• SN Bose Scholars’ Program for Dual degree student Soumyadeep in Jan. 2019.

• Best poster award in SURGE 2017 for project “Receiver Design for IOT on LTE Networks” for B.Tech student Vishad.