Dr. P Pravin K V Rao has been selected for ISET D K Paul Research Award for best Ph.D thesis in Earthquake Risk Reduction in India for the year 2022. The award is given once in 4 years to only one person with an international reputation and excellent standing in the area of expertise. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 60,000 and a citation.
Smart City Living Lab team-NEXUS consisting of Mr. Likhith Kanigolla, Mr. Varada Sasidhar, Mr. Surya Suhaas, Mr. Himanshu Fanibhare won the Best Promotion of oneM2M award at the 4th International oneM2M Hackathon, held from 7 October to 13 December for their innovative project – oneM2M: Enabling Water Network Twins.
Aishani Pandey, (B.Tech + MS in CSE) working with Dr. Aniket Alam was awarded the Young Authors Recognition Award for her poster presentation on UnSight: Bridging the Educational Gap for Blind Learners at the 15th ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference 2024 held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi from 21 to 23 October. The other authors of this paper are Arush Sachdeva, (B.Tech-3rd year-LCD working with Dr. Anirban Dasgupta) and Vivek Mathur, ( 5th year-CND working with Dr. Chittaranjan Hens).
Research work on Citation Anchor Text for Improving Precedent Retrieval: An Experimental Study on Indian Legal Documents by Gaurang Patil, Bhoomeendra Singh Sisodiya, K V K Santhy working with Prof. P Krishna Reddy was awarded Best Paper Award at the 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX-2024) from 11 to 13 December held at Brno, Czech Republic.
Research work on Application of SWMM for Urban Storm Water Management- A Case Study of Hyderabad City by Dr. Shaik Rehana and her Ph.D student Satish Kumar Mummidivarapu was awarded the best paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Engineering Education (iCAEED-2024), held in Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, from 20 – 23 November.
Rishabh Bhattacharya, a 3rd Year DD Student working Dr. Naresh Manwani won the First Prize in Naval Hackathon 2024, held virtually in October. The theme of his project was Navigation and real-time tracking of flying objects. He received the prize from the Defence Minister of India, Shri Rajnath Singh Ji.
Dr. Shubham Singhal received Best Paper Presentation Award for his research work on Study of Slope Stability Analysis of Hill Slopes with Retaining Walls at the 5th International Conference on Trends & Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE-2024) held on 15 and 16 October at Amity University, Noida. The other authors of this paper are Ravindra Kumar Tomar, Amity University and Ashish Tamang, 3Powergrid Corporation of India Limited, Mangan.
eSagu system, an IT-based agro-advisory system, developed by IT for Agricultural Research Center, has been mentioned in the report – Of Pioneers and Potentials – Transformation of the Public Sector with GenAI joint initiative by Technical University of Munich (TUM) think tank and Accenture. This is a report on Gen AI in the Public Sector across the globe.