• Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti has been elevated as IEEE Fellow.
• Prof. Yogesh S. Chauhan has been elected as the Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
• Prof. Shubham Sahay has been selected as Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

• Prof. Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary has been awarded P. K. Kelkar Fellowship.
• Prof. Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan has been awarded awarded Cherian and Vigny Mathew Faculty Fellowship for AI.
• Prof. Rajshekhar Gannavarpu has been selected as Pradeep Sindhu Chair Professor.
• Prof. Rohit Budhiraja has been selected as Satish Chandra Agarwal Chair Professor.
• Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has been selected as Yadupati Singhania Memorial Chair Professor.
• Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham (Professor, EE IITK) Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2025
• Prof. Imon Mondal (Assistant Professor, EE IITK) Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2025
• Prof. Baquer Mazhari has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Kanpur, 2025
• Prof. Aditya K Jagannatham has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Kanpur, 2025
• Prof. Shubham Sahay has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Kanpur, 2025

• Dr. Abheejeet Mohapatra has been selected for the Class of 1979 Young Faculty Fellowship!
• Dr. Tushar Sandhan has been selected as an Young Associate of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)- 2024.
• Prof. Rohit Budhiraja has been appointed a Vice Chairman of the "6G Use Case and Revenue Stream" in the Bharat 6G Alliance.
• Prof. Rohit Budhiraja has been elected (unopposed) in the governing council of TSDSI, from the academic institutions category.
• Prof. Yogesh Singh Chauhan has been selected for "Shri Jagdeo Narain Gupta & Smt. Murti Devi Gupta Chair"!
• Prof. Shubham Sahay and Prof. Vipul Arora have been awarded P. K. Kelkar Fellowship
• Prof. Rajesh M. Hegde has been awarded the IEEE SPS UP Chapter Academic Leadership Award-2023 by IEEE SPS UP Chapter
• Prof. Abhilash Patel has been awarded Indian Alliance DBT (Department of Biotechnology) Welcome Fellowship.

• Prof. Shubham Sahay has been awarded the 2023 IEEE Electron Devices Society Early Career Award!
• Prof. Yogesh Singh Chahan and his group has published one of their pioneering works in Nature Communications!
• Prof. Tushar Sundhan has been awarded "IEI Young Engineers Award 2023-24"
• Prof. Aloke Dutta has been awarded the Prof. T R Viswanathan Chair in Teaching Excellence, IIT Kanpur, 2023-Present.
• Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) - 2023
• Prof. Shubham Sahay, has been selected as Young Associate of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)- 2023
• Ankit Sinha and Kushagra Yadav, M.Tech. students in the EE department have been awarded the Ansys fellowship 2023. Ankit Sinha is working with Dr. R. S. Ashwin Kumar, and Kushagra are working with Dr. Abhishek Kumar Gupta.
• Ms. Ayushi Sharma, a Ph.D. student of Prof. Yogesh S. Chauhan has received the Best Poster Award at the 7th IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM) 2023, held in Seoul, South Korea, from March 7–10, 2023. She presented a poster entitled "Analysis and Modeling of OFF-State Capacitance in LDD MOSFETs.
• Mr. Baljinder Singh Heera, a Ph.D. student of Prof. Y. N. Singh, got the best paper award in the "Communication and Signal Processing" track at the 2023 2nd Edition of IEEE Delhi Section Flagship Conference (DELCON), for his paper titled “The Fragmentation-Aware RCSA Algorithm for Fair Spectrum Allocation in SDM-EON

• Mr. Atul Kumar Soni, and Mr. Jayasandhya Meenakshinathan, (Ph.D. students in EE) have received “Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) Award 2022” under the Best Stories in PhD category award sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
• Mr. Meesam Jafri, Mr. Suraj Srivastava and Prof. Aditya Jagannatham awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2022

• Prof. Aloke Dutta has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Kanpur, 2021.
• The research paper of Mr. Saptarshi Ghosh (EE), Professor Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has received the Motohisa Kanda Award 2021, which is given for the most cited paper of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility in the past five years.
• Mr. Ashok Tripathi, a PhD student of Prof. Amit Verma, received the best paper award at the 2021 IEEE 6th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA).
• Prof. Laxmidhar Behera appointed as the Director of IIT Mandi for a period of five years.
• Mr Shyam AB, a PhD student of Prof Sandeep Anand and Prof Soumya Ranjan Sahoo received the Best Contributory Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Power Systems 2021.
• Ms Apala Banerjee, a PhD student of Prof. Jaleel Akhtar awarded First Prize in the Best Female Student Paper Category in the International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC 2021).
• Mr Arnab Sarkar, a PhD student of Prof. Sandeep Anand, receives the third prize in the IEEE-IES Student and Young Professional Competition 2021 organized by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
• Prof. Abheejeet Mohapatra has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award 2021.
• Prof Saikat Chakrabarti and Prof Yogesh Singh Chauhan have been elected to the Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering 2021.
• Dr. Soumya Sahoo has been awarded the Batch of 1970 Young Faculty Fellowship.
• Dr. Rajshekhar Gannavarpu has been awarded Batch of 1982 Young Faculty Fellowship.
• Professor S.C. Srivastava has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to Power System Security and Stability.
• Yogesh S. Chauhan has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to compact modelling of Si and GaN transistors.

• Prof S.N. Singh is selected for prestigious 'NPSC 2020 Academic Excellence Award' for his achievements and contributions to the power engineering education and research.
• Indian Railways extends an MoU through the Centre for Railway Research in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. More details here.
• Dr. Pradeep Kumar has received the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship at IIT Kanpur.
• Dr. Abheejeet Mohapatra has received the Devendra Shukla Young Faculty Fellowship at IIT Kanpur.
• Prof. Animesh Biswas has been chosen for 2020 IETE - Ram Lal Wadhwa Award for outstanding original contribution in the field of electronics and telecommunication engineering during the last 10 years.
• Prof. S. C. Srivastava has received the Distinguished Teacher Award 2020 at IIT Kanpur.
• Prof. A. R. Harish has received the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2020 at IIT Kanpur.
• Prof. K. V. Srivastava has received the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2020 at IIT Kanpur.
• The paper titled 'Optimal Transmission Switching with Injection Uncertainties' by Snehil Chandra, P Naga Yasasvi, Prof. Abheejeet Mohapatra and Prof. S. C. Srivastava is one of the best conference papers on planning, operations, and energy markets submitted to the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
• The team of Tharun Kumar Reddy, Madhurdeep Jain, Archit Bansal, Palashdeep Singh, Kushangi Mittal with Prof. L. Behera and Prof. V. Arora got the worldwide second position in the Clinical BCI challenge at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020.
• Dr. Ekant Sharma (Supervisors: Prof. R. Budhiraja and Prof. K. Vasudevan) received the best doctoral dissertation award with honorable mention at the 13th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications held at IISc Bangalore.
• The paper titled 'Spatial HRTF interpolation using spectral phase constraints' by Aditya Srivastava, Gyanajyoti Routray, and Prof. R. M. Hegde is one of the finalists for best student paper award at the 13th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications held at IISc Bangalore.
• The team of Mohamad Aasif Bhat and Anteshwar Chimadge with Dr. Imon Mondal is one of the eleven winning teams selected for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2020.
• Dr. Pradeep Kumar has received the P K Kelkar Research Fellowship at IIT Kanpur.
• Dr. Abheejeet Mohapatra has received the Devendra Shukla Young Faculty Fellowship at IIT Kanpur.
• Prof. Animesh Biswas has been chosen for 2020 IETE - Ram Lal Wadhwa Award for outstanding original contribution in the field of electronics and telecommunication engineering during the last 10 years.
• Prof. S. C. Srivastava has received the Distinguished Teacher Award 2020 at IIT Kanpur.
• Prof. A. R. Harish has received the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2020 at IIT Kanpur.
• Prof. K. V. Srivastava has received the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2020 at IIT Kanpur.
• The paper titled 'Optimal Transmission Switching with Injection Uncertainties' by Snehil Chandra, P Naga Yasasvi, Prof. Abheejeet Mohapatra and Prof. S. C. Srivastava is one of the best conference papers on planning, operations, and energy markets submitted to the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
• The team of Tharun Kumar Reddy, Madhurdeep Jain, Archit Bansal, Palashdeep Singh, Kushangi Mittal with Prof. L. Behera and Prof. V. Arora got the worldwide second position in the Clinical BCI challenge at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020.
• Dr. Ekant Sharma (Supervisors: Prof. R. Budhiraja and Prof. K. Vasudevan) received the best doctoral dissertation award with honorable mention at the 13th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications held at IISc Bangalore.
• The paper titled 'Spatial HRTF interpolation using spectral phase constraints' by Aditya Srivastava, Gyanajyoti Routray, and Prof. R. M. Hegde is one of the finalists for best student paper award at the 13th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications held at IISc Bangalore.
• The team of Mohamad Aasif Bhat and Anteshwar Chimadge with Dr. Imon Mondal is one of the eleven winning teams selected for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2020.

• The team comprising of Parvraj Pachore, Yugal Gupta and Nachiketa Deshmukh under the guidance of Dr. Sandeep Anand has won the DST-Lockheed Martin-Tata Trusts IIGP 2.0 - University Challenge 2019.
• Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti has been selected as Sajani Kumar Ray Memorial Chair Professor.
• Prof. Adrish Banerjee has been selected as Sinclair Broadcasting Chair Professor.
• Prof. Aditya Jagannathan has been selected as Arun Kumar Chair Professor.
• Chirag Kumar (Supervisor: Prof. K. Rajawat) received the best oral presentation award at Research Conclave'19 at IIT Guwahati.
• Ruchi Tripathi (Supervisor: Prof. K. Rajawat) received the best poster presentation award at Research Conclave'19 at IIT Guwahati.
• Team NIRATYAYA comprising Shreyasi Som, Sai Sowmya Nagam, Atul Kumar Soni, Avinash Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Panda and Shivam Kumar Srivastva (Mentors: Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti and Prof. Abheejeet Mohapatra ) won the software edition Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2019 for their solution to the problem statement "To locate the fault in distribution network for ad-hoc maintenance " given by ABB GIS Pvt. Ltd. which was held at Kochi nodal center.
• Akash Bharadwaj and Shivangi Ranjan are featured among the Honda Young Engineer and Scientist’s (Y-E-S) Award winners for 2018-19.
• Anubrata Das (Supervisor: Dr. Sandeep Anand) won 'IEEE IES Student and Young professionals Paper Assistance' for attending IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology held in Melbourne from 13-15 Feb 2019.
• Soumya Sahoo (Supervisor: Prof. S. Chakrabarti and Prof. A. Sharma) won POSOCO Power Systems Award (PPSA) 2019 for her masters thesis 'Optimal Dispatch Scheduling for Residential Battery Storage with Solar Photovoltaics'.
• J.G.Sreenath (Supervisor: Prof. S. Chakrabarti and Dr. K. Rajawat) won POSOCO Power Systems Award (PPSA) 2019 for his Ph.D. work 'Distributed Forecasting-Aided Power System State Estimation in the Presence of Bad Data, Unreliable Communication and Cyber-Attacks'.
• Dr. Sandeep Anand is selected for the Young Faculty Research Fellowship positions of the institute.

• Prof. S.C. Srivastava, Department of Electrical Engineering has received the ‘Malaviya Award for Excellence in Power Systems – 2018.’
• Dr. Debadeep Sarkar (Thesis supervisor - Prof K V Srivastava) received the Young Scientist Award AP-RASC-2019 (URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference AP-RASc-2019) instituted by the International Union of Radio Science.
• Abhishek Sharma (Thesis Supervisors - Prof Animesh Biswas and Prof MJ Akhtar) is selected for the Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC) 2019 Young Scientist Award instituted by the International Union of Radio Science.
• Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan has been selected for the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Engineering Sciences.
• Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham with his students Mr. Suraj Srivastava and Ms. Saumya Dwivedi, Department of Electrical Engineering, have been selected for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2018-2019 for proposal titled "Sparse Signal Processing for 5G mm Wave MIMO Technology."
• "Power transfer using portable surfaces in capacitively coupled power transfer technology" by Prof.Santanu K. Mishra, Ravindranath Adda, Saurabh Sekhar, Avinash Joshi, Akshay Kumar Rathore has received the 2018 Best Journal Paper Award from IET Power Electronics.
• Amrit Singh Bedi, Ph.D. student at EE under Dr. Ketan Rajawat, have received the "Best Graduation Day Talk" at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2018) held at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore from 16-19 July 2018.
• Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan has been awarded Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.
• Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Department of Electrical Engineering has been chosen for the CNR Rao Faculty Award.
• N. Mohan Krishna and Lavish arora(Mentors: Prof. Rajesh Hegde and Dr. Ketan Rajawat) secured first position at DRDO Robotics and Unmanned Systems Exposition, Zonal Level Competition 2018 (North Zone).
• Dr. Ketan Rajawat, Department of Electrical Engineering has been awarded INSA Medal for Young Scientist for 2018.
• Dr. Ketan Rajawat, Department of Electrical Engineering has been selected for the Young Faculty Research Fellowship position of the institute for the period 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2021.
• PhD Scholar Priyank Rastogi(Mentor: Dr.Yogesh Singh Chauhan) received best paper award in IEEE CONECCT 2018.
• Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh(Mentor:Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava) has been selected as one of the Young Scientist Awardee in 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (AT-RASC).
• PhD Scholar Ms.Asha Sharma(Advisor:Prof.Nandini Gupta) has been granted the prestigious 2017 IEEE DEIS Fellowship.

Undergrad Student Ms.Shivangi Ranjan honored with the Honda Young Engineer and Scientist's(Y-E-S) award 2018.

• PhD thesis entitled “Studies On Multi-band Linearly and Circularly Polarized Printed Antennas For Wireless Communication Systems” has been awarded the best thesis in the Electronics track of the PhD symposium organized by IEEE UPCON 2017.
• "A Polarization-Insensitive Frequency Selective Radome with Wideband Absorption" by Ritesh Pandey, Saptarshi Ghosh, Harsh Sheokand, Mondeep Saikia and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has been selected for best paper award in "Antenna and Microwave" track in IEEE UPCON 2017.
• "Modular Multi-level Converter Topologies: Present Status and Key Challenges" by Ankit Yadav, S N Singh and S P Das has been selected for best paper award in "Power Electronics" track in IEEE UPCON 2017.
• PhD student Adarsh Patel's thesis supervised by Dr.Aditya Jagannatham has been selected for conferment of Innovative Student Projects Award 2017.
• Dr. Sandeep Anand, Department of Electrical Engineering has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award 2017.
• Professor Laxmidhar Behera, Department of Electrical Engineering has been elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for his distinguished contributions in the field of 'Engineering'.
• IITK-TCS team reached to the podium finish at the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017, Nagoya, Japan.
• PhD student Girish Pahwa's(Supervisor Prof.Y.S.Chauhan) paper titled "Energy-Delay Tradeoffs in Negative Capacitance FinFET based CMOS Circuits" has been selected as the best paper in IEEE ICEE,Mumbai,India,December 2016.
• Team comprising of Nachiketa Deshmukh and Abhinav Arya (PhD Students), Avinash Maguluri (M.Tech Student), Anup Anurag (Project Associate), Sandeep Anand(Mentor) has been selected as one of the University Challenge winners of the DST – Lockheed Martin – Tata Trusts India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2.0 for 2017. Their innovation is in the area of Solar PV Inverters.
• Dr. Sandeep Anand, Department of Electrical Engineering has been selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore for a period of three years.
• Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Department of Electrical Engineering has been invited to serve as Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society.
• Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Department of Electrical Engineering has been invited to join the Editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, a prestigious journal in this area. He will serve as an editor for submissions in the area of "Device and Process Modeling"
• Mr. Sateesh K. Awasthi got best paper award for paper with Prof. Y. N. Singh on "Reputation System and Incentive Mechanism to Handle the Malicious Peers and Free-riders in Peer-to-Peer Networks", in CEIT Conf. on Advances in Mobile communication, networking and computing, Feb. 2017
• Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) - a subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID), in partnership with the Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi, has awarded POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA 2017) to the following PhD theses for innovative research in the areas of power systems.
  • Anju Meghwani, thesis titled "DC Microgrid Protection: Challenges and Solutions". Her thesis supervised by Prof. S. C. Srivastava and Prof.Saikat Chakrabarti.
  • Anup Shukla , thesis titled "Evolutionary Techniques Based Solution to the Unit Commitment Problem Including Renewable Energy Sources". His thesis supervised by Prof. S. N. Singh.
• Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) - a subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID), in partnership with the Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi, has awarded POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA 2017) to the following M. Tech. theses for innovative research in the areas of power systems.
  • Saurav Roy Choudhury, thesis titled "Dynamic voltage restorer with adaptive active filtering". Thesis supervised by Prof.Sandeep Anand.
  • Nandini Negi, thesis titled "Decentralized Adaptive Primary and Distributed Secondary Control for Radial AC Microgrid". Thesis supervised by Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti and Prof.Soumya R. Sahoo.
• Ph.D. student Debdeep Sarkar got First prize for oral presentation for paper with Dr. K V Srivastava, entitled "A Compact Two Element MIMO Antenna System for Pattern and Polarization Diversity" in the Microwave Engineering and Antenna track of 3rd IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics (IEEE UPCON 2016) held at IIT BHU (9-11 December 2016)
• Ph.D. student Anju Meghwani (13204063) received 'Dr. Ramamoorthy best paper Award in Power Electronics and Drives' for paper with Dr. S C Srivastava and Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti, entitled "A Fast Scheme for Fault Detection in DC Microgrid Based on Voltage Prediction" in the 19th National power Systems Conference (NPSC 2016) held at IIT Bhubaneswar during 19-21 December, 2016.
• Vivek Kumar Pandit PhD student with Professor A. R. Harish won best poster across all the tracks titled "Design of Dual-Band CPW-Fed Monopole Antenna with Dual Band AMC Surface for WLAN" at 13th International IEEE India Conference (INDICON 2016) at Bangalore, India on December 16th-18th, 2016.
• Ms Debasmita Panda, PhD student, under supervision of Prof SN Singh has won the first prize on her work entitled "Risk Based Optimal genco’s Self" in M V Chauhan All India Student Paper Contest 2016. M V Chauhan All India Student Paper Contest 2016 tried to bring together all IEEE students members of India to discuss the latest advancements and future directions in the areas of IEEE. The contest invited full paper submissions from undergraduate and PG students in all areas of interest to IEEE in the Engineering, Technology and Science.
• Department ranks 57 in QS World University Rankings-2016 by Subject. The rank was 105 in 2015.
• Mr. Vineel Kumar Veludandi PhD student with Prof. K Vasudevan has been awarded the best presenter at the 2016 International Conference on Communication, Image and Signal Processing (CCISP 2016), Dubai, UAE, November 18-20, 2016 for paper titled "Noncoherent detection of DQPSK in OFDM systems using Predictive VA"
• Prof. S. N. Singh becomes Fellow of IEEE for leadership and contributions to power engineering education.
• Prof. S. N. Singh has been elected as "IEEE India Council Chair-Elect 2017" by the IEEE India Council Members.
• Prof. S.N. Singh has been selected for the IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award – 2016 in recognition of his professional leadership and contributions to IEEE UP Section and IEEE Region 10.
• IITK-TCS team under guidance of Prof. L. Behera secured fifth position in Amazon Picking Challenge held in Leipzig, Germany.
• Prof. S. N. Singh has been selected for the Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
• Olive Ray, (Supervisors: Dr Santanu Mishra and Dr A Joshi) has won the 2nd Prize (PhD Category) in the IAS CMD Student Thesis Contest 2016
• Vignesh V has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Stability Analysis and Control of Power Systems with High Wind Penetration Including New Approach of Load Modelling" (Supervisors: Dr. S.C.Srivastava and Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti). He was among the top 10 candidates in Doctoral category.
• Vivek Nandan Lal has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Performance Analysis and Power Forecasting of Single Stage Large Scale Grid Connected PV System" (Supervisors: Dr. S.N. Singh)
• Sanjeev Kumar Mallick has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, "Hybrid State Estimation and Enhanced Monitoring of Power Systems Using Synchrophasors" (Supervisors: Dr. S.N .Singh and Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti)
• Neeraj Kumar Sharma has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his M.Tech. thesis titled, "Observability analysis & topology error processing of power systems in the presence of hybrid measurements" (Supervisors: Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti)
• Rahul Ranjan Jha has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his M.Tech. thesis titled, "Development of Control Strategies for Power Management with Renewable Resources"(Supervisor: Dr. S.C. Srivastava). He was among the top 10 candidates in Masters category.
• Bharadwaj Kaka has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his M.Tech. thesis titled, "Design, Simulation and Development of Multifunctional active power filter for Power distribution system" (Supervisors: Dr. S.P. Das)
• Abhishek Maji has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2016) for his M.Tech. thesis titled, "Power Quality Improvement and Power Capacity Enhancement of Power Plant for Rural Telecom Applications" (Supervisors: Dr. Santanu Mishra)
• Mr. Abhishek Kumar Jha, pursuing PhD under Prof. Jaleel Akhtar has received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) 2016 Award from the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) in collaboration with the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)-Departmentof Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India (GoI).
  The award was given for the project entitled “A Compact Microwave Sensor for Characterization of Radomes and Dielectric Signature Detection of Materials in 3G And 4G GSM Bands”. This project, pursued by Mr. Abhishek Kumar Jha as part of his PhD program has been considered as one of the top 19 entrepreneurial technologies and was awarded under the Technological-Edge category of BIRAC-DBT, GoI.
• The team (EE@IITK+TCS) was been selected to participate in Amazon Picking Challenge at RoboCup 2016 in Leipzig, Germany.
• Saksham Agarwal, a third year Undergraduate, has won the prestigious 'Honda Young Engineer and Scientist Award' for the year 2015.
• Mr. Debdeep Sarkar, PhD student of Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has won the Best Report Award in the International Microwave and RF Conference organized by IEEE MTT Society on December 10-12, 2015  at Hyderabad. The certificate for the award is available in the following link:
  Certificate for the Award
• Project on "RF Sensor for Contamination Detection in Edible Products" involving PhD and M.Tech students under the guidance of prof. MJ Akhtar have been awarded second prize at the IEEE SIGHT Design Contest held in Hyderabad on December 10, 2015. The contest was organized the IEEE MTT/AP Society on sidelines of the IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (IMaRC 2015), where proposals were invited from groups engaged in development of microwaves and RF technologies (MHz through THz) for humanitarian applications. The team members were Abhishek Kumar Jha, M. Arif Hussain Ansari, Muhammed Shafi K T, Surya Prakash Singh, and M. J Akhtar
• Project on "Ambient RF Energy Scavengers for Health Monitoring Appliances in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) " involving PhD and M.Tech students under the guidance of prof. MJ Akhtar have been awarded second prize at the IEEE SIGHT Design Contest held in Hyderabad on December 10, 2015. The contest was organized by the IEEE MTT/AP Society on sidelines of the IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (IMaRC 2015), where proposals were invited from groups engaged in development of microwaves and RF technologies (MHz through THz) for humanitarian applications. The team members were Sanchari Sen Sarma, Sandhya Chandravanshi, Abhishek Kumar Jha and M. J. Akhtar
• A book by Dr. Aditya K. Jagannatham titled "Principles of Modern Wireless Communications Systems" has been recently published by Tata McGraw Hill.
• Dr. Somak Bhattacharyya who defended his PhD thesis in April 2015 and was supervised by Prof. Vaibhav Srivastava has been awarded first position in Young Scientist Award in "2nd URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (RCRS 2015)" organized by Indian Committee for International Union of Radio Sciences (INC-URSI), Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and School of Environemental Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi held during 16-19 November, 2015 in Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy, New Delhi for his paper titled "A broadband microwave metamaterial absorber with octave bandwidth"
• Paper titled "Thermal Imaging based CBM on Android Platform" Co-authored by Prof. Nishchal Verma and his PhD student Ms Sonal Dixit won Best Poster Award at IEEE Bombay Section Symposium held in Mumbai, September 10-11, 2015
• Professor Y N Singh has received IEEE Region 10 EA Award on Major Educational Innovation (2014) for spearheading the opensource Brihaspati initiative
• Abhishek Kumar Jha, PhD student with Dr. Jaleel Akhtar, has received the prestigious Graduate Fellowship Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society for 2015. The award is given every year by the IEEE MTT Society to 8-10 PhD students selected from all over the world. This award is offered first time ever to a PhD student from an Indian Academic Institution.
• Ankush Sharma has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2015) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, “Multi-Area Power System State Estimation Utilizing Synchrophasor Measurements, Multi Agents and Common Information Model” (Supervisors: Dr. S.C.Srivastava and Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti). He was among the top 10 candidates in Doctoral category.
• Ch V V S Bhaskara Reddy has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2015) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, “Early Detection & Control of Voltage Stability and Fast Assessment of ATC Using Synchrophasor Measurements” (Supervisors: Dr. S.C.Srivastava and Dr. Saikat Chakrabarti)
• Mahesh Kumar has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2015) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, “Design Modelling and Control of Smart DC Microgrid for Integration of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources” (Supervisors: Dr. S.C.Srivastava and Dr. S.N.Singh)
• Kanna Bhaskar has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2015) for his Ph.D. thesis titled, “Wind Power Forecasting & its Applications in Optimal Bidding and Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch of Wind Farms” (Supervisor: Dr. S.N.Singh)
• Shikha Chittora has been selected for POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2015) for her M.Tech. thesis titled, “Coherency Based Dynamic Equivalencing of Electric Power System” (Supervisors: Dr. S.N. Singh)
• Megha Nawhal and Priyajeet Kaur received Eaton Excellence Award in December 2014.
• Dr. Shilpi Gupta has been awarded Ramanujan Fellowship
• IIT Kanpur team consisting of Amrita Bal, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Deepam Kedia and Gaurangi Gupta (Mentor: Dr. A. R. Harish) has won the Second Prize in the 2014 AP-S Student Design Contest held at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA in July 2014. This is the first time that an Indian Team has reached to the final round.
• Pragya Kushwaha (PhD student with Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan) received Best Paper Award for her paper titled "BSIM-IMG with Improved Surface Potential Calculation Recipe" at IEEE INDICON, Pune, Dec. 2014.
• Avirup Dasgupta (PhD student with Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan) received Best Poster Award for his paper titled "Analysis and Modeling of Quantum Capacitance in III-V Transistors" at IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), Bangalore, Dec. 2014.
• Article entitled "Design of 2D metamaterial Cloak with Minimum Scattering Using Quadratic Transformation Function", authored by Archana Rajput and Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava has been featured on Cover Page of AIP Journal of Applied Physics (vol. 116, No. 12, Sept 2014).
• PhD student Ruchi Tripathi has received the best presenter award in the PhD Forum at International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS) 2014, held in Delhi, Jan. 6-10.
• M. Tech. student, Mr. Mahesh Vardikar working with Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti won the POSCO Power System Award (PPSA 2014). Thesis title: Power system state estimation with external network equivalents considering measurement transformation.
• Professor S. N. Singh (EE) has been awarded Dr. P. S. Nigam Power Sector Award 2014 for the Best Technical Paper on Power Section entitled PQ Capabilities Curve of a single-stage Utility Scale Grid Connected PV Systems during the 94th Annual General Meeting of the Institution of Engineers (India), UP State Center held on November 30, 2014 at Lucknow. This paper is co-authored by Mr. Vivek Nandan Lal, PhD student.
• Professor S. N. Singh (EE) has been elected as Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.
• Professor Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava (EE) has been selected for IEI Young Engineer Award in Electrical Engineering discipline.
• M. Tech. thesis of Mr. M. Shaji, has been selected for the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award/Appreciation 2014. Mr. Shaji developed a Non-invasive Coplanar Microwave Sensor during his M. Tech. work, which was tested for detecting contamination in various food products. This work was also patented.
• Mr. Karan Nathwani has been selected for Raman-Charpak Fellowship for this year. He is doing PhD with Prof. Rajesh Hegde.
• Paper by Raju Ranjan, Sumana Gupta and K. S. Venkatesh on "Semi-Interactive region segmentation based on sparse representation"has been awarded with "The Best Paper" award in IEEE INDICON 2013 held at IIT Bombay, 13th-15th Dec.
• Paper by Saumik Bhattacharya, Sumana Gupta and K. S. Venkatesh titled "Multipoint image destabilization using disparity map" has received the best paper award in session on Computational Techniques at the Second Michael Farady IET India Summit 2013, organized by IET Kolkata branch, 17th-18th Nov., 2013.
• Paper by Shantanu Agnihotri, Audip Ghosh, Avirup Dasgupta, Sourabh Khandelwal and Yogesh Singh Chauhan on "A surface potential based model for GaN HEMTs" has received the "Gold Leaf Certificate" in IEEE Asia-Pacific conference on postgraduate research in microelectronics and electronics (Prime Asia 2013) held at GITAM University Visakhapatnam from 19-21 December, 2013.
• Paper by Soumya Shubhra Nag, Ravindranath Adda, Olive Ray and Dr. Santanu Mishra "Current-Fed Switched Inverter Based Hybrid Topology for DC Nanogrid Application" has won the best paper award in the session in 39th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2013) held in Vienna, Austria, Nov 10-13, 2013.
• Paper by Vipul Arora and Prof. Laxmidhar Behera "Semi-supervised Polyphonic Source Identification using PCLA based Graph Clustering" has won the best student paper award in 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 4-8 Nov., 2013, Brazil.
• Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan has been selected as one of the IBM Faculty Award recipients for the year 2013.
• PhD thesis work of Dr. Sandeep Anand has been chosen for the INAE innovative Student Project Award 2013.
• Prof. S. N. Singh, selected for "Sri J. N. Gupta and Smt. M. D. Gupta endowed chair professor".
• Prof. Aloke Dutta has been awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT Kanpur, 2013.
• Prof. Adrish Banerjee, selected for "P. K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship".
• Prof. Nishchal Verma, selected for "Devendra Shukla Young Faculty Research Fellowship".
• Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, selected for "Class of 1979 Research Fellowship".
• Prof. S. N. Singh, selected for "2013 IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Award in Continuing Education".
• Mr. Ankush Sharma and Mr. Paramarshi Banerjee) working with Prof. S. C. Srivastava have won the first prize of student pavilion (competing with 33 other institutes participated from India and abroad) in Gridtech 2013 organized by Power grid Corporation of India in association with Ministry of Power during 3-5 April 2013 in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The title of the project was "Remote Monitoring and Control for Power System Network Using Mobile SCADA Application".
• Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) - a subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID), in partnership with the Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi, has awarded POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA 2013) to the following PhD theses for innovative research in the areas of power systems.
  • Dr. Seethalekshmi K., thesis titled "Developmet of Adaptive Load Scheduling and Distance relaying scheme utilizing synchophasor technology". Her thesis supervisors were Prof. S. N. Singh and Prof. S. C. Srivastava.
  • Dr. Sachin Jain, thesis titled "Estimation of stationary and time-varying harmonics in emerging power systems". His thesis supervisor was Prof. S. N. Singh.
  • Dr. Naveen Jain, thesis titled "Swarm intelligence based DG and capacitor planning in distribution networks". His thesis supervisors were Prof. S. N. Singh and Prof. S. C. Srivastava.
• Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) - a subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID), in partnership with the Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi, has awarded POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA 2013) to the following M. Tech. theses for innovative research in the areas of power systems.
  • Dongare Kapil Subhash, thesis titled "Power system state estimation considering real-time equivalents of the external networks". Thesis supervised by Prof. S. Chakarabarti.
  • Sivanagaraju Gangavarapu, thesis titled "Current differential protection of transmission line considering parameter uncertainties". Thesis supervised by Prof. S. Chakrabarti and Prof. S. C. Srivastava.
• Two papers authored by Mr. Somak Bhattacharyya, Saptarshi Ghosh, Debdeep Sarkar and Prof. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava have received the best paper award of their respective sessions in Sixth Annual Conference of Antenna Test and Measurement Society of India (ATMS) held in Kolkata during 11-13 February, 2013. the title of the papers are:
  • "Design of an Ultra Thin Dual Band Microwave Meta-material Absorber," authored by Saptarshi Ghosh, Debdeep Sarkar, Somak Bhattacharyya and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava (Best Paper of Session 1 of the Conference; paper presented by Mr. Saptarshi Ghosh).
  • "Design of a Dual Band-Notched Ultra-Wideband Antenna Using CSRR and Modified Mushroom-Type EBG Structure," authored by Debdeep Sarkar, Saptarshi Ghosh, Somak Bhattacharyya and Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava (Best Paper of Session 3 of the Conference; paper presented by Mr. Debdeep Sarkar).

• Mr. Somak Bhattacharyya (PhD student under supervision of Dr. K. V. Srivastava) has been selected for Young Scientist Award in "International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, 2013 (EMTS, 2013)" organized by International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI) scheduled to be held on 19-24 May, 2013 in Hiroshima, Japan.