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Title: Prof. Angshuman Karmakar and his Students, Venkatesh Kumar and Anindya Ganguly, Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2026
Content: Venkatesh Kumar and Anindya Ganguly, under the guidance of Prof. Angshuman Karmakar, have been selected as winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2026.
Their project, “Pqfdo – Post Quantum Device Onboarding,” has been selected under the Secure System Design category. The team is the only winner in this category in the 2026 edition of the fellowship.
Title: WSAIS Faculty’s Research Collaboration with Texas A&M University Accepted at WiCOMM 2026
Content: Prof. Somitra Sanadhya, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, in collaboration with Prof. Shreyas Kumar of Texas A&M University, along with their co-authors Shreeyanshi Saxena and Madhav Deorah, has had a research paper titled “Secure Agentic AI for Autonomous Cyber Defense in Software Defined Military Networks” accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication for Military Applications (WiCOMM 2026), to be held on 30–31 October 2026 in Dehradun, India.
The work examines the role of agentic AI in enabling autonomous cyber defense in software-defined military networks, with a focus on security, assurance, human authorization, and mission requirements.
Title: Prof. Anirban Roy Publishes Research Paper in IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems
Content: Prof. Anirban Roy, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, along with his former student S. Sarkar, has published a research paper titled “Extended Object Tracking Algorithms within Interacting Multiple Model Framework for Automotive Radar Applications” in the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, July 2026.
Title: Prof. Somitra Sanadhya Presents Research on Multi-Layered QR Codes at USENIX 2026
Content: Prof. Somitra Sanadhya, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, presented his research on multi-layered QR codes at USENIX 2026. The work, co-authored with Pulkit Garg, Robin Verma, and Dr. Gaurav Gupta, demonstrates how multiple values can be embedded in a single QR code and decoded differently based on scanning distance, with potential applications in QR data capacity, advertising, and cybersecurity.
Title: WSAIS Faculty Presents Four Research Papers at IEEE SPACE 2026
Content: Prof. Salahudden Salahudden, and Prof Anirban Roy, WSAIS, IIT Kanpur, along with his co-authors, presented research papers at the IEEE Aerospace and Defense (SPACE) Conference 2026, held from 19–21 July 2026 in Bengaluru.
The four papers are:
1. Autonomous Landing of UAVs Using INDI Control with Ground Effect Modeling
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden and Anirban Roy
2. Flight Dynamics Simulation with Sliding Mode Control Under Atmospheric Disturbances
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden
3. Flight Dynamics and Closed-Loop Control of a Cyclocopter with Real-Time Visualization
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden, Rahul Bansal, and Srikant Shekhar Padhee
4. Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion Control of Hybrid Tiltrotor Aircraft with Asymmetric Rotor Placement
Authors: Salahudden Salahudden and Anirban Roy