Year Wise Awards/Recognitions Earned by IIITA Alumni
2022
Name: G.Krishna Chaitanya Reddy
Enrollment number: IEC2007018
Course completed from IIITA: BTech EC
Company name: Apple
Designation: RF/mm-Wave IC Design Engineer
Title of the Award/Recognition: “ACCURATE SIGN CHANGE FOR RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSMITTERS”
Month/ Year of Award: June, 2022
Awarding Organization: “US patent and trademark office”
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Patent
Jointly received or Solo: Received along with 3 other colleagues at Apple
2021
Name: Gaurav Bansal
Enrollment number: IEC2010037
Course completed from IIITA: BTech EC
Company name: Infoedge India Ltd – OLX Group
Designation: Technical Lead
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Real time recommendation systems and methods“
Month/ Year of Award: February, 2021
Awarding Organization: “US patent and trademark office”
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Patent
Jointly received or Solo: Jointly received with 2 more people
Name: Jayant Shekhar
Enrollment number: IEC2006016
Course completed from IIITA: BTech EC
Company name: Infoedge India Ltd – Microsoft, Hyderabad.
Designation: Senior Software Engineer
Title of the Award/Recognition: “System and Method for Efficient Scrolling”
Month/ Year of Award: November 2021
Awarding Organization: “US patent and trademark office”
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Patent
Jointly received or Solo: Jointly received
Note: Jayant Shekhar has Nine more US Patents granted.
2020
Name: Vidhu Shekhar Rai
Enrollment number: RIT2012092
Course completed from IIITA: BTech IT
Company name: Government of INDIA
Designation: IAS
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Scored AIR 54 in Civil Services Exam (2020)”
Month/ Year of Award: September 2021
Awarding Organization: Govt. of India
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
Name: Dr. Anirban bhowal
Enrollment number: ICE2013004
Course completed from IIITA: MTech EC
Company name: INRS Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Designation: Postdoctoral fellow
Title of the Award/Recognition: “PhD best thesis award”
Month/ Year of Award: September 2020
Awarding Organization: IIT Guwahati
Frequency of Award: Yearly
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Best PhD thesis in EEE department
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
Name: Vipul MittalEnrollment number: IIT2007102Course completed from IIITA: BTech ITCompany name: Infoedge India Ltd – ( Naukri.Com), NoidaDesignation: Engineering ManagerTitle of the Award/Recognition: “Infoedge Merit Award”Month/ Year of Award: February, 2020Awarding Organization: Infoedge – Board Members & CEOFrequency of Award: AnnualCriteria/ Basis of Award: Award For Exceptional Contribution For Growth of New Product – Conversational AIJointly received or Solo: Received by 5 team Members |
Name: Vineet Sagar
Enrollment number: IEC2007052
Course completed from IIITA: BTech EC
Company name: Venture Garage
Designation: Managing Partner
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Rising Angel Investor of the Year”
Month/ Year of Award: March, 2020
Awarding Organization: Department of IT & Electronics, Govt of UP
Frequency of Award: Annual
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Contribution to startups, technology and angel investment in startups.
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
Name: Dr. Rahul Kumar Jaiswal
Enrollment number: ICE2013005
Course completed from IIITA: MTech EC
Company name: Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Designation: Postdoctoral Researcher
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Young Scientist Award”
Month/ Year of Award: September 2020
Awarding Organization: URSI GASS
Frequency of Award: In three years
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Research contribution
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
2019
Name: Dr Anupam Agrawal
Enrollment number: RS17
Course completed from IIITA: PhD IT
Company name: Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad
Designation: Professor, Dept. of IT
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Best Professor in Information Technology Studies”
Month/ Year of Award: November, 2019
Awarding Organization: 27th Dewang Mehta National Education Awards endorsed by the World Federation of Academic & Educational Institutions.
Frequency of Award: Annual
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Outstanding academic contribution in Information Technology domain
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
Name: Apoorva Kumar
Enrollment number: IIT2008119
Course completed from IIITA: BTech IT
Company name: Microsoft Ireland Research Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
Designation: Senior Product Manager
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Exposing database artifacts (patent)”
Month/ Year of Award: June, 2019
Awarding Organization: US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: New technological invention which has not been made before
Jointly received or Solo: Jointly
Note: Apoorva Kumar has one more US Patent granted and 2 are in application.
Name: Santosh Dwivedi
Enrollment number: 2002309
Course completed from IIITA: MTech IT (WCC)
Company name: Broadcom Inc Regensburg, Germany
Designation: Principal R&D Engineer
Title of the Award/Recognition:“Methods and devices for monitoring optical signals(patent)”
Month/ Year of Award: July, 2019
Awarding Organization: US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Invention
Jointly received or Solo: Jointly
2018
Name: Arjit Gupta
Enrollment number: B2005015
Course completed from IIITA: BTech IT
Company name: Ayu health, Bangalore
Designation: CTO
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018)”
Month/ Year of Award: 2018
Awarding Organization: Forbes India
Frequency of Award: Annually
Jointly received or Solo: Jointly received.
Name: Priyankar Mathuria
Enrollment number: IEC2008069
Course completed from IIITA: BTech EC
Company name: Texas Instruments
Designation: Manager/Technical Lead
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Efficient Memory Bank Design”
Month/ Year of Award: Nov, 2018
Awarding Organization: “US patent and trademark office”
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Patent
Jointly received or Solo: Primary Inventor (group)
Note: Priyankar Mathurai has 7 more US Patent granted
2017
Name: Dr. Anirban bhowal
Enrollment number: ICE2013004
Title of the Award/Recognition: “COMSNETS Domestic Travel Grant”
Month/ Year of Award: Jan 2017
Awarding Organization: IEEE COMSNETS
Frequency of Award: Depends on international conference
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Depends on research profile and international conference ranking
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
Note: Dr Anirban Bhowal also received two International Student Travel Grants.
2016
Name: Viman Deb
Enrollment number: R200538
Course completed from IIITA: BTech IT
Company name: Uber Inc.
Designation: Senior Software Engineer – 2
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Crowdsourcing entity information(patent)”
Month/ Year of Award: 1st-Dec-2016
Awarding Organization: US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Frequency of Award: Only once
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Patent
Jointly received or Solo: Joint, primary author of the idea
Note: Viman Deb has three more US Patents granted..
Name: Deepak Kumhar
Enrollment number: RIT2011030
Course completed from IIITA: BTech IT
Company name: Airtel payment bank
Designation: Senior Software Engineer manager
Title of the Award/Recognition: “Unsung Hero award”
Month/ Year of Award: 2016
Awarding Organization: Delhivery private limited
Frequency of Award: Annual
Criteria/ Basis of Award: Employer Appreciation towards work
Jointly received or Solo: Solo
2014
Name: Bharat Gopalrao Somkuwar
Enrollment number: 2002112
Course completed from IIITA: MTech IT (Bioinformatics)
Company name: Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Imphal
Designation: Scientist
Title of the Award/Recognition: “implementation of ICT development work” (Certificate of appreciation from former Hon’ble CM of Manipur)
Month/ Year of Award: May 23, 2014
Awarding Organization: Government of Manipur
Frequency of Award: Annual
Criteria/ Basis of Award: G2E based e-governance solution
Jointly received or Solo: Solo