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Recognition

Awards & Recognitions

Our faculty members have been awarded several prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships by leading national and international bodies.

Prof. Vineeth N Balasubramanian

  • Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists, 2023
  • Distinguished Reviewer at IJCAI, 2023
  • Research Excellence Award, IIT Hyderabad, 2022–23
  • Elevated as Senior Member, AAAI, Class of 2023
  • Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, 2022–23
  • Microsoft Research Accelerating Foundation Models Research grant (Azure credits for research)

Dr. Ganesh Ghalme

  • Grant of USD 750,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research on Fairness in ML

Prof. Srijith PK

  • Young Researchers Scientist Award from Sony Research, 2023

Prof. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

  • Suvodip's work on dialog system evaluation nominated for Best Short Paper at SIGDIAL 2023 (runner-up)
  • Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar Fellowship, 2023–2024

Prof. C Krishna Mohan

  • Selected as member of Police Technology Missions sub-committee: Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
  • Appointed as Senate Member in IIT Tirupati & member of Board of Governors (BOG) in IIIT Kottayam

Prof. Sumohana S Channappayya

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Hyderabad
  • Awarded 'Cyient Chair Professor' under Cyient Chair in Future Communication from April 2021 for 3 years

Prof. P. Rajalakshmi

  • PI of DST-NM-ICPS Technology Innovation Hub in Autonomous Navigation (TiHAN), IIT Hyderabad — a prestigious national centre of excellence