Achievements

Fellowship/Scholarship

  • The Raman-Charpak Fellowship (RCF 2018): Awarded the prestigious fellowship (Only 4 applicants were selected in the Engineering Sciences across India) to conduct research in a French Research Organization for 3-9 months.
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship (CSIR): The fellowship was awarded to selected Ph.D. scholars across India to pursue research work during 2017-20.
  • Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development (ISIRD) Fellowship: The fellowship was received in 2013 to work on a research project, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
  • Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Fellowship: Received MHRD fellowship in 2011 to work on a research project.

  • Recognition

  • IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing - Early Career Researcher (ECR) 2023 , for "contributions to architecting the scalable service-oriented sensor-cloud framework for supporting IoT applications, thereby upthrusting new business opportunities".
  • IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award 2021: Ph.D. Thesis was selected as the outstanding dissertation award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), which is an international forum fostering research and education in Scalable Computing.
  • ICACIE-2020, Springer, Best Paper Award: Paper titled QSens: QoS-aware Sensor Node Selection in Sensor-Cloud Architecture.
  • IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award: Paper titled MEGAN: Multipurpose Energy-Efficient, Adaptable, and Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Node for the Internet of Things was recognized as IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. In 2019, only 7 papers were selected by the journal committee for the best paper out of total of 793 papers.
  • Top Downloaded Article 2017-18: Paper titled Knowledge Discovery for Enabling Smart Internet of Things: A Survey, published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Review - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery was amongst articles published between January 2017 and December 2018, the paper received some of the most downloads in the 12 months. The paper was also recognized as a top 20 most read paper.
  • InSc Young Achiever Award 2019: The award was received for the research paper Topology Control for Self-Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Temporary Connection Impairment, published in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
  • Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2018: Selected as one of the most qualified young researchers ( among 200 researchers world-wide) to participate in the 6th HLF and interact with the Nobel Laureates, Abel Prize Awardees, Fields Awardees, ACM A. M. Turing Awardees, ACM Prize Awardees, and Navanlinna

  • Awardees

  • Dr. Amulya K. N. Reddy Award: Awarded by the Hari-om Ashram Prerit Society for commercialization of prototype (INR 50,000) developed to address a socially relevant problem in 2018. Only 3-4 awards are granted annually among 25,000 (approx.) entries.
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) 2018: Awardee of GYTI for the product Batteryless IoT Sensing Nodes. Award was received in the hands of the honorable President of India.
  • IBM Day Award: Runner-Up in Demo Presentation for the product Batteryless Sensing in IoT in IBM Day, organized by IBM and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2016
  • Runner-Up in Poster Presentation in 6th Research Scholars’ Day, organized by the School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2015
  • Received Honorary Certificate of Appreciation at IEEE ComSoc Student Competition "Communications Technology Changing the World", 2014 for being ranked among the top 9 projects worldwide
  • Second Runners Up in Samsung Innovation Award 2014 for the product Big-Sensor-Cloud
  • Outstanding Poster Presentation Award in 5th Research Scholars’ Day, organized by the School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2014
  • Runner-Up in National Acron Imagination Competition

  • Travel Grant

  • Received full financial assistance from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur to present a paper at the IEEE Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC-Workshop) 2018
  • Received full financial assistance from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur to present a paper at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC) 2018
  • Fully funded to visit the Loughborough University, and City, the University of London for attending the project meeting and delivering a talk in 2017 and 2018.
  • Received full financial assistance from Microsoft Research (MSR) for participating in ACM - MSR Academic Research Summit 2016 and 2017
  • Received full financial assistance from IIT Kharagpur to present a paper at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom) 2014
  • Received travel grant from IIT Kharagpur to present a paper at the 11th IEEE India Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovation in Technology (INDICON) 2014

  • Media Coverage

  • The photograph published in the Telegraph as young innovator in the Gandhiyan Young Technological Innovation on March 20, 2018.
  • News item for the development of BHIM appeared in several newspapers (such as the Times of India, India Today, LinkedIn, Zee News) on July, 2017.
  • News item for the award on Big-Sensor-Cloud appeared in several media (such as Times of India, Samsung News Room, and the Business Wire India News) on October, 2014.