Prashant Kodali, working with Prof. Manish Shrivastava and Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, was awarded the Microsoft Research India (MRI) Ph.D Award 2024 by Microsoft Research India for his research work on Code-mixing of Indian Languages.

Research on Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Community Detection in Dynamic Graphs by Subhajit Sahu working with Prof. Kishore Kothapalli; and Prof. Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIT Jodhpur was awarded the APDCM Outstanding Paper award at 26th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM) held from 27 to 30 May at San Francisco, California held in conjunction with 38th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2024).

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla received the Eminent Engineer Award from Association of Consulting Civil Engineers, Hyderabad at HICC Novotel on 15 September.

Prof. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as a member of the Experts Review Committee (ERC) in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for technical evaluation of VAIBHAV fellowship proposals by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, International Cooperation Division, Government of India, for a term of three years, starting from June 2024.

Prof. K S Rajan is one of the jury members for selecting grand finale winners of Bhartiya Antariksh Hackathon (BAH). The hackathon is being organized as part of National Space Day – 2024 celebrations. Secretary, DOS/Chairman, ISRO launched the BAH programme on 4 July in the area of geospatial domain, space science, image processing and AI/ML. The programme is open for UG, PG and Ph.D students in India.

Dr. Zia Abbas received a grant of USD $15,000 from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) to carry on his research work on bang-gaps, oscillators, security circuits, ADCs, Low Power FPGA Programmable Fabric, High Speed and Low Power SRAMs, etc.

Dr. Abhishek Srivastava received a grant of USD $15,000 from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) to carry on his research work on bang-gaps, oscillators, security circuits, ADC etc. on the latest technologies etc.

Dr. Rehana Shaik has received a grant from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-ASPIRE. The grant is for a period of three years.

Dr. Vineet Gandhi, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) has been promoted as an Associate Professor. His research interests are in Computer vision and multimedia, human detection and tracking, computational photography and cinematography, depth reconstruction and applications.

Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani, Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC) has been promoted as an Associate Professor. Her research interests are in Coding theory, information theory, signal processing and distributed storage systems.
