Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and his student Tejasvi Chebrolu, and Ashwin Rajadesingan, University of Texas at Austin received the Best Paper Award — Honorable Mention for their research work on How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions at the 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci-2025) held at New Brunswick USA in May 2025
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and his students Arvindh Arun, Karuna K Chandra, Akshit Sinha, Balakumar Velayutham, Jashn Arora and Manish Jain from Google DeepMind, Bangalore received best paper award for their research work on Topo Goes Political: TDA-Based Controversy Detection in Imbalanced Reddit Political Data at BeyondFacts – 5nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis (KnOD 2025), collocated with The Web Conference 2025 held at Sydney, Australia in May 2025
Ashwani Raj, M.Tech, Product Design & Management secured 3rd place nationally at the Product Sprint 1.0 – A Product Management Strategy Showdown hosted by BITSoM, Mumbai in March 2025.
Students from Electronics and Robotics Club (ERC) secured 1st position in the Maze Explorer Event held at IIT Hyderabad on 23 February.
Siddhant Gudwani, UG2K24-ECE, was selected to participate virtually in the Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR-2025) held from 14 to 16 February at Harvard University.
A team from Computer Systems Group comprising Anush Anand, B.Tech Honors; Pranav Agrawal, B.Tech Honors; and Dr. Tejas Bodas won the dynamic pricing competition 2024. The team leveraged their expertise in Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Optimization to optimize pricing strategies for a duopoly, with Gaussian Processes likely playing a key role in their success in the 2024 competition.
Supervised by Prof. Vikram Pudi, Team – SubtasksWhere comprising of Shiven Sinha, Hari Aakash K, and Sushil Raaja U, secured a coveted spot in the ICPC World Finals 2025 with their outstanding victory at the Asia Kanpur On-site Regional 2024
Smart City Living Lab team-NEXUS consisting of Mr. Likhith Kanigolla, Mr. Varada Sasidhar, Mr. Surya Suhaas, Mr. Himanshu Fanibhare won the Best Promotion of oneM2M award at the 4th International oneM2M Hackathon, held from 7 October to 13 December for their innovative project – oneM2M: Enabling Water Network Twins.
Anika Roy, a 4th year CND student working with Dr. Chittaranjan Hens received the Khorana Scholarship in 2024 and went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA as a visiting research student from 14 June to 31 August.
Aishani Pandey, (B.Tech + MS in CSE) working with Dr. Aniket Alam was awarded the Young Authors Recognition Award for her poster presentation on UnSight: Bridging the Educational Gap for Blind Learners at the 15th ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference 2024 held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi from 21 to 23 October. The other authors of this paper are Arush Sachdeva, (B.Tech-3rd year-LCD working with Dr. Anirban Dasgupta) and Vivek Mathur, ( 5th year-CND working with Dr. Chittaranjan Hens).
