Category: award

BT-LT2022
Sep 29

Our group receives the “Best Lightning Talk Award” at the SMCDC22

A team of our Ph.D. students – Rajat Shinde and Pratyush Talreja, under the guidance of our group in charge, Prof. Surya Durbha, received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the 5th Annual Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences Data Challenge (SMCDC22) organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US. This challenge is organized under the Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering conference. The team presented their work entitled – “Empirical Mode Decomposition-driven Automated Signal Extraction” for Challenge 8 of the Conference. Read more

Sep 06

Prof. Surya Durbha Receives “Prof. S.P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching – 2022”

Our group leader, Prof. Surya S Durbha received the prestigious “Prof. S.P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching – 2022”. Prof. Durbha was one of the recipients among noted Professors from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to receive this esteemed honor and was felicitated during the Teachers’ Day function on 5th September 2022. The event was hosted at the Prof. B. Nag Auditorium of the Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay. Prof. Gagandeep Kang, FRS, Professor of Microbiology & Laboratory Director, Division Read more

3MT 2022
Jul 24

Our Ph.D. Student receives “IEEE GRSS Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award” at the IGARSS 2022

Our Ph.D. Student – Rajat Shinde received the “IEEE GRSS Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award” – Third Place in the IEEE-GRSS 3MT competition. 3MT competition got recognition due to its unique structure where the participants must present their thesis in under 3 minutes. This competition was organized during the International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2022) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rajat presented a part of his Ph.D. thesis under the title – “Why Scan more!” covering the Neural Sparse Modeling Read more

Aug 24

Securing 1st position in the 3rd National Youth Conclave

Parshuram Shourya, Utkarsh Kulshrestha and Sandeepan Dhoundiyal being awarded the 1st Prize by the judges Our students under the guidance of our group leader Prof. Surya S Durbha, secured first position in the 3rd National Youth Conclave conducted by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for demonstrating a working prototype on smart eco bins in digital revolution category.  The event was hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in August 2019 and was graced by the presence of top Read more

Mar 20

Acing the Build-a-thon at the Google Earth Engine India Advanced Summit

Our Ph.D. students – Abhishek Potnis and Rajat Shinde were selected to attend the Google Earth Engine India Advanced Summit by Google India in Bangalore. They were selected as one of the best teams for the Build-a-thon that took place during the summit. It was a two-day event where teams were expected to work on their problem statement using Google Earth Engine. The team consisting of our Ph.D students – Rajat Shinde and Abhishek Potnis worked on “Locating Solar Farms Read more

Jan 08

Team wins Esri India’s mApp Your Way 4.0

A team from Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering mentored by Prof. Surya S Durbha secured the first Runner Up position in the mApp Your Way 4.0 App Development Challenge held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi on January 8, 2019. The team of students comprising of Gaganpreet Singh, Sandeepan Dhoundiyal, Nidhi Kapoor, and, Aditya Vitthalrao Chondke developed a GIS based mobile and web application to address the issue of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Congratulations to the Read more

Jan 28

Team wins I_Hack at E-Summit 2018

  The team won the hackathon at E-Summit 2018, IIT Bombay’s Annual Flagship Event. The team comprising of students Rajat Shinde, Pankaj Tarone, Aarif Sheikh, Aman Verma, and, Abhishek V. Potnis developed a wearable to make the visually impaired aware of their surroundings and also aid them in general activities like reading books, making sense of objects like signboards and recognizing currency notes. The wearable was capable of extracting text and labels from surrounding objects and read them aloud through Read more