2025-26

• Aakarsh Bansal (221AI001) was awarded the IndiaAI Fellowship of Rs. 1 Lakh by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to pursue his research project in the Medical Computer Vision domain (Guide: Sowmya Kamath S)

• Bhuvanesh Singhla (221AI014) was awarded the IndiaAI Fellowship of Rs. 1 Lakh by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to pursue his research project in the Medical Computer Vision domain. (Guide: Sowmya Kamath S)

• Fahim Ahmed (211IT020) placed as Runner-Up in the PL Genesis: Modular Worlds Hackathon (July 2025)

2024-25

• Fahim Ahmed (211IT020) won ETHGlobal Agentic Ethereum Hackathon (Feb 2025)

• Kesanam Ashinee (211AI023) was awarded the IndiaAI Fellowship of Rs. 1 Lakh by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to pursue her research project in the healthcare domain. (Guide: G. Ram Mohana Reddy)

• Prathipati Jayanth (211AI027) was awarded the IndiaAI Fellowship of Rs. 1 Lakh​ by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy)​, to pursue his research project in the healthcare domain. (Guide: G. Ram Mohana Reddy)

• G V Ravi Ram (211AI018) was awarded the IndiaAI Fellowship of Rs. 1 Lakh​ by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy)​, to pursue his research project in the healthcare domain (Guide: G. Ram Mohana Reddy)

2023-24

• First place in Leaderboard by achieving the highest accuracy in Field of Research Classification (FoRC) Subtask at the International Conference on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2024) 

• Abhay Lejith (221IT002) and Shreesha M (221AI037) won First place in TechTatva’23 - The National Level Technical Fest of Manipal Institute of Technology held during October 18-21, 2023.

• Jai Savla (211AI031) won Third place in Chess at the All India Inter NIT Athletics Tournament, NIT Jamshedpur (Jan 31- Feb 5, 2024)

• Vivek Vittal Biragoni (211AI041) won First place in Hockey at the All India Inter NIT Cricket and Hockey (Mens) Tournament, NIT Trichy  (Jan 5- 8, 2024)

2022-23

• Harini Thirunavukkarasan (191IT221) won First place in Women's Basketball at the All India Inter NIT Athletics Tournament (Nov 17-20, 2022), MNIT Jaipur

• Vasanthram Joshi (191IT155) won Third place in Chess at the All India Inter NIT Athletics Tournament (Nov 17-20,  2022), MNIT Jaipur

2021-22

• Achintya Kumar, Gayathri Nisha, Niraj Nandish and Shlok Uday Bhosale awarded the United Nations Academic Impact and MCN Millennium Fellowship 2022

• Tanmai H (171IT141)  and  Mukesh B R (171IT124) won the Best Paper Award  with  Cash prize of Rs. 4,000 for "Deep Learning based detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from Inexpensive fundus imaging techniques“ at  7th  Intl. Conf. on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT 2021), Jul 9-11, 2021 at IIIT Bangalore

• Venkatesh H (171IT248), Niteesh Kumar (171IT228), Rashad Ahmed(171IT132) won Best Paper Award for “Sketch-based Image Retrieval using CNN based on Feature Adaptation and Relevance Feedback”, 6th Intl. Conf. on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2021),  Feb 25 - 27, 2022, Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

• Veena Mayya, PhD student of Dr. Sowmya Kamath S, received IEEE ComSoc Protsahan Award in recognition of the exceptional contirbutions in her journal publication.

• Ramya D Shetty, PhD student of Dr. Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, received appreciation certificate at “IEEE GRSS Talkathon 2021” organized by IEEE GRSS Kolkata Chapter.

• Spurthy Maria Pais, PhD student of Dr. Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee (co-guided by Dr. Anand Kumar M) received appreciation certificate at “IEEE GRSS Talkathon 2021” organized by IEEE GRSS Kolkata Chapter.

2020-21

• Apoorva M K, final year B.Tech, won the first prize in Facebook Hackathon: Messaging 2020 for her project "ReWise: AI-powered revision bot" [Total number of worldwide participants - 1860]

• Gokul S Krishnan, PhD student of Dr. Sowmya Kamath S, offered Post-doctoral research position at Robert Bosch Center for Data Science & AI, IIT Madras.

• OxyHeal, a startup co-founded by a B.Tech (IT) final year student, Manash Sharma, funded Rs. 9.3Lakh under DST Nidhi Prayaas Schem

• Yash Kumar Gupta and Prajna Hebhar awarded the United Nations Academic Impact and MCN Millennium Fellowship 2020

• Saurabh Agarwala, Linu George, Shashank Jaiswal, Vaibhav G, Rakshatha Vasudev won Rs. 1,00,000 at Software Grand Finale of the Smart India Hackathon 2020 (Team Code Breakers, AR256)

2019-20

• Ankur Singh, Final year student, B.Tech (IT), selected for ETCampusStars Class 2019-20, India's largest platform that aims to identify and reward the brightest engineering minds in the country is an initiative by The Economic Times.

• Saurabh Agarwala, Shashank Jaiswal and Aakash S, 3rd yr B.Tech (IT) won Second prize at "HackVerse 2020" (Cash prize of Rs. 60,000) 

• Apoorva M K, 3rd yr B.Tech (IT) won Third prize at "HackVerse 2020" (Cash prize of Rs. 40,000)

2018-19

• Sunitha Selvan (3rd yr B.Tech-IT), awarded Google 2018 Women Techmakers Scholar

• Google Summer of Code 2018 - Congratulations to Salman Shah (4th yr B.Tech) and Anumeha Agrawal (3rd yr B.Tech)

• AMD Best Student Project Award 2018 (B.Tech) to “Out-of-Context Object Identification for Image Enhancement” by Pooja Soundalgekar, Nihar Joshi, Sneha Jhaveri (Guide: Sowmya Kamath S)

• AMD Best Student Project Award 2018 (M.Tech) to “IoT based Real-Time, Context Aware, Multi-Modal, Affective Analysis in Classroom Response System” by Sujith (Guide: G Ram Mohana Reddy)  

• IT students win monetary prizes in AMD TechDay Coding Contest (organized by AMD India on 23rd March 2018)

2017-18

• Sanjay Bankapur and Nagamma Patil "Simple, Efficient and Effective Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment Model Using Dynamic Progressive Approach with Novel Look Back Ahead Scoring System", 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI-2017, Springer, 05-08 December 2017, ISI Kolkata, India (PReMI’17-Springer Student Award of Rs 5,000/)

• Shashi Roshan, Manish Kumar, Nikhil Vandanapu and Biju R Mohan,  "Model Selection among log-normal, Weibull, Gamma and Generalized Exponential Distributions" in the 6th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (ICRITO 2017), Sep 20-22, 2017

• Ashwin T S and G Ram Mohana Reddy, "Video Affective Content Analysis based on Multimodal Features using a Novel Hybrid RBM-SVM Classifier" at 3rd UPCON Conference [UPCON-2016], Dec 9-11, 2016 

• Manjunath Vanahalli and Nagamma Patil, "Association Analysis of Significant Frequent Itemsets mined from High Dimensional Datasets" at 3rd UPCON Conference [UPCON-2016], Dec 9-11, 2016 

• Mandar Shaha and Sowmya Kamath S, "A Quality-centric Scheme for Web Service Ranking using Fuzzified QoS Parameters" at 2016 International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics [ICACNI-2016], Sept 22-24, 2016 (ACM Kolkata Chapter - ICACNI 2016 Best Paper Award in Networking track)

2016-17

• Vaishakh K, 3rd year B.Tech (IT), placed second in the 24 hour hackathon conducted by Intuit, Bangalore.

• Ajay Kumar M A and Jaidhar CD , "Hypervisor and Virtual Machine dependent Intrusion Detection System for Virtualized Environments" at International Conference on Telematics and Future Generation Networks 2015, organised by Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 26 -28th, 2015 

• Srinivas Balasubramanian, B.Tech-IT (2011 Batch) bags the highest-ever pay offered to a NITK student. ($150,000 per annum, Microsoft USA)