• Microsoft Imagine Cup

Top two spots in the country (out of 4000 teams)

First place: Deepak Jagdish, Mohit Gupta, Shreyas Nangia and Rahul Sawhney, ?Sonique?, a solution to enable visually impaired people to achieve high quality access of day-to-day navigation scenarios and techniques.

Second place: Himanshu Pokhariya, Parag Kulkarni, Tanushree Jindal and Vasudhara Kantroo, ?The Navigator?, a solution to support people with Cerebral Palsy.

http://www.dqchannels.com/content/reselleralert/106042603.asp

• Texas Instruments DSP Design Competition

2005 First prize (Rs. 2 lakh) Deepak Jagdish and Rahul Sawhney, ?The OmniBook?.

2006 First prize (Rs. 2 lakh) Navin Michael, Jeeta Das, Siddharth Shah, ?WibOnet, An End to End Rural Connectivity Solution?.

• International IBM Linux Challenge Award ? 2004

One of 20 from across the world, and one of 4 from India

Amit Puri

• International IBM Linux Challenge Award ? 2003

One of 20 from across the world, and one of 4 from India

Shashank Khanna

 

• Intel India Research Challenge, 2005: Third prize

Out of 200 entries

K. Pratyush Aditya, A. Geeta Madhuri,  Priya Khandelwal, Anand Gautam, "A Novel VLSI Implementation of JPEG2000 for Rural Applications"

 

• Reliance Infocomm Second Mobile Application contest, 2006:  First prize
  

Application - Prashnavali
Aditya Sharma, Siddharth Shah & Vasudhara Kantroo

(http://www.dadp.com/dadp/html/developercontest/dadp_contest.html)

 

• IBM Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant IT Ecosystem, Gujarat: Winners

Avi Mehta, Ramnath Iyer, Prof. Binita Desai, "Kala Academy Portal".

Jeeta Das, Navin Micheal, Shruti Garg, Siddharth Shah, Prof. Sanjay Chaudhary, "Rural Dispensary Management System".

Puram Niranjan Kumar, Kishore Yalamanchili, Ganesh Gembali, P. Vineeth Kumar Reddy, Prof. Sanjay Chaudhary, "CLRSYS - A City Land Records System".

http://www.invite.co.in/invite_2005_winners.htm

 

• MindTree?s Osmosis Student Paper Contest, 2005

First Prize: Dalwadi Gaurav, ?A 2.4 GHz Dual-Mode Transceiver For High Rate Bluetooth Systems.?

Third Prize: Shweta Sawhney, Naman Arora and Harsh Bhatia, ?Stop SPITing.?

 

• Patni White Paper contest, 2006:

First prize: Swetha Polana, Ashish Kumar, ?An acoustic sensor network for environmental protection?.

Third prize: Navin Michael, Vijayshree Gupta, ?Mobile Ad Hoc Networks:  A future framework for disaster management communication.?

 (http://www.patni.com/contests/whitepaper_contest.html)

• Sixth International Paper Contest of The American Society for Information Science & Technology: One of ten best papers

Akshay Mathur, "ICT and Rural Societies: Opportunities for Growth,"

 

• RTSSPCNS 2005 on Network Security: First Prize

Siddharth Arora and Harsh Agrawal, ?Generation of Chaotic Codes and Its Application to Multichannel Spread-Spectrum Communication,? Organized by, Computer Society of India, Gujarat Chapter and IEEE Gujarat Section

 

• IEEE India Council M V Chauhan Students' Paper Contest 2004: First Prize

Harshit and Prabhat Kumar Saraswat, ?Intelligent Resource Allocation and Inductive Learning Algorithms for the prevention of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on Grid Based Video on demand service.?

 

• iVillage, at ?Ankur?, a 'Techo-Management'  festival at IIT ? Kharagpur, March,2006: Third prize.

Gaurav Mishra, Prashant Pawar, Venkateswarlu Gunupati, Bhushan Patil, Ram Naresh Kumar, (MS-IT-Agriculture).

 

• Ag Whiz, at ?Ankur?, a 'Techo-Management'  festival at IIT ? Kharagpur, March,2006: Third prize.

Gaurav Mishra, Ram Naresh and Venkateshwarlu Reddy Gunupati.

 

• "Abhigyan", paper presentation contest, at IITM Gwalior, April, 2005: Second prize.

Pankaj Mahanty and Bushra Firdous, ?Lossless compression using enhanced data redundancy?.

 

• Students paper Contest and Technical Symposium at ADIT, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Anand): First Prize

Rahul (200301035), Abhishek R Bhatia (200301210), ?Applying SWARM Intelligence to P2P Networks?.

 

• 9^th International Conference on VLSI Design:

K. Pratyush Aditya, A. Geeta Madhuri,  Priya Khandelwal, Anand Gautam, "Novel Architecture of EBC for JPEG2000."

 

• International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2005.

Zameer Iqbal, Ashok Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, R K Khatri, H P Vyas, Shivam Priyadarshi, C Parikh, D Nagchaudhari, "An Accurate and Efficient Method for Small Signal Parameter Extraction for MESFETs."

 

• Second International Symposium on Geo-informaion for Disaster Management, 2006, Goa.