Prof. Rustom Choksi Award for Excellence in Research in Science/Engineering
- Description
- Criteria for Selection
This award was instituted in 1993 by Prof. K. Sreenivasan, former Professor & Head of the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering. This award is given every year – alternatively to Science and Engineering. All faculty of the Institute are eligible to be nominated – the members of Senate being the nominators. This award carries a cash prize of Rs.20,000/- each with a certificate.
- Excellence in research- through research guidance, publications (individual as well as joint);
- Contributions to Industry and R&D work resulting in patent for commercialization;
- Establishing new schools for research, special research groups in specialized areas, innovative programmes of research.
Awardees
Prof. V. Rajaraman
Supercomputer Education Research Centre, Engineering , 1993 
Prof. N. Mukunda
Centre for High Energy Physics, Science, 1994
Prof. M. L. Munjal
Mechanical Engineering, Engineering,1995
Prof. Madhav Gadgil
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Science, 1996
Prof. K. T. Jacob
Materials Engineering, Engineering, 1997
Prof. H. Sharat Chandra
Microbiology &Cell Biology, Science, 1998
Prof. K. R. Padiyar
Electrical Engineering, Engineering, 1999
Prof. J. Gopalakrishnan
Solid State &Structural Chemistry Unit, Science, 2000
Prof. B. Dattaguru
Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, 2001
Prof. M. R. N. Murthy
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Science, 2002
Prof. R. Narasimhan
Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, 2003
Prof. Chandan Dasgupta
Physics, Science, 2004
Prof. Raghavendra Gadgkar
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Science, 2004
Prof. V. T. Ranganathan
Electrical Engineering, Engineering, 2005
Prof. S. B. Krupanidhi
Materials Research Centre, Science, 2006
Prof. Rohini M. Godbole
Centre for High Energy Physics, Science, 2006
Prof. M. K. Surappa
Materials Engineering, Engineering, 2007
Prof. Rahul Pandit
Physics, Science, 2008
Prof. Saraswathi Vishveswara
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Science, 2008
Prof. B. Sundararajan
Electrical Communication Engineering, Engineering, 2009
Prof. M. S. Shaila
Microbiology & Cell Biology, Science, 2010
Prof. P. R. Mahapatra
Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, 2011
Prof. V. Kumaran
Chemical Engineering, Engineering, 2011
Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhury
Physics, Science, 2012
Prof. P. Vijay Kumar
Electrical Communication Engineering, Engineering, 2013
Prof. Mrinal Kanti Ghosh
Mathematics, Science, 2014
Prof. B. Ananthanarayan
Centre for High Energy Physics, Science, 2014
Prof. R. Govindarajan
Supercomputer Education & Research Centre, Engineering, 2015
Prof. Rudra Pratap
Centre for Nanoscience& Engineering, Engineering, 2015
Prof. Diptiman Sen
Centre for High Energy Physcis -for Science, 2016
Prof. Vinod Sharma
Electrical Communication Engineering – for Engineering, 2017
Prof. Navakanta Bhat
Centre for Nano Science & Engineering -for Engineering, 2017
Prof. Sampath
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, – for Science, 2018
Prof. Sandhya S Visweswariah
Molecular Reproduction Development and Genetics, – for Science, 2018
Prof. Pradeep Mujumdar
Civil Engineering, 2019
Prof. Shalabh Bhatnagar
Computer Science and Automation, 2019
Prof. S. Natarajan
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, 2020
Prof. N. Srinivasan
Molecular Biophysics Unit, 2020
Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Computer Science and Automation 2021
Prof. Ashok M Raichur
Dept. of Materials Engineering, 2021
Prof. P K Das
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, 2022
Prof. Kaushal Verma
Mathematics, 2022
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