Faculty Achievements
- Prof R N Saha, Senior Professor of Pharmacy and Deputy Director, was felicitated on 13th November 2011 in the Institute auditorium in recognition of his contribution to teaching and research in Pharmacy and he was re-designated as Shri B K Birla and Smt Sarala Birla Chair Professor. Prof Saha does research in novel drug delivery, pharmaco-kinetics and bio-pharmaceutics, and drug design. He has successfully completed several sponsored R&D projects that have resulted in transfer of technology to pharmaceutical companies and in commercial production and marketing of drugs, MOVON CR and Zerodol CR, by Ipca Labs. He is a recipient of "Best Pharmacy Teacher of India" award from Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India.
- Prof. Arya Kumar has been awarded Goldman Sach 10000 Women awards certification Honours for participating in the mentor development program in the year 2011 organised by London Business School and National Entrepreneurship Network.
- Prof. Navneet Gupta received Bharat Jyoti Award along with Certificate of Excellence from the Indian International Friendship society, in a ceremony held at Constitution Club, New Delhi on 11 November 2011 (National Education Day). This award was given in recognition of meritorious services, outstanding performance and remarkable contribution in the field of education and research. The award along with Certificate of Excellence was presented by Dr. Bhishma Narain Singh, Former Governor of Tamil Nadu & Assam and Dr. J V G Krishnamurthy, Former Election Commissioner of India.
- Prof. Poonam Goyal recieved the award of Woman in Data Mining in 9th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'11) hosted in University of Ballarat, Ballarat Victoria during 1-2 December 2011.
- Prof. C B Gupta received the Best Citizens of India Award 2011 by International Publishing House, New Delhi in recognition of his contributions in various fields including education, teaching and research.
- Prof. Arya Kumar was honoured with distinguished faculty award in recognition and appreciation of his dedication, interest, enthusiasm and attitude in accomplishing his assigned mission of teaching by BITSAA International in the BITSAA Global Meet on 9 January 2011.
- Dr. Jitendra Panwar was awarded as INSA Visiting Professor/Fellow under INSA International Bilateral Exchange/ Collaboration Programme 2011-12.
- Mr Sunil Kumar Dubey won the prize for the Best Poster in 3rd Conference of Indian Pharmaceutical Association held at Indore during 19-20 February 2011.
- Prof. Pushp Lata has been awarded with Shiksha Ratan Award by India International Friendship Society, New Delhi, for meritorious services and remarkable performance. 27 Academicians across the country were felicitated with this award for their services and out of them nine were women achievers. The ceremony was held at Speaker Hall, Constitution Club on 26 May 2011. The awards were given away by the Honourable Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, General J J Singh and Ex-Governor of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Bhisham Narayan Singh and Retired Director CBI, Mr. Jogindra Singh.
Students Achievements
- Saurabh Ahuja [Captain (2008B4A2704P)], Abhinav Mahajan (2008C6TS554P), Harshdeep Singh (2010A4PS300P), Vineet Agarwal (2007B1A8209P), Ayush Agarwal, Hemant Kumar Singh (2010B5A1580P), Pawan Kunchey (2009A4PS306P) and Anjal Khan (2010B2A4364P) of BITS Pilani won the Overall 2nd position in Efficycle 2011, organized by Society of Automotive Engineers Northern India Section [SAE NIS], held from 14 October 2011 to 16 October 2011, at UIET Chandigarh. The 8 member team designed a 3 tyred multi rider hybrid vehicle that runs both on human effort and batteries.
- Dishank Upadhyay (2008A8TS270P) has been appointed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as the Young Ambassador to Germany for the academic year 2011-2012. On 4 August, Christiane Schlottmann, Director of the DAAD, New Delhi handed over the letters of appointment to the second batch of fourteen 'Young Ambassadors'.
- Saurabh Ahuja (2008B4A2704P), Ankit Khandelwal (2007B3A4655P) and Abhinav participated in a B-Plan competition held at IIM Kozhikode. They were overall winners in the Whiteknight- Backwaters event held during 18-20 November 2011. Apart from this, they won consolation prize at CONQUEST, Annual International B-Plan Competition of BITS Pilani.
- Rohit Pathak (2011A7PS004P) and Aqsa Inayat (2011A7PS017P) received the prestigious Aditya Vikram Birla Scholarship 2011.
- Ajay Singhvi (2011A3PS029P), Nayan M Goyal (2010A7PS308P) and Lokesh Jindal (2008A3PS073P) received the prestigious OP Jindal Engineering & Management Scholarship, 2011.
- Pinki (2010K108163P), Patel Hardik Himanshu (2010K108165P), Atul Gupta (2010K146177P), Jigish Jayantilal Parmar (2010K147191P), Anupama.D (2010K147190P), Chiranjeevi Venkatesh K (2010K146185P), Ankur Sharma (2010K108172P), Sudha Singh (2010K108162P), Rachumallu Ramakrishna (2010K146184P), Ashish Dutt Gajja (2010H108467P), Kumar Amit (2011H146187P),
- Nilanjana Sadhu (2008A5TS862P), Karkhanis Aneesh Vidyadhar (2008A5PS432P), Jyothirmai Sirugudi (2008A5PS370P), Ankit Tankala (2008A5PS802P), Deepa Deepta Acharya (2009A5PS776P), Sanjeev Agarwal (2009A5PS882P), Vankadari Koushik Kumar (2009A5AB680P), Mohit Agarwal (2009A5PS499P), Shaurya Chanana (2010A5PS854P), Saloni Kapil (2010A5PS849P), Riddhiman Pal (2010A5PS776P) and Bandi Sai Sharan Reddy (2010A5PS840P) received the prestigious Sir Ratan Tata Trust Scholarship, 2011
- Bhargav Golla (2009A7PS140P) got the Runners Up in the All India Web of Knowledge Quiz held during October – November 2011. Thomson Reuters, the parent company of Web of Knowledge sent a gift of Canon Power Shot A 3200 IS camera to the Institute which was handed over to him by Prof Arya Kumar, Dean, Student Welfare Division.
- Aditya Shankar Raghuvanshi (2007B5A4661) and Aaksh Mohan Singhal (2007A3TS168P) participated in finals of Intel India Embedded Challenge and won First Prize in Smart Solution Category, a sum of Rs. 50,000 for the Robot Shaurya, an autonomous ground vehicle designed by them. They also participated in DRDO Student Robot Competition 2010 held on 25-31 October 2010 at Chennai, Shaurya was shortlisted among the 14 finalists out of 240 teams from different parts of the country. Shaurya received prize money of Rs 1 lakh.
- Nishank Varshney (2009B4A8698P) and G Bhargav (2009A7PS140P) were selected for the Design and Innovation Workshop organized by MIT Media Lab, USA at Pune during 24-28 January 2011. Only 120 Students were selected out of more than 1500 applicants from all over the globe.
- Gautam Bothra (2010B3A3636P) stood first in the APOGEE event: Stock Market Simulation, an online event organised by Eco Finance Association.
- A new Startup company by Nikhil P Bhandare (2008C6PS298P) and Siddharth Seth (2009B4A3713P) has been selected amongst India's Top 30 Student Startups in the event NEN First dot at Chennai during 10-11 January 2011.
- Siddharth Seth (2009B4A3713P) and Shayoni Seth (2009A7PS659P) were the only student invitees for Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (NRI Conference), organized by Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and Confederation of Indian Industries at Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi during 7 - 9 January 2011.
- Siddharth Seth (2009B4A3713P) got first Prize in CYBERFIESTA (International software designing contest) and second Prize in Project Presentation in Category – Infrastructure in APOGEE 2011.
- Shivam Pratap Singh (2010A2PS417P) won first position for the project titled The Omniscient Bot (Communication and Network Systems) in APOGEE 2011.
- Nikhil Gakkhar (2010H106431P) presented a research paper titled Experimental and Numerical Based approach for Fibre Reinforcement in Rotomolding in an International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, held at Surat (India) during 6-8 June 2011. He also presented a research paper titled Experimental Reliability Analysis of Linear Low Density Poly-Ethylene in an International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technology, held at Chitkara University (Punjab) on 20 July 2011.
- Ravi Aswani (2010C7PS510P), Anjal Khan (2010B2PS364P) and Hemant Kumar Singh (2010B5PS580P) got second position in an event called Peace Patra, a paper presentation (They presented on "Fortunes at the bottom of the pyramid") at SOIL India Conference, organised by School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), Gurgaon India on 18 March 2011.
- Mayank Gupta (2010A7PS022P) won second prize in Projects (Category- Transportation) for the project on “Automatic Vehicle Accident Report System” in APOGEE 2011.
- Ankita Sarda (2010A7PS020P), Vaibhav Grewal (2010A3PS024P), Prakash Singh (2010A3PS017P) and Shuja Shabir Naik (2010A7PS002P) received prestigious Aditya Birla Scholarship at ITC Grand Central, Mumbai in September 2010.
- Divyashish Sharma (2008A5PS426P) and Vineet Mohapatra (2008A2PS217P) won fourth prize in Wiz-o-Biz, Drishti 2011, Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM), Nasik (January 2011), third prize in B-Plan, Kshitij 2011, IIT Kharagpur (January 2011) second prize in Ignite, Elevator Pitch Competition, TATAVA 2011, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (February 2011) and first prize in DHITI, APOGEE 2011, BITS Pilani (March 2011) for their B-Plan "AMRIT" which seeks to solve water quality issues in Rural India by deploying low cost water filter "Boondh", which is based on biosand filtration and natural coagulation and is environment friendly as well.
- Akash Saxena (2010A7PS168P) won second prize for the project on Use of Swarm Intelligence for designing an architectural plan for emergency evacuation, avoiding stampede (Infrastructure field) and first prize in the event Cyberfiesta in Apogee 2011.
- Agrawal Chirag Shivprakash (2009A3PS058P) (Group Leader), Modi Krupal Chandresh (2009A3PS150P), Gogri Saumil Pankaj (2009B4A3539P) and Khambati Aziz Hozefa (2010A3PS101P) stood second in Avalanche, a competition involving robot building, image processing and data communication at IIT Bombay Techfest held during 7-9 January 2011.
- Rishikesan Parthiban (2009A3PS191P) presented a paper on 'Write Tutor' at IITM 'International IEEE conference on Technology for Education' held during 14-16 July 2011.
- Rishabh Mehrotra (2008B4A7533P) presented a paper in the field of Artificial Intelligence, which got accepted at a Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis to be held in conjunction with 49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT) 2011 in Portland, Oregon on 24 June 2011. It was the only paper by an undergraduate author which was selected for publication at the workshop.
- Ayush Kanwar (2008A1PS474P) received Prof. R P Vaid Award by BITSAA and Chemical Engineering Association, BITS, Pilani on 24 April 2011.