Prof Amit Mehndiratta, Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, shortlisted for his proposal on “Robotic and Augmented Reality Virtual Reality enabled Assistive Technologies in Rehabilitation for upper-limb disability”.

Prof Prasanna Subhash Gandhi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, shortlisted for his proposal on “Productization and field trials of Spanda1: India’s first 3D SLA microprinter based on resonant displacement amplification of compliant mechanisms”.

Prof Shyamanta M Hazarika, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, shortlisted for his proposal on “Intelligent Wearable Hand Exoskeleton for Robotic Neurorehabilitation”.

Dr Praveen Kumar, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, shortlisted for his proposal on “Prototype development + Incubation of a start-up company: Pattern creation at micro-and nano-scales using electric field induced reaction and subsequent flow of liquefied reaction product”.

Dr Palash Kumar Basu, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Valiyamala, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala shortlisted for his proposal on “Design and Development of Low Power, Low Cost, High-Performance Gas Sensor Array for Exhale Breath analyzer: A Point-of-Care based Non- Invasive Early Detection and Prognosis of Cardiovascular Diseases”.

Dr S Venkata Mohan, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, shortlisted for his proposal on “CO2 to Value-added Products: Sustainable Process Development for Succinic acid and Hexanol Production through Hybrid Fermentation Route”.

Prof Udayan Ganguly, IIT Bombay, shortlisted for his proposal on “Design for Secure Indigenous Spiking Neural Network Chip with OTP Memory on 180nm CMOS for Voice Recognition”.

Prof Kedar Khare, Associate (Institute Chair), Optics and Photonics Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi shortlisted for his proposal on “Lens-less Computational Microscopy: Concepts, Devices and Bio-Medical Applications”.

Prof Mahesh Kumar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur shortlisted for his proposal on “IoT enabled 2D Materials functionalized AlGaN/GaN transistor for water quality monitoring”.

Prof Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury, Department of Computer Science & Engg, IIT Kharagpur shortlisted for her proposal on “Design and Implementation of Secure Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs)”.

Prof Hiralal Murlidhar Suryawanshi, Director, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, conferred for his proposal on “Solid State Transformer Technology for Emerging Trends in Electric Mobility and DC Micro-Grid”.

Dr  K.C. James Raju, Centre for Advanced Studies in Electronics Science & Technology (CASEST), School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, conferred for his proposal on “Development of integrated miniature magnet free microwave circulator”.

Dr Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, conferred for her proposal on “Nyquist Photonic Analog to Digital Converter for instantaneous frequency measurement”.

Dr Mayank Shrivastava, Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, conferred for his proposal on “Development of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Based Technology Platform for THz Applications”.

Prof Swades De, Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, conferred for his proposal on “Green/Sustainable IoT for Smart Environment”.

Prof Pramod Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, conferred for his proposal on “Standalone kilowatt scale sCO2 power blocks for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Generation”.

Dr Dibakar Sen, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, conferred for his proposal on “Smart Prosthetic Arm”.

Prof P. Muthukumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, conferred for his proposal on “Design, Development, Testing and Commercialization of Porous Radiant Burners for Domestic Cooking and Industrial Applications”.

Prof Vandana B. Patravale, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, conferred for her proposal on “Development of drug-eluting coatings for self-expandable peripheral stent for the treatment of in-stent restenosis”.

Dr Jyotsnendu Giri, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, conferred for his proposal on “Autologous Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) Loaded Personalized Wound Care Patch at Patient Bedside for Effective Burn Wound Care”.

Prof. Mihir Kumar Purkait, Head, Centre for the Environment and Professor of Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati conferred for his proposal on “Prototype Development for Catechins Extraction and Production of Low Cost Antioxidant Tablets and Capsules”.

Prof. Shantanu Bhattacharya, GVMM Chair and Professor, NL 115X, Manufacturing Science Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur conferred for his proposal on “Disruptive nanotechnology driven innovation for Treatment of Textile Wastewater: Proposal to Scale up existing pilot plant of 10KLD (kilo-liter/day) to real needs of Textile Industry”.

Prof. Preeti Rao, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay conferred for her proposal on “Development of Instrumental Measures for Oral Skill in Any Language Based on Automatically Computed Speech Signal Parameters”.

Prof. Shiv Govind Singh, Professor, Department of Electrical, Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad conferred for his proposal on “Early Detection of C3 And C3a Proteins from The Eye Vitreous of Elderly Person for The Diagnosis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Monitoring Treatment Response”.

Dr. Gaurab Banerjee, Associate Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) Department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore conferred for his proposal on “ Design, Development and Commercialization of Radar-On-Chip Technology”.

Prof. Srinivasan Raghavan, Professor, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore conferred for his proposal on “Beyond AlGaN-GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors for Power and RF Electronics: ScAlN Technology Development for RF Filters and Nitride Electronics”.

Prof. Rohit Srivastava, Head, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research work on “ ‘U can’- World’s first self cervix screening device” leading to portable hand- held solution, which any individual can use with minimum training.

Prof Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay was conferred for his proposal for pursing the research on “Shushrut”- a system for increasing efficiency and diagnosis-accuracy of clinical workflow in Indian radiology using Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing leading to development of a suite of tools to reduce the burden of report generation on radiologists in India, so that they can concentrate on diagnosis only.

Prof. V Kamakoti, Senior Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Madras was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research work on “Design of SHAKTI based secure Micro-processor” leading to development of Processor System-on-Chip (SoC).

Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Head, TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development, Indian Institute of Technology Madras  was conferred for her proposal for carrying out research work on “Design and commercialization of an indigenous lever-operated orthotic knee” leading to development of an easy-to-operate affordable locked knee joint for Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis (KAFO).

Prof. Subhananda Chakrabarti, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai  was conferred for his proposal for pursing the research on “ Development of high resolution and large format (640X512 and 1KX1K) prototype Thermal imagers for night vision and surveillance applications” leading to development of completely indigenous prototypes of large format, thermal imagers for night vision and surveillance applications.

Prof. Bikramjit Basu, Professor, Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore  was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research work on “Design, manufacturing, pre-clinical validation of novel metallic/ceramic dental implants” leading to development of dental implant in India and to provide globally competitive dental implants at lower cost.

Prof. Debatosh Guha, Professor, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta  was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research work on “Development of Metasurface Enabled Multifunction Antennas for Medical and 5G Applications” leading to development of a novel metasurface based antenna technology to satisfy the special requirements of modern 5G communications and medical applications with improved performance.

Dr G Padmanabham (Deceased) , Director, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research work on “Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) for Repair and Reclamation of Aerospace Components” leading to development of indigenous, novel and affordable technologies and products.

Prof Sudip Misra, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur was conferred for his proposal for pursing the research on “Ambulatory Sensing and Point-of-Care Recommendation for IoT – Based Healthcare” leading to development of smart systems using medical analytics.

Prof Ashwini Kumar Agrawal, Head, Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research work on “Next Generation Filtration Devices for Protection of Environment and Health” leading to development of prototypes and devices.

Prof B Ravi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research on Accelerating Medical device innovation and to develop, commercialize and create social impact through two innovative medical products for diagnosis of disease and effective treatment.

Prof PV Madhusudhan Rao, Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research on Medical and Assistive Devices and to develop Tactile Diagrams for the Visually Impaired and Training, capacity building and dissemination of technology developed.

Prof Amrutur Bharadwaj, Department of Electrical Communication, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was conferred for pursuing research on Streetcloud for autonomous drones with the objective of using the smart city’s Street cloud Infrastructure to support autonomous drone fleets through hardware design of Pole Compute and Communication Platform.

Prof G Kumaraswamy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay  was conferred for carrying out research on 3D printing of ceramics, metals and composites using aqueous inks with a view to develop aqueous colloidal solutions as inks for 3D printing of ceramics, metals composites.

Prof Samir K Pal, Senior Professor, Department of Chemical, Biological & macromolecular Sciences, SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata was conferred for his proposal for carrying out research leading to Large Scale Validation and Field Trials of an Indigenous Non-Invasive Non-Contact Robust Portable Hand -held Device for accurate measurement of Bilirubin level, Hemoglobin concentration and Oxygen saturation in Neonatal Subject.