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Media ranking 2012

BITS Pilani and its campuses fared well in all media ranking of engineering colleges during 2012. In India Today ranking of Top Engineering Colleges, BITS was placed in the top 5th position (Ref : India Today, June 18, 2012). The Week – Top Engineering Colleges, puts BITS in the top 7th position (Ref : Te Week, dated June 17, 2012). Outlook – Top Engineering Colleges, puts BITS in the top 7th position (Ref : Outlook, dated June 25, 2012). Further, in all the above rankings, BITS occupies the topmost position among all private colleges of the country. 

Faculty Achievements

  • Prof. Sandhya Mehrotra of Biol. Science Department, Pilani campus, received Indo-Australia Early S & T Visiting Fellowship for the year 2012-13 for conducting advanced research on the project entitled, “ Exploring the prospects of introducing bicarbonate transporters into C3 crop plants to improve photosynthesis and water use efficiency”. The fellowships are awarded by the Indian National Science Academy and is supported by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and they are awarded to outstanding Indian early career scientists and senior scientists working in research in frontline areas of Science and Technology.
  • Prof. Anil Kumar of Chemistry Department, Pilani campus, received ISCB Young Scientist Award 2013 from Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, Lucknow and Harrison McCain Foundation Award from Acadia University, Canada for the year 2011-12.
  • The project, “ Design of ultra-low power , low-noise implantable neural recording amplifier for brain machine interface” submitted by Dr Anu Gupta of EEE Department, Pilani campus, along with four students was selected for the second best award (reward money Rs 20000) In Cadence Design Contest, 2012.
  • Dr Sangeeta Sharma of Humanities and Languages Department received Outstanding Editor’s Award, 2012, from Association of Indian Management Scholars, International, USA.
  • Dr B K Rout, Asst Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, was awarded Indo US Science and Technology Fellowship for the year 2012-13.
  • Dr Rajeev Taliyan and Mr P L Sharma of Pharmacy Department, Pilani campus, won Best poster award for the poster entitled, “ Protective effect of FeTMPyP, a peroxynitrite catalyst, against STZ – induced neuropathic pain behavior in rats” at the ICMR Sponsored Conference : Insight Into the Evaluation of Natural Products with Special Reference to Anti-Obesity Drugs held during September 22-23, 2012 at Etawah, India.
  • Dr R Mahesh, Ms Deepali Gupta, Mr S Bhatt and T Devidoss won Best Poster Award for the poster entitled, “ Antidepressant like activity of Buspirone and role of HPA axis dysregulation in depression” presented at National Conference on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, held at Indore on April 28-29, 2012.
  • Dr R Mahesh, Mr Dilip Kumar Pandey, Mr Shvetank Bhatt and Mr Baldev Kumar Gautam of Pharmacy Department, Pilani campus, were awarded Professor Duggirala Visweswaram and Prof. Sreemantalu Satyanarayana Award (Pharmacology) for the paper, “Anti-depressent like effect of pimozide in acute and chronic animal models of depression” published in Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research , Vol 45, No 1, January – March 2011. The award was given at the Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India Conference, October 2012, held at Manipal.
  • Prof R N Saha, Mr S Kollipara and S Bende of Pharmacy Department, Pilani campus, received Prof. M L Khorana Memorial Prize for best publication award in Pharmaceutical Analysis and Bioanalytical Methods Chemistry for their paper, “ Rapid and sensitive liquid chromatographic method for determination of Paclitaxel from Parenteral Formulation and Nanoparticles” , published in Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol 72(4), 2010.
  • Dr Halan Prakash, Subramanian Gokulakrishnan and Priyadarshini Parakh of K K Birla Goa campus received Best Poster award in National Conference on Recent Advances in Inorganic Chemistry held in March 2012 for the poster titled, “ Degradation of Malachite green by Potassium persulphate, its enhancement by 1,8-dimethyl – 1,3,6,8,10,13-hexaazacyclotetradecane nickel(II) perchlorate complex and removal of antibacterial activity”.
  • Dr Halan Prakash, Priyadarshini Parakh Subramanian and Gokulakrishnan of K K Birla Goa campus received Best Poster award in Second International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes, October 2012 for the poster entitled, “ Visible Light Inactivation of Bacteria by Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes and Effective removal of Complexes by environment friendly adsorbents”.
  • Dr Gyan Prakash of EEE and E & I Department, K K Birla Goa campus was awarded “Excellence in Research Award 2012” by IIT Bombay for his PhD thesis.
  • Dr Vineet Kumar Singh, of Mathematics Department, K K Birla Goa campus, was awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship from DST, India.
  • Prof D M Kulkarni, of Mechanical Engineering, K K Birla Goa campus, received Prof S Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award 2012 for excellence in teaching, research and contribution to institution development.
  • Prof Suman Kapur, Professor, Hyderabad campus was awarded Sri B K Birla and Smt Sarala Birla Chair Professorship award (2010-2014).
  • Dr Amit Nag and Dr Subhas Ghosal of Chemistry Department, Hyderabad campus, were selected under the scheme, “ Bilateral Collaborative Exchange Program” by INSA to visit Germany for 3 months in 2013.
  • Dr K.Srinivasa Raju, Professor, Civil Engineering Department , Hyderabad campus was listed among the 150 most cited authors in Civil Engineering by Google Scholar.
  • Dr Syed Ershad of EEE Department, Hyderabad campus won Silver Leaf award for the paper presented at Prime Asia , 5-7 December 2012, Hyderabad.
  • Dr Sajeli Begum of Pharmacy Dept, Hyderabad campus has been admitted as Fellow of Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, India.

Students Achievements

  • Ms Archana Choudhary of Chemistry Department, Pilani campus, received best oral presentation award for the paper “ Design and synthesis of nanostructural heterogeneous catalyst and characterization ” presented at the 4th National Symposium for Material Research Scholars, IIT Bombay, on 4-5 May, 2012.
  • Mr Sonu of Chemistry Department, Pilani campus, received best oral presentation award for the paper, “ Effect of solvents and pH on Intramolecular charge transfer fluorescence properties of trans – 2 - [4’-(N,N’-dimethylaminostyryl]pyridine” presented at Chemical Constellation Cheminar 2012 (CCC 2012) (International Conference) organized by the Department of Chemistry, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, on 10-12 September, 2012.
  • Ms Sonal Kumari, PhD Scholar, Computer Science and Information Systems Department, Pilani Campus, got the prestigious TCS PhD scholarship from January 2012 for a period of 4 years. Ms Kumari also got the Canadian Government Commonwealth Research Scholarship to work for 6 months at Carleton University, Canada (Can $ 10000).
  • Three students of B. E (Computer Science) of Pilani campus, Mr Rishab Agarwal, Mr Kunal Lad and Mr Nitin Gangahar were chosen by Google with salary package of US $ 225 thousand (INR1.22 Cr).
  • Humanoid AcYut – 4 developed by the students of Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Pilani campus, was invited to participate in ROBOCUP 2013 held in June 2013 in Netherlands.
  • Four students of Pilani campus, by name, Mr Sentiwapang, Mr Gaurav Ghosh, Mr Bable Ashutosh Madhavrao, and Ms Sujata Sharma were selected for the Aditya Birla Scholarships for 2012-13.
  • Mr Saurabh Nayak, student of Computer Science and Information Systems Department, K K Birla Goa campus won RBI Young Scholar award 2012.
  • The paper of Ms Vaidehi Murarka, student of Hyderabad campus, was accepted for publication in International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, Paris, France. Title of her paper was “Alphabet recognition using pixel probability distribution”.
  • Ms A Mallika, Research Scholar, Hyderabad campus, received best research award for her research work in molecular biology in the year 2012 sponsored by Bharat Biotech Intl. Ltd.
  • Mr Varun Soni, student of Hyderabad campus won 3 gold medals, best power lifter and best weight lifting trophy award in BOSM 2012. Further, Mr Soni was declared Best Player of BOSM 2012.
  • Basketball team of Hyderabad campus won 1st prize in Inter-city tournament conducted by NALSAR Law College in Hyderabad in 2012.
  • Team of Hyderabad campus won the First Prize in the Fashion Show at the Cultural Festival (Spring Spree 2012) held at NIT Warangal and Ms Dhriti Trivedi won Best Female Model Award.

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