Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award Awardees List

2017
Electronics, Informatics, Telematics & Automation
Receiver design for multi-antenna systems and fading characterization for next generation communications.
Dr. Manav Bhatnagar
IIT, Delhi
2017
Space Applications
Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment of Forest Ecosystem.
Dr. Chintala Sudhakar Reddy
NRSC, Hyderabad
2017
Space Sciences
Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology, involving the development of a self-consistent semi-analytical model of re-ionisation, consistent with a variety of observations.
Dr. Tirthankar Roy Choudhury
TIFR, Pune
2015
Electronics and Telecommunication
Fundamental contributions in modeling, design, and analysis of modern wireless communication systems. These find many applications in green wireless sensor networks and 4G/5G cellular system.
Dr. Neelesh Mehta
IISc, Bangalore
2015
Planetary and Space Science
Significant contributions in studies of galaxy evolution and multi phase structure of the interstellar medium.
Dr. Nissim Kanekar
TIFR, Pune
2015
Planetary and Space Science
Significant contributions in development of instrumentation to bring out space weather signatures in airglow emission at low latitudes.
Dr.Dibyendu Chakrabarty
PRL, Ahmedabad
2015
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
None
2015
System Analysis or Management
None
2013
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant Contributions in coding for secure communication.
Prof. Ranjan Bose
2013
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant contributions in development of Negative Bias Temperature Instability tolerant CMOS devices.
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra
2013
Planetary and Space Science
Contributions in understanding Atmospheric coupling processes in particular the association of electrojet and counter electrojet with neutral atmospheric dynamics.
Dr. Tarun Kumar Pant
2013
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Innovative and outstanding contributions in inertial navigation system for spacecrafts deployed for terrestrial and planetary missions.
Shri Joji J. Chaman
2013
System Analysis or Management
None

2011
Electronics and Telecommunication
For introducing novel concepts of light trail and omnipresent Ethernet & transfer of technology to industry.
Dr. Ashwin Gumaste
IIT, Mumbai
2011
Planetary and Space Science
significant contributions in the field of observational cosmology and, in particular, for developing specific approach of bi-polar representations of CMB maps to address the question of statistical isotropy.
Prof. Tarun Souradeep
IUCAA, Pune
2011
'>Planetary and Space Science
significant contributions in the field of X-ray Astronomy covering both instrument development and analytical studies.
Dr. Biswajit Paul
RRI, Bangalore
2011
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
In the field of agro-meteorology, and in particular for retrieving crop bio physical parameters using remote sensing data to quantify primary production.
Dr. N.R.Patel
IIRS, Dehradun
2011
System Analysis or Management
None
2009
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant contributions in wireless technology and standards, particularly for 4G wireless technology.
Dr. Abhay Karandikar
IIT, Mumbai
2009
Electronics and Telecommunication
Computational geometric aspects of robotic path finding and defining measures for interpenetration of pairs of objects.
Dr. K. Sridharan
IIT, Madras
2009
Planetary and Space Science
Radio Astrophysics, particularly towards understanding dark matter in dwarf galaxies and characteristics of the interstellar medium using the giant metre wave radio telescope.
Dr. Jayaram Chengalur
NCRA-TIFR, Pune
2009
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Development of ocean color algorithms from space-borne data for oceanographic applications.
Dr. Prakash Chauhan
SAC, Ahmadabad
2009
System Analysis or Management
NONE
2007
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant contributions to wireless communications, specifically on the performance analysis with transmit – receive diversity and error analysis under correlated fading conditions.
Dr. R.K.Malik
IIT, New Delhi
2007
Electronics and Telecommunication
Important contributions to the design and evolution of next generation of data-base engines and development of a powerful visualization tool to identify basic flaws in current data-base query optimizers.
Dr. J.R.Haritsa
IISc, Bangalore
2007
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contributions to observational astrophysics and cosmology, particularly for understanding the physical state of the interstellar and intergalactic medium and determination of the cosmic microwave background temperature at an early epoch of the universe.
Dr. R.Srianand
IUCAA, Pune
2007
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Significant contributions towards development of numerical models in satellite oceanography, particularly for ocean circulation and ocean wave modeling, which paved the way for operational applications.
Dr. Raj Kumar
SAC, Ahmadabad
2007
System Analysis or Management
None
2005
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions to analytical modeling and numerical simulation of novel and short channel semi conductor devices and development of new processes for semiconductor device fabrication.
Dr. S. Karmalkar
IIT, Madras
2005
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contributions on heating and enrichment of the inter-galactic and intra cluster gas in early universe that led to new concept in evolution of entropy during this era.
Dr. Biman Nath
RRI, Bangalore
2005
Planetary and Space Science
Significant studies on the emission of various pollutants from biomass combustion, including residential biofuel used in the South Asian region, that have potential impact on the radiation budget5 and climate change.
Dr.(Ms.)C.Venkataraman
IIT, Mumbai
2005
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Outstanding contributions towards development and application of remote sensing techniques for various aspects of cropping system analysis for ensuring sustainable agriculture in the country.
Dr. S. S. Ray
SAC, Ahmedabad
2005
System Analysis or Management
For proposing a new paradigm for the understanding of release and conservation of energy in biological systems, using systems biology approach and systems analysis of non-equilibrium problems, leading to new solutions.
Dr. Sunil Nath
IIT, Delhi
2003
Electronics and Telecommunication
Dr. C. Siva Ram Murthy
IIT, Madras
2003
Electronics and Telecommunication
Prof. P. S. Sastry
IISc, Bangalore
2003
Planetary and Space Science
Dr. P. Janardhan
PRL, Ahmedabad
2003
Planetary and Space Science
Dr. P. Sreekumar
ISAC, Bangalore
2003
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Dr. Y. V. N. Krishna Murthy
RRSC (Central), Nagpur
2003
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Mr. Tapan Misra
SAC, Ahmedabad
2003
System Analysis or Management
Mr. M. Annadurai
ISAC, Bangalore
2001
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions on digital image processing including medical imaging super resolution imaging and recovery of depth from defocus.
Dr. Subhasis Chaudhuri
IIT, Bombay
2001
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions on image processing which is of importance to satellite and medical imaging as well as industrial processing and documentation.
Dr. B. Chanda
Indian Statistical Institute,Calcutta
2001
Planetary and Space Science
Significant contributions towards understanding various aspects of Pulsars including the first ever mapping of pulsars radio emission sites.
Dr. Avinash A. Deshpande
RRI, Bangalore
2001
Planetary and Space Science
Extensive studies of star clusters in relation to the structure of galaxy and star formation processes within these clusters.
Dr. Anil K. Pandey
UPSO, Nainital
2001
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Original work on development of algorithms for retrieving atmospheric and oceanic parameters from satellite observations.
Dr. B. S. Gohi
SAC, Ahmedabad
2001
System Analysis or Management
Original work on design, development and promotion of spatial data for remote sensing applications.
Shri Mukund K. Rao
ISRO, Bangalore
1999
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions on spatial reasoning in the area of artificial intelligence and its application to industrial automation .
Prof. A. Mukerjee
IIT, Kanpur
1999
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contributions to the understanding of the large scale structure of the universe in particular his work on the impact of gravity waves in generating in the cosmic ray background .
Dr. Varun Sahn
IUCAA, Pune
1999
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contributions to solar physics in particular to the development of technique of analysis data to extract parameters of the solar interior.
Dr. H. M. Antia
TIFR, Mumbai
1999
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Substantial edge over contributions led to formalization of a national programme (FASAL) and his academic interest demonstrated by guiding Ph. D. Students.
Dr. V. K. Dadhwal
SAC, Ahmedabad
1999
System Analysis or Management
Significant contributions to PSLV programmes, to the forthcoming GSLV mission is equally crucial.
Shri K. Sivan
VSSC, Trivandrum
1997
Electronics and Telecommunication
Outstanding work of design and development of the digital and enhanced cord less telecommunications (DECT) wireless local loop system.
Prof. A.Jhunjhunwala
IIT, Madras
1997
Planetary and Space Science
Contributions in the X-Ray instrumentation, X-Ray data analysis, study of the stellar magnetic activity and study of spectral and temporal properties of X-Ray binaries and active galactic nuclei.
Dr. A. R. Rao
TIFR, Mumbai
1997
Planetary and Space Science
Contributions in the early history of the solar system, cosmic ray, effects on meteorites, noble gas geo chemistry and origin and Evolution of planetary atmosphere.
Dr. S.V.S.Murty
PRL, Ahmedabad
1997
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Original contributions on the electromagnetic response of earth surface and its interior .
Prof. R. P. Singh
IIT, Kanpur
1997
System Analysis or Management
Outstanding contributions on the theoretical sides in the development of new methods.
Prof. P.P.Kanjila
IIT, Kharagpur
1995
Electronics and Telecommunication
Outstanding original contributions to estimate the radiation characteristics with reference to spacecrafts mounted antennas, antenna synthesis and cluster modeling.
Dr. N.Balakrishnan
IISc, Bangalore
1995
Electronics and Telecommunication
Outstanding original contributions image processing, pattern recognition artificial intelligence and optical character recognition.
Prof. B.B.Chaudhuri
Indian Statistical Institute,Calcutta
1995
Planetary and Space Science
original contributions to the theoretical explanation for the ionosphere heating and for the concept of dust acoustic waves which have recently been observed experimentally.
Dr. N.N.Rao
PRL, Ahmedabad
1995
Planetary and Space Science
Original contributions to experimental studies in astronomy – from radio astronomy to multi meter and optical astronomy and pulsars.
Dr. M.Vivekanand
NCRA-TIFR, Pune
1995
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Outstanding original contributions to design development flight testing and operationlization of the airborne multispectral electromechanical scanners which take excellent imageries giving new impetus.
Dr. K.Nagachenchaiah
SAC, Ahmedabad
1995
System Analysis or Management
outstanding original contributions to the mission operation of all ISRO Space crafts and in particular for introducing a noble concept of software simulator of the spacecraft system.
Shri Y.N.Bhushan
ISRO, Bangalore
1993
Electronics and Telecommunication
Dr. S.K. Pal
Indian Statistical Institute,Calcutta
1993
Electronics and Telecommunication
Dr. S.K. Chaudhuri
DRDL(IMARAT) Hyderabad
1993
Planetary and Space Science
Dr. A.P. Rao
NCRA-TIFR, Pune
1993
Planetary and Space Science
Dr. B.N. Goswami
IISC, Bangalore
1993
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Dr. P.S. Roy
IIRS, Dehradun
1993
System Analysis or Management
Mr. N.K. Malik
ISAC, Bangalore
1991
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contribution in the design and implementation of the payload instrumentation for the “Anuradha” Indian cosmic ray experiment on the challenger space shuttle.
Shri H.S. Mazumdar
1991
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contribution in the design and development of a number of state of the art antenna systems which made a significant impact on TV transmission and reception as well as the satellite system programme in India.
Shri S.B.Sharma
1991
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contribution to plasma astrophysics, particularly to the physics of the solar corona and the energy release from active galactic nuclei.
Dr. Vinod Krishan
1991
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contribution to the development and establishment of the new technique of measuring the day time airglow emissions from the earth’s upper atmosphere.
Dr. R. Sridharan
1991
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
None

1991
System Analysis or Management
Contribution to the management system integration and testing of the payloads of a number of remote sensing and communication satellite of the ISRO and for the development and installation of the test chambers for the space vehicles.

ISAC, Bangalore
1991
System Analysis or Management
Major role in project and programme management for launch vehicle and guided missiles and significant role in the visualization and futuristic planning for the Indian launch vehicles.

DRDL, Hyderabad
1989
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions towards the realization of telecommunication system (TTC-RF) and antenna for all Indian satellites and microwaves engineering activities.
Dr. Surendra Pal
1989
Electronics and Telecommunication
Pioneering research work in several areas of computer sciences and engineering particularly in parallel and distributing computing, computer architecture, computer graphics, VLSI system design, theoretical computer sciences, intelligent computing and industrial automation.
Prof. L.M. Patnaik
1989
Planetary and Space Science
Contributions to stellar shape spectroscopy, variable stars, chemically peculiar stars and circumstellar dusts.
Dr. N.Kameswara Rao
1989
Planetary and Space Science
Significant theoretical contributions in the field of plasma physics.
Dr. S. Bujarbarua
1989
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Pioneering contributions towards the understanding of the dynamics of monsoon and sub seasonal variations of the monsoon cloud bands through extensive analysis of satellite data.
Prof. Sulochana Gadgil
1989
System Analysis or Management
Wide ranging contributions for the Indian space programme particularly for all the satellite projects undertaken by ISRO in the fields of system analysis.
Shri M.G. Chandrasekhar
1987
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions in the field of Electro-optics and instrumentation.
Mr. T.K. Alex
1987
Electronics and Telecommunication
Important contributions in the areas of communications signal processing and computer aided designs of digital systems and also to the optimization of communication receivers for improved analog communication.
Prof. Surendra Prasad
1987
Planetary and Space Science
Significant contributions in the area of extragalactic radio astronomy and cosmology and also the cosmological implications of the angular size.
Prof. V.K. Kapahi
1987
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Contributions in the applications of microwave techniques, both active and passive, in the study of earth’s atmosphere in ocean are well known to the scientific community .
Dr. P.C. Pandey
1987
System Analysis or Management
Contributions in the field of reactor engineering and development of reactor systems of interest to Indian nuclear power programme.
Shri Anil Kakodkar
1985
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant contributions in the area of microwave and millimeter wave engineering particularly on various integrated circuit techniques using micro strip like transmission lines, slot lines, fin lines and dielectric integrated guides.
Prof.Bharathi Bhat
1985
Planetary and Space Science
Contributions in the field of high energy astrophysics in general and x-ray astronomy in particular are well known all over.
Dr. P.C.Agrawal
1985
Planetary and Space Science
Theoretical work on the instabilities which often appear in astrophysical, planetary and laboratory plasma.
Dr. G.L. Kalra
1985
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Pioneering contributions in the field of experimental atomic and molecular physics with direct applications to atmospheric sciences.
Prof.Vijay kumar
1985
System Analysis or Management
Pioneered practical applications of computer and operations research in India and contributions in stochastic optimization, non-liner programming and network optimization.
Dr. N.R. Patel
1983
Electronics and Telecommunication
Prof.B.N.Chatterji
IIT, Kharagpur
1983
Planetary and Space Science
None

1983
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Dr.S.K. Gupta
1983
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Shri S.M.Rao
1983
System Analysis or Management
Shri P.S. Goel
1981
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant contributions to Electronics and communications in several areas, viz. passive and active networks, including filter filter design: distributed AC and LC networks, digital signal processing and charge transfer devices.
Prof. S.C. Dutta Roy
1981
Planetary and Space Science
Pioneering contributions both of experimental and theoretical nature, in the fields of particle physics astrophysics cosmic rays and cosmology.
Prof. R. Cowsik
TIFR, Bombay
1981
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
NONE

1981
System Analysis or Management
Significant contributions in the field of high energy astronomy using balloon borne, rocket borne and satellite borne techniques .
Dr. K.Kasturirangan
ISAC, Bangalore
1981
System Analysis or Management
Significant contributions to studies and planning for both advance launch vehicles and satellite systems.
Dr. R.M.Vasagan
ISAC, Bangalore
1979
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contributions lead from some aspects of semi conductor physics to semi conductor technology and deals with micro electric technology, semi conductor devices and acoustic wave components.
Prof. A. B. Bhattacharya
IIT, Delhi
1979
Planetary and Space Science
Pioneering contributions in the field of interstellar matter and in cometary physics
Dr. K. S. Krishnaswamy
ISRO, Bangalore
1979
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Important results on the flux of water vapour in different sectors of the Monsoon circulation. And variation in the water vapour flux across the west coast of India.
Shri S.K. Ghosh
Flood Meteorological Office, New Delhi
1979
System Analysis or Management
Major role in the development of space vehicles in India and substantial development of self reliance in the field of control, guidance and instrumentation.
Dr. S.C. Gupta
VSSC, Trivandrum
1977
Electronics and Telecommunication
Outstanding work related to design and fabrication of feeds for communication antennas and for his important contributions towards the development of microwave systems at high frequencies for remote sensing.
Shri O.P.N.Calla
SAC, Ahmedabad
1977
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding work relating to investigations of the behavior of solar wind in the inter planetary medium and in the earth’s high atmosphere and studies of number of plasma physics processes.
Prof. Bimla Buti
PRL, Ahmedabad
1977
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Discovery of low level jet over india, delineation of three year oscillation in the north south moment of the subtropical wind system at the 500 MB.
Shri P.V. Joseph
IMD, New Delhi
1977
System Analysis or Management
Contributions in various aspects of system analysis, such as optimal control, multistage differential an markov games,sensitivity model, and simulation and applications of theory to practical problems.
Prof. I.G. Sharma
IISc, Bangalore
1977
System Analysis or Management
Several contributions in the in quantitative system analysis approach in the planning and management of new technology in the fields like atomic energy, agriculture water use fertilizer production utilization of energy resources and low cost housing.
Prof. K. S. Parikh
Indian Statistical Institute , New Delhi
1976
Electronics and Telecommunication
Contribution for the manufacture of control panel and wiring of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station and contributions to the atomic Power station.
Shri S.N. Seshadri
BARC, Mumbai
1976
Electronics and Telecommunication
Significant contribution to the development and indigenization of communication systems.
Shri D.K. Sachdev
Indian Telephone Industries Limited, Bangalore
1976
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding work in the field of selenology and meteoritic and precise measurements of radio activity in lunar rocks.
Dr. N. Bhandari
PRL, Ahmedabad
1976
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
Significant contribution to the Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology.
Dr. A.S.R.Murty
IITM, Pune
1976
System Analysis or Management
Outstanding work in the field of System Analysis or Management.
Dr. P.V.S. Rao
TIFR, Mumbai
1975
Electronics and Telecommunication
Extraordinary achievements in the fields of Electronics and Telecommunications and pioneering in India in applying space technology to communications.
Prof. B. M. Reddy
SAC, Ahmedabad
1975
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contributions to the field of Planetary and space sciences.
Prof. U. R. Rao
Indian Scientific Satellite Project, Bangalore
1975
Planetary and Space Science
Outstanding contributions to the field of Planetary and space sciences.
Prof. N. Pant
NAL, New Delhi
1975
Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology
None
None
1975
System Analysis or Management
Outstanding contributions to the field of Systems analysis and Management and researches on the Earth’s atmosphere including wide range of interests encompassing fields such as solar energy, science society intercalations, education and fine arts.
Prof. P. P. Kale
SAC, Ahmedabad
1974
Electronics and Telecommunication
Design and fabrication of Digital data Logging systems, sophisticated Desk calculator, spark erosion Machine, Low power Telemetry, Impulse Magnetizers.
Dr. S. Krishnan
NAL, Bangalore
1974
Electronics and Telecommunication
Development of an analog computer and the high speed real time digital computer TDC-12 while at BARC, and their subsequent successful product ionization for commercial manufacture at ECIL and made significant contributions to the development of computer technology in India.
Dr. S.Srikantan
ECIL, Hyderabad
1974
Planetary and Space Science
Development of Ionospheric Rocket sounding Techniques and study of the Ionosphere; Identification of Plasma Instabilities in the Ionosphere.
Dr. Satya Prakash
PRL, Ahmedabad
1974
Space Applications
Studies of Droughts and the Energetics and Morphology of the Monsoons.
Dr. R.N.Keshavmurty
IMD, Pune
1974
System Analysis or Management
Development of a model for the optimization of the mix of thermal, hydel and nuclear power generation : techno economic analysis of certain applications of nuclear explosive engineering.
Prof. N. Seshagiri
Electronic Commission, New Delhi