Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award Awardees List
2017
Dr. Manav Bhatnagar
IIT, Delhi
Receiver design for multi-antenna systems and fading characterization for next generation communications.
2017
Dr. Chintala Sudhakar Reddy
NRSC, Hyderabad
Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment of Forest Ecosystem.
2017
Dr. Tirthankar Roy Choudhury
TIFR, Pune
Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology, involving the development of a self-consistent semi-analytical model of re-ionisation, consistent with a variety of observations.
2015
Dr. Neelesh Mehta
IISc, Bangalore
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 systems.
2015
Dr. Nissim Kanekar
TIFR, Pune
Significant contributions in studies of galaxy evolution and multi-phase structure of the interstellar medium.
2015
Dr. Dibyendu Chakrabarty
PRL, Ahmedabad
Significant contributions in development of instrumentation to bring out space weather signatures in airglow emission at low latitudes.
2015
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2015
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2013
Prof. Ranjan Bose
Significant Contributions in coding for secure communication.
2013
Prof. Souvik Mahapatra
Significant contributions in development of Negative Bias Temperature Instability tolerant CMOS devices.
2013
Dr. Tarun Kumar Pant
Contributions in understanding Atmospheric coupling processes in particular the association of electrojet and counter electrojet with neutral atmospheric dynamics.
2013
Shri Joji J. Chaman
Innovative and outstanding contributions in inertial navigation system for spacecrafts deployed for terrestrial and planetary missions.
2013
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2011
Dr. Ashwin Gumaste
IIT, Mumbai
For introducing novel concepts of light trail and omnipresent Ethernet & transfer of technology to industry.
2011
Prof. Tarun Souradeep
IUCAA, Pune
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.
2011
Dr. Biswajit Paul
RRI, Bangalore
Significant contributions in the field of X-ray Astronomy covering both instrument development and analytical studies.
2011
Dr. N.R.Patel
IIRS, Dehradun
In the field of agro-meteorology, and in particular for retrieving crop biophysical parameters using remote sensing data to quantify primary production.
2011
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2009
Dr. Abhay Karandikar
IIT, Mumbai
Significant contributions in wireless technology and standards, particularly for 4G wireless technology.
2009
Dr. K. Sridharan
IIT, Madras
Computational geometric aspects of robotic path finding and defining measures for interpenetration of pairs of objects.
2009
Dr. Jayaram Chengalur
NCRA-TIFR, Pune
Radio Astrophysics, particularly towards understanding dark matter in dwarf galaxies and characteristics of the interstellar medium using the giant metre wave radio telescope.
2009
Dr. Prakash Chauhan
SAC, Ahmadabad
Development of ocean color algorithms from space-borne data for oceanographic applications.
2009
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2007
Dr. R.K.Malik
IIT, New Delhi
Significant contributions to wireless communications, specifically on the performance analysis with transmit – receive diversity and error analysis under correlated fading conditions.
2007
Dr. J.R.Haritsa
IISc, Bangalore
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.
2007
Dr. R.Srianand
IUCAA, Pune
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.
2007
Dr. Raj Kumar
SAC, Ahmadabad
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.
2007
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2005
Dr. S. Karmalkar
IIT, Madras
Contributions to analytical modeling and numerical simulation of novel and short channel semiconductor devices and development of new processes for semiconductor device fabrication.
2005
Dr. Biman Nath
RRI, Bangalore
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.
2005
Dr. (Ms.) C. Venkataraman
IIT, Mumbai
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 budget and climate change.
2005
Dr. S. S. Ray
SAC, Ahmedabad
Outstanding contributions towards development and application of remote sensing techniques for various aspects of cropping system analysis for ensuring sustainable agriculture in the country.
2005
Dr. Sunil Nath
IIT, Delhi
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.
2003
Dr. C. Siva Ram Murthy
IIT, Madras
2003
Prof. P. S. Sastry
IISc, Bangalore
2003
Dr. P. Janardhan
PRL, Ahmedabad
2003
Dr. P. Sreekumar
ISAC, Bangalore
2003
Dr. Y. V. N. Krishna Murthy
RRSC (Central), Nagpur
2003
Mr. Tapan Misra
SAC, Ahmedabad
2003
Mr. M. Annadurai
ISAC, Bangalore
2001
Dr. Subhasis Chaudhuri
IIT, Bombay
Contributions on digital image processing including medical imaging super resolution imaging and recovery of depth from defocus.
2001
Dr. B. Chanda
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Contributions on image processing which is of importance to satellite and medical imaging as well as industrial processing and documentation.
2001
Dr. Avinash A. Deshpande
RRI, Bangalore
Significant contributions towards understanding various aspects of Pulsars including the first ever mapping of pulsars radio emission sites.
2001
Dr. Anil K. Pandey
UPSO, Nainital
Extensive studies of star clusters in relation to the structure of galaxy and star formation processes within these clusters.
2001
Dr. B. S. Gohi
SAC, Ahmedabad
Original work on development of algorithms for retrieving atmospheric and oceanic parameters from satellite observations.
2001
Shri Mukund K. Rao
ISRO, Bangalore
Original work on design, development and promotion of spatial data for remote sensing applications.
1999
Prof. A. Mukerjee
IIT, Kanpur
Contributions on spatial reasoning in the area of artificial intelligence and its application to industrial automation.
1999
Dr. Varun Sahn
IUCAA, Pune
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.
1999
Dr. H. M. Antia
TIFR, Mumbai
Outstanding contributions to solar physics in particular to the development of technique of analysis data to extract parameters of the solar interior.
1999
Dr. V. K. Dadhwal
SAC, Ahmedabad
Substantial edge over contributions led to formalization of a national programme (FASAL) and his academic interest demonstrated by guiding Ph.D. Students.
1999
Shri K. Sivan
VSSC, Trivandrum
Significant contributions to PSLV programmes, to the forthcoming GSLV mission is equally crucial.
1997
Prof. A. Jhunjhunwala
IIT, Madras
Outstanding work of design and development of the digital and enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) wireless local loop system.
1997
Dr. A. R. Rao
TIFR, Mumbai
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.
1997
Dr. S. V. S. Murty
PRL, Ahmedabad
Contributions in the early history of the solar system, cosmic ray, effects on meteorites, noble gas geochemistry and origin and evolution of planetary atmosphere.