The third Gururatnam Award, instituted by MGM Educational Institutions for Comprehensive contributions to the field of education, were presented to Prof. B.S. Manoj, Professor and Associate Dean, IIST, by Shri. Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Honourable Governor of Kerala Know More

The research paper titled “Anisotropic, Multifunctional GNP/BaTiO3 /PI Composite Aerogels for Absorption-Dominant EMI Shielding and Thermal Insulation Applications”authored by Prof.Kuruvilla Joseph, Sasila Chellan, from Department of Chemistry and , Smitha C Sukumaran Know More

Ms.Sreekavya M K, Research Scholar, Advanced Microwave Lab, Department of Avionics, have been awarded the 2025 IEEE APS Fellowship for her research project under the supervision of Prof. Basudeb Ghosh, "A Tri-Band Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antenna enabling operation Know More

Congratulations to Prof. Sarvesh Kumar on being awarded the prestigious ARG-MATRICS research grant for the project “Novel Virtual Element Discretizations for the Approximation of Multiphysics Problems”, funded by ANRF(Anusandhan National Research Foundation). Know More

Mr. Mohamed Armoon Shaliq, a final-year MTech student in Quantum Technology, has been awarded the Best Poster Award for his research work titled “High-Speed Quantum Noise Profiling” at the National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology (NCMST Know More

IEEE IES SYPA (IES Student and Young Professional) Award in connection with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (IEEE PESGRE 2025), held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India, from 18–21 December Know More

Ms. Medha Lal R, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry, has received the Best Poster Award for her work titled “PVDF-Based Thermal Control Coatings for Spacecraft: Investigations on Process Conditions and Morphology.” The poster was authored jointly with Dr. Nirmala Know More

Smt. Sreeja J J, Research Scholar with the supervision of Dr. Sourav Bhowmick at VR Lab of Dr. Deepak Mishra, Department of Avionics received one of the Best Paper Award for the work titled " Differentially Private Federated Learning with Adaptive Noise Scheduling" Know More

Ms. Reshna Suresh, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry, has received the Best Poster Award for the poster titled ‘Flexible, Thin PDMS Composites Embedded with Graphene Nanoplatelets-Polyaniline Reinforced Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Networks for Broadband EMI Know More

Ms. Gopika R under the guidance of Prof. Chinmoy Saha, was awarded the First Prize for the Student Best Paper Award at MAPCON 2025, held in Kochi, India, for their work titled “A Scalable Rectenna Unit with an In-Built Resistance Compression Network.” Know More

Ms. Kathu Sudevan, Research Scholar, Department of Avionics, has received the Best Paper Award (Third position) for her paper presentation at International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (IEEE MAPCON 2025), held at Grand Hyatt Kochi from Dec 14 to 18 Know More

Mr. Kundan Sahu, Mr. Athul Parameswaran, and Ms. Kathu Sudevan, Research Scholars, Department of Avionics, have secured First Prize in the Student Design Competition in the area “Design of compact energy harvesting rectenna for Wi-Fi” at IEEE MAPCON 2025, held at Grand Know More

Mr. Harikrishnan P, research scholar, Department of Physics, IIST received one of the Best Posters Awards for the work titled "Laser Wavelength Calibration using Saganc Interferometer" at SCOPOSIS 2025 (Student Conference on Optics and Photonics (SCOP) and the 48th Know More

The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) is proud to announce that the DROne-MED program, a humanitarian technology initiative focused on medical drone deployment in the Himalayan region, has been awarded the prestigious IEEE MTTS-SIGHT Grant. The Know More

Ms. Priyanka M.Kannath, Research Scholar, Department of Physics, has received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 4th Annual International Conference on Women in Optics and Photonics in India (WOPI 2025), held at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, during Know More

Ms. Arushi Kumar, a second year Research Scholar in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) at IIST, has been recognized with two prestigious awards for her research on "Dust scattering of X-ray photons from Gamma Ray Bursts," conducted under the supervision of Know More

The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Valiamala, has been honored with prestigious accolades by the Town Official Language Implementation Committee (TOLIC), Office – 2, for its exemplary efforts in promoting the Official Language Hindi. IIST secured the Know More

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name of M. S. Krishnan, a pioneering Indian geologist, for a 3.5-billion-year-old crater on Mars. The crater lies in a region where evidence of ancient glaciation has been scientifically established. The naming Know More

Prof Dipankar Banerjee, Vice-Chancellor, IIST visited the Space Applications Centre (SAC - ISRO), Ahmedabad, during two days – 26 and 27 Nov 2025 and carried out extensive discussions. Prof Banerjee met Dr. Nilesh Desai, Director, SAC and discussed regarding areas of Know More

Dr. Gigy J Alex, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is set to offer Swayam course in NPTEL, titled "Science Fiction Studies". This comprehensive course explores Science Fiction as a literary and cinematic genre, examining its impact on Know More