Electrical & Electronic Sciences & Technology

Since 1999 the following two categories merged to form this new category:

Click on the link to view Award winners for the two old categories.

YEAR	WINNERS	SUBJECT OF RESEARCH
2014	Dr. C. S. Rao President of Reliance Communications Ltd. Bangalore	For his contributions in development of several First time designs of network for Indian Army, Indian Navy, VSNL and Design of the Advanced Radio Network Controller SW suite for 3G/UMTS.
2013	Prof. Shabbir N. Merchant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IITB, Mumbai	For developing solutions of signal and image processing problems faced by Indian defence and ‘A channel estimation based approach to Backoff adjustment method for MAC System'.
2012	Prof. Rudra Pratap Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Nano Science and Engg. IISc., Bangalore	For the development of MEMS based electrostatic acoustic transducer ,FET sensor for sensing pressure/force and inertial displacements and CAPFET sensor for sensing analytic.
2011	Shri Narasimhan Venkatesh Vice Chair., Communications and Signal Processing Societies join Chapter, IEEE, Hyderabad	He has made significant and innovative contributions to the IEEE, 802.11 series of standards for WLAN methodologies and protocols (specifically 11 b/a/g, 11a and 11ac). He was instrumental in incorporating these innovations into WLAN chipsets.
2010	Dr. Abhay Karandikar Prof. & Head, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai	He has made pioneering contributions towards the development of technology for telecom and broadband Internet access with a specific focus on Indian service providers. He has evolved an Innovative architecture that leverages the potential of Ethernet for providing Quality of Service (QoS) based triple play services.
2009	Dr. A. N. Rajagopalan Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai	He has devised novel methods to extract 3D shapes using the degree of blur in an image as a cue for depth estimation and continues to define and revolutionize this exciting area.
2008	Dr.Kumar N.Sivarajan Chief Technology Officer, Tejas Networks India Ltd. Bangalore	For contribution in the area of communications and data transmission and sharing the same through high speed optical and other net work design and developments efficiently.
2007	No Award
2006	Shri Vinay L.Deshpande Chairman& CEO, Encore Software Ltd, Bangalore	For development of hardware solutions such as PCs, notebooks, handheld devices and compatible software products such as machine compilers, software for modems and cell phone.
2005	Prof. M. Balakrishnan Prof. P.V. Madhusudhan Rao Prof. Kolin Paul of IIT, New Delhi Shri Dipendra Manocha National Assn for Blind New Delhi	For Development of Smart Cane for visually Challenged persons. It consist of ultrasonic ranger, vibrator and microcontroller having a range of 3 meter.
2005	Dr. K. Radhakrishnan Diector, NRSA (ISRO) ,Hyderabad	For Development of data acquisition system for remote sensing satellites, environment security and disaster management system.
2004	Shri V. Chander Director, Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory, Cochin.	For Development of Sonar system for ships, submarines and helicopters.
2004	Shri B.K.Sinha Founder and former Director, SAMEER Mumbai.	For Development of microware, antenna, linear accelerator, integrated optics and atmospheric probing instruments.
2003	Dr. M.D. Raj Narayan Founder& former Director DERL (DRDO) Hyderabad	For Development of Radar and Electronic warfare technologies.
2003	Dr, R.R. Navalgund Director, Space Applications Center, ISRO, Ahmadabad	For Development of remote sensing application programs for space application, integrated mission for sustainable Development and Disaster management support program.
2002	Mr. S. Rangarajani Advisor-Sterling Group & Pentamedia Graphic Ltd. Chennai Dr. Krishna Rao Venkatesh Vice President, Spectrum InfoTech, Bangalore Mr. A Rudhiramoorthy Manager, Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore	For development of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) BEL model.
2002	Mr. J B Venkataratnam General Manager, Electronic Manufacturing Services Division, Hyderabad Mr. Gadde Raja Koteswara Rao FOSAPP/ISD/ECIL, Cherlapally, Hyderabad	For development of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) ECIL model.
2001	Dr. K N Shankara Director, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmadabad	For pioneering role in design and development of variety of transponders for INSAT Communication Satellite Program.
2001	Dr. E. Bhagirath Rao Formerly Director, Institute of Armament Technology, Pune	For development of S-Band Troposcatter equipment for Indian Air Force.