Sikdar Nanophotonics and Metamaterial Research Group

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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2025

Best Ph.D Thesis Award (Issuing Authority: Dept. of EEE, IIT Guwahati)

(Dr. Tanmay Bhowmik)

Best Paper Award (Issuing Authority: IEEE GCON conference 2025)

Boosting Performance of 1.5T MRI using Switchable Metasurface Wraps Composed of Interconnected Rectangular Windings

Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh

(Mr. Jegyasu Gupta, Dr. Amit Dey, Dr. Tanmay Bhowmik, Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee, Prof. S. Kanagaraj, Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

Award Certificate
Best PhD Thesis Award
2024

Best Poster Award (Issuing Authority: Dept. of EEE, IIT Guwahati)

Development of Terahertz Topological Photonic Passive Devices for 6G Applications

Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati

(Mr. Dibaskar Biswas)

Emerging Leader-2023 (Issuing Authority: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter from IOP Publishing)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2023

Best Paper award in iEECON2023 (Issuing Authority: International Electrical Engineering Congress 2023)

Capacitively-loaded Spiral Array based RF Metasurfaces for Boosting the Performance of 1.5T MRI

Krabi, Thailand

(Mr. Jegyasu Gupta)

AWSAR Award 2022 (Issuing Authority: DST, Govt. of India)

(Dr. Tanmay Bhowmik)

Best Oral Presentation Award (Issuing Authority: Photonics Conference 2023)

Gap-Plasmon Resonance based Polarization-insensitive Electro-tunable Nanophotonic Metamaterials for Optical Amplitude Modulation

IISc Bangalore

(Dr. Tanmay Bhowmik)

Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) (Issuing Authority: Ministry of Education, Govt. of India)

(Mr. Dibaskar Biswas)

2022

Best PhD Thesis Award (EEE Dept.) (Issuing Authority: IIT Guwahati, India)

(Dr. Ashish K. Chowdhary)

AWSAR Award 2021 (Issuing Authority: DST, Govt. of India)

(Dr. Ashish K. Chowdhary)

Award Certificate Award Medal
Best PhD Thesis Award
2021

Best Student Poster Award in CLEO-2021 Conference (Issuing Authority: American Physics Society - Division of Laser Science)

(Dr. Ashish K. Chowdhary)

Incubic Milton Chang Travel Grant for CLEO-2021 conference (Issuing Authority: The Optical Society (OSA), USA)

(Dr. Ashish K. Chowdhary)

Metamaterials-2021 Student Delegates Grant (Issuing Authority: Metamaterials-2021 Congress)

(Dr. Ashish K. Chowdhary)

ONR and NSF Student Grant (Issuing Authority: The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.)

(Dr. Tanmay Bhowmik)

2020

Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) (Issuing Authority: Ministry of Education, Govt. of India)

(Mr. Jegyasu Gupta)

2018

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) (Issuing Authority: European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2017

The Douglas Lampard Electrical Engineering Research Prize and Medal 2016 (Best PhD Thesis) (Issuing Authority: Dept. of E.C.S.E, Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

Douglas Lampard Medal
Douglas Lampard Medal
2016-2018

Adjunct Research Fellow (Issuing Authority: Dept. of E.C.S.E, Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2015-2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Issuing Authority: Imperial College London, UK)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2015

Monash Graduate Scholarship (Issuing Authority: Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

Dept. of ECSE Postgraduate Travel Grant Award (Issuing Authority: Dept. of E.C.S.E, Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2014

Monash University Postgraduate Travel Grant Award (Issuing Authority: Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2013

First prize in Poster Competition (Issuing Authority: Dept. of E.C.S.E, Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

First prize in Three Minutes Thesis Competition (Issuing Authority: Dept. of E.C.S.E, Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2012

Prestigious Victoria India Doctoral Scholarship (Issuing Authority: Govt. of Victoria, Victoria, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

Monash International PG Research Scholarship (Issuing Authority: Monash University, Australia)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2009

Project of the Month Award (Issuing Authority: General Electric (GE) Energy, Hyderabad, India)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2004-2007

Merit-cum-need Scholarship (Issuing Authority: Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2004-2006

North Eastern Council Scholarship (Issuing Authority: North Eastern Council, Govt. of India, India)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2003

Prestigious Merit Award-State Rank #3 (Issuing Authority: T.B.S.E, Govt. of Tripura, Tripura, India)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)

2001

Prestigious Merit Award-State Rank #1 (Issuing Authority: T.B.S.E, Govt. of Tripura, Tripura, India)

(Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)