Awards & Recognitions

2025

• Inducted into IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN), as a Professional member in the Eta Chapter of the Board of Governors. Recognized for academic excellence, leadership potential, and character by the IEEE Honor Society, July 2025.

• IEEE VICS Young Professional Laureate, Apr 2025.

2024

• Volunteer Leadership Training Award 2023, Jan 2024

• IEEE CS Chief of Disruption Award by IEEE CS Bangalore Chapter Jan 2024.

• IEEE SPS Bangalore Outstanding volunteer Award by IEEE SPS Bangalore Chapter Jan 2024

• IUCEE Teaching Learning Centre Award Jan 2024

2023

• IEEE Bangalore Section Chair’s Recognition Dec, 2023

• IEEE India council Award Outstanding YP Volunteer of the year, 15 Dec 2023 at Hyderabad. 

• IEEE STEM Champion 2023 during May 2023 by Try Engineering powered by IEEE.

• Nethealth Workshop Best Paper Award for paper titled “Micro-Vibration based Health Monitoring: Effect Of External Factors on Ballistocardiogram Signals”, 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) NetHealth, January 3 - 8, 2023, Bengaluru. 

2021

• Consolation prize for the product demo titled COVIDSPECT web application and COVIDSPECT Mobile application during Region 10 Humanitarian technology conference held from 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2021

• DST Inspire Award 23 Aug 2021

• Best PhD Thesis Award from Maastricht University, NL on 3 March 2021

2020

• Winner of MIT COVID19 Challenge organised during April 3-5, 2020.

• Outstanding service to 12th IEEE COMSNETS International Conference 2020 during 7th to 11th January 2020.

• IEEE Bangalore Section Outstanding Volunteer Award on 5 Jan 2020 at AGM, Bangalore.

2019

• Best Poster Award at IEEE SPS Winter School on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing held at RIT during 12 to 14 Nov 2019. 

• IEEE R10 (Asia Pacific) Young Professionals Outstanding Volunteer in Academic Award in recognition for outstanding contributions & services to YP academic program and to the IEEE Bangalore Section in Sept 2019. 

• Outstanding service to 11th IEEE COMSNETS International Conference 2019 during 7th to 11th January 2019.

• Best Poster Award at 16th REV Conference held from 03–06 February 2019 at BMSCE Bangalore.

2018

• IEEE MGA Young Professionals Achievement Award 2018(Award Citation: For exemplary contribution to student and young professionals activities).

• Best poster award during IEEE Students Young Professionals WIE and Life Members Congress at Bali, Indonesia from August 30 – September 2, 2018.

2017

• Winner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp during March 26 to 31st 2017.

2016

• Winner of Elderly Care Hackathon organized by the Municipality of The Hague, the Netherlands from 2nd to 7th October 2016.

• Winner of MED4DEV India-Israel affordable healthcare hackathon held from 22nd to 24th July 2016 with Cash prize of 1500USD.

• Best Nodal Coordinator Award at National Nodal Center Conference of Virtual labs organized by Virtual Amrita Laboratories Universalizing Education on 6th May 2016 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University.

• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards (GYTI) 2016 for the Innovative Idea "Device For Intrapartum Materno-fetal Care", 13th March 2016, at Rastrapathy Bhavan (President House), New Delhi (Grant Amount: Rs. 15,00,000/-)

• Featured Innovator, by CAMTech (Consortium for Affordable Medical Technology), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and published in CAMTech Pulse Magazine for February 2016.

2015

• Second Runner up Prize at the CAMTech Diabetes Innovation Hack-a-thon held at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad on 10th & 11th October 2015.

• Best Nodal Coordinator Award at 2nd National Nodal Center Conference of Virtual labs organized by Virtual Amrita Laboratories Universalizing Education on 9th September 2015 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University.

• New Initiative Program Award at IEEE Region 10 Student, Young Professional, Women in Engineering Congress 2015 held from 9th to 12th July 2015 at Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Winner of CAMTech GE Challenge Jugaad-a-Thon held during the 28th and 29th June 2015 organized by CAMTech India. 

2014

• Winner of CAMTech India Jugaad-a-thon held during 19th & 20th July 2014, organized by CAMTech India

• Best Paper Award - Appaji Abhishek, Suma Ningappa, “Comparison of Electrocardiography (ECG) as Biometrics Authentication with Well Proven Fingerprint and Iris Technologies”, IEEE EMBS International Student Conference(ISC2014), Malaysia, 5th June 2014.

Before 2013

• Visvesvaraya Technological University Third Rank in Medical Electronics Specialization, Bachelors of Engineering.

• Third best paper presentation award for the National level paper presentation competition organized by The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 

• Second best paper presentation award for the paper titled “Electrocardiogram (ECG) Acquisition & Wireless Transmission (Frequency Modulation) with Analysis” in Aavishkaar-2010, Bangalore held on 17th April 2010, organized by The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET, Bangalore chapter. 

• Second Best Paper presentation prize in Srishti-2010 conducted by Akhila Bharatha Vidhyarthi Parishath in collaboration with SSIT, Tumkur on 9th May 2010.

• Recipient of Merit Scholarship Award from American Alumni Association and the Alumni Association, BMS College of Engineering for the year 2009. 

• Recipient of Best Library User Award-2006, Awarded by Vijaya Composite P U College, Bangalore.