DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
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News & Announcements (2025-26)
The ECE Department, IIT Roorkee secured 2nd rank in the 100 5G Lab Graduation Framework for exemplary contributions to 5G technology and outstanding use of the 5G Use Case Lab. This achievement highlights our commitment to fostering innovation, nurturing talent, and building a future-ready 5G ecosystem.

• Congratulations to Prof. Gowrish, ECE Dept., IIT Roorkee, on being elevated to the prestigious grade of IEEE Senior Member. This well-deserved honor recognizes your significant contributions and unwavering commitment to advancing technology for humanity.

Dr Priyansha Kaurav, with TEC–DoT collaborators Shri R.S. Singh, Ms Namrata Singh, and Mr Raghav Purwar, leads approval of a new ITU-T digital health standard at SG-20 (Geneva, Sept 2025)

• Congratulations to Prof. PM Pradhan on being promoted to Professor. Congratulations to Prof Anshul Jaiswal and Prof Avirup Dasgupta on being promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations to all for well deserved promotion and west wishes for next stage in their careers.

Chip C2S0024, designed by Prof. Saravana Kumar M, was developed under the Semicon India initiative at the Analog & Mixed Signal Circuit Design Lab, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Roorkee. The chip integrates key analog building blocks—including bandgap references, ring and relaxation oscillators, and comparators—alongside various devices, to extract data and evaluate circuit performance at cryogenic temperatures.

• Mr. Suriya N, an M.Tech student under the guidance of Prof. Saravana Kumar , received Institute Gold Medal for securing the highest CGPA in the MTech program.

• Mr. Vansh Saini, B.Tech. graduate from the ECE Department, was awarded with the President Gold Medal for his exceptional academic performance.

• Dr. Ankita Chauhan, Ph.D. graduate from the ECE Department, received the prestigious Excellence in Doctoral Research Award for her outstanding research contributions.

• Vaishnavi Dave, B.Tech. ECE, has been awarded the prestigious Harish Tejwani 1998 Gold Medal for Outstanding B.Tech. Project in Electronics & Communication Engineering at IIT Roorkee.

“IIT Roorkee, COMET Foundation, and IIT Bangalore have signed a technology transfer agreement for next-generation RIS Technology.”.

Prof Sparsh Mittal's team develops the world’s first AI model (MoScNet) to transliterate historic Modi script into Devanagari script for Marathi language.

• Priyanshu Tyagi, a PhD student in ECE department under the guidance of Prof Sparsh Mittal, has received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2025.

Prabhat Ranjan, Ajay Yadav, Dr. Avirup Dasgupta, and Dr. Ajay Kumar from the ECE Department, IIT Roorkee, have been granted a Design Patent for their device titled "A Sensor-Based Device to Detect Harmful Gases" (Design No. 454118-001). The patent, issued by the Patent Office, Government of India, highlights their innovation in harmful gas detection technology..

• Congratulations to following faculty of ECE Deptt. IITR for securing project fund from ISRO.
1.) Prof. Ashish Kumar Chowdhary
2.) Prof. Saurabh Khanna
3.) Prof. Bishnu Prasad Das
4.) Prof. Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay

IIT Roorkee is coorganizing the IWPSD 2025 conference.