Recipients of Young Innovator & Entrepreneur Award

RECIPIENTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS YOUNG INNOVATOR & ENTREPRENEUR AWARD

2025

  1. Mr. Shiva Goutham Kumar Pattapu, Founder & CEO- Raksyon Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
  2. Dr. Aditya Sadhanala, Pratiksha Young Investigator Chair for Neuromorphic Computing, Assistant Professor, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), IISc Bangalore
  3. Dr. Ananya Barui, Assistant Professor, Center of Healthcare Science and Technology, IIEST Shibpur

2023 and 2024

2023 and 2024 – No awards were conferred.

2022

2022 – In line with the directives, Certificates to the following recipients were sent by post.

  1. Mr Sneh Rajkumar Vaswani, Cofounder & CEO at Miko, Mumbai
  2. Dr Vaibhav Tidke, CEO & Co-founder, S4S Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Aurangabad
  3. Dr OD Naidu, Senior Principal Engineer, Grid Automation R&D, Hitachi Energy, Bengaluru
  4. Dr Debarka Sengupta, Associate Professor, Dept. of Comp. Sc. and Engg. Dept. of Computational Biology, Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

2021

    1. Dr Chandan Kumar Jha, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
    2. Dr Madhan Balaraman, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai.
    3. Mr Nikhil Kurele, Cofounder & CEO, Noccarc Robotics Private Limited, Pune, and Mr Harshit Rathore, Cofounder & CTO, Noccarc Robotics Private Limited, Pune.
    4. Dr Sebastian C. Peter, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru.

2020

    1. Mr. Akshay V. Singhal, CEO & Founder, Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Ltd., Bengaluru.
    2. Dr. Anuya A. Nisal, Principal Scientist, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

Special commendation

    1. Dr. Sundararajan Krishnan, Founder and CEO, Aptener Mechatronics Private Limited, Bengaluru.
    2. Mr. Jayant Sitaram Karve, Founding Director and CEO, RCupe Life sciences Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.

2019

    1. Mr. Suteerth Tripathi and Ms. Shivani Gupta, Inochi Care Private Limited, New Delhi.
    2. Mr. Prakhar Jain and Mr. Usama Ahmed Abbasi, MicroX Labs (Pratimesh Labs Pvt Ltd).

2018

    1. Mr. Nitesh Kumar Jangir, Director, Coeo Labs, Bangalore
    2. Prof. Tarun Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Mr. Tushar Vyas, CTO, Nanoclean Global Private Limited, New Delhi.
    3. Special commendation Award to Dr. Mayank Shrivastava, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, IISc, Bangalore Bangalore in recognition of his contributions in innovation.

2017

    1. Mr. Mandava Mohana Rao, BHEL, Hyderabad.
    2. Awarded jointly to Mr. Tanuj Jhunjhunwala, Planys Technologies Pvt Ltd. and Mr. Vinay Kumar, PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.