INAE Young Engineer Award

The receipt of nominations for INAE Young engineer Award 2026 is closed.

The INAE Young Engineer Award was instituted in the year 1996 and was put on hold since 2023 due to Government directives, applicable to all the Institutes/ Academies. On attaining financial and functional autonomy in year 2025, this award was reinstated. The award entails a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a certificate as INAE Young Engineer Award to the awardees. All INAE Young Engineer Awardees will also become INAE Young Associates and shall continue to be so till attaining 45 years of age to recognize their outstanding achievements/contributions with strong potential for future professional growth impact in any branch of engineering. The objective of the recognition as INAE Young Associate is to identify, recognize and encourage young and promising talents in India who have made and are likely to continue to make outstanding contributions impacting engineering research and design, technology development and transfer. The criteria for selection as an INAE Young Engineer Awardee entails evidence of excellence in engineering research, product/process, design, technology development and transfer. Specific contribution submitted for consideration of the award/recognition which should have been carried out in India. Any citizen of India not older than 35 years holding the first tertiary degree in engineering/technology as on 1st of January each year is eligible for consideration. However, lady nominees are eligible for age relaxation of five years for consideration. Upto 30 INAE Young Engineer awardees shall be selected each year.  The awardees will be invited for the INAE Annual Convention being held in December each year wherein they would be conferred with the Award and also inducted as INAE Young Associates and presented a Certificate as “INAE Young Associate”.

Guidelines

Purpose of the Recognition:

To recognize outstanding achievements/contributions made by Young Engineers with strong potential for future professional growth impact in any branch of engineering.

Eligibility

Any citizen of India not older than 35 years as on 1st of January each year. However, lady nominees are eligible for age relaxation of five years for consideration. Nominees should have at least any one degree in engineering/technology at Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D to be eligible for consideration for INAE Young Engineer Award.

Validity

A nomination is valid for one year only. A candidate may be nominated three times in total subject to age not exceeding 35 years as on 1st of January each year. Exception is in case of women nominees for up to 40 years as on 1st of January each year.

Criteria

Evidence of excellence in engineering research, product/process, design, technology development, and transfer. Specific contribution submitted for consideration of the recognition should have been carried out in India.

Last Date for Nomination

The last date for the receipt of nominations was March 31, 2026 (Now Extended till April 15, 2026).

Details of Recognition:

A cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a certificate as INAE Young Engineer Award shall be given to the selected nominees. All INAE Young Engineer Awardees will also become INAE Young Associates on the conferment of the Award and shall continue to be so till attaining 45 years of age. The decision of the INAE Council in all concerned matters shall be final.

Number of Nominees to be Selected:

Upto 30 awards can be conferred each year.

Selection Procedure

The recognition will be given to identify, recognize and encourage young and promising talents in India who have made and are likely to continue to make outstanding contributions impacting engineering research and design, technology development and transfer. The short-listed nominees will be invited to make a presentation followed by an interaction with the Selection Committee on dates to be announced later.

Presentation of the Recognition:

The awardees will be invited for the INAE Annual Convention being held in December each year wherein they would be conferred with the Award and also inducted as INAE Young Associates.

Forwarding of Nominations:

The sponsor must be either a Fellow of INAE or Head of the organization/ institution/HoD/Dean where the nominee is working. The ink signed scanned soft copies of the nominations duly endorsed by the sponsor should be forwarded through the official email address of the sponsor to inaehq@inae.in. Please note that hard copies of the nomination documents are not required to be forwarded. Also copies of reprints/publications/reports/ patents/photographs etc. are neither required nor permitted and only lists of the relevant reprints/publications/reports/patents/ photographs etc. may be attached.

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Selected INAE Young Engineer Awardees 2026

  1. Dr Siksha Swaroopa Kar, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi (ES-I Civil Engineering)
  2. Dr Swathy Manohar, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (ES-I Civil Engineering)
  3. Dr. Akanksha Tyagi, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (ES-I Civil Engineering)
  4. Dr. M. Keerthana, Scientist -E, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Chennai (ES-I Civil Engineering)
  5. Dr Sravanti Addepalli, Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Bengaluru (ES-II Computer Engineering and Information Technology)
  6. Dr Avishek Ghosh, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)Bombay (ES-II Computer Engineering and Information Technology)
  7. Dr Keerti Chaudhary, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (ES-II Computer Engineering and Information Technology)
  8. Dr Susmita Dash, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru (ES-III Mechanical Engineering)
  9. Dr. Anusha Epparla, Scientist, Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI), Bengaluru (ES-III Mechanical Engineering)
  10. Dr. Shubhadeep Mandal, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru (ES-III Mechanical Engineering)
  11. Dr Ajay Bhandari, Assistant Professor (Grade I), Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad (ES-III Mechanical Engineering)
  12. Dr Antarip Poddar , Assistant Professor (Grade I), Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad (ES-III Mechanical Engineering)
  13. Dr. Alka Kumari, Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad (ES-IV Chemical Engineering)
  14. Dr Akshay Modi, Assistant Professor (Grade I), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal (ES-IV Chemical Engineering)
  15. Dr M Vishnu Swaroopji, Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Hyderabad, (ES-IV Chemical Engineering)
  16. Dr. Moumita Das, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi (ES-V Electrical Engineering)
  17. Prof. Sayan Basu Roy, Associate Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi (ES-V Electrical Engineering)
  18. Dr Debranjan Mukherjee, Assistant Professor Grade – I, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur (ES-V Electrical Engineering)
  19. Dr. Subhadip Chakraborty, System Studies & Control Performance Engineering Senior Professional, Hitachi Energy, Chennai (ES-V Electrical Engineering)
  20. Dr Gourab Ghatak, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (ES-VI Electronics and Communication Engineering)
  21. Dr Koteswar Rao Jerripothula, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur (ES-VI Electronics and Communication Engineering)
  22. Dr. Priyanka Dwivedi, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Sri City, Chittoor (ES-VI Electronics and Communication Engineering)
  23. Dr. Sumit Sunil Tambe , Assistant Professor Grade I, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (ES-VII Aerospace Engineering)
  24. Dr. Bhuvanesh Srinivasan, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (ES-VIII Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
  25. Mr Rajath Alexander, Scientific Officer E, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai (ES-VIII Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
  26. Dr. Avanish Kumar Chandan, Scientist-E, CSIR- National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur & Assistant Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)    (ES-VIII Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
  27. Mr. Panasa Rajesh, Deputy Manager (Methods), Foundry & Forge Division, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Bangalore (ES-VIII Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
  28. Ms Anushri Nag, Researcher, R&D, Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur (ES-VIII Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
  29. Dr B. Aashranth, Scientific Officer ‘E’, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam (ES-IX Energy Engineering)
  30. Dr. Srineash V. K, Assistant Professor, Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (ES-X Interdisciplinary & Special Engineering fields and Leadership in Academia, R&D and Industry)
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