Awards

SURGE-2023 Awardees

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Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Verkey Cherian Award for Best Poster

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Ms. Shivalika Sista	IIT Kanpur	CHM	Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu	Benzodiazepines as GABA-A receptor modulators
2	Mr. Jaskaran Singh Waila	Vellore Institute of Technology	CSE	Dr. Hamim Zafar	A solution to multi-omic data integration with Spatial Retention using a custom Graph Attention Autoencoder Architecture

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Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Verkey Cherian Award for Best Project

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Mr. Soham Sen	IIT Kanpur	AE	Dr. Soumya Dutta	Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks : Explainability and Interpretability
2	Mr. Kanav Gupta	IIT Indore	Biosciences & Biomedical Engineering	Dr. Arjun Ramakrishnan	Understanding brain-behavior dynamics underlying approach-avoidance conflict through computational lens
3	Mr. Partha Mishra	NIT Rourkela	Ceramic Engineering	Dr. Tanmoy Maiti	Investigating the Formation of High Entropy Perovskites for Thermoelectric Application

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Best Project Award for Engineering

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Mr. Soham Sen	IIT Kanpur	AE	Dr. Soumya Dutta	Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks : Explainability and Interpretability
2	Ms. Aakriti	Harcourt Butler Technical University	Biochemical Engineering	Dr. Santosh Misra	Investigation of the Rhodamine-6G dye loaded liposomes interaction with simulated tear fluid

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Best Project Award for Sciences

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Ms. Rashmi Pant	IIT Kanpur	CHM	Dr. Mainak Sadhukhan	Dynamical signature of quantum choas
2	Ms. Aastha Razshree	IIT DELHI	CHM	Dr. Pratik Sen	Effect of hydrophobicity on synergistic solvation

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