Alumni and their Achievements
An institution's alumni are the reflection of its past, representative of its present, and a link to its future. Our Alumni have brought great glory to our institution. They have set the example of being a successful and good human being. They inspire us to have a clear conscience, the courage to speak the truth, and the importance of being authentic.
Our alumni are part of several companies and Institutes such as ISRO, BARC, Facebook, MIT, OXFORD, YALE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Texas, Max Planck, IISc, IIMs, Cipla, among others. Some of the alumni are faculty at universities such as IIT, TIFR, HRI.
Some of them are listed below:
- Dr. Amit Kumar - Assistant professor of Mathematics at NIT-Andhra Pradesh.
- Dr. Mohammed Nasim- Faculty at IISER Berhampur.
- Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee- Faculty at IISER Berhampur.
- Dr. Chitrasen Jena-Faculty at IISER Tirupati.
- Dr. Sabhyasachi Ghosh- Faculty at IIT Bhilai.
- Shorba Bhattacharya secured the 1st rank in NET 2017
- Pavan secured the 2nd rank in NET 2019
- Dr. Sesa Dev is a Research Associate at the Georg-August University of Gottingen, Germany.
- Mr. Vijay J Iyer became the first recipient of the Rajendran Raja Fellowship of Fermilab.
- Dr. Sandeep Rana, Data Scientist, ARP Investment
- Dr. Minaxi Sharma, Managing Member, Ample Electrical Solution.
- Dr. Samir Kumar, Assistant Professor, JaiPrakash Narayan University, Bihar
- Dr. Sabita Das, Assistant Professor, KKS Women's College.
- Arjun Mani, Faculty at Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology.
- Dr. Gaurav Jha- Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Soham Saha- Clinical Scientist, IPSEN
- Dr. Siddharth Satpathy- Machine Learning Engineer at Deepfence Inc.
- Dr. Sabyasachi Barik- Photonics Engineer, Nexus Photonics
- Dr. Harveen Kaur- Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Dibyajyoti Dutta- Credit risk analyst, Goldman Sachs
- Dr. Adyasha Panigrahi- Senior Scientist at Sygnature Discovery
- Mr. Mohit Soni- Scientist at BARC
- Mr. Rudra Prasad Sahu- IIM, Lucknow
- Mr. Ankit Singh- IIM, Ranchi
- Mr. Srikant Kumar Sethi- IIM, Ranchi
- Mr. Sunil Swain- IIM, Kashipur
- Mr.Himanshu Choudhary-IIM, Kozhikode
- Ms . Subhashree Jena- IIM, Udaipur
- Mr.Shiba Prasad Sahoo-IIm, Lucknow
- Mr.Aman Ranga-IIM-kashipur
- Mr.Amal k Vinod- IIFT, Delhi
NISER Achievements
- HBNI was ranked 2nd in the country by the Nature Index 2020.
- NISER was awarded the India Research Excellence-Citation Award-2019 by Clarivate Analytics.
- HBNI, NISER’s parent university ranked 14 in NIRF university rankings.
- Team of students from NISER batch 17 were selected for the national team to represent India in the International Physical Tournament-2019 in EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Dr A Srinivasan and Dr C Gunanathan, our faculty for the school of chemical sciences, are recipients of the prestigious CRSI medal.
- Dr Bedanga Mohanty and Dr. Ajay kumar Nayak of SPS made it to the list of top 2% scientists in the world among all disciplines during a single calendar year 2017 and 2019 based on Stanford university’s survey .
- Our faculty includes Shantiswarup Bhatnagar awardees, Dr Bedangadas Mohanty (SPS), Dr TK Chandrashekar (SCS) and Dr V Chandrasekhar (SCS), DBT Wellcome Trust Alliance awardee Dr Mohammed Saleem, INSA young scientist Dr Sutanu Roy (SMS) and elected fellow of IAS, Dr Sayantani Bhattacharya (SPS), and associates of the IAS, Dr Tuhin Ghosh and Dr Ajaya Nayak (SPS).
- Our teaching faculty also includes recipients of the Ramanujan fellowship-Dr Gunanathan, Dr Khandai, Dr Prolay Mal, Dr Krishnan, Dr Subhadip Ghosh, Dr Ashish Nandi, Dr Liton Majumdar and Dr Ajaya Nayak, Ramalingaswami fellow, Dr Palok Aich, and many Early career research awardees.
- Dr Guneshwar Thangjam from our School of Earth and Planetary Sciences has an asteroid named after him, 11806 Thangjam.
- Dr Liton Majumdar of SEPS is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Dr Aniruddha Datta-Roy, of School of Biological Sciences, has a species of skink named after him- Eutropis dattaroyi, honouring his contributions to the field of herpetology.
- Dr Roy (SBS), and his team, discovered a new skink species in the Western Ghats, currently considered a vulnerable species. This discovery was featured in a national daily- The Hindu.
- Dr T.k chandrashekar, Dr Vadapalli chandrasekhar, Dr Bedangadas Mohanty, Dr Sudhakar panda are the elected fellow of all the three science academies of India( The Indian Science Academy in new delhi, The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, india, Indian Academy of Sciences ,Bengaluru).
- The research work of Dr Himanshu biswal and Dr Amanredra Das was published in newspapers.