Achievement of Students

Student Name/ Photo	Achievement	Year
Ms. Minakshi Bhattacharya	Qualified CSIR-NET JRF and GATE	2026
Ms. Anu Yadav	Selected for PhD offer from Louisiana State University, USA.	2026
Dr. Arindam Jana	Joined the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, as a Young Professional (R&D). (completed his PhD in 2025 under the guidance of Dr. Rahul Modak, faculty at School of Biotechnology)	2026
Ms. Shreya Das	Bagged a PhD offer at IIT Kharagpur	2026
Mr. Shibam Dey	Got a PhD offer at Hebrew University, Israel.	2026
Ms. Maiolica Bandyopadhyay	Received a PhD position in the Engineering Programme in Brain Computation and Data Science at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.	2026
Mr. Sagnik Mitra	Working as a JRF under Dr. Sony Reddy at the School of Biotechnology has been selected as Research associate and PhD student at Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany	2026
Ms. Subhra Satahrada	Pursuing PhD under the guidance of Dr. Ritesh Patnaik, has been awarded with Hackathon 5.0 Ideation Project funded from MSME, GoI.	2026
Ms. Sudakshya Suchitra Lenka	Selected for PhD offer from Technical University of Denmark (Marie Curie Fellowship), Denmark.	2026
Ms. Snehasmita Jena	Selected for PhD offer from Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, (Marie Curie Fellowship).	2026
43 students from the School of Biotechnology	qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering).	2026
Mr. Sarthak Singh	Got the award for best student ideation at the Global Summit on Blue Economy 2026, organised by Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation in partnership with the Odisha Government. Their idea was “Smart Sea Buoys for real time ocean health monitoring and predictive analysis”.	2026
Ms. Yashvi Aggarwal	Got the award for best student ideation at the Global Summit on Blue Economy 2026, organised by Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation in partnership with the Odisha Government. Their idea was “Smart Sea Buoys for real time ocean health monitoring and predictive analysis”.	2026
Mr. Kunal Singh Tomar	Got the award for best student ideation at the Global Summit on Blue Economy 2026, organised by Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation in partnership with the Odisha Government. Their idea was “Smart Sea Buoys for real time ocean health monitoring and predictive analysis”.	2026
Ms. Suchismita Dutta Roy	Got the award for best student ideation at the Global Summit on Blue Economy 2026, organised by Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation in partnership with the Odisha Government. Their idea was “Smart Sea Buoys for real time ocean health monitoring and predictive analysis”.	2026
Mr. Abhik Kumar Saha	Got the award for best student ideation at the Global Summit on Blue Economy 2026, organised by Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation in partnership with the Odisha Government. Their idea was “Smart Sea Buoys for real time ocean health monitoring and predictive analysis”.	2026
Ms Ankita Parida	Secured a DBT-JRF fellowship.	2026
Swati Samikshya Mohanty	Bagged the 2nd position for developing their ingenious project, an Advanced Snake Venom Detection System which impressed the jury members of National Hackathon on Human-Wildlife Coexistence, organized by the Wildlife Institute of India(wii_india), held in Dehradun on October 5-6, 2025. The team was awarded a cash prize of ₹60,000, and KIIT University received ₹3 lakh to further brainstorm and implement this innovative idea.	2026
28 students from the School of Biotechnology	qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)	2025
9 students from the School of Biotechnology	received the AICTE Post Graduate (PG) Scholarships for qualifying GATE 2025 to support their B.Tech-M.Tech studies for 2 years.	2025
Ms. Arundhati Dhar	Selected for INSA (Indian National Science Academy) summer research fellowships	2025
Ms. Sampriti Bandyopadhy	Selected for INSA (Indian National Science Academy) summer research fellowships	2025
Ms. Brishti Pal	Selected for INSA (Indian National Science Academy) summer research fellowships	2025
Ms. Suparna Dev	Selected for INSA (Indian National Science Academy) summer research fellowships	2025
Ms. Syna Pal	Selected for INSA (Indian National Science Academy) summer research fellowships	2025
Ms. Aleya Bhattacharjee	Qualified prestigious CSIR-NET JRF	2025
Mr. Rishav Bandyopadhy	Qualified prestigious DBT-BET JRF	2025
Mr. Siddhant Serel	Qualified CSIR-NET JRF	2025
Ms. Shaikh Sheeran Naser	Selected for PhD offer from School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland.	2025
Mr. Apoorv Kirti	Selected for PhD offer from Université Grenoble Alpes. France.	2025
Ms. Shrimoyee Dutta	A final-year student of the B.Tech–M.Tech Biotechnology, secured PhD opportunity at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany.	2025
Ms. Sipra Mishra	Was the International Runner-up at the Voice for BT (Biotechnology) 2025, organized by ABLE India, for her deliberation on ‘The Importance of AI in Drug Discovery and Diagnosis’.	2025
Kananika Moharana	Bagged the 2nd position for developing their ingenious project, an Advanced Snake Venom Detection System which impressed the jury members of National Hackathon on Human-Wildlife Coexistence, organized by the Wildlife Institute of India(wii_india), held in Dehradun on October 5-6, 2025. The team was awarded a cash prize of ₹60,000, and KIIT University received ₹3 lakh to further brainstorm and implement this innovative idea.	2025
Surabhi Sahoo	Bagged the 2nd position for developing their ingenious project, an Advanced Snake Venom Detection System which impressed the jury members of National Hackathon on Human-Wildlife Coexistence, organized by the Wildlife Institute of India(wii_india), held in Dehradun on October 5-6, 2025. The team was awarded a cash prize of ₹60,000, and KIIT University received ₹3 lakh to further brainstorm and implement this innovative idea.	2025
Sruti Lagna Dash	Bagged the 2nd position for developing their ingenious project, an Advanced Snake Venom Detection System which impressed the jury members of National Hackathon on Human-Wildlife Coexistence, organized by the Wildlife Institute of India(wii_india), held in Dehradun on October 5-6, 2025. The team was awarded a cash prize of ₹60,000, and KIIT University received ₹3 lakh to further brainstorm and implement this innovative idea.	2025

Abroad PhD Students

S.N.	Name of the student	Course studied / Year	Name of the University
1	Abhik Mojumdar	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	University of Science and Technology(UST), South Korea
2	Aditya Nandi	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City
3	Amogh Gupta	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	National University of Singapore
4	Ananya Banerjee	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center
5	Aninda Dutta	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	University of Virginia
6	Anirban Bose	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	University of Wollongong , Australia ( MBA)
7	Ankit Jana	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	National University of Singapore
8	Ankit Majumdar	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	TechnischeUniversitat, Dresden
9	Ankita Jena	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2017	University of Gottingen, Germany, Erasmus plus program
10	Annesha Ghosh	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	University of Graz, Austria
11	Antara Haldar	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	Technion- The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Israel
12	Anuja Bose	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Linconl University , New Zealand
13	Anushka Supakar	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	University at Buffalo, USA
14	Aparajita Chakrabarty	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2016	The Unniversity of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
15	Aprajita Jha	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2017	Kansas State University, USA
16	Arindam Dey	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2016	Universite Grenoble, Alpes, Heidelberg, Germany
17	Arkadyuti Bhattacharjee	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
18	Arpita Sikaria	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Masters, University of Adelaide
19	Ayushi Srivastav	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	University of Central Florida
20	Bibek Naik	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, USA
21	Chitran Roychowdhury	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Harvard School of Medicine
22	Debanjan Singha Roy	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2023	Tel Aviv University
23	Debolina Dasgupta	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Kansas State University, USA
24	Debosmita Chakraborty	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
25	Dibyangshee Singh	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2023	University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland
26	Dipayan Sarkar	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2022	State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, USA.
27	Diya Bhattacharya	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom
28	Eshani Das	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas
29	Faizan Zarreen Simnani	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2023	Marie Curie Fellow, Univ. de Lyon, France, and RMIT Australia
30	Haimantika Seel	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
31	Heena Harshita	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	Research Associate in Eurofins, Ibbenburen, Germany
32	Ishita Ghosh	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	Pennsylvania State University, USA
33	Jayeeta Chowdhury	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea
34	Joydeep Rakshit	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2018	Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA
35	Malabika Bhowmick	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	University of Dayton, Ohio, USA
36	Mayurakshi Bhatia	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
37	Mohana Mukherjee	MBT/ 2016	University of Bern, Switzerland
38	Ms. Anmol Choudhury	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2023	University of Southwales(UNSW), Sydney
39	Namrata Saha	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	University of Queensland, Australia
40	Nikita Dinger	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2018	InstitutoItaliano di Tecnologia Naples, Campania, Italy
41	Ojaswi Biswas	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2022	Institute of Immunology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (with “ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship 2021 Asia Pacific”)
42	Paritosh Patel	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea
43	Piyasi Ghosh	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	University of Arkansas,USA
44	Pranamita Charkraborti	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	The University of North Carolina, USA
45	Priya Mitra	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Tel Aviv University, Israel
46	Priyanka Dheer	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2022	Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chapman University, USA
47	Rahul Bhatacharjee	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	Tel Aviv University, Israel
48	Ratula Ray	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	TechnischeUniversitat, Munchen (TUM), Germany
49	Reetuparna Biswas	MBT/ 2017	University of Verona, Italy
50	Saikat Bandyopadhyaya	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Senior Data Analyst, UVA Health, Virginia, USA
51	Saptarshi Bhattacharyya	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
52	Sasha Cardozo	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences (MEES) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), USA
53	Sayam Ghosal	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2018	HCEMM, Budapest, Hungary
54	Sayandeep Saha	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
55	Sebahi Molla	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Wayne State University, Postdoctoral Researcher
56	Shailesh Kumar Samal	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	KarolinskaInstitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
57	Shalini Dasgupta	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	IIEST
58	Shibam Dey	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2022	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
59	Shivani Sachdev	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
60	Shrestha Kumar	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	University of Glasgow, UK, Msc Bioinformatics
61	Shrestha Mohapatra	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	University of Barcelona
62	Shreya Roy	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	John Curtin School of Medical Research- Australian National University
63	Shrutakirti Saha	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2018	The Julius Maximilians, University of Wurzburg
64	Slipa Kanungo	MBT/ 2020	InstitutoGulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal
65	Sohom Mookherjee	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, USA.
66	Soumitra Pathak	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	Hokaido University, Japan
67	Subhdip Mukherjee	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/	Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea
68	Sucheta De Basuray	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2017	Tel Aviv University
69	Suchintak Dash	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/2018	Tampere University, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
70	Sulagna Dasgupta	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2023	KTH Royal Sulagna Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Swden
71	Swagatika Dash	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2020	University of Osnabruck, Germany
72	Sweta Rout	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2016	University Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
73	Tamoghni Mitra	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2021	Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea
74	Tanmaya Behera	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Biochemie-Zentrum der Universitat Heidelberg(BZH), Heidelberg, Germany
75	Zinnia Saha	B.Tech-M.Tech Dual degree/ 2019	Uppsala University, Sweden