Mr Ameen Yasir P A has bagged the Springer first prize for his oral presentation titled:Estimating OAM of light using partial Fourier transform at the OSI- International Symposium on Optics held at IIT Kanpur during 19-22 September 2018. He was selected from a total of 195 submitted papers out of which only 49 were selected for oral presentation, and Yasir is one of the few who bagged a prize.