Mr. Mohamed Armoon Shaliq, a final-year MTech student in Quantum Technology, has been awarded the Best Poster Award for his research work titled “High-Speed Quantum Noise Profiling” at the National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology (NCMST 2025). The conference was organized by the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), in association with the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), Trivandrum Chapter, and was held from 18–20 December 2025. The work was co-authored by Mr. Arun Biju and Dr.

Ms. Reshna Suresh, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry, has received the Best Poster Award for the poster titled ‘Flexible, Thin PDMS Composites Embedded with Graphene Nanoplatelets-Polyaniline Reinforced Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Networks for Broadband EMI Shielding at the 18th International Conference on Polymer Science and Technology (SPSI MACRO 2025), held from 15–18 December 2025 at IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Kolkata. The poster was authored jointly with Dr. Nirmala R.

The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) is proud to announce that the DROne-MED program, a humanitarian technology initiative focused on medical drone deployment in the Himalayan region, has been awarded the prestigious IEEE MTTS-SIGHT Grant. The research effort led by Prof. Priyadarshan Hari with doctoral fellows Samridh Patial, Gopika Reghunadhan and SSPACE research fellow Yoga Hariharan, is being carried out under the purview of the SSPACE Lab, in collaboration with IEEE MTT-S IIST Student Branch Chapter and IEEE AES S IIST Student Branch Chapter.