Mr. Harikrishnan P, research scholar, Department of Physics, IIST received one of the Best Posters Awards for the work titled "Laser Wavelength Calibration using Saganc Interferometer" at SCOPOSIS 2025 (Student Conference on Optics and Photonics (SCOP) and the 48th Optical Society of India Symposium (OSIS)) organized at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad during 8-12 December 2025.

Ms. Priyanka M.Kannath, Research Scholar, Department of Physics, has received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 4th Annual International Conference on Women in Optics and Photonics in India (WOPI 2025), held at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, during December 5–7, 2025. She presented a paper titled ‘Distributed Quantum Sensing in a Network of Optical Gyroscopes’, authored by Priyanka M. Kannath, G. S. Agarwal, and Ashok Kumar.

Ms. Arushi Kumar, a second year Research Scholar in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) at IIST, has been recognized with two prestigious awards for her research on "Dust scattering of X-ray photons from Gamma Ray Bursts," conducted under the supervision of Dr. Resmi L. Her poster received the Best Poster Award at the Young Astronomers Meeting II (YAM II), held at IIT BHU, Varanasi (December 5-7, 2025).