Careers360 Faculty Research Awards 2026: IIT researchers awarded in business, engineering, chemistry, sciences

Four researchers from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Hyderabad have been recognised in the Careers360 Faculty Research Awards 2026.

The researchers were awarded for their contributions across chemistry, engineering, business management and accounting, and earth and planetary sciences. The scholars received their awards from GD Yadav, a leading Indian chemical engineer, educator and Padma Shri awardee.

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IIT Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, Hyderabad researchers receive awards

Debabrata Maiti is a Professor of Chemistry at IIT Bombay and he has been recognised in the field of Chemistry. He completed his research degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2008 and later did his postdoctoral research in Steve Buchwald’s group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He joined IIT Bombay in 2011. Maiti has 270 scholarly publications, 13,999 citations and an H-index of 83.

Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi has been acknowledged in the Engineering domain. He is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He has 512 scholarly publications, 10,444 citations and an H-index of 81. His research focuses on power systems, machine intelligence and evolutionary computing. Bijaya’s work includes microgrid control and optimisation, advanced battery technologies, smart grids, power-system optimisation and energy management. 

Sheshadri Chatterjee of IIT Kharagpur currently works as an Asia Pacific Regional Solution Lead at Microsoft, and he was awarded for research in Business, Management and Accounting.  His research areas include cloud computing, business analytics, cybersecurity, technology adoption, IT project management and smart city solutions. He has 159 scholarly publications, 8,001 citations and an H-index of 64.

Shantanu Desai is a Professor in the Departments of Physics and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Hyderabad. His research covers cosmology, galaxy clusters, pulsars, gravitational-wave searches, neutrino physics, astrostatistics and artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has 268 scholarly publications, 16,448 citations and an H-index of 93. Desai was awarded in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He was also a part of the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, which received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for research on atmospheric neutrino oscillations and the solar neutrino problem.