Mr R Ananthakrishnan, research scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, working on machine translation won the second prize at TechVista of Microsoft research India for his work, "Some Issues in Automatic Evaluation of English-Hindi MT: More Blues for BLEU". His research advisors are Prof Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IITB and Dr Sasi Kumar, CDAC Mumbai.

Prof B Bandyopadhyay, Systems and Control Engineering, has been awarded the Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, for his contributions to propose new algorithm on Multirate Output Feedback based Sliding Mode Control.

Mr Abhijit Badwe and Mr Vinay Bavdekar, PhD students, Department of Chemical Engineering, received the IIChE Ambuja Cement Young Researcher Award- 2006.

Prof Jayesh Bellare, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for application of the cross-disciplinary, emerging areas of nanobiotechnology, microengineering and ultramicroscopy to a broad range of applications.

Prof Umesh Belur, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has received the IBM 2006 Faculty Award of $26000 in the area of Autonomic Computing.

Prof Deepankar Choudhury, Department of Civil Engineering, has received the INAE Young Engineer Award - 2006.

Ms Sneha Gupta, student, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Science, has been selected for the Indian National Academy of Engineering INAE Innovative Students Project Award 2006 for her project on 'Nanocrystalline Silicon formation through Aluminium induced Crystillization', with guidance provided by Prof R O Dusane.

Prof Tarun Kant, Department of Civil Engineering, has been awarded the Fellow of the Indian National Science. Academy for his outstanding contributions in developing continuum and discrete finite element higher order shear-normal deformation models for improved response characteristics of multilayered fibre reinforced polymer composites.

Prof Abhay Karandikar, Department of Electrical Engineering, has been awarded the 13th IETE Prof K Sreenivasan Memorial Award by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers in recognition of his contribution to engineering education in communication network and wireless communications.

Prof B P Kashyap, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, has been awarded the Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his for his technical and professional contributions in the area of superplasticity and thermo-mechanical processing.

Prof S Kotha, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, for his contributions in the area of organic synthesis/synthetic methods.

Prof Pradeep Mathur, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology in recognition of his academic acheivements.

Prof Ashok Misra, Director IIT Bombay, has been awarded the following: (a) the National Systems Gold Medal Award, 2006, by the Systems Society of India in recognition of his excellent contributions in the field of education, research and development of entrepreneurship activities in the country; (b) the S. S. Bhatnagar Memorial Award, 2007, for his significant and lifetime contribution to the development of science and technology in the country; (c) the Chemtech-CEW Outstanding Contribution Award by the CHEMTECH Foundation for his contributions as a teacher and a researcher for over three decades; and (d) as an Honorary Fellow of Indian Plastics Institute in recognition of outstanding academic achievements.

Dr T R Rama Mohan, retd. faculty, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, has been given Life Time Achievement Award by the Powder Metallurgy Association of India (PMAI) in recognition of his contribution to PMAI in the synergy achieved in bringing scientists, researchers and industrialists working with various particulate materials together under one roof.

Prof N K Naik, Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Prof Tarun Kant, Department of Civil Engineering, received the 'Prof H H Mathur Excellence Award in Applied Sciences' in recognition for their work in the areas of 'mechanics of composites materials and structures' and 'polymer matrix composites' respectively. This award is instituted by IIT Bombay alumni Mr Rakesh Mathur.

Prof Krithi Ramamritham, Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Sydney, Australia, in recognition of academic eminence, and distinguished creative achievement.

Prof Girish Saraph, Department of Electrical Engineering, has been selected as a joint-winner in the prestigious TiE Canaan Partners Entrepreneurial Challenge for Vegayan Systems, an IIT Bombay incubated company. The event was jointly sponsored by the IndUS Entrepreneurs and Canaan Partners.

Prof H S Shankar, Prof S Mahajani and Prof J Bellare, Department of Chemical Engineering have been awarded the 'Indira Manudhane Applied Research Project Awards 2006'.

Prof H B Singh, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, for his significant original contributions to the area of organochalcogen chemistry.

Prof Raghavan Sunoj, Department of Chemistry, has been selected as a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore for the period 2006-2009.

Prof Chandra Venkataraman, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Vikram Sarabhai Award of 2005, in atmospheric and space science in recognition of her work on aerosol emissions and climate effects in the Indian region.

Prof K V Venkatesh and Prof Chandra Venkataraman, Department of Chemical Engineering, have been awarded the 'R. G. Manudhane Faculty Research and Development Excellence Award 2006'.

Prof Pramod Wangikar, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the 'National Bioscience Award for Career Development- 2006' by the DST, for outstanding contributions in the area of modeling, optimization and monitoring of fermentation.