IIT Hyderabad congratulates Mr. Swagatam Islam Sarkar, working under Dr. Prabhat Kumar in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, on receiving the Best Presenter Award at the International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2026).
The award was presented for the paper titled “TO-mdiSPAs: Topology Optimization of Multi-Directional Soft Pneumatic Actuators.” The conference was organized by Mahindra University’s École Centrale School of Engineering in Hyderabad.