• Dr. Dangka Shylla defended her Ph.D thesis on March 15, 2023.
• Dr. Abhisek Majumdar defended his Ph.D thesis on March 10, 2023.
• Dr. Surojit Dalui defended his Ph.D thesis on January 16, 2023.
• Dr. Ghanashyam Meher defended his Ph.D thesis on January 12, 2023.
• Harpreet Singh, Srijata Lahiri, Joya Ghosh Dastider, Priyam Mukherjee and Sanjoy Sur Roy have been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) May 2022.
• Invention titled "A Method And Device For Zonal Wavefront Sensing By Beam Splitting" by the team of Dr. Biswajit Pathak and Prof. Bosanta R Boruah has been granted Indian Patent with patent number 406347 (registration dated 12/09/2022).
• Invention titled "System, Apparatus And Method For Monitoring Of Surface Profile And Thickness Measurement In Thin Films" by the team of Dr. Biswajit Pathak, Dr. Rahul Kesarwani, Prof. Alika Khare and Prof. Bosanta R Boruah has been granted Indian Patent with patent number 403113 (registration dated 05/08/2022).
• Dr. Madhurima Chakraborty defended her Ph.D thesis on November 29, 2022.
• Dr. Nilamoni Daloi defended his Ph.D thesis on November 21, 2022.
• Dr. Mrinal Kanti Giri defended his Ph.D thesis on November 16, 2022.
• Dr. Ritupan Borah defended his Ph.D thesis on November 15, 2022.
• Dr. Susmita Rabha defended her Ph.D thesis on November 11, 2022.
• Dr. Abhilasha Bora defended her Ph.D thesis on September 27, 2022.
• Dr. Riajul Haque defended his Ph.D thesis on September 13, 2022.
• Dr. Wadbor Wahlang defended his Ph.D thesis on August 30, 2022.
• Dr. Apurba Das defended his Ph.D thesis on July 26, 2022.
• Dr. Dipti Kanika Mahato defended her Ph.D thesis on July 22, 2022.
• Dr. Dhriti Maurya defended her Ph.D thesis on July 19, 2022.
• Dr. Mousumi Maitra defended her Ph.D thesis on June 21, 2022.
• Dr. Rakesh Sarkar defended his Ph.D thesis on May 31, 2022.
• Dr. Sasmita Behera defended her Ph.D thesis on May 27, 2022.
• Dr. Priyanka Sinha defended her Ph.D thesis on April 25, 2022.
• Dr. Sayan Lahiri defended his Ph.D thesis on April 19, 2022.
• Dr. Karuna Sindhu Malik defended his Ph.D thesis on April 07, 2022.
• Nayan Das and Sanju Nandi have been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) December, 2021.
• Invention titled "Free Space Optical Communication System, Apparatus and A Method Thereof" by the team of Dr. Santanu Konwar and Prof. Bosanta Ranjan Boruah has been granted Japanese Patent with patent number 6998868 (registration dated 23/12/2021).
• Mr. Manvendra Singh Gangwar, has received the Best E-poster award (2nd rank) for the paper entitled “Growth dynamics of silver nanoparticles for light trapping applications in thin-film solar cells” presented at the ICTAMASD-2022 held during 8-10 March 2022, organized by the Department of Physics, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya Sagar, M.P, India.
• Dr. Sagarika Adhikari defended her Ph.D thesis on March 15, 2022.
• Dr. Nagendra Kumar defended his Ph.D thesis on March 11, 2022.
• Dr. Sumit Goswami defended his Ph.D thesis on March 07, 2022.
• Dr. Lopamudra Mukherjee defended her Ph.D thesis on February 16, 2022.
• Mr. Rajnandan Choudhury Das, has been selected for the AWSAR Award 2021 which includes a cash prize of ₹10,000 and certificate from DST, Govt. of India for his story on “Laser Cooling Mysteries & Harry’s Heroics in Quantumverse” in the “Best Popular Science Stories” under the Ph.D. category.
• Mr. Rajnandan Choudhury Das, Research Scholar, Department of Physics, has been selected for the prestigious SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE (SPM) Fellowship in Physical Science based on his excellent performances in the CSIR-UGC-NET exam held in June - 2019.
• Mr. Apurba Das, Research Scholar, Department of Physics, has been awarded the Persistent Systems Cash Prize of Rs. 5 Lakhs in the National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC 2021).
• Prof. P K Giri has been elected as a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (WAST).
• Mr. Anterdipan Singh and Mr. Manvendra Singh Gangwar received the best oral and best poster award respectively in the recently concluded Virtual Conference on "Recent Advances and Innovation in Solar Energy (RAiSE)" held at IIT Madras between December 02-04, 2021.
• Mr. Gajendra Singh Bisht received the best oral presentation, which carries a certificate and Rs. 4000 cash prize, at "International Conference on Advanced Materials and Mechanical Characterization (ICAMMC-2021)" held virtually during 02-04 December 2021.
• Dr. Dolly Taparia defended her Ph.D thesis on December 02, 2021.
• Dr. Abdelsalam Hassan Muhammad Abdelaziz defended his Ph.D thesis on December 01, 2021.
• Mr. Gaurang Ramakant Kane, final year B. Tech. (Engineering Physics) student, scored 990 out of 990 in subject GRE (Physics) 2021.
• Ms Pragya Gupta received the Best Presentation Award at the 2021 Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe Magnetics Conference (AtC-AtG) for the work on "Coupled lattice vibrations and exchange bias in Eu substituted NdCrO3".
• Sreetama Das Choudhury, Mouli Roy Chowdhury, Anterdipan Singh, Dipankar Barman and Aritra Ray have been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2021.
• The paper titled "Highly Sensitive Novel Fiber Bragg Grating Based Tilt Sensor For Structural Health Monitoring" presented by Debabrata Paul, Sunil Mohan and Prof. S. Khijwania, received the Excellence in Paper Presentation Awards in "FRONTIERS IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS (FOP21)" at IIT Delhi during September 24-27, 2021.
• Invention titled "A System and Method for LASER Beam Scanning with Periodic Switching of Polarization of the Beam" by Dr. Rajan Kalita, Dr. S. S. Gautam Buddha and Prof. B. R. Boruah has been granted Indian patent (patent number 377789) dated 24/09/2021.
• Ms. Sanya Sharma, B. Tech. Engineering Physics student, received the "Grace Hopper Celebrations (GHC) Student Scholarship 2021".
• Prof. P. K. Giri has been awarded the prestigious "Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (IOP), UK".
• "System, apparatus and method for monitoring of surface profile and thickness measurement in thin films" by Dr. Biswajit Pathak, Dr. Rahul Kesarwani, Prof. Alika Khare and Prof. Bosanta R Boruah has been granted the Japanese Patent.
• Mr. Jyotirmoi Borah has been awarded the best poster award at the DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium 2020 (virtual) organised by NISER Bhubaneswar, India.
• Dr. Debasish Borah has been awarded the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientist 2020.
• Rajnandan Choudhury Das, Sampreet Kalita and Samik Mitra have been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2020. They are pursuing research in the area of Optics (experiment), Optics (theory) and Astrophysics respectively.
• Mr. Joydip Ghosh, research scholar working under the supervision of Prof. P. K. Giri, has been selected for the best oral presentation sponsored by RSC in the virtual conference 'VCAN 2020" organized by VIT, India.
• The US patent application (15/745,142) titled "Free Space Optical Communication System, Apparatus and a Method Thereof" filed by Prof. B. R. Boruah has been accepted for granting.
• Prof. P. K. Giri has been awarded the prestigious "Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal" for the year 2020.
• Dr. Debasish Borah has been awarded National Academy of Sciences (India) NASI - Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award in Physical Sciences 2019.
• Mr. Gobinda Pradhan, a PhD student, has won the best poster award in the recently concluded conference "2nd National Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Technology" (NCRAST 2019).
• Abhirikshma Nandi, B.Tech. (Engineering Physics) student has been selected for the CERN internship program 2019.
• Mr. Jyotirmoi Borah, research scholar in the High Energy Physics group, has got the best poster award prize in the International Workshop on Frontiers in High Energy Physics at University of Hyderabad during October 14-17, 2019.
• Mr. Krishnakanta Bhattacharya has been awarded distinguished student-FIP-APS award from the APS (American Physical Society) supporting his travel to APS April 2019 meeting.
• Mr. Joy Prakash Das, PhD student, received the best oral presentation award at the National Conference on Hard and Soft Condensed Matter Physics held on March 2019 at Tezpur University.
• Mr. Dibyendu Mondal (M.Sc student) has been awarded "Gold Medal" in the national level graduate physics examination conducted by IAPT (Indian Association of Physics Teachers).
• Mr. Sumit Goswami, a PhD student, has won the best poster award in the recently concluded conference "5th International conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" (ICONN 2019).
• Mr. Kamal Kumar Paul, PhD scholar working with Prof. P. K. Giri has received the "Best Poster Award" in the international conference, iCONMAT-2019, held during January 3-5, 2019 at Cochin University of Science and Technology, India.
• Mr Apurba Das, PhD scholar has received the "Best Poster Award" in the "63rd DAE Solid State Physics Symposiumin" held at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana during 18-22 December, 2018.
• Miss Sheuly Ghosh has received the "Best Poster Award" in the International Conference "Evolution of Electronic Structure Theory and Experimental Realisation" held during September 11-15, 2018 at SRM University and IIT Madras.
• The article "Enhancing quantum correlations in an optomechanical system via cross-Kerr nonlinearity" authored by Subhadeep Chakraborty and Amarendra K. Sarma appears as one of the top downloaded articles in Journal of Optical Society of America B.