Brief Bios of the Winners

Post date: Nov 12, 2017 9:38:08 PM

Encore Awards for All-round Excellence

Somesh Mohapatra

14118098 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Has an impressive GPA of 9.47, finished his BTech coursework in 3.5 yrs, has several research publications, is a member of squash team B, and is founder of Trixno, a startup at Roorkee for social causes.

Parinishtha Yadav

14110020 Architecture & Planning

Parinishtha is an avid swimmer, and has several medals at Inter-IIT meets. She is also the Gen Secy of swimming. She was the MC for Cognizance IITR 2017. She has a GPA of 8.15.

Ankit Alok Bagaria

14112013 Chemical Engineering

Ankit has a GPA of 8.3, is a winner of the global Ericcsson Innovation award, and he is the founder of Enactus Roorkee.

Encore Awards for Merit-cum-Means

The following students were chosen for the merit-cum-means award

Aby Jose

16117039 Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aby has a GPA of 9.38, and is member of Roorkee swimming team.

Layan Kaushik

16121012 Civil Engineering

Layan has a GPA of 9.17 and is a Grade-1 pianist.

Samagra Sharma

16114060 Computer Science & Engineering

Samagra has a GPA of 8.84 and is an active member of the Dramatics section.

Shaivy Adhikari

16118076 Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Has a GPA of 8.49 and Secured second position in Sportech tournament (IIT Delhi Sports Fest) in Basketball.

Tanya Ratra

16111034 Chemical Engineering

Has a GPA of 9.55 and is an active member of the Choreography and Dance section