ICMOCE 2025 WiE Awards

Chief Patron

Director, IIT Bhubaneswar

Patron

Dean CE, IIT Bhubaneswar

Convener

Prof. D. Ghosh, IIT Bhubaneswar

Organizing Secretary

Prof. P. K. Sahu, IIT Bhubaneswar

Advisory Committee

Prof. Brian Cullum,
University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Prof. Yeon Ho Chung,
Pukyong National University, Korea (South)
Prof. Christophe, Peucheret
University of Renes, France
Prof. Xiaoying Zhuang,
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Prof. Abhirup Das Barman,
Dept. of Radio Physics & Electronics, CU, India
Prof. Dharmendra Singh,
IIT Roorkee, India
Prof. Ganapati Panda,
C V Raman Global University-Odisha
Prof. Animesh Biswas,
IIT Kanpur, India
Prof. Partha Roop,
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. Parthasarathi Chakrabarti,
IIT BHU, India
Prof. A R Harish,
IIT Kanpur, India
Prof. Vikram Gadre,
IIT Bombay, India
Prof. Krishnamachar Prasad,
Auckland University of Technology, NZ
Prof. Debashis Gosh,
IIT Roorkee, India
Prof. Rohit Sinha,
IIT Guwahati, India
Prof. Arun Somani,
College of Engineering, Iowa State University, USA
Dr. Ashutosh Kedar,
LRDE, DRDO, India

ICMOCE-2025 Women in Engineering (WiE) Awards

The International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE) 2025 is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within the engineering community. In support of this commitment, we are pleased to announce the Women in Engineering (WiE) Awards. These grants aim to encourage and support the participation of women researchers (up to 15) at ICMOCE 2025, fostering a more inclusive environment.

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

Professional Status: Be a Master’s student, or full-time Ph.D. student (below the age of 28 years).
Conference Contribution: Be the first author and presenter of an accepted paper (oral or poster) at ICMOCE 2025.

Award Details

Provides up to a maximum of INR 2000/- as travel support (third-AC train/bus).
Provides a 20% registration fee waiver (subject to a maximum of INR 1600/-)..

Application Process

Applicants must submit the following documents:
- - Completed WiE Award Application Form (Click here).
  - Biography and Research Summary: A SOP (maximum 3 pages) detailing academic background, expected or completed graduation dates (for students), list of publications, and research-related awards.
  - Submitted Papers: Details of the submitted manuscript at ICMOCE 2025.
  - Endorsement Letter from an academic advisor, or department head: A letter confirming the applicant’s commitment to attend the conference and present at least one paper.

Selection Criteria

Applications will be evaluated based on:

Merit of the research work (quality of research idea presented in SOP).
Contribution to the conference theme and relevance to ICMOCE (as evident from CV).

Important Dates

- Application Deadline: 15 April 2025.
- Notification of Award: 2 May 2025.
- Award Disbursement: Within 3 weeks of completion of ICMOCE 2025.

Terms and Conditions

The awardee has to submit a report in the PDF format (minimum 5 pages) at the end of the conference describing

One invited talk per day, and
All papers presented in any one technical session of each conference day

Recipients must attend the full conference and actively participate in sessions and submit the report at the end of the conference.
Reimbursement will be processed only upon submission of original receipts on site at ICMOCE 2025.
Failure to attend the conference will result in the award being revoked.

Committees

General Chair

Dr. Debalina Ghosh

Technical Program Chairs

Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu & Dr. S K Varshney

Microwave Track Chairs

Dr. Debapratim Ghosh & Dr. Debalina Ghosh

Optical Track Chairs

Dr. Rajan Jha & Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu

Communication Track Chairs

Dr. Siddartha Borkotoky & Dr. Atri Mukhopadhyay

Biosensing Track Chairs

Dr. Niladri Bihari Puhan & Dr. Himanshu P Padole

Data Science and AI Track Chairs

Dr. Manoranjan Satpathy, Dr. Abhik Jana & Dr. Ram P. Padhy

Publicity Chairs

Dr. Pravas R Sahu & Dr. Vijay Shankar Rao

IEEE Region 10 Outreach Chair

Dr. Subhranshu R Samantaray

Local Arrangements Chairs

Dr. Barathram Ramkumar, Dr. Soumya P. Das & Dr. Navjeet Bagga

Publications Chair