Office of Development and Alumni Affairs

The Sony India Software Centre Women MTech Fellowships have been instituted at IISc to encourage highly talented women students to pursue careers in deep technology sector in order to address the gender inequality in science and technology.

The Fellowships are given to seven of the incoming MTech students of various programs of the EECS division and the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS).

Entitlements of the Fellowship

Enhanced fellowship of Rs. 25,000 per month for 24 months.
Travel cum contingency amount of Rs. 1,10,000 for international/national travel and other expenses to support research including buying a laptop.

Awardees

2021

Pendela Harshitha – CSA
Shrabana Biswas – CSA
Anagha V – ECE
Vidushi Dwivedi – CDS
Liyana Sahir – AI

2022

Preeti Sharma – AI
Eleena Gupta – QT
Madepalli Haritha – ECE
Kirtee Mishra – CSA
Athira PB – ECE
Sameeksha Singh – RAS
Laxmi Ojha – EPD

2023

Anjali Chauhan – CSA
Soumili Kanrar – CSA
Amte Anushka Prashant – CSA
Snigdha Shekhar – CSA
Anushka Pateriya – CSA
Naveeja Sajeevan- AI
Nivedita Gupta – AI

For a list of other fellowships available to students facilitated through ODAA, please see the fellowships page.