LINGO Labs LINGO LABSIIT Gandhinagar

Recognition

Awards, fellowships, and travel grants

Awards, fellowships, student recognition, travel grants, and visits.

Awards

  • Accelerating Foundation Models Research (Cross-lingual Model Editing in Large Language Models)Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Program
  • Early Career Research Award (ECRA), 2019SERB, India
  • Best Paper (Third Position), 2019International Conference on STEM (ICSTEMVG), India
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI), 2017SRISTI, India

Awards received by students

  • Shruti Singh — Best Poster, Ph.D. Research Showcase, IITGN (Jan 2023)
  • Siddhesh Dosi — First prize, ThirdAI India Hackathon (Google Drive NeuralDB)

Fellowships

  • Naren Kumar S — IndiaAI Ph.D. Fellowship (Chitrabhasha), 2026
  • Tirth Bhatt — IndiaAI Fellowship (Oct 2025 – May 2027)
  • Himanshu Beniwal — Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship (Aug 2025 – May 2026)
  • Prathamesh P. Shanbhag and Gautham Bharati — IndiaAI Fellowship (Nov 2024 – May 2026)
  • Himanshu Beniwal — Overseas Research Experience Fellowship (Aug 2024 – Dec 2024)
  • Shruti Singh — Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship, Yale University (Aug 2023 – Jan 2024)
  • Himanshu Beniwal — Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF) (Aug 2022 – Jul 2025)
  • Shruti Singh — Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF)
  • Excellence-in-Research Fellowship, 2019IIT Gandhinagar

Travel grants

  • Google, Inc.
  • ACM SIGKDD
  • Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS)
  • ACM SIGIR
  • Flipkart Pvt. Ltd.

Visits

Place Name Year
IndoML Symposium 2025Indrayudh Mandal, Gautham Bharati, Prathamesh Shanbhag, Pritam Kadasi2025
Summer School on Speech Signal Processing 2025 on ASR at DAU, GandhinagarPrathamesh Shanbhag2025
Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2025Indrayudh Mandal, Himanshu Beniwal2025
Google DeepMind Research Symposium 2025Himanshu Beniwal2025
PMRF Symposium 2025Himanshu Beniwal2025
CPMU WorkshopAamod Thakur2024
Nvidia SummitAamod Thakur2024
CPMU SummitAamod Thakur2024
PMRF Symposium 2024Himanshu Beniwal2024
Research Week with Google 2024Himanshu Beniwal2024
Advanced Language Processing Winter School (France)Himanshu Beniwal2024
Tech & Language Summit 2023Himanshu Beniwal2023
Machine Learning Summer School 2023 (Poland)Himanshu Beniwal2023
ARCS and ACM India Annual Event 2023Himanshu Beniwal2023
Research Week with Google 2023Himanshu Beniwal2023

Activities

  • ACM India Summer School on Generative AI for TextIIT Gandhinagar, 24 June – 5 July 2024. Organisers: Prof. Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur) and Prof. Mayank Singh. Sponsored by Microsoft Research India.