Mr. Harikrishnan P, research scholar, Department of Physics, IIST received one of the Best Posters Awards for the work titled "Laser Wavelength Calibration using Saganc Interferometer" at SCOPOSIS 2025 (Student Conference on Optics and Photonics (SCOP) and the 48th Optical Society of India Symposium (OSIS)) organized at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad during 8-12 December 2025.

Ms. Priyanka M.Kannath, Research Scholar, Department of Physics, has received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 4th Annual International Conference on Women in Optics and Photonics in India (WOPI 2025), held at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, during December 5–7, 2025. She presented a paper titled ‘Distributed Quantum Sensing in a Network of Optical Gyroscopes’, authored by Priyanka M. Kannath, G. S. Agarwal, and Ashok Kumar.