Achievements

Student Achievements

2018-2019

TYBSc Students

  1. Aditya Sane

    • Admission into TIFR for three years MSc. by Research through JGEEBILS.

    • Internship at IISER Kolkata in summer 2018. Personal Investigator- Dr Bidisha Sinha.

    • Publications- "Xplore" 2018-19, a research journal of the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

    • Bagged the first prize for poster presentation at the International Science Conference (2019) held at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

  2. Sreerag Sundaram

    • Publications- "Xplore" 2018-19, a research journal of the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

    • JAM - qualified with an AIR of 304.

    • Bagged the 1st prize at the "Kaun Banega Physicist" competition (2017) held by the Dept of Physics, VES College of Arts, Science and Commerce.

    • Bagged the first prize for poster presentation at the International Science Conference (2019) held at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

    • Part of the tech design team that entered the international competition of Water Abundance Xprize, clearing the 1st round. [Team name - Aquahub] (2017)

    • Made it into the top 400 Startups in India, in the SMART FIFTY organised by the DST and IIM Calcutta. [Team name - Aquahub] (2018)

    • Placed in the top 1% (national level) in NGPE-2019.

  1. Varun Sane

    • Internship at Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, Jalgaon.

    • Internship at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru.

    • Presented poster on ‘Simulation of Self Diffusion’ at the International Science Conference (2019) held at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

    • Selected for an internship at IISER Pune, Summer-2019

    • Cleared JGEEBILS for admission into interdisciplinary Masters programs.

  1. Abhilash Cheekoti

    • Cleared JAM with rank-611.

    • Completed internship in IISER Pune, Summer-2018. Personal Investigator- S.B.Ogale.

    • Selected for an internship at JNCASR for this summer (2019).

  1. Jayesh Yadav

    • Made a “wall-follower", an autonomous robot, and a remote-controlled robot; participated in International Robotics Competition in IIT-Bombay-2018.

    • Cleared JAM and secured rank 2221.

  1. Prince Shukla

    • Part of the tech design team that entered the international competition of Water Abundance Xprize, clearing the 1st round. [Team name - Aquahub] (2017).

  1. Prachi Nagpal

    • Xplore- Xavier's Research Journal, Article on finding the solar constant using solar irradiance. (Hasn't been released yet, so tentative).

    • S.T.E.A.M School 2017 (Organized by Maker's Asylum Mumbai) participant- worked on United Nations Goals- Sustainable Cities and prototyped a waste segregation plant.

  1. Abhay Mehta

    • NIUS scholar of Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR in 2017.

    • Presented poster titled “Mass-Radius (M-R) Relation for Exoplanets” at the 36th annual meeting of Astronomical Society of India in 2018.

    • Summer Research Fellowship funded by the Indian Academy of Sciences at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 2018.

    • Cleared JAM.

    • Accepted to the MSc in Physics program at the Bonn - Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy with a monthly stipend of €720.

  1. Param Rekhi

    • Cleared TIFR’s GS-2019 physics.

    • Presented poster on ‘Simulation of Self Diffusion’ at the International Science Conference (2019) held at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

    • Cleared JAM and secured rank-251.

    • Won 1st prize in ‘Kaun Banega Physicist’ organised by Vivekananda College.

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