Graduate students Hrishikesh Jayakumar and Arnab Raha, along with their advisor Professor Vijay Raghunathan won the Best Paper Award at the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), held in Kolkata, India from January 4-8th, 2016.

Their paper was titled "Energy-Aware Memory Mapping for Hybrid FRAM-SRAM MCUs in IoT Edge Devices".