SIGEnergy Rising Star Award 2025 Winner

SIGEnergy establishes an annual Rising Star Award to recognize a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of energy systems and informatics.

For the 2025 cohort, the award committee has chosen Nipun Batra from IIT Gandhinagar, as the SIGEnergy Rising Star Award winner, for the following citation:

 for contributions to reproducible toolkits, scalable models, and uncertainty-aware approaches for practical energy disaggregation

Nipun Batra is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at IIT Gandhinagar. He previously completed his postdoc from University of Virginia. He completed his PhD. from IIIT Delhi where he was a TCS PhD fellow. His group called the Sustainability Lab broadly works on machine learning and sensing for computational sustainability problems like smart buildings, air quality and wearable healthcare. His work has been awarded several awards, including, young alumni award from IIIT Delhi, the best PhD presentation at ACM Sensys, best demo at ACM Buildsys, and a best video nominee at ACM KDD.