Mr. Ashish Shukla, Department of Design, IIT Kanpur, on received the the best conference paper award at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge, Innovation, and Invention 2023 for his paper titled "Phygital design of an innovative and portable Autosampler using SMA based mini-actuator for river quality assessment". Mr. Shukla, a PhD scholar, has been working under the able guidance of Dr. Bishakh Bhattacharya and Dr. Robert Ross.