Recently, Dr. Purandare introduced the Amit Semwal Best Student Award in the Program Analysis (PA) course. The award is in remembrance of Amit, who was one of the students when the PA course was first offered at IIITD, in 2013. He not only showed qualities of academic excellence in the course, but also he was equally helpful towards his peers and showed great enthusiasm towards exploring Program Analysis field as a researcher.
In the recent offering of the PA course, in Monsoon 2017, Adesh Pandey received this award from Amit's parents. Adesh performed well and showed active interest in the course.