Dr. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman – Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has been conferred Shri P K Das Memorial Best Faculty Award 2024 under the Senior category in the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) stream at a colorful ceremony at Nehru Group of Institutions (NGI), Coimbatore on 15 December 2024. This award was presented by Dr. K. Chockalingam, Former Chairperson of Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development and former Vice-Chancellor of MS University, Tirunelveli in the presence of Dr. P. Krishnadas, Chairman & Managing Trustee; Dr. P. Krishnakumar, CEO & Secretary and Dr. H.N. Nagaraja, Executive Director of NGI. 1500+ nominations were received for the award in various disciplines and 20+ academicians were conferred. This award was presented to Dr. Prashant in recognition of his contributions to academics, administration, research, extension, and innovation outreach activity @ AMRITA with the citation highlighting the mentoring of AMRITA students towards victories in several international and national hackathons, and global leadership positions in professional bodies such as IEEE and ACM. Dr. Prashant R. Nair also served as vice-chairman of CSE & IT departments at the Coimbatore campus during the period 2007 to 2019.