Awards & recognition

Dr. Pinaki Bhaskar holding the Zinnov Awards 2022 Technical Role Model trophy
With the Zinnov Awards 2022 Technical Role Model trophy.

“…Technical Role Model award, recognizing technology stalwart Dr. Pinaki Bhaskar for creating a significant impact in the technologies of Artificial Intelligence/Big Data Analytics, Intelligent Automation and co-authoring over 30 research publications.”

Source: Samsung Newsroom India, on the Zinnov Awards 2022

External

  • Technical Role Model — Emerging (AI & Big Data Analytics), Zinnov Awards 2022 Source: Samsung Newsroom India
    Dr. Pinaki Bhaskar on stage receiving the Zinnov Awards 2022 trophy
  • Top-ranked system, CLEF QA4MRE 2011, 2012 and 2013 · ResPubliQA 2010 (answer selection) — team systems, Jadavpur University
  • Best-paper nominee, student session, PACLIC 24 (Tohoku University, Sendai, 2010)
  • ERCIM Alain Bensoussan postdoctoral fellowship, 2014 – 15
  • Travel grant, Microsoft Research India (CLEF 2013) · ELIAS / European Science Foundation registration grants (CLEF 2011, CLEF 2013)

Samsung (internal)

  • Best Project award, Samsung Research (Seoul) — natural-language Gallery search with a VLM, Galaxy S25 series
    Samsung Research Awards certificate for Research and Development presented to Pinaki Bhaskar, April 2025
  • New Valley Project of the Year (R&D), SRI-B Annual Awards 2024 — Gallery Search
    Certificate of Appreciation: New Valley Project of the Year (R&D), Gallery Search, presented to Pinaki Bhaskar, February 2025
  • Super Tech Award — Development to Market, Samsung Excellence Awards, Q4 2024
    Samsung Excellence Award certificate: Super Tech Award, Development to market, presented to Pinaki Bhaskar, January 2025
  • Team Awesome Award, Samsung Excellence Awards, Q4 2023 — on-device GenAI and One UI intelligence for the Galaxy S24 (team award)
    Samsung Excellence Award certificate: Team Awesome Award for on-device GenAI and One UI intelligence, presented to Pinaki Bhaskar, January 2024
  • Global Best Project award, Mobile Developer Conference 2021 (Mobile R&D Office, Korea) — on-device user-centric knowledge graph
  • The ACE Employee annual award, 2021 – 22
    Annual Awards 2021-22 Excellence Awards certificate: The Ace Employee, presented to Pinaki Bhaskar, April 2022
  • Star of the Quarter — Lead by Example, Q3 2021 · Spot award, Sep 2021
  • Samsung Citizen Award — Highflier, 2019