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Prashant Shenoy, Distinguished Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), has received a 2026 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, which honors outstanding contributions to academia.

Established in 1983, the award recognizes alumni of the institute who have demonstrated excellence and have achieved significant professional success. Shenoy, who earned a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from IIT Bombay in 1993, is one of 11 alumni honored with the award this year.

“This is a wonderful recognition from my alma mater,” Shenoy says. “The years I spent at IIT Bombay were transformative and had a lasting influence on my academic and professional trajectory. It is where I came to appreciate the potential of computer science as a field and gained my first exposure to research.”

A fellow of several leading computing, engineering, and scientific organizations, Shenoy’s research focuses on networking and distributed systems. His work has earned 17 best paper or best paper runner-up awards, as well as an ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award. Most recently, he received the ACM e-Energy 2024 Test of Time Award for research on time-shifting energy usage—an approach that has gained traction in efforts to decarbonize the residential energy grid, cloud systems, and other computing environments.

Shenoy has also received numerous honors throughout his career, including a Conti Research Fellowship, a NASA AES Innovation Award, an NSF Career Award, an IBM Faculty Partnership Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship, the University of Texas Computer Science Best Dissertation Award, and an IIT Bombay Silver Medal. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.