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Pune’s Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), a premier academic and research establishment under the Ministry of Defence, has announced that five of its faculty members have featured in the Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% List for 2025.
“DIAT is proud to announce that five of its faculty members—Prof PK Khanna, Prof CS Unnikrishnan, Prof Prashant Kulkarni, Prof A A Bazil Raj and Prof Balasubramanian K—have been featured in the renowned Top Two Percent Stanford-Elsevier Recognition. Stanford University, in collaboration with Elsevier, has released a prestigious global ranking that identifies the top two percent of scientists worldwide based on standardized metrics,” read a statement from the institute located at Girinagar.
“This list highlights the world’s most influential researchers who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields. It evaluates scientific impact through both career-long and single-year citation data, spanning 22 scientific disciplines and 174 subfields, and includes approximately 2,30,000 top scientists from around the world. This recognition is a significant milestone for DIAT (DU), celebrating the exceptional scientific achievements and cutting-edge defence-related research conducted by DIAT faculty. Three DIAT faculty Prof PK Khanna, Prof Balasubramanian K and Prof CS Unnikrishnan were also listed in both the 2024 single-year and career-long categories of this renowned list,” the statement added.
The institute said the five scientists constitute 10 per cent of its faculty members getting featured in the list.
Vice-Chancellor Dr B H V S Narayana Murthy congratulated all the professors and stated that the achievement added a feather in DIAT’s cap.
DIAT, as it is known today, came into being as the Institute of Armament Studies in 1952 on the College of Military Engineering campus in Pune. In 1967, the Institute was renamed as the Institute of Armament Technology (IAT), which moved to its present location at Girinagar, Pune.
From the relatively narrow armament studies in the fifties, the role of the institute was considerably enlarged by the Defence Research and Development Council in 1964 and further in 1981. On the basis of accreditation by the All India Council of Technical Education, Pune University recognised eight courses for the award of the ME degree in 1980. In 2000, the Institute acquired the status of a deemed-to-be university. The IAT was renamed as DIAT on April 1, 2006.
