| Best Paper: | "Channels with Action Dependent States and Common Reconstructions" Viswanathan Ramachandran and Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay, India); Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) |
| 1st runner up: | "Maximally Recoverable Codes with Hierarchical Locality" Aaditya M Nair (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); V. Lalitha (International Institute of Information Technology, India) |
| 2nd runner up: | "Conditions for Optimality of Superposition Coding in Discrete Memoryless Broadcast Channels" Harikumar Krishnamurthy and Parikshit Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Andrew Thangaraj (IIT Madras, India) |