Dr Ranjan Vepa was presented with an award by The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) for fostering collaboration between QMUL and BIT in his role as a Visiting Fellow . Dr Vepa delivered a series of lectures on: Design, Modelling, Control and Simulation of UAVs.

Dr Vepa and MA Zhahir were also awarded a prize for the third best paper in 2011-2012 by the Malaysian Space Agency. The paper is entitled “High-Precision Kinematic Satellite and Doppler Aided Inertial Navigation System”.