Utkarsh Azad, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) and Lakshya Priyadarshi, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IET Lucknow received the best paper award for their research on Noise Analysis of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Weighted Max-Cut in Computer and Software Systems track at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT-2019) in Allahabad from 6 – 8 December.