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April 2012 - The research proposal, titled "Creative Mechanisms for Outsourcing and Crowdsourcing", by Swaprava Nath from the Game Theory Lab is selected for a Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Honorable Mention Award 2012.
February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 - Professor Ramesh Hariharan, chief technology officer of Strand life Sciences, has joined the department as an adjunct faculty member.
Dr. Ramesh had earlier been a faculty member with the department during 1995-2005 before taking up the position in Strand Life Sciences.
Dr. Ramesh's research expertise and interests are in algorithms,
complexity theory, and computational biology.
November 2011 - Sujit Gujar wins the Alumni Medal for Best PhD Thesis in CSA (2010-11).
- R. Arun wins Dr. M.N.S. Swamy Medal for Best MSc (Engg) Thesis (2010-11).
- Anirudh Santhiar wins the CSI Medal for Best Student of ME (CSE) (2009-11).
- Shirish Shevade and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receive Yahoo! Faculty Awards for 2012 in the form of unrestricted research grants.
October 2011 - The following research students have been selected for awards and honorable mention in the Perspectives Seminars held during August 2011.
Awards
1. Pankaj Dayama (PhD)
2. Chandrasekhar L.N. (PhD)
3. Ashwin Guha (MSc Engg)
Honorable mention
4. Girish M.R. (PhD)
5. Raghunandan M.A. (PhD)
- It is with deep regret and anguish that we announce the sad news of demise of Professor Priti Shankar on October 17, 2011.
Please visit http://pritishankarhomage.wordpress.com/
- M. Narasimha Murty elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI).
- R. Govindarajan has been invited to join the editorial board of
IEEE MICRO as Associate Editor.
September 2011 - Vijay Natarajan selected for Indian National Academy of Engineering Young Engineer Award in Computer Science for the year 2011.
- R. Govindarajan elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
July 2011 - Dr. Uday Kumar Reddy B. is selected by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for a Faculty Award in the form of an unrestricted research grant for conducting research in compiler assisted partitioning, mapping, and scheduling for heterogeneous systems.
- IISc has promoted Shalabh Bhatnagar to the rank of Full Professor. This is a fast track promotion and his second out-of-turn promotion.
- The paper entitled "A Network Analysis Approach to Understand the Human
Way-finding Problem," authored by Sudarshan, Katharina, Abhiram and Veni
Madhavan has been selected as the best paper in the
Perception/Action category of the Computational Modeling Prizes in the
Cognitive Science Conference COGSCI 2011, of the Cognitive Science
Society, to be held in Boston, USA, during 20-23 July.
The prize, which includes a cheque for $1000, will be announced at the
opening ceremony of this year's conference.
June 2011 - The following candidates have been short-listed, following the research interviews held during June 6-10, 2011.
- A research monograph entitled "Identity-Based Encryption" has been published by Springer, New York.
The monograph is authored by Sanjit Chatterjee (CSA) and Palash Sarkar (ISI, Kolkata).
- A textbook entitled "Pattern Recognition: An Introduction" has been published by the Universities Press.
The book is authored by Susheela Devi and M. Narasimha Murty.
- Paper by Suthambhara, Vijay Natarajan, and Ravi Nanjundiah titled "A Gradient-Based Comparison Measure for Visual analysis of Multifield Data" wins third best paper award at EuroVis 2011. The paper was selected from 54 papers presented at the conference, which were in turn selected from a total of 194 submissions.
May 2011 - R. Deepak selected for MSR India PhD Fellowship 2011. He works in the area of Graph Theory and Combinatorics under Sunil Chandran.
- Please see Prospective Students page for
updates on research interviews June 6- June 10, 2011.
- Vijay Natarajan selected for MSR India Outstanding Young Faculty Award for the year 2011.
April 2011 - Paper co-authored by Himabindu (CSA alumnus, now with IBM Research),
Chiranjib Bhattacharyya (CSA), Indrajit Bhattacharya (CSA),
and Srujana (IBM Research) has won the Best Paper award at the
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.
- Ravi Kannan, adjunct faculty member at CSA, wins Knuth Prize for the year 2011.
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth. The Knuth Prize is awarded every one and a half years since 1996 and includes an award of $5000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Prizes are awarded in alternation at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing and at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, which are among the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. For more details about this year's award, please look up http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2011/sigact-knuth-prize-2011. - Achintya Kundu's research
proposal, titled "Efficient First Order Methods for Learning
From Similarities", under the guidance of Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, wins Yahoo! Key
Scientific Challenges (KSC) Honorable Mention Award 2011.
March 2011 - R. Govindarajan has been selected for the Satish Dhawan Young Engineer Award of the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology for the year 2008, for outstanding research in computer science.
- Achintya Kundu wins best perspective seminar award for 2010 - 2011
which featured 30 presentations by first year research students of CSA.
Senthilnathan, Balamurugan, and Prabhanjan won honorable mention awards.
February 2011 - Preeti Malakar has been awarded the Google India Women In Engineering Award 2011.
The Google India Women in Engineering Award was instituted in 2008 to recognize and reward deserving women students in Computer Science and related majors, and inspire them to become active participants and leaders in creating technology.
- Shivani Agarwal has been awarded
DST's Ramanujan Fellowship. She is the first among CSA faculty to be
awarded this fellowship.
- Summer Internship Programme will be held from May 16, 2011 to July 15, 2011. Second year
and third year students of B.E./B.Tech can apply for the programme.
Last date for application is Feb 28, 2011. For more details visit
http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in/sip/
January 2011 - Poster prepared by Dilip Thomas and Vijay Natarajan on "Feature Preserving Mesh Simplification" wins 3rd place
in Microsoft TechVista 2011 poster presentation competition.
- The citation count of Prof Narasimha Murty's paper on "Data Clustering: A
Review" crosses 5000 on google scholar.
- B. Uday Kumar Reddy joins the department as Assistant Professor. Uday received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State University. Before joining IISc, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Advanced Compiler Technologies group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights. His research interests are in the areas of Compilation for multicores and accelerators, Automatic parallelization, Programming language and runtime system design.
- C.E. Veni Madhavan has been selected for the IISc Alumni Award for Research Excellence in Engineering for 2011.
- Jayant Haritsa has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).
December 2010 - IISc has promoted Sunil Chandran to Associate Professor in CSA. He conducts research in the area of Graph theory.
- Patent application on "Retransmission Optimization in Wireless Network" by Shalabh Bhatnagar
has been accepted and published both as a US patent
and also by the World Intellectual Property Organization,
Zurich, Switzerland.
The patent details are given below:
- Sanjit Chatterjee joins the department as an Assistant Professor. Sanjit received his Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Before joining IISc, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of Cryptology and Information Security.
- Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receives
Yahoo! Faculty Research Award for 2011. He was a recipient of this award
in 2009 and 2010 also.
October 2010 - US patent application of Shalabh Bhatnagar on "Approach for solving a constrained optimization
problem", publication number US 2010/0268677 A1, dt Oct 21, 2010, has been accepted and published.
The details are available at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2010/0268677.html.
- The poster prepared by K Vasanta Lakshmi, Ph D student, CSA and Dr. K.V. Raghavan, Assistant Professor, was adjudged the best poster in the software engineering track at IBM I-CARE event held in Bangalore on October 22, 2010.
- The mid year research admissions for the session commencing from January 1, 2011 are not being offered this year at IISc. Students desirous of applying for the research program are requested to await the next cycle of admissions which will be announced in February 2011 (for the session commencing from August 1, 2011).
September 2010 - Aditya Kanade, Assistant Professor, CSA, has been selected for a Faculty Award from Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, in the form of an unrestricted research grant.
- Ramasuri Narayanam, Ph.D. student from the Department has won the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Honorable Mention Award for his research proposal on 'Game Theoretic models for Social Network Analysis.' More details are available at:
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/IISc-student-wins-Yahoo-KSC-award/141335/0/
- Best Demo Award for Jayant Haritsa's Picasso at VLDB 2010. Haritsa presented the Picasso Database Query Optimizer Visualizer at the VLDB 2010 conference. It has been awarded the Best Demo by the conference committee from among 32 demos that had been selected for presentation at the conference out of 89 international submissions.
- Shivani Agarwal joins the department as an Assistant Professor. Shivani received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining IISc, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. Her research interests are in the areas of machine learning, statistical learning theory, computational biology, cheminformatics, and information retrieval.
August 2010 - IISc to start four-year Bachelor of Science (BS) Undergraduate Programme. The programme is designed as a balanced blend of core science and interdisciplinary topics, to serve as a launching pad for research and doctoral studies in cutting-edge areas in science and technology. The inaugural batch will begin classes from August 2011 and graduate in July 2015.
- Professor Sunil Kumar, currently with the Stanford Business school, has been appointed as Dean, Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, USA, from January 1, 2011. The Booth School is currently among the top three business schools in the world. Sunil Kumar was a student of CSA in the
ME (SSA) program in the early 1990s.
July 2010
- K. Gopinath has been invited to the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Storage as Associate Editor.
- R. Govindarajan invited to join the editorial board of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters as Associate Editor.
- K. Gopinath
has received a Faculty Award from Microsoft Research
India, Bangalore, in the form of an unrestricted research grant.
- K. Gopinath, currently Associate Professor at the Department, is promoted as Full Professor.
- Shirish Shevade, currently Principal Research Scientist at the Department, is appointed as Associate Professor.
- Umesh Dayal, who did his BE in IISc and
ME from CSA, and gone on to become a father-figure in the international
database research community, is one of five to be selected for this year's
Distinguished Alumnus Award from IISc. Umesh is currently a Fellow at HP Labs in the US.
His scientific trajectory and achievements
are available at http://www.hpl.hp.com/about/honors/HPfellows/dayal.html
June 2010
- The following candidates
have been selected for admissions following the interviews held from June 7 to June 11. Your admission is subject to approval by the institute authorities. You will receive the admit letter from IISc after verification of eligibility requirements.
- The following candidates have been short-listed, following the research interviews held during June 7-11, 2010. Kindly note that this is only a short-list and not the final list of selected candidates. The final list of selected candidates will be available in about 10 days time.
- Indrajit Bhattacharya joins the department as an Assistant Professor. Indrajit received his Ph.D. from University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining IISc, he was a Research Scientist in the Information Management group at IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi. His research focus is in the areas of machine learning, data mining and graphical models.
May 2010
- Short-listed candidates for regular and ERP research program have been
invited to attend research interviews during June 7th-11th 2010.
- Vijay Natarajan is selected as a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences for the years 2010-2013.
- Harish Doraiswamy receives the MSR India Ph.D. Fellowship for 2010. The Ph.D. Fellows were selected after a competitive process in which the best Ph.D. scholars in computer science and related areas from all over India participated.
- Vijay Natarajan is selected for INSA Young Scientist Award for the year 2010.
March 2010
- CSA wins 2nd place in Inter-Departmental Volleyball Tournament
organized by Gymkhana. The team members were Mayuresh, Bhaskar, Janardhan, Navin, Subramanya, Goutham, Lijo,
Manu and GTVR Reddy.
February 2010
- Sahely Bhadra receives IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award.
- The Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), IISc announces the
UGC (University Grants Commmission) Summer
Internship Programme 2010.
- Y. Narahari is selected for the J.C. Bose Fellowship.
The J.C. Bose Fellowship, administered by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, is awarded to scientists and engineers in recognition of their outstanding contributions and performance. The fellowships are scientist-specific and highly selective. For more information on the fellowship, click here
January 2010
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Yahoo! University Hack Day
Competition takes place at IISc. IISc students went through 24 hours of non-stop coding with Yahoo! APIs, widgets and fun to compete in Yahoo!
University Hack Day conducted at IISc. A list of IISc hacks is available
here.
The winners were
Enrich (Rupesh Nasre),
Geo-targetted ads on Yahoo! IM (Paul Victor Raj, Mahesh Bale, Varun Kumar Reddy) and
What'asZat (Subhajit Roy). The honorary mentions were Email Visualizer (Vikram Tankasali, Vinay Jethava) and EvoliSearch (Abhra Maiti, Bhavesh Bharadiya, Bigyan Bhar, Debasish Tapna).
- Y. Narahari is selected for 2009 IBM Faculty Award. The IBM faculty award is a gift in recognition of research achievement. The award is competitive and recognizes the quality of the faculty member's research program and its importance to IBM.
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December 2009
- IISc has promoted Deepak D'Souza to the position of Associate Professor and Shirish Shevade to the position of Principal Research Scientist in CSA.
- Preeti Malakar received the Best Paper Award at the Student Research Symposium held in conjunction with HiPC. The IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing presented this award for her paper titled "An Integrated Simulation and Visualization Framework for Tracking Cyclone Aila" co-authored by Vijay Natarajan, Sathish Vadhiyar (SERC), and Ravi Nanjundiah (CAOS).
- Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receives the Yahoo Faculty Research Award for the second consecutive year.
- Y. Narahari takes over as chairman of CSA.
November 2009
- List of candidates selected for admissions following the interviews held from Nov 25 to Nov 27.
- List of candidates shortlisted for Ph.D. following the interviews held from Nov 25 to Nov 27.
- Y. Narahari receives General Motors R & D Faculty Award. This is in the form of a special unrestricted research grant in recognition of the excellent collaboration he had with GM R & D in the past decade.
- Hostel accommodation may not be immediately available to the PhD candidates selected in the mid-year research interviews.
October 2009
- Jayant Haritsa elected as Distinguished Member of ACM. The Distinguished Member Grade recognizes those ACM members who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.
- Y. Narahari elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy effective from January 2010.
September 2009
- Sunil Chandran selected as an associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
- Sunil Chandran receives the MSR India Outstanding Young Faculty Award for 2009-2010.
- Jayant Haritsa awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2009.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is given each year for outstanding contributions to science and technology. It is the highest award in the country given to scientists below 45 years. Jayant Haritsa was selected for his contributions to Engineering Sciences. The prize will be given by the Prime Minister at a later function.
- M. Narasimha Murty and Jayant Haritsa elected as Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
August 2009
- Aditya Kanade joins the department as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include the theory and practice of formal methods, software design and analysis, and analysis of embedded software. Prior to joining IISc, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay.
- Harish D and Sandhya Mannarswamy receive the Best Perspective Seminar 2009 award. Harish's talk was on " Reeb graph and its applications". Sandhya's talk was on " Data Layout Optimizations for Improving Memory System Performance".
- Ambedkar Dukkipati joins the department as an Assistant Professor. Ambedkar received his Ph.D. from IISc and moved to University of Trento, Italy as a Visiting Research Scholar. He spent one year at EURANDOM, Netherlands as a postdoctoral fellow. His research focus is in the areas of statistical information theory and algorithmic commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
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Dinesh Garg and Narahari receive the 2008 Best Application Paper Prize from IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering for their paper titled "A theory of mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems and application to procurement auctions". A preliminary version of this work had earlier won for Dinesh Garg a Best Presentation Award in IRISS 2006 (Inter IISc-IITs Research Symposium), held in IIT-Kanpur.
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Research interviews for admission to the M.Sc. (Engg.) / Ph.D. program will be held between June 8 - June 12. Notifications have been sent to all shorlisted candidates by email and by post. Please read this note before you appear for the interview.
March 2009
- GATE no longer required for
admission to the Ph.D. program
January 2009
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Y. Narahari
elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
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Y. Narahari receives the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering - 2009 from IISc
December 2008
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K. Murali Krishnan receives Alumni Medal for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
in CSA
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B. Naveen receives M.N.S. Swamy Medal for the Best M.Sc. (Engg.) Thesis in CSA
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D. Harish receives CSI Medal for the Best M.E. Student in CSA
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Ravi Kannan joins CSA as the first adjunct faculty of IISc. He is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he heads the algorithms research group. Before joining Microsoft, he was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Yale University. His research interests are in the areas of theoretical computer science, optimization, massive data sets, sampling, clustering, Markov chains, linear algebra algorithms and applications.
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Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receives the Yahoo Faculty Research Award for 2009
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
- T. Kavitha receives the INAE Young Engineer Award 2008. The purpose of the award is to recognise outstanding achievements / contributions made by young engineers in all branches of engineering.
- Sunil Chandran receives the Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award in physical sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, India. The academy instituted the award to recognize promise, creativity, and excellence in young scientists.
August 2008
- K.V. Raghavan joins the department as an assistant professor. Raghavan received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent two years in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral researcher. Before joining IISc, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi. His research interests are in programming languages, programming tools, and software engineering.
July 2008
- Jayant Haritsa selected for the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr.
Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for 2007 in the field of Electronics, Telematics, Informatics and Automation.
Shri Hari Om Ashram, Nadiad, has instituted Vikram Sarabhai Awards biennially in the fields of: Space Sciences (Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences); Space Applications (Meteorology, Hydrology, Remote Sensing); Electronics, Informatics, Telematics and Automation; Systems Analysis of Nonlinear, Non-equilibrium systems.
The awards, which carry a medal and a cash prize of Rs. 50000, are given to Indian scientists of age not above 45 years for outstanding original research in the above fields.
- Jayant Haritsa receives the Google Research Award for 2008. The Google Research Awards program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. The intent of the awards is to support academic research aimed at improving information access.
June 2008
May 2008
- T. Kavitha receives the INSA Young Scientist Award for 2008
April 2008
- Dilip Patil joins the department as an associate faculty.
- Sujit Prakash Gujar receives the Best Perspectives Seminar 2007 award for his talk titled "Some issues in auctions with manipulative players".
December 2007
- Priti Shankar to receive the Jaya-Jayant award for teaching excellence for the year 2007.
- Y. Narahari named a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to the design of manufacturing systems, supply chain networks, and electronic markets".
- Two CSA Alumni, S. Rajasekaran (M.E. 1981-83, currently at Univ. Connecticut, Storrs) and S.V. Nageshwara Rao (M.E. 1982-84, currently at Oakridge National Labs, Norfolk, VA) named IEEE Fellows.
- Sunil Chandran receives the INSA Young Scientist Award for 2007.
- T. Kavitha selected as an associate of the
Indian Academy of Sciences
November 2007
- CSA receives FIST grant from DST. The Department of Science and Technology awarded a FIST (Fund for Infrastructure in Science and Technology) grant to CSA. Based on the recommendation of the FIST advisory board, CSA will receive Rs. 200 lakhs over a period of five years. This is the largest single grant received by CSA from any funding agency. The funding will be used to support research in all aspects of next general computing.
- Sathish Govindarajan joins the faculty. Sathish received his Ph.D. from Duke University and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at MPI, Germany. His research interests are in the areas of combinatorial geometry, spatial data structures, and computational geometry.
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