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Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu was formally inducted as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) during the INAE Annual Convocation 2025, held at the HAL Management Academy. This prestigious honor recognizes his outstanding contributions to the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

Congratulations to Harsh Rangwani for winning the IKDD Doctoral Dissertation in Data Science Award for his thesis titled “Learning from Limited and Imperfect Data”. Harsh completed his PhD at Vision and AI Lab under Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu. This is the third consecutive dissertation award won by a CDS student at this prestigious venue. The […]

The Indian Institute of Science has been awarded the Best Education Institute Exhibit of the Year for its innovative AI-based oral cancer screening tool – Aarogya Aarohan at the India Mobile Congress 2025, held from 8 to 11 October 2025 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi. Aarogya Aarohan is developed at IISc in collaboration with ARTPARK and […]

A research article co-authored by CDS researchers Ghanshyam Chandra and Chirag Jain has been featured on the cover of Genome Research, one of the leading journals in genomics and computational biology. This was a collaborative effort with researchers at the University of Texas Dallas and Heinrich Heine University. Link to full article: Chandra, G., Hossen, […]

We are delighted to share that students from the BioMedIA Lab have earned prestigious recognition at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2025), held in Daejeon, South Korea. Vivek Shrikrishna Dhamale received the MICCAI 2025 Travel Award for presenting his research titled “Inter-class separability loss for weakly supervised mutually exclusive […]

Badrinath Singhal, a PhD student at the Vision and AI Lab, Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), IISc, has been awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2025 for his proposal titled “Efficient Allocation of 3D Gaussians from Casual Monocular Videos”. This prestigious fellowship recognizes innovative ideas with the potential for high impact in […]

The paper “All That Glitters is Not Novel: Plagiarism in AI-Generated Research” by Tarun Gupta and Danish Pruthi has been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025.

Congratulations to Parvesh Barak for receiving the Best Poster Award (3rd Prize) at the Genomics India Conference 2025 held on August 12-14 in JN Tata Auditorium, IISc Bengaluru. Parvesh is an M.Tech. Research student in ATCG Lab. The title of his poster was “An error-correction algorithm for long reads”.

Congratulations to Sundaresan G (MATRIX Lab) for receiving the Motorola Medal from Prof Manjul Bhargava, a fields medal winner, at the recently concluded convocation event in July 2025. This award is given to graduating CDS M.Tech (Computational and Data Science) with the highest CGPA and minimum project grade of ‘A’. Sundaresan graduated from the CDS […]

Congratulations to Srinibas Nandi, PhD candidate from the MATRIX lab at the CDS department, for winning the Best Poster Award at the recently concluded “Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-11)” from June 1 – June 3, at Yokohoma, Japan. Srinibas Nandi, along with the co-author Phani Motamarri, received the award for the work titled […]

Congratulations to the following CDS PhD students who won the best student presentation awards at the recently concluded EECS Symposium 2025 at IISc. Read more about EECS Symposium at https://eecs.iisc.ac.in/EECS2025/

Prof. Venkatesh Babu was honored for his elevation to ACM Distinguished Member by President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Prof. Yannis Ioannidis at the ACM India Annual Event hosted by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

Congratulations to Dr. Phani Motamarri and Dr. Konduri Aditya for receiving the prestigious Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam HPC Awards 2025 under the category “Young Researcher – R&D in HPC Applications”. Named after Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, India’s esteemed former President, renowned scientist, and Bharat Ratna awardee, these awards honor outstanding contributions to High-Performance […]

Two of the students CDS labs received awards at the Student Research Symposium, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics.

Congratulations to Sravanti Addepalli (IISc Bangalore) for enhancing the robustness of Deep Neural Networks against adversarial attacks and distribution shifts while addressing practical deployment challenges. Awards Committee: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Chair), Manish Gupta CV Jawahar, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Amith Singhee, Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy Awards Coordinator: Preethi Jyothi IKDD Committee: Indrajit Bhattacharya, Srujana Merugu, Himanshu Sharad Bhatt, Harshad Khadilkar, […]

A research monograph titled “Robust Query Processing: A Survey”, authored by Prof. Jayant Haritsa, has been published by NOW Publishers in their popular “Foundations and Trends in Databases” series. The book details are available at https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/DBS-089  Abstract: Robust query processing (RQP), where strong numerical guarantees are provided on query performance, has been a long-standing core […]

We are delighted to share that Dr. Jogendra Nath Kundu and Dr. Sravanti Addepalli, esteemed alumni of the Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), have been awarded the prestigious IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) Doctoral Dissertation Awards for the years 2023 and 2024, respectively. Both scholars completed their groundbreaking doctoral […]

The following candidates have been shortlisted following interviews for mid-year research (Ph.D.) admissions held on November 18 – November 20, 2024. Kindly note that this is only a provisional merit-list and not the final list of selected candidates. The final list of selected candidates based on available seats, etc. will be available within two weeks […]

Congratulations to the following PhD students for winning the best poster awards at the recently concluded “Indo-German Workshop on Hardware-aware Scientific Computing”, University of Heidelberg, Germany from Oct 28-30, 2024. Gourab Panigrahi (MATRIX Lab) — Fast hardware-aware matrix-free algorithm for large-scale finite-element discretized eigenvalue problems. Nikhil Kodali (MATRIX Lab) — Residual-based subspace iteration eigensolver: A […]

Low-field pediatric brain magnetic resonance Image Segmentation and quality Assurance challenge (LISA) 2024, presented at MICCAI 2024, focussed on objective quality assurance of low-field pediatric MR images acquired at 0.064T Hyperfine SWOOP scanners, and segmentation of bilateral hippocampi, a crucial structure linked with cognitive and memory functions often implicated in abnormal neurodevelopment. Among 35 submissions […]

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) report cutting-edge work that brings the benefits of quantum computing to relational database engines, the workhorses of big data processing in enterprise software applications. This work was presented in August at the 50th Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference, a premier international database research forum, held in […]

Congratulations to Prof. Sekar on being awarded the Professor M. Vijayan Memorial Award for his creative work in Structural biology and Biocomputing, by BIDDS (Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society of India).  The award is named after Prof. Vijayan who was a former Associate Director of the Indian Institute of Science and a titan of molecular biophysics […]

Each person’s DNA comprises about six billion letters of code. Less than 1% of this code differs from one person to the next. These small differences contribute to each person’s uniqueness and can provide insights about their health and diseases. Whenever a new genome is sequenced, scientists rely on the reference human genome as a […]

Congratulations to Dr. Chirag Jain for receiving the prestigious IIT Delhi Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award. IIT Delhi instituted the GOLD award to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements and contributions of young alumni of the Institute in academics, business, profession, and public service. The award was presented to Dr. Jain at the convocation […]

Congratulations to Kartick Ramakrishnan, a PhD candidate from the MATRIX lab at the CDS department, for winning the Best Poster Award at the recently concluded “International Conference on 60 Years of DFT: Advancements in Theory & Computation” from July 21-July 26, at IIT Mandi. Kartick Ramakrishnan, along with the co-author Phani Motamarri, received the award […]