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Provisional List of Candidates Shortlisted for CDS PhD Programme 2024 Through Mid-Year Admissions
- 20 Nov 24

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 […]

 
Dr. Chirag Jain honoured by IIT Delhi with the Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award
- 17 Aug 24

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 […]

 
CDS PhD student Kartick Ramakrishnan won the Best Poster Award at the “International Conference on 60 Years of DFT: Advancements in Theory & Computation”, IIT Mandi
- 12 Aug 24

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 […]

 
Ashish Rout from CDS M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) program receives Motorola Medal
- 12 Aug 24

Congratulations to Ashish Rout (MATRIX Lab) for receiving the Motorola Medal at the recently concluded convocation event. This award is given to graduating CDS M.Tech (Computational and Data Science) with the highest CGPA and minimum project grade of ‘A’. Ashish graduated from the CDS MTech program in July 2023

 
Rishubh Parihar from CDS has been awarded Prof. Satish Dhawan Research Award 2024
- 12 Aug 24

Rishubh Parihar from Vision and AI Lab (VAL), CDS, has been awarded the Prof. Satish Dhawan Research Award 2024 for his significant contributions to the mechanisms for controlling generative models for images, thus enabling many applications in image processing. The Prof Satish Dhawan Research Award is awarded to the most impactful research carried out in […]

 
CDS students bag the Best Poster Award at Siemens healthineers – CDS Workshop on AI in Precision Medicine
- 8 Aug 24

Ms. Pon Deepika P was awarded the first prize for the poster titled, “Deep learning based segmentation of Lacunes from Brain MRI Volumes” and Mr. Sudhanshu Pandey bagged the second prize for the poster titled, “Automated Needle Segmentation in Ultrasound Guided Biopsy”. Honorable mention: “Quantifying uncertainty and confidence in classification” by Joel Jeffrey, Project Associate, […]

 
Ph.D student Abhipsa Basu receives the 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship – India
- 24 Jul 24

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. proudly announces the launch of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024-2025 program for selected Indian universities. Each winning team (up to 2 students and 1 faculty member) will receive a financial award for the academic year 2024-25, plus assignment of a Qualcomm researcher(s) as a mentor to facilitate close interaction with Qualcomm. More info.

 
Balancing Act: An Efficient Way to Debias Vision-Language Models
- 23 Jul 24

Popular generative models produce impressive images based on text queries, but an important question arises: Are these generative models fair? If not, how can we ensure fairness? Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on vast corpora of vision-text pairs from the internet, inheriting biases present in the training data. This bias is evident in the generated […]

 
PhD student Shubham Kumar Goswami won the Best Poster Award at CHTC 2024, IIT Hyderabad
- 17 Jul 24

Congratulations to Shubham Kumar Goswami, a PhD candidate from the FLAME Lab at the CDS department, for winning the Best Poster Award at the recently concluded CHTC conference from June 28th to 29th, 2024, at IIT Hyderabad. Shubham, along with co-authors Vidyesh Dapse and Konduri Aditya, received the award for their work titled “A scalable […]

 
Shell Project – Openings for Project Associate Positions
- 10 Jul 24

Advertisement No: CDS/SV/SHELL_Project/Parallel_ML_DL/July-2024 Advertisement for Project Associate We invite applications for the position of Project Associate, in a project investigated by  Prof. Sathish Vadhiyar, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science. The project is related to development of a comprehensive and integrated parallel computing framework for ML/DL applications. The project has the […]

 
DST Project – Openings for Project Associate and Research Associate Positions
- 10 Jul 24

Advertisement No: CDS/SV/DST_Project/HPC-VIS-CLIMATE/July-2024 Advertisement for Project Associate and Research Associate Positions We invite applications for the positions of Project Associate I, Project Associate II and Research Associate I in a project investigated by Profs. Sathish Vadhiyar (Department of Computational and Data Sciences), Vijay Natarajan (Department of Computer Science and Automation) and PN Vinayachandran (Centre for […]

 
PhD Student J Rishi selected as a TCS Research Scholar (2024-2028)
- 9 Jul 24

Ph.D. Student, J. Rishi, has been awarded the prestigious TCS Research Scholarship for the 2024-2028 cycle. Rishi works in the QUEST Lab and focuses on developing innovative approaches to Physics-Informed Generative AI models for climate system predictions. His selection as a TCS Research Scholar recognizes the potential impact of his work in this cutting-edge field. […]

 
PhD student Prashanthi recognized as one of the MLCommons rising stars
- 22 Jun 24

Prashanthi S K, a PhD candidate from the DREAM: Lab at the CDS Department of IISc has been selected as one the MLCommons Rising Stars 2024. She is the first student from India to be recognized through this initiative. MLCommons is an AI consortium led by global organizations like Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, AMD, etc. to […]

 
Dr. Anirban promoted to Associate Professor
- 22 Jun 24

Congratulations to Dr. Anirban on his well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor.

 
Students selected for the Reliance Foundation Scholarship
- 18 Jun 24

Congratulations to Surya Neelakandan (MTech student in FLAME Lab), Parvesh Barak (MTech student in ATCG Lab) and Sudhanshu Pandey (MTech student in MIG Lab) for being selected to receive the Reliance Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (2023-24). They are among the 100 postgraduate students pursuing various degree programmes across India who have been selected. More info. Surya […]

 
Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan awarded CSIR-ASPIRE research funding
- 16 Jun 24

Congratulations to Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan for receiving the CSIR-ASPIRE research funding. After a rigorous review process, 300 women scientists across India were selected to receive research grants under the CSIR- ASPIRE scheme. These results were announced by the Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on June 16.

 
Fujitsu Limited and IISc sign MoU for collaboration in data science
- 22 May 24

Fujitsu Limited and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have signed an MoU to bring together researchers with diverse theoretical and systems backgrounds. The collaboration aims to lay down the algorithmic foundations for the field of data science across the full breadth of scientific issues that arise in the rich and complex processes which use data […]

 
Provisional List of Candidates Shortlisted for CDS Research Program 2024
- 17 May 24

The following candidates have been shortlisted following interviews for research admissions held on May 13-May 17, 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 with the admissions unit. 240100027 […]

 
Provisional List of Candidates shortlisted for MTech CDS Program 2024
- 26 Apr 24

Tentative Merit List of Shortlisted (including waiting list) Candidates The following candidates have been shortlisted following the oral interviews for M.Tech.(CDS) admissions held on April 15 – April 17, 2024. This is only a provisional merit-list (including waiting list) and not the final list of selected candidates. The official list of selected candidates will be […]

 
CDS students win Best Student Presentation Awards at the EECS Symposium
- 10 Apr 24

Congratulations to CDS students for securing Best Student Presentation Awards at the 15th EECS Research Students Symposium

 
NPCI Joins Hands with IISc Bangalore for Joint Research on Blockchain and AI Technology
- 6 Mar 24

Mumbai, 6th March 2024: National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced the signing of a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, for conducting joint research on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The association will also propel further innovation through the establishment of the “NPCI–IISc Centre of […]

 
Dr. Danish awarded the Schmidt AI2050 Early Career Fellowship!
- 4 Mar 24

Danish Pruthi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), IISc, has been selected as an AI2050 Early Career Fellow, announced by Schmidt Sciences. He joins the second cohort of 19 AI2050 Early Career Fellows who will pursue bold and multidisciplinary research in artificial intelligence (AI) for societal benefit across four countries, […]

 
Call for CDS Summer Research Internship 2024!
- 1 Mar 24

Want to indulge yourself in some cool research this summer? The CDS department at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru invites applications for its summer internship programme, aimed at students pursuing the relevant branch of engineering! The deadline for the application is 15th March 2024. The following labs are participating in the program. Please […]

 
Prof. Venkatesh Babu honored as a Senior Member by AAAI
- 27 Feb 24

Prof. Venkatesh Babu has been recognized and honored as a Senior Member by AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)!

 
Siemens Healthineers, along with IISc, inaugurated a collaborative laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine.
- 2 Feb 24

The Siemens Healthineers-Computational Data Sciences (CDS) lab will develop open-source AI-based tools with a focus on neurology research. Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan from CDS will lead the program. The focus of this collaborative laboratory will be to work closely with neurologists, radiologists and Siemens Healthineers and integrate the developed computational models into their regular clinical workflows.