Awards

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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.

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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

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, […]

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

Congratulations to Dr. Chirag Jain for getting awarded with the India Alliance  Intermediate Fellowship for five years. The Fellowship recognises outstanding young scientists in the biomedical and health sciences who wish to establish an independent laboratory with a high-quality research programme in India. Read more here https://www.indiaalliance.org/recently-recommended-awardees

Congratulations Jogendra Nath Kundu, for receiving the 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation in Data Science Runner-up award.