Awards

Prof. Deepak Subramani has been conferred with IISc Award for Excellence in Teaching 2022. This award is given to faculty of IISc, who have made outstanding teaching contribution. Congratulations!

Jogendra Nath Kundu (Ph.D. at VAL), Chaitra Jambigi (MTech (Res) at VCL), Rohit Chowdhury (Ph.D. at Quest lab), and Abhishek Ajayakumar (Ph.D. at Scientific Computation Lab) have won the best presentation award in their respective cluster in the EECS Research Students’ Symposium 2022. Jogendra and Chaitra were part of the Visual Analytics cluster, Rohit was […]

Abhipsa Basu (Ph.D student of Video Analytics Lab)Kartick Ramakrishnan (Ph.D student of MATRIX Lab) Congratulations to both of them!

Prof. Yogesh Simmhan is part of the first cohort of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors awarded for 2021. The program showcases the immense combined technical expertise and innovation power of its membership while recognizing volunteer commitment.  More details: https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/insider/ieee-computer-society-distinguished-contributors

Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu has been conferred with Prof. Satish Dhawan Young Engineers State Award 2019 by the Government of Karnataka. This award is given to Engineers, below 50 years of age, who have made outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Sciences. Congratulations Prof. Babu! More details about the awards: https://www.kscst.org.in/awards_2019/st_awards_2019.html

Animesh Baranawal and Varad Kulkarni, research students from the DREAM:Lab, have won the Best Poster award at the IEEE HiPC Student Research Symposium 2021 for their work titled “ICM++: Enhancing the Execution Model for Interval-centric Distributed Graph Computation”. Congratulations Animesh and Varad!

Anjali P, a PhD student in QUEST Lab, has won the second prize in the student paper competition at IEEE InGARSS 2021 for her paper titled “Inter and Intra-Annual Spatio-Temporal Variability of Habitat Suitability for Asian Elephants in India: A Random Forest Model-based Analysis“. Congratulations Anjali!

Prof. Yogesh Simmhan has been elected as ACM Distinguished Member for his “Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing“. https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/december/distinguished-members-2021

K Ram Prabhakar, a recent Ph.D. graduate from VAL, has been awarded the Best Student Paper (Runner-up) award at the prestigious British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2021 for his work titled “Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Low Light RAW Image Enhancement”. Congratulations Ram, Vishal, Nihar, and Prof. Venkatesh Babu!

GE Healthcare M.Tech. Fellowships  for the academic year 2021-2022 has been awarded to the following students.  Mr. Karan R. Gujarati, M.Tech. (CDS) Mr. Arijit K. Mishra, M.Tech. (CDS)

One of the Sony India Software Centre Women M.Tech. Fellowships  for the academic year 2021-2022 has been awarded to the following M.Tech. (CDS) student.  Ms. Vidushi Dwivedi, M.Tech. (CDS)

One of the Citrix Women M.Tech. Fellowships  for the academic year 2021-2022 has been awarded to the following M.Tech. (CDS) student.  Ms. Sushumna Singh, M.Tech. (CDS)

Wells Fargo Women M.Tech. Fellowships  for the academic year 2021-2022 has been awarded to the following students. Ms. Shreeparna Dey, M.Tech. (CDS) Ms. Prajakta Sanjay Borse, M.Tech. (CDS)

Siemens Healthineers – M.Tech. (CDS) Fellowship for the academic year 2021-2022 has been awarded to Mr. Varun Kaushik.

Jogendra Nath Kundu, a PhD student from VAL, has been awarded the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship. Congratulations Jogendra!

Sravanti Addepalli, Ph.D. student from VAL, has been awarded the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Congratulations Sravanti!

Aditya Rastogi and Aakash Khochare have won the best presentation awards in the EECS Research Students’ Symposium 2021. Aditya has been awarded in the “Brain, Computation and Data” category, while Aakash has been awarded in the “Computer Systems” category. Congratulations Aditya and Aakash!

Sheshadri K R, from Cloud Systems Lab under Dr. J Lakshmi, has won the Best Paper Award in STEERS-2021 Workshop, held in conjunction with CCGrid 2021 for their work “QoS aware FaaS platform”. A video of the presentation of this work is available here.

Dr. Phaneendra Kumar Yalavarthy has been selected for the S Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year  2020-21 by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). This award is given in recognition of the outstanding contributions of scientists below 45 years of age in the broad area of biotechnology. On the occasion of its 35th Foundation day on 26th […]

Congrats Navaneet! For receiving NetApp Medal for the Best MTech (Res) thesis, 2020.

Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri (advised by Prof. Venkatesh Babu) from the Video Analytics Lab has won the IUPRAI Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for the year 2018-19. His Ph.D. thesis is titled ”Deep Visual Representations: A study on Augmentation, Visualization, and Robustness”. IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) – Doctoral Dissertation Award program […]

Prof Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Computational Data Sciences, has been selected for the SERB STAR award. STAR is a prestigious award instituted by SERB to recognize and reward outstanding performance of Principal Investigators of SERB projects. The recipients will get a fellowship of ₹15,000 per month and a research grant of ₹10 lakhs […]

CDS faculty member Dr. Yogesh Simmhan has been recognised with the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher) given by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). This award recognises up to 3 individuals who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable […]

Anubhav Guleria, from Cloud Systems Lab under Dr. J Lakshmi, has won the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing(TCSVC) Best Student Paper Award at IEEE-CCEM (Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets), 2019 for his paper titled “EMF : Disaggregated GPUs in Datacenters for Efficiency, Modularity and Flexibility”. The award carries certification and US $300.00 given by TCSVC.

The DREAM:Lab team, led by PhD candidate Aakash Khochare, won the IEEE TCSC SCALE Challenge 2019 award [1]. The annual competition sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) [2] and held as part of the IEEE/ACM Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing Conference (CCGrid) [3] recognizes “real-world problem solving using computing that scales”. […]