Awards

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”. […]

The following students won the Best Poster Awards at the 10th EECS Research Students Symposium, held on 12-13 April, 2019- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Computer Vision- Sangeeta Yadav, Ph.D, Computational Mathematics Group Theoretical Computer Science / Computer Systems and Software / Cryptography / Security- Neha Iyer, M.Tech(Res), Computational Mathematics Group Swapnil Gandhi, M.Tech(Res), DREAM Lab

The results of M.Tech. (CDS) fellowship selections is posted here: Student Fellowships

Video Analytics Lab (VAL) members, Kondareddy and Vishal, won SPCOM-18 Best Paper Award in the category of Signal Processing (Paper ID: 1570429217; Title: Learning Representations with Strong Supervision for Image Search)

Ricoh M.Tech. Fellowship 2018 (brochure) About Ricoh: Ricoh provides products and services to customers in about 200 countries and regions, targeting a global market. To accomplish this, it is necessary to globalize the research and development structure and utilize the best brains and technology assets from around the world. Ricoh runs research facilities in Japan, […]

Narayana Nethralaya Research Award 2018  About Narayana Nethralaya Narayana Nethralaya is a super specialty eye hospital in Bangalore with four large centers. It is committed to provide the best service in eye care through continual improvements of their systems, processes, technology and through the employment of dedicated and competent professionals of a progressive mindset. Narayana […]

GE Healthcare M.Tech. Fellowship 2018 (brochure) About GE Healthcare: GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring and life support systems, disease research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians detect disease earlier and […]