Awards

Congratulations to Utkarsh for receiving Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the Best M.Tech. research thesis, 2022 in CDS-CP stream of the CDS department.

Bharati Khanijo (PhD student in DREAM Lab) and Kushagra Agrawal (Intern in ATCG Lab)  won the 1st and 2nd place Best Poster Awards respectively at the Student Research Symposium held as part of the IEEE HiPC 2022 conference. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Prof. Partha Talukdar on being selected for the ACM India Early Career Researcher Award 2022. The award will be presented during the ACM India Annual Event in Bhopal on 11th February 2023. https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2022/pratim-ecr-award

CDS poster session was held on December 10, 2022 to showcase the latest research happening at CDS to our alumni members. In total, 17 posters were presented. We thank all poster presenters for their enthusiastic participation in this event. Presenters of two posters were recognized with the Best Poster Presentation Awards. Congratulations to the winners! Dibyajyoti Nayak, […]

We are pleased to announce the recipients of annual CDS/SERC Alumni awards. These awards recognise CDS/SERC alumni who are high achievers in their professions, and have contributed through exemplary professional/community/academic service. CDS Star Alumnus Award Winner1. Prof. Shyamprasad Karagadde [2008 MTech Graduate] CDS Young Alumnus Award Winners1. Dr. Jaya Prakash [2014 PhD Graduate]2. Dr. Konda […]

Four CDS PhD students were awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) in Aug 2022 Cycle. Arghya Sinha (Ph.D student of Biomolecular Computation Lab) Gourab Panigrahi (Ph.D student of MATRIX Lab) Roopkatha Banerjee (Ph.D student of Computational Mathematics Group) Yashwanth M (Ph.D student of Visual Computing Lab) Congratulations to all the awardees!

Prof. Chirag Jain was awarded NERSC High Performance Computing Achievement Award. The NERSC award pays tribute to the accomplishments of young researchers in scientific areas supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Prof Jain was cited for his significant contributions in the field of computational genomics. https://bit.ly/NERSCAchievementAwards

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.