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Congratulations to Ghanshyam Chandra, CDS PhD student from ATCG Lab, for being awarded the Intel Research Fellowship during the year 2023-24. The fellowship has been offered for his 1-year project titled “Scalable Algorithms for Pangenome Graph Generation”.

Congratulations to Dr. Phani Motamarri and his research group for their selection as finalists for the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize! The team, along with researchers from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developed a computational framework that enables large-scale material modelling with quantum accuracy while attaining an unprecedented performance of […]

Congratulations to Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan on being selected for the India Alliance (Wellcome Trust -DBT) Early Career Fellowship for her project titled: “Development and evaluation of Imaging-based biomarkers for quantitative assessment of Vascular Cognitive Impairment using Artificial Intelligence” This fellowship provides a unique opportunity for promising early-career researchers to carry out high-quality biomedical research and has […]

M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) Admissions – 2023 Tentative Merit List of Shortlisted (including waiting list) Candidates The following candidates have been shortlisted following the online aptitude test and oral interviews for M.Tech.(CDS) admissions held on April 18 – April 21, 2023. This is only a provisional merit-list (including waiting list) and not the final list of selected candidates. The […]

The following students won the Best Poster Awards at the 14th EECS Research Students Symposium, held on 3-4 April, 2023- Thivin AnandhPhD CDS, IISc Rishub PariharPhD CDS, IISc

Congratulations to the @cdsiisc student team for winning the 1st prize at Genomics Hackathon organized by @CBR_IISc @iiscbangalore.

Naveen Paluru and Vaddadi Venkatesh (Ph.D. students of MIG) have won the best poster awards at Workshop on Medical Image Computing 2023 held on February 24-25, 2023.  Congratulations to the winners!

Congratulations to Soumalya for receiving Motorola Medal after graduating from CDS M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) program in 2022 with the highest CGPA and minimum project grade ‘A’.

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 […]

The following candidates have been shortlisted following research interviews for CDS Ph.D. midterm admissions held between Nov 21-23, 2022. 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. Application Number 220109631 220110252 […]

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!

The orientation for new students joining the CDS department was held in-person on 26 July, 2022.

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

IISc and Aster CMI hospital launched an artificial intelligence lab on 18 March. This lab is spearheaded by Prof. Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy. 

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!