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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) report cutting-edge work that brings the benefits of quantum computing to relational database engines, the workhorses of big data processing in enterprise software applications. This work was presented in August at the 50th Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference, a premier international database research forum, held in […]

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 […]

Each person’s DNA comprises about six billion letters of code. Less than 1% of this code differs from one person to the next. These small differences contribute to each person’s uniqueness and can provide insights about their health and diseases. Whenever a new genome is sequenced, scientists rely on the reference human genome as a […]

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.

Popular generative models produce impressive images based on text queries, but an important question arises: Are these generative models fair? If not, how can we ensure fairness? Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on vast corpora of vision-text pairs from the internet, inheriting biases present in the training data. This bias is evident in the generated […]

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 […]

Advertisement No: CDS/SV/SHELL_Project/Parallel_ML_DL/July-2024 Advertisement for Project Associate We invite applications for the position of Project Associate, in a project investigated by  Prof. Sathish Vadhiyar, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science. The project is related to development of a comprehensive and integrated parallel computing framework for ML/DL applications. The project has the […]

Advertisement No: CDS/SV/DST_Project/HPC-VIS-CLIMATE/July-2024 Advertisement for Project Associate and Research Associate Positions We invite applications for the positions of Project Associate I, Project Associate II and Research Associate I in a project investigated by Profs. Sathish Vadhiyar (Department of Computational and Data Sciences), Vijay Natarajan (Department of Computer Science and Automation) and PN Vinayachandran (Centre for […]

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 Dr. Anirban on his well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor.

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.

Fujitsu Limited and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have signed an MoU to bring together researchers with diverse theoretical and systems backgrounds. The collaboration aims to lay down the algorithmic foundations for the field of data science across the full breadth of scientific issues that arise in the rich and complex processes which use data […]

The following candidates have been shortlisted following interviews for research admissions held on May 13-May 17, 2024. 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. 240100027 […]

Tentative Merit List of Shortlisted (including waiting list) Candidates The following candidates have been shortlisted following the oral interviews for M.Tech.(CDS) admissions held on April 15 – April 17, 2024. This is only a provisional merit-list (including waiting list) and not the final list of selected candidates. The official list of selected candidates will be […]

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

Mumbai, 6th March 2024: National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced the signing of a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, for conducting joint research on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The association will also propel further innovation through the establishment of the “NPCI–IISc Centre of […]

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, […]

Want to indulge yourself in some cool research this summer? The CDS department at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru invites applications for its summer internship programme, aimed at students pursuing the relevant branch of engineering! The deadline for the application is 15th March 2024. The following labs are participating in the program. Please […]