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The Siemens Healthineers-Computational Data Sciences (CDS) lab will develop open-source AI-based tools with a focus on neurology research. Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan from CDS will lead the program. The focus of this collaborative laboratory will be to work closely with neurologists, radiologists and Siemens Healthineers and integrate the developed computational models into their regular clinical workflows.

Congratulations to Dr. Chirag Jain for getting awarded with the India Alliance  Intermediate Fellowship for five years. The Fellowship recognises outstanding young scientists in the biomedical and health sciences who wish to establish an independent laboratory with a high-quality research programme in India. Read more here https://www.indiaalliance.org/recently-recommended-awardees

Congratulations Jogendra Nath Kundu, for receiving the 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation in Data Science Runner-up award.

The Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) welcomes its new Chair of the Department, Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu, who takes over from Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan from Jan 1, 2024. Prof. Babu has been a faculty at IISc since 2010, and is renowned for his expertise on Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Video Analytics. He has […]

Jogendra Nath Kundu received the Honorable Mention Award for 2023 for his dissertation titled “Self-supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Computer Vision Tasks.” Each year, ACM India recognizes the best doctoral dissertations in computing from an academic institution in India. Jogendra’s dissertation makes significant and timely contributions to unsupervised domain adaptation and self-supervised learning techniques for structured prediction […]

CDS researchers received three prestigious awards at the recently concluded IEEE HiPC 2023 conference held in Goa.  Best paper award – Koushik Sen, Sathish Vadhiyar, PN Vinayachandran for the paper titled “Strategies for fast I/O throughput in large-scale climate modelling applications“. Koushik Sen is a former MTech (CDS) student. Best SRS poster award – Shubham […]

CDS M.Tech. Student Karan Gujarati led a team in collaboration with Aster-CMI Hospital to  develop an AI tool that can identify the median nerve in ultrasound videos and detect carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The study was published in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. This AI tool utilizes a Transformer-based artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Biomedia lab students win best poster awards at Indo-Norwegian collaboration in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (INCAPS) project closure meeting held on December 15, 2023.Congratulations to the winners! Best Poster Award Winner: Mr. H.R. Shreyas (M.Tech. (CDS) Student) Title of the Poster: Class Activation Map-based Weakly supervised Hemorrhage Segmentation using Resnet-LSTM in Non-Contrast Computed Tomography images Best […]

Three CDS PhD students were recently awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) (Aug 2023 Cycle) Congratulations to all the awardees!

The prestigious Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year internationally by ACM to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing (HPC). An eight-member team from the University of Michigan, Indian Institute of Science and Oak Ridge National Lab was named as the winner of the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Large-Scale Materials Modeling […]

IBM India Research Lab renewed its research collaboration with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru to transform and drive breakthrough innovations in hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). In 2021, IBM and IISc launched the IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud lab to advance research in hybrid cloud technologies. Through the collaboration, IBM aims to drive innovation and provide practical […]

Congratulations to Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan for being promoted to Professor!

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, […]