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Dr. Chirag Jain receives India Alliance DBT-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship
- 22 Jan 24

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

 
Jogendra Nath Kundu receives 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation in Data Science Runner-up award
- 7 Jan 24

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

 
CDS welcomes new Chair, Prof. Venkatesh Babu
- 1 Jan 24

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 receives the ACM India Honorable Mention Dissertation Award
- 30 Dec 23

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 […]

 
Multiple awards won at IEEE HiPC Conference 2023
- 25 Dec 23

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 leads AI tool development for screening nerve disorders
- 25 Dec 23

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) […]

 
CDS Biomedia Lab Students Win Best Poster Awards
- 15 Dec 23

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 […]

 
CDS PhD students awarded Prime Minister Research Fellowship in Aug 2023 Cycle
- 7 Dec 23

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

 
Dr. Phani Motamarri and his research group named among the recipients of the prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize for 2023
- 22 Nov 23

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 renews collaboration with IISc to drive hybrid cloud and AI innovation
- 27 Sep 23

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 […]

 
Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan promoted to Professor
- 26 Sep 23

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

 
Intel Research Fellowship awarded to Ghanshyam Chandra
- 25 Aug 23

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”.

 
Dr. Phani Motamarri and his research group selected as finalists for the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize
- 10 Aug 23

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 […]

 
Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan selected for the India Alliance (Wellcome Trust -DBT) Early Career Fellowship
- 26 Jul 23

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
- 21 Apr 23

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 […]

 
CDS students bag Best Presentation Awards at EECS Symposium 2023
- 6 Apr 23

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

 
CDS Students win the 1st prize at Genomics Hackathon
- 25 Mar 23

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

 
CDS Ph.D. Students Receive Best Poster Awards at Workshop on Medical Image Computing 2023
- 2 Mar 23

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!

 
Soumalya Nandi from CDS M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) program receives Motorola Medal
- 27 Feb 23

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’.

 
Utkarsh Gupta wins Subramanian Rajalakshmi Medal for the best MTech (Res) thesis 2022
- 27 Feb 23

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

 
Best Poster Awards at IEEE HiPC conference 2022
- 26 Dec 22

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!

 
Prof. Partha Talukdar selected for the ACM India Early Career Researcher 2022 Award
- 22 Dec 22

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 presentation award winners (2022)
- 13 Dec 22

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, […]

 
CDS/SERC Alumni Award Winners (2022)
- 1 Dec 22

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 […]