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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!

The following candidates have been shortlisted following research interviews for  Ph.D/MTech(Research) admissions held between May 17-21, 2021. 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 three weeks with the admissions unit.  Application ID […]

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.

M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) Admissions – 2021: Tentative Merit List of Shortlisted (including waiting list) Candidates The following candidates have been shortlisted following the aptitude test and oral interviews for  M.Tech.(CDS) admissions held on April 15 – April 23, 2021. This is only a provisional merit-list (including waiting list) and not the final list of selected candidates. The […]

Please find the details of the admission to the Course degree (M.Tech.) offered by the Dept. of CDS for 2021 here.

Dr. Phaneendra Kumar Yalavarthy has been selected for the S Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year  2020-21 by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). This award is given in recognition of the outstanding contributions of scientists below 45 years of age in the broad area of biotechnology. On the occasion of its 35th Foundation day on 26th […]

Congrats Navaneet! For receiving NetApp Medal for the Best MTech (Res) thesis, 2020.

Researchers at the CDS have developed a novel software platform from which apps and algorithms can intelligently track and analyze video feeds from cameras spread across cities. Such analysis is not only useful for tracking missing persons or objects, but also for “smart city” initiatives such as automated traffic control.   Many cities worldwide have set […]

Chest computed tomography (CT) imaging has become indispensable for staging and managing COVID-19, and current evaluation of anomalies/abnormalities associated with COVID-19 have been performed by the visual score at present. This evaluation requires important step of classifying the severity of COVID19 infection as mild, moderate, and severe. The development of automated methods for quantifying COVID-19 […]

This work has also been featured on IISc research highlights Deep Neural Networks have achieved outstanding success in solving almost any task that we can think of; be it Alexa in our homes, self-driving cars, or AlphaGo beating humans. We are currently in an era that has witnessed progress at a pace faster than ever, […]

Congratulations to Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu for being promoted to Professor! This is a fast-track promotion.

Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri (advised by Prof. Venkatesh Babu) from the Video Analytics Lab has won the IUPRAI Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for the year 2018-19. His Ph.D. thesis is titled ”Deep Visual Representations: A study on Augmentation, Visualization, and Robustness”. IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) – Doctoral Dissertation Award program […]

Prof Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Computational Data Sciences, has been selected for the SERB STAR award. STAR is a prestigious award instituted by SERB to recognize and reward outstanding performance of Principal Investigators of SERB projects. The recipients will get a fellowship of ₹15,000 per month and a research grant of ₹10 lakhs […]

CDS faculty member Dr. Yogesh Simmhan has been recognised with the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher) given by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). This award recognises up to 3 individuals who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable […]

Four-year project on Hardware-Aware Algorithms in Scientific Computing (HAASC) with Uni-Heidelberg has been sanctioned under Indo-German Partnership in Higher Education: Strengthening academic cooperation between India and Germany (2020-24) Under this scheme Research and MTech (course) students of CDS are allowed to spend 3 to 6 months in Uni-Heidelberg, Germany https://daad.in/en/2020/07/27/indo-german-partnership-in-higher-education-strengthening-academic-cooperation-between-india-and-germany-2020-24/

There are project assistant and post-doctoral openings in the Computational Mathematics Group (CMG) and QUEST Lab. Applications are open until position is filled. Ad for project assistant: https://cds.iisc.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/CDS_DS_MHRD-STARS_Jul-2020_PA.pdf Ad for post-doctoral fellow: https://cds.iisc.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/CDS_DS_MHRD-STARS_Jan-2020_RA.pdf

The seventh issue of the CDS department’s eNewsletter is now available! Download PDF

The sixth issue of the CDS department’s eNewsletter is now available! Download PDF

The fifth issue of the CDS department’s eNewsletter is now available! Download PDF

PhD (mid-year admission) interview will be held during Nov 18-19, 2020, click here for more details …

Anubhav Guleria, from Cloud Systems Lab under Dr. J Lakshmi, has won the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing(TCSVC) Best Student Paper Award at IEEE-CCEM (Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets), 2019 for his paper titled “EMF : Disaggregated GPUs in Datacenters for Efficiency, Modularity and Flexibility”. The award carries certification and US $300.00 given by TCSVC.