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New M.Tech. Program in Computational and Data Science from August 2017 batch
- 8 Jan 17

The computational and data sciences department course M.Tech. program has been revamped and the program will be called as M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science). Program Flyer The details can be found here: M.Tech. in Computational and Data Science

 
On-line Registration for Courses
- 23 Dec 16

For Jan-Apr, 2017 semester, all courses offered by CDS department will have on-line registration. Link Course Schedule For the JAN-APR 2017 semester, all CDS/CSA/ECE/EE/ESE students’ course registration will be online. *There will be no physical registration cards for these students. * Instead of these cards, you will request registration online. Go to the online platform: https://coursereg.iisc.ac.in Account id: […]

 
Ms. Sharmistha (Ph.D. student of MALL Lab) wins the best poster award
- 17 Dec 16

Ms. Sharmistha (Ph.D. student of MALL Lab) won the best poster award for her work on ‘Feature Selection for Short Text Classification using Wavelet Packet Transform’ at Grace Hopper India Conference (GHCI’16) organised by Anita Borg Institute and ACM

 
Prof. Partha Talukdar receives IBM Faculty award
- 13 Dec 16

Prof. Partha Talukdar receives IBM Faculty award for fostering collaboration with IBM research.

 
CDS students awarded TCS Ph.D. fellowship
- 25 Nov 16

Ms. Sreedevi G. (Ph.D. student of Medical Imaging Group) and Mr. Arun I. (Ph.D. student of Computational & Statistical Physics Lab) have been awarded TCS Doctoral (Ph.D.) fellowship. —— Highlights of TCS Doctoral Fellowship programme: 1.TCS will sponsor selected candidates from your institution for four years (or submission of thesis for PhD, whichever is earlier) with […]

 
Video analytics lab of CDS develops a model to predict headcount in crowds
- 18 Sep 16

Video analytics lab of CDS develops a model to predict headcount in crowds

 
Mid year admissions for the year 2016 will not be held
- 14 Sep 16

Mid year admissions for the year 2016 will not be held. Kindly ignore the previous mid year admissions related information.

 
CDS faculty play a key role in IISc ‘Smart City’ project
- 8 Sep 16

CDS faculty play a key role in IISc ‘Smart City’ project

 
Scheme of Instruction/Student Information Handbook for 2016-2017
- 31 Jul 16

The new Scheme of Instruction for 2016-17, student information handbook for 2016-17, and IISc code of conduct and ethics can be downloaded from below. Scheme of Instruction (List of Courses offered) for 2016-17 Student Information Handbook  Code of Conduct and Ethics

 
Ms. Nikita Prabhu receives the best poster presentation award
- 30 Apr 16

Ms. Nikita Prabhu, Masters by Research Student of VAL lab of CDS, received the best poster presentation award at EECS Research Students Symposium

 
Congratulations to Navchetan, II M.Tech. Student, CDS
- 28 Apr 16

Congratulations to Navchetan,  II M.Tech. student, CDS, for winning the prize in essay writing on ‘ Accessible India for differently abled’.

 
Logo design contest for CDS
- 26 Apr 16

The Department of Computational and Data Science (CDS) is a new department in the Interdisciplinary Research Division of IISc, formed from the earlier academic wing of SERC. We are looking for a contemporary logo to capture the innovative spirit and vibrancy of CDS, and are crowd-sourcing the logo design to the IISc community! We invite […]

 
Students receive “Best Poster Award” in Computational Science Symposium – 2016
- 20 Mar 16

Congratulations to the following students who received Best Poster Award in the Computational Science Symposium – 2016 that was held from March 18-19, 2016. Ph.D Category 1. Ashutosh Simha 2. Jagannath Venkatesan 3. Shweta Srivastava M.Tech Category 1. Abhijith J 2. Navchetan Awasthi 3. M. Vijaya Kumar Congratulations to the best poster award winners.

 
Ashutosh Simha awarded GE Edison Challenge 2016
- 17 Mar 16

Mr. Ashutosh Simha (Ph.D. student of Scientific Computing Lab) has won an award of Rs. 5 Lakhs in the GE Edison Challenge 2016. Their team stood runner up among the 350 teams that participated in the challenge. The team  was called Out of control,  and their idea was Large scale traffic management using incentivized control techniques.  The […]

 
Jagannath Venkatesan awarded TCS Ph.D. fellowship
- 9 Mar 16

Mr. Jagannath Venkatesan (Ph.D. student of Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing (NMSC) Lab) awarded TCS Ph.D. fellowship in the current cycle.

 
Prof. Govindarajan awarded the Prof. Rustum Choksi award
- 26 Feb 16

Prof. R. Govindarajan is awarded the Prof. Rustum Choksi Award for Excellence in Research for 2015.

 
MALL Lab leads in the Allen AI Science Challenge
- 18 Feb 16

The MALL Lab, led by Prof. Partha Talukdar recently participated in the Allen AI Science Challenge. The goal was to build a system that could answer 8th grade multiple-choice Science questions. The lab put together a system in about a month’s time, leverging their research on natural language processing and machine learning, and were ranked 10th […]

 
CDS PhD student awarded TCS Research Scholarship
- 16 Feb 16

CDS PhD Student Ravi Kiran, member of the Video Analytics Lab, has been awarded the TCS Research Scholarship. Congrats Ravi!

 
CDS Faculty Judge Pravega Data Science Hackaton
- 31 Jan 16

Prof. Yogesh Simmhan and Prof. Partha Talukdat from CDS were judges at the Microsoft Data Science Student Challenge held at IISc as part of Pravega 2016. The event had over 200 partiticpants from across India. The winners of Data Science Student Challenge were from MSRIT, PESIT and IIS. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/526150/iisc-hosts-microsofts-first-student.html http://www.ibtimes.co.in/microsoft-hosts-student-data-science-hackathon-event-iisc-bengaluru-665123 http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Students-of-MSRIT-Win-Microsoft-Hackathon/2016/02/01/article3254867.ece    

 
CDS Faculty Contributes to Rain-water Harvesting App
- 13 Jan 16

A join project by KSCST and UNESCO to has developed and launched a web-based Rain-water Harvesting Advisor App for the entire country, with the support of Yogesh Simmhan from CDS and faculty from Nitte Meenakshi, among other. A press report in the New Indian Express, 9 Jan 2016, is available.  

 
Prof. Jayant Haritsa elected as ACM Fellow
- 12 Dec 15

Prof. Jayant Haritsa has been elected as aa 2015 ACM Fellow. More details are here. Congrats Jayant!

 
Prof. Jayant Haritsa receives prestigious JC Bose Fellowship
- 2 Dec 15

Prof. Jayant Haritsa has been awarded the prestigious JC Bose Fellowship. Congrats Jayant!

 
2015 Mid-term Admissions: Provisional Results
- 26 Nov 15

The Provisional Results of the 2015 mid-term Ph.D. research interviews conducted for the Computer Systems Stream and Computational Science Stream of SERC on Nov 19-20, 2015 are as follows. Note that the final results will be notified by the Admissions Office of IISc. Computer Systems Stream (SERC-CS) 15114334        DEEPAK BABU SAM Computational Science Stream (SERC-CP) […]

 
Medical Imaging Group’s work featured in the top downloads of JOSA
- 19 Nov 15

Medical Imaging Group‘s work featured in the top downloads of Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A): Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision http://emessaging.vertexcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=a6bbcccc2802cdc849332c437d4a86f5

 
Partha Talukdar wins Accenture Open Innovation Grant
- 18 Jul 15

Prof. Partha Pratim Talukdar has been awarded the Accenture Open Innovation grant for his project to harvest knowledge from large text datasets, and using them to improve accuracy and coverage of cognitive computing systems. A total of 11 awards were given worldwide and 4 were from India.