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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.

 
SERC’s VAL Lab develops automatic traffic violation detector
- 15 Jul 15

The Video Analytics Lab (VAL) at SERC have developed a method to detect traffic offenders. Here is a press report.

 
Prof. Yalavarthy receives INDIGO Twinning Program Grant
- 7 Jul 15

Prof. Yalavarthy (Associate Professor, SERC) recently received the  INDIGO Twinning Program grant. This is a competitive grant with only 3 out of 18 proposals accepted. As part of this project, the Medical Imaging Group (MIG) will collaborate with researchers from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) and University of Bern (Switzerland).  Please see here for more details: http://indigoprojects.eu/funding/indigo-twinning-program

 
PM with Junior Faculty from IISc after Lunch
IISc Faculty Lunch with the Prime Minister
- 26 Feb 15

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited IISc campus on 18 Feb, 2015 to lay the foundation stone for the Centre for Brain and Research, and dedicate the Centre for Nano Science Engineering to the nation. Later, he had lunch and interacted with junior faculty from various IISc departments, including SERC, at the Faculty Reception Hall. PMO […]

 
Get Ready for SERC Open Day, 2015!
- 24 Feb 15

On Sat Feb 28, 2015, IISc will hold its Open Day, which welcomes the public to visit our campus and learn about our activities. SERC students have exciting events, displays and talks planned for Open Day at our centre. Visit the Facebook page for details and schedule. Add to Calendar

 
Prof. Jayant Haritsa (SERC, CSA) wins Infosys Award!
- 22 Feb 15

Prof. Jayant Haritsa(SERC, CSA) was awarded the Infosys Prize, a coveted honour awarded for outstanding achievements of contemporary research in the areas of Engineering and Computer Science. More details here

 
Prof. Govindarajan and Vaivaswatha Nagaraj win best paper award!
- 16 Feb 15

Prof. R. Govindarajan (SERC, CSA) and his student V. Nagaraj (MSc, SERC) have won the best paper award at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2015) for their paper titled “Approximating Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis Using Frequent Itemset Mining”. Congratulations!

 
M.Tech. Projects Announced, Jan 2015
- 15 Jan 15

M.Tech. Projects for incoming course work students have been announced. The list of projects is available here. Students need to contact the concerned faculty to select a project.