- 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 […]
- 16 Feb 16
CDS PhD Student Ravi Kiran, member of the Video Analytics Lab, has been awarded the TCS Research Scholarship. Congrats Ravi!
- 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
- 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.
- 12 Dec 15
Prof. Jayant Haritsa has been elected as aa 2015 ACM Fellow. More details are here. Congrats Jayant!
- 2 Dec 15
Prof. Jayant Haritsa has been awarded the prestigious JC Bose Fellowship. Congrats Jayant!
- 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) […]
- 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
- 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.
- 15 Jul 15
The Video Analytics Lab (VAL) at SERC have developed a method to detect traffic offenders. Here is a press report.
- 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
- 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 […]
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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.
- 5 Sep 14
Prof. Jayant Haritsa (SERC, CSA) and his students Anshuman Dutt and Sumit Neelam have won the Best Demo award at VLDB 2014 in China, for their creation Quest (Sep 5, 2014).
- 14 Aug 14
With the admissions process for 2014 completed. a fresh batch of M.Tech., M.Sc. and Ph.D. students have joined the department.
- 14 Aug 14
Dr Phaneendra Yalavarthy has been awarded the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for 2014 in the field of Physical Sciences.
- 9 Aug 14
Mr. Calvin B. Shaw, Ph.D. Student, has been awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for the year 2014-2015 (May 25, 2014)
- 15 Jul 14
SERC Assistant Professor Dr. Partha Talukdar received a Focused Research Award from Google Research. This invitation-only award includes an unrestricted gift of USD 50,000, and one of only two such awards offered to researchers from India.
- 23 Jun 14
Prof. Vaidy Rajaraman conferred D.Sc(Honoris Causa) by IIT Kanpur at their convocation held on Jun 18, 2014 (Jun 23, 2014)
- 11 Jun 14
Candidates short-listed following the research interviews held during June 2-6, 2014 (Jun 11, 2014)
- 25 Mar 14
Dr Phaneendra Yalavarthy has been selected for the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) for the year 2013 from Department of Biotechnology (Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India) (March 25, 2014)
- 21 Feb 14
Mr. Avinash Ramakanth, M.Sc.[Engg.] Student of SERC, has won the best presentation award in the M.Sc. (Engg.) category at the IISc Fifth Electrical Sciences Symposium held on February 20-21, 2014 (Feb 26, 2014)
