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

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

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 […]

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) 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. 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 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.

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).

With the admissions process for 2014 completed. a fresh batch of M.Tech., M.Sc. and Ph.D. students have joined the department.

Dr Phaneendra Yalavarthy has been awarded the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for 2014 in the field of Physical Sciences.

Mr. Calvin B. Shaw, Ph.D. Student, has been awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for the year 2014-2015 (May 25, 2014)

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.

Prof. Vaidy Rajaraman conferred D.Sc(Honoris Causa) by IIT Kanpur at their convocation held on Jun 18, 2014 (Jun 23, 2014)

Candidates short-listed following the research interviews held during June 2-6, 2014 (Jun 11, 2014)

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)

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)

Best paper presentation award for SERC Ph.D. student Mr. Ansuman Biswas in the 42nd National Seminar on Crystallography (New Delhi, November 21-23, 2013).

SERC M.Sc.(Engg.) Student Kalyanram A. wins Journal of Optical Society of America (JOSA) Publication Award

SERC M.Sc. (Engg.) Student Jaya Prakash wins Summa Cum Laude Merit Award in the Twentieth Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting (2012) [Top 10 posters of ISMRM Meeting-2012 among 3000 posters].

Prof. R. Govindarajan has been elected as Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing

Dr. Venkatesh Babu has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member