January 2010

• Yahoo! University Hack Day Competition takes place at IISc. IISc students went through 24 hour s of non-stop coding with Yahoo! APIs, widgets and fun to compete in Yahoo! University Hack Day conducted at IISc. A list of IISc hacks is available here. The winners were Enrich (Rupesh Nasre), Geo-targetted ads on Yahoo! IM (Paul Victor Raj, Mahesh Bale, Varun Kumar Reddy) and What'asZat (Subhajit Roy). The honorary mentions were Email Visualizer (Vikram Tankasali, Vinay Jethava) and EvoliSearch (Abhra Maiti, Bhavesh Bharadiya, Bigyan Bhar, Debasish Tapna).
• Y. Narahari is selected for 2009 IBM Faculty Award. The IBM faculty award is a gift in recognition of research achievement. The award is competitive and recognizes the quality of the faculty member's research program and its importance to IBM. .

December 2009

• IISc has promoted Deepak D'Souza to the position of Associate Professor and Shirish Shevade to the position of Principal Research Scientist in CSA.
• Preeti Malakar received the Best Paper Award at the Student Research Symposium held in conjunction with HiPC. The IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing presented this award for her paper titled "An Integrated Simulation and Visualization Framework for Tracking Cyclone Aila" co-authored by Vijay Natarajan, Sathish Vadhiyar (SERC), and Ravi Nanjundiah (CAOS).
• Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receives the Yahoo Faculty Research Award for the second consecutive year.
• Y. Narahari takes over as chairman of CSA.

November 2009

• List of candidates selected for admissions following the interviews held from Nov 25 to Nov 27.
• List of candidates shortlisted for Ph.D. following the interviews held from Nov 25 to Nov 27.
• Y. Narahari receives General Motors R & D Faculty Award. This is in the form of a special unrestricted research grant in recognition of the excellent collaboration he had with GM R & D in the past decade.
• Hostel accommodation may not be immediately available to the PhD candidates selected in the mid-year research interviews.

October 2009

• Jayant Haritsa elected as Distinguished Member of ACM. The Distinguished Member Grade recognizes those ACM members who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.
• Y. Narahari elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy effective from January 2010.

September 2009

• Sunil Chandran selected as an associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
• Sunil Chandran receives the MSR India Outstanding Young Faculty Award for 2009-2010.
• Jayant Haritsa awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2009.
  The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is given each year for outstanding contributions to science and technology. It is the highest award in the country given to scientists below 45 years. Jayant Haritsa was selected for his contributions to Engineering Sciences. The prize will be given by the Prime Minister at a later function.
• M. Narasimha Murty and Jayant Haritsa elected as Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

August 2009

• Aditya Kanade joins the department as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include the theory and practice of formal methods, software design and analysis, and analysis of embedded software. Prior to joining IISc, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay.
• Harish D and Sandhya Mannarswamy receive the Best Perspective Seminar 2009 award. Harish's talk was on " Reeb graph and its applications". Sandhya's talk was on " Data Layout Optimizations for Improving Memory System Performance".
• Ambedkar Dukkipati joins the department as an Assistant Professor. Ambedkar received his Ph.D. from IISc and moved to University of Trento, Italy as a Visiting Research Scholar. He spent one year at EURANDOM, Netherlands as a postdoctoral fellow. His research focus is in the areas of statistical information theory and algorithmic commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

July 2009

• IISc has promoted Matthew Jacob Thazhuthaveetil to Professor in CSA. His research interest is in Computer Architecture.

June 2009

• List of candidates selected after the research interviews.
• List of candidates shortlisted after the research interviews.

May 2009

• Dinesh Garg and Narahari receive the 2008 Best Application Paper Prize from IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering for their paper titled "A theory of mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems and application to procurement auctions". A preliminary version of this work had earlier won for Dinesh Garg a Best Presentation Award in IRISS 2006 (Inter IISc-IITs Research Symposium), held in IIT-Kanpur.
• Research interviews for admission to the M.Sc. (Engg.) / Ph.D. program will be held between June 8 - June 12. Notifications have been sent to all shorlisted candidates by email and by post. Please read this note before you appear for the interview.

March 2009

• GATE no longer required for admission to the Ph.D. program

January 2009

• Y. Narahari elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
• Y. Narahari receives the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering - 2009 from IISc

December 2008

• K. Murali Krishnan receives Alumni Medal for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in CSA
• B. Naveen receives M.N.S. Swamy Medal for the Best M.Sc. (Engg.) Thesis in CSA
• D. Harish receives CSI Medal for the Best M.E. Student in CSA
• Ravi Kannan joins CSA as the first adjunct faculty of IISc. He is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he heads the algorithms research group. Before joining Microsoft, he was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Yale University. His research interests are in the areas of theoretical computer science, optimization, massive data sets, sampling, clustering, Markov chains, linear algebra algorithms and applications.
• Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receives the Yahoo Faculty Research Award for 2009

November 2008

• List of candidates shortlisted for admission to the Ph.D. program now available.
• Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, K. Gopinath, R. Govindarajan, and K.V. Raghavan receive the IBM faculty award. IBM Faculty Awards is a worldwide competitive program that intends to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations.
• Chiranjib Bhattacharyya receives the MSR India Outstanding Young Faculty Award for 2009.

October 2008

• IISc has promoted Chiranjib Bhattacharyya to Associate Professor in CSA. His research interests are in Machine learning and its applications. He is also the convenor of the Machine Learning Lab.
• Application forms available for mid-year admissions to Ph.D.

September 2008

• T. Kavitha receives the INAE Young Engineer Award 2008. The purpose of the award is to recognise outstanding achievements / contributions made by young engineers in all branches of engineering.
• Sunil Chandran receives the Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award in physical sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, India. The academy instituted the award to recognize promise, creativity, and excellence in young scientists.
  

August 2008

• K.V. Raghavan joins the department as an assistant professor. Raghavan received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent two years in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral researcher. Before joining IISc, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi. His research interests are in programming languages, programming tools, and software engineering.
  

July 2008

• Jayant Haritsa selected for the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for 2007 in the field of Electronics, Telematics, Informatics and Automation.

Shri Hari Om Ashram, Nadiad, has instituted Vikram Sarabhai Awards biennially in the fields of: Space Sciences (Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences); Space Applications (Meteorology, Hydrology, Remote Sensing); Electronics, Informatics, Telematics and Automation; Systems Analysis of Nonlinear, Non-equilibrium systems.

The awards, which carry a medal and a cash prize of Rs. 50000, are given to Indian scientists of age not above 45 years for outstanding original research in the above fields.

• Jayant Haritsa receives the Google Research Award for 2008. The Google Research Awards program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. The intent of the awards is to support academic research aimed at improving information access.

June 2008

• List of candidates selected for admission to the M.Sc. (Engg.) / Ph.D. program now available.

May 2008

• T. Kavitha receives the INSA Young Scientist Award for 2008

April 2008

• Dilip Patil joins the department as an associate faculty.
  
  
• Sujit Prakash Gujar receives the Best Perspectives Seminar 2007 award for his talk titled "Some issues in auctions with manipulative players".

December 2007

• Priti Shankar to receive the Jaya-Jayant award for teaching excellence for the year 2007.
  
  
• Y. Narahari named a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to the design of manufacturing systems, supply chain networks, and electronic markets".
  
  
• Two CSA Alumni, S. Rajasekaran (M.E. 1981-83, currently at Univ. Connecticut, Storrs) and S.V. Nageshwara Rao (M.E. 1982-84, currently at Oakridge National Labs, Norfolk, VA) named IEEE Fellows.
  
  
• Sunil Chandran receives the INSA Young Scientist Award for 2007.
  
  
• T. Kavitha selected as an associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences

November 2007

• CSA receives FIST grant from DST. The Department of Science and Technology awarded a FIST (Fund for Infrastructure in Science and Technology) grant to CSA. Based on the recommendation of the FIST advisory board, CSA will receive Rs. 200 lakhs over a period of five years. This is the largest single grant received by CSA from any funding agency. The funding will be used to support research in all aspects of next general computing.
  
  
• Sathish Govindarajan joins the faculty. Sathish received his Ph.D. from Duke University and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at MPI, Germany. His research interests are in the areas of combinatorial geometry, spatial data structures, and computational geometry.