Many congratulations to our alumna Dr. Suparna Bhattacharya, for being elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). Dr. Bhattacharya was advised by Prof. K. Gopinath.

Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya takes charge as the Chair of CSA Department.

Arkaprava Basu receives the Pratiksha Trust Young Investigator Award, 2020.

The paper “Best-Fit Bin Packing with Random Order Revisited”, by Arindam Khan, coauthored by Susanne Albers and Leon Ladewig, is one of the 2 submissions receiving the Best Paper Award at the 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science(MFCS) 2020.

Bhavana Kanukurthi is promoted to Associate Professor by IISc.

Arpita Patra selected for Google India AI/ML Research Awards 2020.

She is one amongst five faculty members within India selected for this award.

Ajith Suresh has been selected to participate in 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum which will be conducted during September 19-24, 2021. This year, only a total of 224 researchers were selected to attend the event.

Nidhi Rathi has received the distinguished IBM PhD Fellowship Award for 2020

https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships-awardees.html

Shalabh Bhatnagar has been awarded Prof. Rustom Choksi Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering by IISc.

The paper titled “FairRec: Two-Sided Fairness for Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Platforms” got accepted at the Web Conference 2020 (WWW) https://www2020.thewebconf.org/. This is a joint work by Arpita Biswas, Gourab K. Patro, Niloy Ganguly, Abhijnan Chakraborty, and Krishna P. Gummadi.

Prof. Shalabh Bhatnagar has been awarded the prestigious J.C. Bose Fellowship.

Joint work of Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Saley Vishal Vivek, and Narasimha Murty, on Integrating Network Embedding and Community Outlier Detection via Multiclass Graph Description, has been accepted for publication at ECAI 2020 (http://ecai2020.eu/)

Joint work of Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Anirban Biswas, Harsh Kara and Narasimha Murty, on A Multilayered Informative Random Walk for Attributed Social Network Embedding, has been accepted for publication at ECAI 2020 (http://ecai2020.eu/).

Chaya Ganesh joins CSA as Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA, and was a postdoc at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests are in cryptography and security.

Gugan Thoppe joins CSA as Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D from TIFR Bombay and was a postdoc at Technion, Israel and Duke University, USA. His research interests are in stochastic approximation algorithms and random topology.

Prof. Y.N. Srikant has taken over as the Dean of Engineering, IISc.

Team Sarvatra comprising of members Paarth Gupta, Mohit Gupta, Suman Gupta and Kaustubh Choudhary from CSA, IISc secured first position at India Police Hackathon