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Siddharth Bhandari receives the ISIT Student Paper Award

The following paper co-authored by Siddharth Bhandari,  graduate student at STCS, received the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at ISIT 2018.
Siddharth Bhandari, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, "Bounds on the Zero-Error List-Decoding Capacity of the q/(q-1) Channel", Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Vail, CO, USA, June 2018
The ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to three outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.  This year's award was shared by three papers (see https://www.itsoc.org/honors/wolf-award for more details).
Congratulations, Siddharth!

Anand Deo win best paper award at CRISIL Doctoral Symposium 2017

Anand Deo, a graduate student at the School of Technology and Computer
Science has won the best paper award at the CRISIL Doctoral Symposium 2017,
held at IIM Bangalore, for the paper titled "Calibration of Credit Default
Probabilities in Discrete Default Intensity and Logit Models", co-authored
with Prof. Sandeep Juneja.

Palash and Swagato win ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Palash Dey, a visiting fellow at the School of Technology and Computer Science, has been awarded the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2017, for his thesis entitled "Resolving the Complexity of Some Fundamental Problems in Computational Social Choice", under the supervision of Professors Y Narahari and Arnab Bhattacharyya at the Indian Institute of Science.
Swagato Sanyal, a former graduate student at the School of Technology and Computer Science and currently a post-doctorate researcher at the Center of Quantum Technologies, Singapore, has been have been selected for an Honourable Mention under the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2017, for his thesis entitled "Complexity Measures of Boolean Functions: Fourier Sparsity, Fourier Dimension and Query Complexity", under the supervision of Prof Prahladh Harsha.
Congratulations, Palash and Swagato!
The ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award was established in 2011.
This award recognizes the best doctoral dissertation from a degree-awarding institution based in India for each academic year, running from August 1 of one year to July 31 of the following year.
The ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award is accompanied by a prize of ₹ 200,000, and the winning dissertation will be published in the ACM Digital Library. For more information on the award and past winners, see https://awards.acm.org/india-doctoral-dissertation

Nikhil wins TCS Research Scholarship

Nikhil Mande, graduate student in the School of Technology and Computer Science, win the TCS Research Scholarship.

Congrats Nikhil!

Swarna Jayanti Fellow : Dr. Prahladh Harsha

Dr. Prahladh Harsha has been awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship by DST, GOI for the year 2015-16.

STCS welcomes Hariharan Narayanan

Dr.Hariharan Narayanan joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader. Hariharan's research interests include manifold learning, randomized algorithms and convex geometry.

STCS welcomes Piyush Srivastava

Dr.Piyush Srivastava joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader.Piyush's research is on probability in computer science and often concerns questions at the intersection of computation on the one hand, and physics, statistics or biology on the other.

STCS welcomes Ramprasad Saptharishi

Dr. Ramprasad Saptharishi joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader. Ramprasad's research interests include Arithmetic complexity, pseudorandomness and derandomization. Ramprasad obtained his PhD from Chennai Mathematical Institute and was a postdoc at Microsoft India and Tel Aviv University before joining us at TIFR.

STCS welcomes Umang Bhaskar

Dr. Umang Bhaskar joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader. Umang's research interests include Algorithmic game theory, approximation algorithms and online algorithms. Umang obtained his PhD from Dartmouth University and was a postdoc in the Center for Mathematics of Information at Caltech prior to joining TIFR.

Ashutosh Gupta wins EASST best paper award.

Dr. Ashutosh Gupta's paper "Model Checking Gene Regulatory Networks,
TACAS 2015" co-authored with M. Giacobbe, C. Guet, T. Henzinger, T.
Paixao, and T. Petrov received the ETAPS EASST best paper award for
2015. Granted by the European Association of Software Science and
Technology (EASST) at this year’s European Joint Conferences on Theory
and Practice of Software (ETAPS) at Queen Mary University of London ,
the award went to Mirco Giacobbe, Calin Guet, Thomas Henzinger,
Ashutosh Gupta, Tiago Paixao, and Tatjana Petrov for their excellent
paper on “Model checking gene regulatory network”. EASST is a European
non-profit association that aims at promoting research, development
and applications in the area of systematic and rigorous engineering of
software and systems.

Further information at http://easst.aulp.co.uk/ and http://www.etaps.org/