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STCS welcomes Jatin Batra and Abhishek Sinha

Drs. Jatin Batra and Abhishek Sinha join the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader.
Jatin Batra's research interests include algorithms, optimization and learning. Jatin obtained his PhD from IIT Delhi and was a postdoctoral researcher at CWI, Amsterdam prior to joining TIFR.
Abhishek's research interests lie at the intersection of Probability theory, Stochastic control, Information theory, and Learning Theory. Abhishek obtained his PhD from MIT. He then worked briefly at Qualcomm and at IIT Madras as an assistant professor before joining TIFR.
Welcome Jatin and Abhishek!
Webpage: https://www.tifr.res.in/~abhishek.sinha/

Date: 20 May 2022

Suhail Sherif wins ACM India Best Thesis Award

Suhail Sherif wins ACM India best thesis award for his thesis titled “Communication Complexity and Quantum Optimization Lower Bounds via Query Complexity” under the guidance of Prof. Arkadev Chattopadhyay.
https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2022/doctoral-dissertation-award-winner-2022

Date: 16 Jan 2022

Anand Deo and Karthyek Murthy receive honourable mention in INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition

Anand Deo and Karthyek Murthy receive honourable mention (third place) in INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition. This competition recognizes high quality work amongst junior faculty in the INFORMS community. Karthyek Murthy is an assistant professor at SUTD and is ex-student at STCS. Anand is a post-doc at SUTD. This work was a part of his PhD at STCS, TIFR.

Date: 29 Oct 2021

Neha Sangwan wins runner-up award at CSCIT 2021

Neha Sangwan received the runner-up award for her poster at the Croucher Summer School on Information Theory held in Hong Kong
https://cscit.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/
Congratulations Neha Sangwan!

Date: 03 Oct 2021

Shibashis wins best paper award at MFCS 2021

Shibashis Guha’s paper titled “A Bit of Nondeterminism Makes Pushdown Automata Expressive and Succinct”, co-authored with Ismaël Jecker, Karoliina Lehtinen, and Martin Zimmermann won the best paper award at the 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021, Tallinn (Estonia), 23-27 August). MFCS is an annual conference for original research in all branches of theoretical computer science co-organized by European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
For more information of MFCS 2021 and MFCS Best paper awards visit https://compose.ioc.ee/mfcs/ and https://eatcs.org/index.php/best-mfcs-paper
Congratulations, Shibashis!

Date: 28 Sep 2021

Prerona, Shubhada and Sayantan win Google Fellowship

Three (3) graduate students from STCS, Prerona Chatterjee, Shubhada Agrawal and Sayantan Chakraborty, win the 2021 Google PhD Fellowship in Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets; Machine Learning and Quantum Computing respectively. From the Google Phd Fellowship webpage, "The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields ....."
For more information on the awards, visit https://research.google/outreach/phd-fellowship/recipients/?category=2021
Congratulations, Prerona, Shubhada and Sayantan!

Date: 28 Sep 2021

IEEE RTS 2020 Test-of-Time Award

The following paper authored by former faculty members of TIFR received the prestigious IEEE RTS 2020 Test-of-Time Award, jointly with three other papers.
Mathai Joseph and Paritosh Pandya, Finding response times in a real-time system, The Computer Journal, Vol.29, Issue 5, pp:390–395, 1986
When the paper was written, Prof. Pandya was a computer science PhD student of Prof. Mathai Joseph at TIFR.

Date: 02 Jun 2021