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STCS welcomes Shibashis Guha

Dr. Shibashis Guha joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader. Shibashis's research interests include areas of formal methods together with algorithmic game theory, timed automata and Markov decision processes. Shibashis obtained his PhD in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, subsequent to which he was a post-doc at Hebrew University, Isreal and Universite libre de Bruxelles.
Webpage: http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~shibashis/

STCS welcomes Akshayaram Srinivasan

Dr. Akshayaram Srinivasan joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader. Akshayram's research interests include Theoretical Computer Science, with particular emphasis on the theory and applications of Cryptography. Akshayaram obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Univ. California, Berkeley.
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~akshayaram/

Best Student Paper Award at STOC 2020

The paper,  "Improved Bounds for Perfect Sampling of k-Colorings in Graphs," jointly authored by Siddharth Bhandari and Sayantan Chakraborty, received the Best Student Paper Award at STOC 2020.
Congratulations, Sayantan and Siddharth!

Best paper award at WiOpt 2020

The paper, "Non-clairvoyant Scheduling of Coflows," jointly authored by Dr. Rahul Vaze with Akhil Bhimaraju (IIT M) and Debanuj Nayak (IIT GN), received the best paper award at WiOpt 2020.
Congratulations, Dr. Rahul Vaze!

City-State Epidemic Simulator

STCS TIFR faculty and students in collaboration with IISc develop an City-State Epidemic Simulator.

STCS welcomes Himanshu Asnani

Dr.Himanshu Asnani joins the School of Technology and Computer Science as a Reader. Himanshu's research interests include Information and Coding Theory, Statistical Estimation and Inference, Machine Learning.

Siddharth wins Google Fellowship

Siddharth Bhandari, graduate student in STCS, wins the 2019 Google PhD Fellowship in Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets. From the Google Phd Fellowship webpage, "Google PhD Fellowship students are a select group recognized by Google researchers and their institutions as some of the most promising young academics in the world. The Fellowships are awarded to students who represent the future of research in the following fields ....."
For more information on the awards, visit https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/09/announcement-of-2019-fellowship.html
Congratulations, Siddharth!

Neha Sangwan wins the runner-up award for her poster at CSCIT 2019

Neha Sangwan, graduate student in the School of Technology and Computer Science, wins the runner-up award for her poster at the Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2019) based on joint work with Mayank Bakshi (Huawei), Bikash Dey (IIT Bombay) and Vinod Prabhakaran (TIFR).
Congratulations, Neha!
The Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory is a biennial summer school on Information Theory aimed at participants from Hong Kong and the East/South Asia region.

Deepesh wins Honourable Mention at ACM India 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Award

Deepesh Data, a former graduate student at the School of Technology and Computer Science and currently a post-doctorate researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been selected for an Honourable Mention under the ACM India 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Award, for his thesis titled "Communication Complexity and Characterization Results in Secure Computation", under the supervision of Professor Vinod Prabhakaran
Congratulations, Deepesh!
The ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award was established in 2011. This award recognises 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. For more information on the award and past winners, see https://awards.acm.org/india-doctoral-dissertation

Gunjan Kumar has been awarded the TCS Research Scholarship

Gunjan Kumar, graduate student in the School of Technology and Computer
Science, has been awarded the TCS Research Scholarship.
Congrats Gunjan Kumar!