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.
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/
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 I
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.
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.