We are delighted to share that Abhishek Sinha (STCS, TIFR) has been awarded the IISc Young Alum Medal 2026 for his outstanding contributions to theoretical machine learning and network optimization.
The medal is the highest honour IISc Bangalore confers on its young alumni, recognising exceptional impact on science, technology and society.
Heartiest congratulations to Abhishek on this well-deserved recognition!
Raghuvansh Saxena has been selected as a 2026 Asian Young Scientist (AYS) Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science.
STCS extends its heartiest congratulations to Raghuvansh on this prestigious achievement!
Read the full cohort announcement on the AYS Fellowship News Page
We are delighted to announce that Subhamon Supantha from IIT, Mumbai and Abhishek Sinha have been honored with the ALT 2026 Elegance Award for their paper titled “Universal Dynamic Regret and Constraint Violation Bounds for Constrained Online Convex Optimization.”
Congratulations!
Prof. Arkadev Chattopadhyay has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. The official list of elected fellows during 2025 is available here.
Congratulations Prof. Arkadev Chattopadhyay!
Neha Sangwan is the recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society's 2025 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled "Communication with Byzantine Users."
Congratulations Neha!
https://www.itsoc.org/news/2025-thomas-m-cover-dissertation-award-awarded-neha-sangwan
Last date for application extended : April 6th 2025 Click here to apply.
Pranshu Gaba, a graduate student in STCS, won the best student paper award at ICLA 2025 for his paper "Recognizing numbers", co-authored with Arnab Sur (Chennai Mathematical Institute).
Congratulations Panshu and Arnab!
The paper, "Random Restrictions of Bounded Low Degree Polynomials Are Juntas", by Sreejata Kishor Bhattacharya, a graduate students at STCS, is one of the joint winners of the Best Student Paper Award at the Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2025) Conference.
Congratulations Sreejata!
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol325-itcs2025/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.0/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.0.pdf (read preface)
Prof Prahladh Harsha has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences for Mathematical Sciences. The official list of elected fellows is available here.
Congratulations Prahladh!
