Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur

CSE@IITK

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur was the first Institute in India to start Computer Science education with the initial "computer-related" courses starting in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system installed in the nation's first "computer classroom". The department continues to lead the nation in terms of excellence in research and teaching in Computer Science and Engineering.

L-A-T-E-S-T

Manindra Agrawal gets awarded the H K Firodia award for the year 2011.
Shouvik Sachdeva and Akash Goel have been awarded the Aditya Birla scholarship for the year 2011.
Ankit Kumar and Ashish Gupta have been awarded the World Quant Award for the year 2011.
Anurag Awasthi and Avani Nandini win the Popular Choice award at the Intel Embedded Challenge 2011 for their project "Embedded Eyes for the Blind".
Ashish Agrawal, Rohit Gurjar and Shubhadip Mitra have been awarded the TCS PhD Fellowship.
G S Badrinath's paper wins second prize at the IDRBT Doctoral colloquium, Hyderabad, 2011.
Rajat Moona to join CDAC as its next Director General.

Student/Faculty Publications

Pranay Dighe's paper gets accepted to ICASSP 2012.
Abhishek Kar's paper gets accepted to CHI 2012.
Akshay Mittal's paper gets accepted to ASPLOS 2012.
Purushottam Kar and Harish Karnick's paper gets accepted to AISTATS 2012.
Surya Prakash and Phalguni Gupta's paper gets accepted to ICB 2012.
Saurabh Joshi's paper gets accepted to POPL 2012.
Surender Baswana, Utkarsh Lath and Anuradha Mehta's paper gets accepted to SODA 2012.
Purushottam Kar's paper gets accepted to NIPS 2011.
Surender Baswana and Manoj Gupta's paper gets accepted to FOCS 2011.
Amitabha Mukerjee, Prithwijit Guha and K. S. Venkatesh's paper gets accepted to IJCAI 2011.
Sandeep Dasgupta and Amey Karkare's paper gets accepted to ACM SAC 2012.

Announcements

Prof. Raghunath Tewari (Complexity Theory, Graph Theory) has joined the department.
Timetable for Spring 2012 (2011-2012-II) semester [link].
The CSE Department announces the construction of the new Rajeev Motwani building for CSE. [Website]
Upcoming CS Events in India [List].
Save Energy, Save the Earth ! Share a Car - Check out the new IIT Kanpur Carpool Portal here(Intranet only).

Seminar Corner

Rajiv Khosla to speak on "Emotionally aware intelligent robots for aged people" on Friday, January 27th at 3:30pm in CS101. [ABSTRACT].

[Upcoming Seminar Calender][List of Seminars]