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

Research project by Umair Ahmed, Sumit Gulwani and Amey Karkare showcased at Microsoft Techfest 2013.
Manindra Agrawal has been awarded the Padma Shri Award for his contributions to Science and Engineering [article].
Amrita Chaturvedi gets the best paper award at ICSENT 2012.
Arpit Shrivastava and Pranav Maneriker have been awarded the Aditya Birla scholarship for the year 2012.
IIT Kanpur wins the Agriculture Leadership Awards for the year 2012 for its projects Agropedia and OpenAgri headed by T V Prabhakar. (more details).
Pranay Dighe and Anurag Kumar (EE) win the Samsung Innovation Award 2012 in the Product Design Category.
Parul Agarwal, Avani Nandini and Kritika Singh win the Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Award for 2012.
Shashwat Mishra and Varun Kumar Modi win second prize at the Aspiring Minds Machine Learning Competition 2012.

Student/Faculty Publications

Manindra Agrawal and Nitin Saxena's paper gets accepted to STOC 2013.
Harish Karnick and Purushottam Kar's paper gets accepted to ICML 2013.
Subhajit Roy's paper gets accepted to SAS 2013.
Umair Ahmed, Sumit Gulwani and Amey Karkare's paper gets accepted to IJCAI 2013.
Gaurav Kumar and Subhajit Roy's paper gets accepted to SAC 2013.
Ashish Agrawal and T V Prabhakar's paper gets accepted to SAC 2013.
Ramshankar Chouhan, Subhajit Roy and Surender Baswana's paper gets accepted to CGO 2013.
Surender Baswana, Sumeet Khurana and Soumojit Sarkar's paper gets accepted to ACM Transactions of Algorithms.
Aditya Nigam and Phalguni Gupta's paper gets accepted to ACCV 2012.
Varun Rajan's paper gets accepted to FSTTCS 2012.
Abhash Anand and Surender Baswana's paper gets accepted to FSTTCS 2012.
Purushottam Kar's paper gets accepted to NIPS 2012.
Prabhakar Misra and Mainak Chaudhuri's paper gets accepted to ICPADS 2012.
Mrinalkanti Ghosh and Satyadev Nandakumar's paper gets accepted to ALT 2012.
Rohit Gurjar and Arpita Korwar's paper gets accepted to MFCS 2012.
Mainak Chaudhuri's paper gets accepted to PACT 2012.
Mayank Sachan and Arnab Bhattacharya's paper gets accepted to VLDB 2012.
Ankit Kumar's paper gets accepted to USENIX ATC 2012.
Raghunath Tewari's paper gets accepted to STACS 2012.

Announcements

[new] ACA Summer School on Algorithms and Programming. Registration deadline May 31st. [Course Website].
[new] 1st Indian Workshop on Machine Learning, July 1-3, 2013 at IIT Kanpur [Call for abstracts].
Nitin Saxena has joined the department faculty.
PG Admissions to PhD/MTech programs [Website].
Important notification regarding online courses offered by the department [link].
Online course on "Architecting Software For The Cloud" [course website].
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

Rohit Jain to speak on "Trustworthy Data from Untrusted Databases" on May 3rd at 430PM in CS101. [ABSTRACT].

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