Rijurekha Sen and Prashima Sharma win 4th prize at Microsoft Techvista'10 for their poster 'Horn-Ok-Please'

The poster by Rijurekha Sen and Prashima Sharma titled "Horn-Ok-Please" has won the 4th prize in this year's Microsoft TechVista. See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/techvista2010/default.aspx. The prize carries a cash award of Rs. 25K as well. For more details: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~riju/research.html. This poster is also put up alongside the other posters outside FC Kohli, KR building.

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Manthan Award for 2009 for Hindi Wordnet

Hindi Wordnet- which forms the foundation for multilingual dictionary and WSD and Indowordnet and a workof 24 man years- has been conferred Manthan Award 2009, the South Asia award for best practices in ICT for Development. Click here for more information.      The award- instituted by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and Digital Empowerment Foundation, India- has been conferred since 2003 on efforts that advance the cause of digital empowerment. Nominations are received from all over South Asia. This year there were close to 400 nominations in different categories like e-governance, e-learning, e-localization etc. 45 amongst these received the award this year. The award ceremony took place on 19/12/2009 in NCUI Auditorium, Siri fort Area, New Delhi. Mr. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology was present. For Hindi wordnet, the award citation observed that Hindi Wordnet and Associated Software developed at IIT Bombay under the supervision of Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya by a team consisting of Prabhakar Pande, Laxmi Kashyap, Dipak Narayan, Debasri Chakrabarty Akshay Uke and many past researchers and students has led to digital empowerment for Indian languages. One of the important developments based on the Hindi wordnet is the set of other language wordnets. Marathi wordnet is already quite mature and we hope make it download ready in about a year. Sanskrit wordnet work is continuing with its additional depth and challenges. Besides these, work on North East wordnets, Dravidian wordnets and Indradhanush wordnets (Punjabi, Oriya, Gujarati, Bangla and Konkani) have started/starting. Fifth International Global wordnet conference to be held at IIT Bombay will see many of these efforts presented.

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Department Faculty Program Committee co-chair World Wide Web 2010 and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2009 conferences.
	Soumen Chakrabarti is Program Committee co-chair for the WWW 2010 conference and Sunita Sarawagi was the Program Committee co-chair for the KDD-2009.

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Prof. D.B. Phatak amongst recipients of the IITB Excellence in Teaching (2009) award.
	The 'Excellence in Teaching' awardees for 2009 are: 1. Prof Vikram Gadre, Electrical Engg. 2. Prof. M.K. Srinivasan, Mathematics. 3. Prof V. Sethi, Environmental Science and Engg. 4. Prof J. Vasi, Electrical Engg. 5. Prof P.S.V. Nataraj, Systems and Control. 6. Prof D.B. Phatak, Computer Science and Engg. 7. Prof R.B. Sunoj, Chemistry.

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Prof. Sudarshan, Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti, Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya and their students amongst recipients of the IRCC-2007 awards and the P.K. Patwardhan Technology Development award.

IITB IRCC-2007 research paper awards: Sudarshan, Gaurav Bhalotia, Arvind Hulgeri, Charuta Nakhe and Soumen Chakrabarti for "Keyword searching and browsing in databases using BANKS". Pramod Wangikar, Ashish Tendulkar, S Ramya, Deepali Mali, Sunita Sarawagi, for "Functional sites in protein families uncovered via an objective and automated graph theoretic approach". P. K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award: Pushpak Bhattacharya and team, for "Hindi Wordnet and Associated Software".

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Prof. Krithi Ramamritham awarded the IBM Faculty award for the year 2009.
	Prof. Krithi Ramamritham awarded the IBM Faculty award for the year 2009. The complete list recipients is here.

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Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya is among the recipients of the IBM UIMA Innovation Awards for faculty.
	Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya has been selected as an award recepient of the IBM UIMA Innovation Awards for faculty for his proposal "Integrating Indian Language Processing Resources and Tools and Semantic Search Capabilities with the UIMA Platform". The award amount is USD 15,000.

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Vinay Namboodiri (EE) and Aniruddha Joshi (CSE) win the second and the third prizes at TECHVISTA.

PhD students Vinay Namboodiri (EE) and Aniruddha Joshi (CSE) won the second and third prizes for their posters at TECHVISTA organized by Microsoft Research, India. Their PhD topics, respectively, are "Image Deblurring and Denoising using Diffusion" and "Nadi Tarangini-Ayurvedic Pulse-based diagnostic system incorporating machine learning". Their respective guides are Prof. Subhasis Chaudhari and Prof. Sharat Chandran.

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Anand, research scholar in the CSE Department working on Machine Translation, won the second prize (Rs 50000) in Techvista - the annual flagship event of Microsoft Research India- held at IISc Bangalore. Read the research paper here.

Microsoft Research India held its annual flagship event TechVista on 23rd January 2007 at IISc, Bangalore - a one day research symposium featuring some of the best known scientists and researchers from across the world as speakers. It had an audience of more than 750 people from across the country, consisting of senior researchers, scientists, professors, students and industry, as well as representatives from the government. TechVista 2007 had an exhibition to showcase the PhD research done at leading educational institutions across India in the form of posters or demos. Senior Microsoft Research executives and select delegates evaluated the exhibited projects and top two projects were given awards. Anand, research scholar working on MT (advisor: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya) won the second prize in the event for his work "Some Issues in Automatic Evaluation of English-Hindi MT: More Blues for BLEU". The paper can be seen here.

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The CSE-IITB team of undergraduate students - Harsh Jain, Varun Kanade and Bhaskara Aditya has won the ACM ICPC Regional Finals held at Amrita University, Coimbatore
	The CSE-IITB team of undergraduate students - Harsh Jain, Varun Kanade and Bhaskara Aditya has won the ACM ICPC Regional Finals held at Amrita University, Coimbatore

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Shetal Shah (Ph.D. student), has won the IBM IRL Outstanding Research Scholar award for 2005.
	Shetal Shah (Ph.D. student), has won the IBM IRL Outstanding Research Scholar award for 2005.

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The IIT Bombay Team consisting of Nitin Gupta, Chinmay Karande and Sudeep Juvekar has won the ACM ICPC regional finals held in Kolkata.

The IIT Bombay Team consisting of Nitin Gupta, Chinmay Karande and Sudeep Juvekar has won the ACM ICPC regional finals held in Kolkata. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The ACM ICPC is an activity of the ACM that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills. The ACM ICPC Asia Regional Contests invite Asian students to meet, establish friendships and promote fair competition in programming. There are eleven sites in Asia region. IITB's winning team will participate in the world finals which will be held in USA in April 2006.

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Prof. Supratik Chakraborty has been awarded the INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2005.

Prof. Supratik Chakraborty has been awarded the INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2005. The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) was established in 1987 to promote the advancement of and excellence in the practice of engineering and technology and the related sciences and disciplines. It is a 'Peer' body of the most distinguished engineers from the entire spectrum of engineering profession in the Government, R&D Laboratories, Academia, Services and Industry. With a view to promoting the pursuit of excellence in the field of Engineering, the Academy has instituted INAE "Young Engineer Award" and is implementing it since 1996. This is a very prestigious award of the Academy. The award is finalized by a committee of distinguished Fellows of INAE after a very rigorous national level scrutiny.

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Rukma P. Verlekar (M.Tech-2) awarded scholarship by Goa government
	22nd July 2005 - A student of the department - Ms. Rukma P. Verlekar (M.Tech-2) has been chosen under the "Goa Scholars Scheme" offered by the Goa government. Under this scheme, Rukma will receive a Rs. 2 Lakh per year scholarship.

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Harsh Jain wins IBM Linux Scholars Challenge, 2004
	Harsh Jain, a third-year undergraduate student was among the 20 students judged winners of the IBM Linux Scholars Challenge, 2004. Winners will receive an IBM laptop from the ThinkPad T-Series.

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Our Faculty

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In the last 18 years of our B.Tech program, our students have won the President's Gold Medal/Institute Gold Medal 11 times -- from 1994 onwards the medal has has been claimed 7 times in a row. (A PGM is given every year to the B.Tech student with the best academic performance from the graduating batch.)