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- 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".
- Pushpak Bhattacharya and team, for "Hindi Wordnet and Associated Software".
| 2012 Inter-department Cricket Match - CSE Team A is the final winner | |
We are glad to let you know that the CSE team A has won the inter-department cricket match. The final was held between our team and Hostel. The team has triumphed out of 32 teams that played against each other during last 3 weekends. The team was lead by Vinod Khanjore. The best bowler and best batsman award of the series went to our own team members, Wasim Chikode and Manoj Bodekar, respectively. The team was sponsored and managed by Sanjay Mistry. | |
| Top two prizes at Microsoft Techvista 2012 from IIT Bombay | |
Karthik Ramachandra (Ph.D. student with Prof. Sudarshan) and Rijurekha Sen (Ph.D. student with Prof. Bhaskar) won the first and second prizes respectively at the Microsoft Techvista 2012 Ph.D. poster session. Details of the event are available at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/techvista2012/ | |
| Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan among recipients of the 2011 IBM Faculty Award | |
Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan is among the recipients of the 2011 IBM Faculty Award. Complete list of recipients is here. | |
| Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement award for Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya. | |
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya has been awarded a $10000 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement award for a proposal in the area of Machine translation. | |
| Karthik Ramachandra receives Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program award and Microsoft Research (India) Ph.D. Fellowship award for 2011. | |
Karthik Ramachandra, a Ph.D student with Prof. S. Sudarshan, is among the five MSR India Ph.D. Fellows for 2011. Karthik is also among the 22 PhD students chosen internationally for the Yahoo! KSC program award. | |
| Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya to be area chair for Semantics in International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2011. | |
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing is a flagship event for reporting research in NLP. This year's conference, IJCNLP 2011, will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Nov 8-15, 2011. The area of semantics which is concerned with research on processing and representation of meaning will be chaired by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya. | |
| Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya to deliver keynote address at the IJCNLP 2011 workshop on NLP of Asian Languages. | |
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing is a flagship event in NLP, focusing on Asian Languages. This year's IJCNLP will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November, 2011.
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| The H. H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences presented to Prof. Krithi Ramamritham. | |
At 52nd Foundation Day celebration of IIT Bombay, the H. H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences, 2010 was presented to Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, Department Computer Science and Engineering, in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in the area of distributed real-time and data intensive systems.
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| Vijay Gabale and Mitesh Khapra amongst IBM 2011 Ph.D. Fellowship award recipients. | |
Vijay Gabale and Mitesh Khapra are among the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award recipients in 2011. | |
| Ruta Mehta wins the 2011 research poster award at the Microsoft Research TechVista Symposium. | |
Ruta Mehta (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ruta/) was awarded the first prize in Microsoft Research Techvista PhD poster session. | |
| Mitesh Khapra and Jugal Garg bag Microsoft Research's rising star awards. | |
The Microsoft Research India Rising Star Awards recognize senior Ph.D. students in India who have done exceptional research work in computer science and allied areas. For the academic year 2010–2011, among the five Microsoft Research India Rising Star Awards, each amounting to Rs Two Lakhs, two will be awarded to Mitesh Khapra and Jugal Garg, Computer Science research scholars. More details: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/india/risingstarawards.aspx | |
| Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya to deliver the keynote address at the International Conference on NLP (ICON 2010). | |
ICON is the flagship Conference on Natural Language Processing held every year in India. The keynote speech by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya will explore the relationship between the fields of NLP and IR both of which deal with text, with special attention to sense disambiguation and information retrieval. | |
| Rijurekha Sen (Ph.D student) among the five MSR India PhD Fellows for 2010. | |
Rijurekha Sen is among the five MSR India Ph.D. Fellows for 2010. | |
| Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya appointed Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing | |
The journal ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) is a prestigious forum for reporting research on Natural Language Processing, with emphasis on languages of Asia spoken by more than half the humanity.
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| IITB NLP research group's top performance | |
ACL 2010 (NLP's rank-1 conference) has accepted: (1) "All Words Domain Adapted WSD: Finding a Middle Ground between Supervision and Unsupervision": Mitesh Khapra, Anup Kulkarni, Saurabh Sohoney and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2) "Multilingual Relevance Feedback: One Language Can Help Another": Manoj Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. Prior to this, the following was in SIGIR 2010 (IR's rank-1 conference): (3) "Multilingual PRF: English comes to help": Manoj Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. (2) is a generalization of (3), in the sense that it investigates what languages other than English can assist relevance feedback, and in particular the effect of in-family languages. Lastly, IITB's NLP team comprising of Saurabh, Anup, Lipta, Meera and Mitesh have secured the first two ranks in SemEval competition (30 participant teams internationally) for word sense disambiguation. | |
| IITB NLP research group's top performance | |
IITB NLP research is being reported in highly visible fora.
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| 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. | |
| 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.
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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. | |
| Prof. D.B. Phatak amongst recipients of the IITB Excellence in Teaching (2009) award. | |
The 'Excellence in Teaching' awardees for 2009 are: | |
| 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: | |
| Prof. Krithi Ramamritham awarded the IBM Faculty award for the year 2009. | |
Prof. Krithi Ramamritham awarded the IBM Faculty award for the year 2009. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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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