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

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.
Purushottam Kar gets an Honorable Mention at the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Award for 2012.
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.
Rajat Moona to join CDAC as its next Director General.

Student/Faculty Publications

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.
Manindra Agrawal and Ramprasad Saptharishi's paper gets accepted to STOC 2012.
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.
Sandeep Dasgupta and Amey Karkare's paper gets accepted to ACM SAC 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.

Announcements

[New] Timetable for Fall 2012 (2012-2013-II) semester [link].
M.Tech., Ph.D. admissions for Fall 2012 semester to take place on May 7th and 8th, 2012. [Admissions 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

Varunesh Mishra to defend his thesis on "Extraction of Directed and Qualitative Gene Interaction Information from Published Abstracts" on May 11th at 12NOON in CS101.
Jay Mahadeokar to defend his thesis on "Shortest Paths and Related Problems for Edge or Node Failure" on May 14th at 430PM in CS102.

[Upcoming Seminar Calender][List of Seminars]