Collaboration activities

• Indo-German Max Planck Center for Computer Science (IMPECS) inaugurated on Feb 3, 2010

Faculty awards and achievements

• Sorav Bansal wins IBM SUR Award, 2011 of USD 15000 to encourage collaborative research on Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
• Wellcome Trust UK has announced a funding of British Pounds 430000 (nearly Rs. 3 crores) for translational research of Smart Cane developed by IIT Delhi. IIT Delhi would carry out the project in collaboration with its industrial partner Phoenix Medical Systems, Chennai and the NGO working for the visually impaired Saksham Trust, Delhi. The project envisages pilot production and field trials leading to a development of an affordable device (target price within Rs 2000) meeting Indian and European standards within two years.
• The ASSISTECH group's paper on a Smartcane for the Visually Impaired has won the best paper award at the 12th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People (TRANSED 2010).
• Aaditeshwar Seth's project on rural community radio stations won the Juror's distinction at the Manthan Awards.
• Pankaj Jalote's project proposal on "Rapidly Developing Software using Globally Distributed Teams" has been chosen as one of the winners of the First SAP Research & Innovation Award India.
• M Balakrishnan and Kolin Paul are the winners of 2005 VASVIK industrial reserach awards [photograph]
• Anirban Mahanti authored the paper titled The Flattening Internet Topology: Natural Evolution, Unsightly Barnacles or Contrived Collapse? which received the Best Paper Award at the 9th Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) conference, 2008.
• S Arun Kumar received the IBM Faculty Award in 2007.
• Preeti Ranjan Panda received the IBM Faculty Award in 2007.
• Sandeep Sen has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore in 2007.
• Anup Gangwar, M. Balakrishnan and Anshul Kumar authored the paper titled Impact of intercluster communication mechanisms on ILP in clustered VLIW architectures which received the best paper of the year award for the journal ACM Transaction on Design Automation and Electronic Systems, 2007.
• Naveen Garg received the IBM Faculty Award in 2006.
• Amit Kumar received the INAE Young Engineer Award in 2006.
• Naveen Garg received the INSA Young Scientist Award in 2006.
• Amit Kumar received the IBM Faculty Award in 2005.
• Naveen Garg received the INAE Young Engineer Award in 2005.
• Naveen Garg received the Career Award for Young Teachers given by the AICTE in 2004.
• Naveen Garg has been chosen to lead a partner group on "Approximation Algorithms" by the Max Planck Society, Munich. (link) .
• Preeti Ranjan Panda received the Department of Science and Technology Young Scientist Award in 2003.
• Naveen Garg received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany in 2002.
• Dheeraj Bharadwaj received the Young Scientist Award by Indian National Science Academy in 2000.

Student awards and achievements

• Amit Ruhela, PhD student of Dr Aaditeshwar Seth, has been awarded the best presentation in the COMSNETS 2012 PhD forum for his work on online social networks and Internet content distribution.
• Sandeep Kumar Bindal wins third prize at PLDI SRC 2011 in the Undergraduate Category. Details of his work are:
  • Title of the work: Systematic Ranking of the Threads Schedules for Testing MultiThreaded Programs.
  • Supervisor: Dr. Sorav Bansal
  • Award Details: Third Prize in the Under-Graduate Category
• Shamsher Singh and Kanak Biswas's research on gait recognition has been accepted in ICDM, a premier forum on data mining.
• A research paper by Trinabh Gupta and Sanchit Garg co-authored with Anirban Mahanti and Niklas Carlsson has been accepted at ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2009, a premiere venue for publishing results on Internet measurements, analysis, and modeling. Also, Trinabh and Sanchit's project bags best B. Tech. project award.
• The work of Jivitej Chadda, Naveen Garg, Amit Kumar, and Muralidhara has been accepted in STOC 2009, a premier theory conference.
• Silpa, PhD student wins Intel Scholar Program 2008 more
• Rohan Paul, Dheeraj Mehra and Vaibhav Singh has received INAE Innovative Student Projects Award 2008 for their major project.
• Navneet Kumar Pandey, S. K. Gupta and Shaweta Likha authored the paper titled Algebra for Capability Based Attack Correlation received the best student paper award sponsored by Nokia in Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices held in Spain in May 08 [more].
• Anup Gangwar , M. Balakrishnan and Anshul Kumar authored the paper titled Impact of intercluster communication mechanisms on ILP in clustered VLIW architectures which received the best paper of the year award for the journal ACM Transaction on Design Automation and Electronic Systems, 2007.
• Uma Mudenagudi and Yogish Sabharwal received best paper awards in their respective areas media processing and theoretical computer science at IRISS, 2007 .
• Akshat Verma received the best paper award in the {\em Algorithms and Applications} area in the High Performance Computing Conference (Bangalore), 2006.
• Parag Chaudhuri received the IBM award for outstanding Ph. D. thesis, 2006.
• Parag Chaudhuri 's Ph. D. thesis is accepted as a Springer research monograph, 2006. ( link )
• Surender Baswana and Rohit Khandekar received the IBM award for outstanding Ph. D. thesis, 2005.
• Parag Chaudhuri received the best paper award at IRISS, 2005 .
• Anup Gangwar received a best presentation of a session award at IRISS, 2004 .
• Rohit Khandekar received the best paper award at IRISS, 2003 . Surender Baswana received a ``Commendable Research'' prize.
• Shoma Chatterjee received a best presentation of a session award at IRISS, 2002 .
• The department won the worldwide IBM Linux Scholar Challenge in 2002 , primarily through the efforts of our dual-degree and UG students.

Editorial boards and Program Chairs

• Anshul kumar was the General Chair and Preeti Ranjan Panda was the Program Chair for International Conference on VLSI Design 2009
• Sandeep Sen is on the Editorial Board of Theoretical Computer Science .
• Huzur Saran and K. K. Biswas are on the Editorial Board of Journal of Network and Computer Applications .
• Preeti Ranjan Panda is on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Parallel Programming (Springer) and VSI Vision .
• Prem Kalra is on the Editorial Board of The Visual Computer .
• Subhashis Banerjee is on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Computer Vision (Springer) and Computer and Graphics .
• Sanjiva Prasad is a Program Co-Chair of FSTTCS, 2007 .
• S. Arun-Kumar and Naveen Garg were Program Co-Chairs of FSTTCS, 2006 .
• Prem Kalra was a Program Co-Chair for Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics and Image Processing to be held in 2006.
• Sandeep Sen was a Program Co-Chair of FSTTCS, 2005 .
• M. Balakrishnan was the Program Chair of VLSI Design, 2003 .
• Sanjiv Kapoor and Sanjiva Prasad were Program Co-Chairs of FSTTCS, 2000 .
• Anshul Kumar was the Program Chair of VLSI Design, 1999 .

Technology Business Incubation

• Kritikal Solutions is the first faculty-student led start-up from IITD. It was started in 2002 by seven graduating dual-degree students and five faculty members from the department. Kritikal Solutions has successfully gone through the incubation phase and have recently opened up a new office in Noida. Since their inception they have carried out several challenging technology products and projects.
• GridSolv is a recent Technology Business Incubation company started from the department.

Technology transfer