News and awards
Recent media coverage, research highlights, awards, professional service, and department achievements.
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The hands-on computer-systems pedagogy effort uses RISC-V microcontrollers to connect classroom learning with self-reliant hardware practice.
Soket AI, co-founded by Prof. Mayank Singh, was among 12 AI startups that presented ahead of the India AI Impact Summit.
The LLM-powered air-quality chatbot demonstrates CSE work on AI for social impact.
The first pre-trained Hindi language model from the group was covered by AI and technology media.
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A Sustainability Lab benchmark evaluates vision-language models on thermal imagery, extending CSE work on robust AI for sensing and climate applications.
Second-year undergraduates led a reproducible benchmark for energy disaggregation, continuing the department focus on deployable AI systems.
The project combines scanning electron microscopy and vision transformers to classify pollen grains, with coverage in science and education outlets.
The Lingo Research Group project focuses on large-scale datasets and foundational multilingual, multimodal AI models.
The MIR Lab and collaborators showed how ocean cycles constrain planet-wide drought synchrony, with broad external science coverage.
The lab reports top-venue 2025-26 wins across LLM-code-agent faults, mutation evaluation, and academic research support.
The hand-validated benchmark covers 62,671 brick kilns across South Asia for AI-supported air-pollution monitoring.
The Lingo Research Group dataset and paper support code-mixed Indian-language NLP.
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Arjun Badola and Dikshit Hegde have won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2026 for their proposal on transparent 3D Gaussian splatting, advised by Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman.
Ayush Shrivastava and Rohit Narayanan have been selected for the TCS Research Scholar Program, Cycle 20, with fellowships effective 1 July 2026.
Naren Kumar, Manvendra Singh, and Dikshit Hegde have been awarded IndiaAI PhD Fellowships.
The paper on deterministic, protocol-driven AI-native network diagnostics was named Graduate Forum Best Paper Runner-up.
The CSE/NLP doctoral student is recognized for work with the Lingo Research Group under Prof. Mayank Singh.
The team won gold at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 14.0 for solving computational problems under strict time and memory constraints.
The team won silver at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 14.0 for a polished playable game with strong mechanics, level design, and coding architecture.
The team won silver at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 14.0 for applying machine learning and remote-sensing methods to satellite imagery and geospatial data.
The fellowship recognizes doctoral work in privacy, safety, and security.
The ACM India dissertation award recognizes work advised by Prof. Bireswar Das.
Prof. Batra was recognized with ACM SIGEnergy Rising Star and e-Energy Test-of-Time awards.
The team won silver at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 13.0 for a system to distinguish AI-generated images from real images.
The team won bronze at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 13.0 for predictive modeling of solar waste and scalable recycling solutions.
The STOC 2024 award recognizes the lasting impact of the paper “A Sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform,” co-authored with Ravi Kumar and Tamás Sarlós.
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The institute event highlighted CSE and Center for AI-driven Innovations work before the India AI Impact Pre-Summit.
The India AI Impact Summit agenda listed Prof. Singh on a panel about India frontier labs and Global South impact.
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The ARC Centre advances data-driven climate-risk management, including AI-based urban flooding modules and decision support tools.
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Prof. Bichhawat is track co-chair for Software Security, Formal Methods, and Programming Languages at ACM AsiaCCS 2026 in Bengaluru.
The VIT-hosted ACM India summer school runs from 1-12 June 2026 and covers scalable ML systems, deep learning infrastructure, hardware accelerators, distributed ML, Edge AI, ML compilers, and explainable AI.
The 2026 ACM IndiCS workshop focuses on designing secure and usable systems for humans, connecting security, privacy, HCI, and systems perspectives.
Prof. Misra is listed as an Area Chair for the Game Theory and Economic Paradigms area at AAMAS 2026.
Prof. Raman is contributing to the NeurIPS 2026 main-track review process as an Area Chair.
Prof. Misra and Prof. Arti Pandey are program committee co-chairs for the 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics.
The Journal of Computer Security editorial board lists Prof. Bichhawat among its Associate Editors.
Prof. Misra has served as a member of the ACM-India ACM-W Council since 2019.
PLAS 2025, the 20th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security, was co-located with ACM CCS 2025 in Taipei.
Prof. Misra was program committee co-chair for ACM India's Computational Thinking in Schools 2024 conference with Geeta Ghormade.
Prof. Misra served as a council member of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science from 2020 to 2023.
Prof. Misra and Magnus Wahlström were program committee co-chairs for the 18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation.
Prof. Misra served as a member of the ACM Internal Affairs Committee from 2020 to 2022.
Prof. Misra was a steering committee member for ACM-India Summer and Winter Schools from 2019 to 2022.
Prof. Misra co-guest edited the Algorithms open-access special issue New Frontiers in Parameterized Complexity and Algorithms.
