PRESENTATION TO ALUMNI - March 5, 2011
CSA FACULTY
Professors
K. Gopinath – OS, Storage Systems
R. Govindarajan (SERC) –Architecture,
Compilers
Jayant Haritsa (SERC) – Database Systems
P. V. Kumar (ECE) – Coding, Information Theory
Matthew Jacob (SERC) – Architecture
M. N. Murty – Pattern Recognition, Data Mining
Y. Narahari – Game theory, E-Commerce,
Social networks (Chair)
Dilip Patil (MA) – Commutative Algebra
L. M. Patnaik – Distributed Computing
(On Lien as VC, DIAT, Pune)
Priti Shankar – Formal languages, compilers,
Coding theory
Y. N. Srikant – Compiler design
C. E. Veni Madhavan – Security, Cognition
V.V.S. Sarma (Honorary) – Artificial Intelligence
Ravi Kannan (Adjunct) – Algorithms
Associate Professors
S. Bhatnagar – Stochastic control, Networks
C. Bhattacharyya – Machine Learning
Deepak D’Souza – Automated Verification
R. C. Hansdah – Distributed Computing
Shirish Shevade – Machine Learning, Data Mining
Sunil Chandran – Graph Theory
Assistant Professors
Shivani Agarwal – Machine Learning
D. Ambedkar – Info. Theory, Algorithmic Algebra
Indrajit Bhattacharya – Machine Learning
Sanjit Chatterjee– Cryptology, Security
S. Govindarajan -Geometry, Spatial Data Structures
Aditya Kanade –Formal methods, Software analysis
Vijay Natarajan – Geometry, Visualization
K.V. Raghavan – Programming languages and tools
B. Uday Kumar Reddy – Parallelization, compilers
Senior Scientific Officer
V. Susheela Devi - Pattern recognition, soft computing
FACULTY @ CSA
Professors: 14
Associate Professors: 6
Assistant Professors: 9
Senior Scientific Officer: 1
Post-Docs: 3
Fellows of IEEE: 3
Fellows of INSA: 3
Fellows of IASc: 4
Fellows of INAE: 5
Fellows of NASI: 3
JC Bose Fellows: 1
Bhatnagar Prize: 1
Vikram Sarabhai: 1
IISc Awards: 4
Young Scientist Awards: 15
Faculty Awards: 20
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Research Areas @ CSA
Theoretical Computer Science
Algorithms, Graph Theory, Random Projections
Coding Theory, Cryptology
Computational Geometry, Topology
Combinatorial Geometry
Automated Verification
Algorithmic Algebra, Information Theory
Computer Systems and Software
Architecture, Power Aware Computing
Operating Systems, Storage Systems, Security,
Database Systems
Networks, Distributed Computing
Compilers, Programming Languages and Tools
Multi-core Programming, Software Engineering
Graphics, Scientific Visualization
Intelligent Systems
Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Info. Retrieval
Machine Learning, Convex Optimization
Game Theory, Mechanism Design
E-Commerce, Social Network Analysis
Stochastic Systems and Optimization
Cognitive Systems
RESEARCH AREAS @ CSA
ALGORITHMS, COMPLEXITY,
COMPUTATIONAL
GRAPH THEORY, AND
TOPOLOGY AND GEOMETRY,
COMBINATORICS
GRAPHICS, VISUALIZATION
Sunil Chandran,
Satish Govindarajan,
Veni Madhavan, Ravi Kannan
Vijay Natarajan, Satish Govindarajan,
Sunil Chandran
ARCHITECTURE, STORAGE,
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING,
CLOUD COMPUTING
Matthew Jacob, R. Govindarajan,
K. Gopinath, R.C. Hansdah, Shalabh,
Y.N. Srikant, Uday Kumar
MACHINE LEARNING,
PATTERN RECOGNITION,
DATA MINING, ANALYTICS
M. N. Murty, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
Shirish Shevade, Shalabh Bhatnagar,
Susheela Devi, Indrajit Bhattacharyya,
Ambedkar, Shivani Agarwal, R. Kannan
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INFO. THEORY,
CODING,
ALGORITHMIC
ALGEBRA
P.Shankar, Ambedkar,,
PVKumar, D. Patil, CEVM
PROGRAM ANALYSIS,
COMPILERS,
FORMAL VERIFICATION
Y. N. Srikant, R. Govindarajan,
Priti Shankar, D. D’Souza,
K.V. Raghavan, K. Gopinath,
Aditya Kanade, Uday Kumar
STOCHASTIC CONTROL
AND OPTIMIZATION,
REINFORCEMENT
LEARNING
Shalabh Bhatnagar, Ambedkar,
Chairanjib Bhattacharya,
Shivani Agarwal, Y. Narahari
CRYPTOLOGY,
SECURITY
Veni Madhavan,
Sanjit Chatterjee,
K. Gopinath,
R.C. Hansdah
INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT,
INFO. RETRIEVAL
Jayant Haritsa, M.N. Murty,
Shivani Agarwal,
Indrajit Bhattacharya
GAME THEORY AND
MECHANISM DESIGN
Y. Narahari,
Shalabh Bhatnagar,
Shirish Shevade,
Shivani Agarwal
COGNITIVE
SCIENCE AND
SYSTEMS
C.E. Veni Madhavan
STUDENTS @ CSA
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Students on Roll: 250
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Graduated (2005-2010)
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Ph D – 82
MSc (Engg.) – 36
ME(CSE) : 51 + 54
ME(SSA) : 12 + 15
Ph D – 30
MSc (Engg.) – 48
M.E. (CSE) – 171
M.E. (SSA) – 69
Ph D graduates are currently working in: Faculty and Post-Docs (10)
(LSE-London, IISc, IITB, IITK, IITH, IIST, NITC, JNTU, VTU, Mysore-Univ);
MSRI (4); GM-ISL(3); IBM Research (3); Yahoo!(2); Infosys (3); AOL (1); Philips
(1); Xerox (1); SAP (1); Startups (1)
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Number of M.E./M.Sc. Students who have taken up Ph.D. (2005-2010)
18 (overseas); 29 (CSA)
Winners of Yahoo! University Hackday contest; Yahoo! Key Scientific
Challenges Award; Best Paper/Poster Awards; Highly competitive PhD
fellowships
Publications (5 Years)
 Number of Publications
Books and Monographs
7
Book Chapters
25
Journal Publications
159
Conference Publications 204
 Journals include
SIAM, IEEE,
ACM, JMLR, NC, JA, TCS, JCSS,
I&C, JCT, etc.
 Conferences include STOC, SODA, STACS, LFCS, POPL, CC,
ICDE, CEC, AAMAS, NIPS, ICML, ICDM, ICPR, IJCAI, VLDB, IEEE VIS,
CGO, EMSOFT, CASES, FORMATS, SDM, ICDAR, SDM, IJCNN, WINE
 71 Top-cited papers by CSA authors have accumulated
more than 16538 citations (google scholar)
Sponsors and Collaborators (2006-2010)
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Govt. of India: UGC (CAS), UGC (Infrastructure), DST-FIST, DST
SERC (12 Projects), DBT, DRDO, DIT
 Universities: MIT, Technion, Harvard, UCB, UCD, UCSC, IITB, Max
Planck, SUNY, MSU, Alberta, EURANDOM, Grenoble, Zurich,
Leipzig, CWI, INRIA, TIFR, CMU
 IBM, Infosys, TRDDC, Motorola, GM, SUN, NetApp, AOL, Xerox, TI,
Microsoft Research India, Philips, Intel, Yahoo!, Google, Bell Labs,
SAP
 ONR, Lawrence Livermore, AOARD, Swiss Bilateral, Indo-German,
UKERI
CSA IN 2010
Fellowships
JC Bose Fellow: 1 (YN)
FNA: 1 (YN)
FASc: 1 (JH)
IISc Research Award: 1 (CEVM)
Young Scientist Awards
Faculty Awards
INSA Young Scientist (VN)
IASc Young Associate (VN)
MSRI Young Faculty (SC)
MSRI Faculty Award (KG)
MSRI Faculty Award (AK)
Yahoo! Faculty Award (CB)
New Faculty Appointments
New Initiatives
PUBLICATIONS
Shirish Shevade (AcP)
Indrajit Bhattacharya
Shivani Agarwal
Sanjit Chatterjee
Uday Kumar Reddy
Machine Learning
Cyber-Physical Systems
Social Networks
Computational Biology
Second Floor
Journals: 33
Conferences: 58
Books: 3; Patents: 4
71 papers have 16538 citations
MNM’s paper has crossed 5000
STUDENTS (250)
Ph.D. : 82 (71 + 11 (ERP))
M.Sc. (Engg.): 36
M.E. (CSE): 51 + 54
M.E. (SSA): 15 + 12
Collaborative Projects
9
Infosys: 6
NetApp, Nokia, LSILOGIC,
EMC, Intel, Mindtree,
Xerox, IBM
Ph.D. Students
Number Admitted: 21
Graduated/Submitted: 10
Fellowships: 5
Best Paper/Poster: 3
Placed in academia and res. labs
Courses Offered
Total Number: 51
New Courses: 9
Master’s Students
M.Sc. (Engg) Admitted: 9
M.Sc. (Engg) Completed: 10
M.Sc. To PhD: 4
M.E. to PhD: 5
Excellent placements
Visitors
Number: 44
Seminars: 72
DREAM CSA
VISIBLE IN THE ECOSYSTEM
Strong Presence in Emerging Areas
High Quality Publications (Citations, Best
Paper Awards, Books),
Deep Technical Advice to IT Majors
High Impact Projects and Collaborations
Product Oriented Student Start-ups
(Incubations)
FACULTY : 40
POST-DOCS: 10
STUDENTS
Master’s : 150
Doctoral: 150
30 Ph.D’s per year
Visitors
Adjunct Faculty,
Collaborators,
Alumni participation
Strong Foundations and Solid Research Vision
Logic, Automata, Algebra, Algorithms, Optimization, Stochastics, Statistics,
Game Theory, Number Theory, Algorithms and Complexity