Awards & Press

Awards

2025 — Spotlight, NeurIPS 2025
“ModHiFi: Identifying High Fidelity Predictive Components for Model Modification” by Dhruva Kashyap, Chaitanya Murti, Pranav K Nayak, Tanay Narshana, and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya was selected as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2025.

2024 — Best M.Tech Student
Dhruva Kashyap received the Computer Society of India Bangalore Medal for Best M.Tech Student. Advised by Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

2022 — Best M.Tech Student
Tanay Narshana received the Computer Society of India Bangalore Medal for Best M.Tech Student. Advised by Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

2021 — Winner, ICSR 2021 Robot Design Competition (Innovation in Software Award)
Nabanita Paul, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. Details

2019 — Best M.Tech Student
Pooja Ravi Kulkarni was selected for the Computer Society of India Bangalore Medal for Best M.Tech Student 2018. Advised by Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

Dec 2018 — Google PhD Fellowship
Shikhar Vashishth is awarded the Google PhD Fellowship. Advised by Prof. Partha Talukdar and Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

Aug 2018 — Best M.Tech Student
Abhishek Bansal received the Computer Society of India Bangalore Medal for Best M.Tech Student, 2017. Advised by Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

2015 — Best Student Paper Award, CICLing 2015
“Translation Induction on Indian Language Corpora using Translingual Themes from Other Languages.” Goutham Tholpadi, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Shirish Shevade.

2011 — Best Paper Award, SDM 2011
“Exploiting Coherence in Reviews for Discovering Latent Facets and Associated Sentiments.” Himabindu Lakkaraju, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Srujana Merugu.

2009 — Runner-Up Award, PAKDD 2009
“Interval Data Classification under Partial Information — A Chance-Constraint Approach.” Sahely Bhadra, J. Saketha Nath, Aharon Ben-Tal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

2006 — KDD Cup 2006 Best Student Submission (PE Identification Task)
Karthik Kumara, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Mehul Parsana, Shivramkrishnan K, Rashmin Babaria, Saketha Nath J, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya.

Press

September 18, 2024 — Administrative processes, types of cases impact performance of court significantly rather than the number of judges or total working days, finds study (The Hindu)
A collaborative study conducted by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has revealed that rather than the number of judges or the total working days, the court type and the types of cases significantly impact the performance of the court.

May 12, 2020 — Sealing areas with higher Covid-19 cases or 2-day work week with lockdown can contain virus, shorten epidemic duration: Analysis (Hindustan Times)
Lockdowns, though an effective policy for containment, impose a heavy cost on the economy as they enforce extreme social distancing measures on the whole population. Unemployment is an inevitable outcome of economic downturn, and lockdowns have resulted in significant job losses.

January 2016 — Machine intelligence set to revolutionise data analytics (Deccan Herald)
The 18-member task group is co-chaired by Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, professor, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, and Venkatesh Valluri, chairman and president of Ingersoll Rand (India Region).