Awards & Honours
The following are the Honours and Awards/Recognitions obtained by the faculties and students of the Computer Science and Engineering Department
Faculty - Awards & Honours
The following are the Honours and Awards/Recognitions obtained by the Computer Science Department faculties
exploreCSR Award from Google Research
Awarded to: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Awarded By Google Research
For further details, please visit the below link
https://research.google/outreach/explorecsr/recipients/
Awarded on Oct-2023


Google Award for Inclusion Research
Awarded to: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Awarded by Google Research
For further details, please visit the below link
https://research.google/outreach/award-for-inclusion-research-program/recipients/
Awarded on Oct-2023
Microsoft Research Accelerate Foundation Models Grant 2023
Awarded to: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Awarded By Microsoft Research
For further details, please visit the below link
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/afmr-creativity-and-design/
Awarded on Sep-2023


IBM Academic Award 2023
Awarded to: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
For research in the area of AI-Assisted Legacy Modernization
Awarded on 8-Sep-2023
Chairman, AI-Assisted Software Development Group
Awarded to: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Awarded By ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 (Software & Systems Engineering)
For Proposal on standards for AI Assisted Software Development
Awarded on 1-Jun-2023


Agrithon 2023 runner up prize
Awarded to: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
Awarded by IITTNiF TIH Cell
For Proof of concept & demonstration related to smart agriculture
Awarded on 11-Feb-2023
Member of an 8-member Working Group
Awarded to: Dr Venkata Ramana Badarla
Appointed by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India
To study the feasibility of Accreditation for IITs
Awarded on 11-Jan-2021


Best Paper Award
Awarded to: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
Awarded by CVIP 2020 for Best Paper Presentation
Paper Titled: An algorithm for semantic vectorization of video scenes - Applications to Retrieval and Anomaly detection
Further Details Can be found at
https://cvip2020.iiita.ac.in/awards.php
Awarded on 16-Dec-2020
IEEE Senior Member
Awarded to: Dr Venkata Ramana Badarla
Elevated to the grade of Senior Member in IEEE which is The world's largest technical profession organization for the advancement of technology.
Awarded in 2019


ACM India Eminent Speaker Award
Awarded to: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Awarded for the year 2019
Further Details can be found at https://india.acm.org/education/learning/esp/sridhar-chimalakonda
ACM Senior Member
Awarded to: Dr Venkata Ramana Badarla
The Senior Members Grade recognizes those Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) members with at least 10 years of professional experience and at least 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years, who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership, and technical or professional contributions.
Awarded in 2018


Sir Vithal N Chandawarkar Memorial Medal
Awarded to: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
Awarded for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in SERC department of IISc 2011
Awarded in 2011
Students - Awards & Honours
The following are the Honours and Awards/Recognitions obtained by the students of the Computer Science and Engineering Department

Winners - Smart India Hackathon 2023
B.Tech Scholars
Sachin Kumar Sahu, Palivela Ganesh Priyatham, Preethi Varsha Marivina, Siddhartha G, Swami Ramchandra Kedari, Sirish Sekhar for implementing
"Hand held Mobile phone operated App Based Audiometer"
Awarded in Dec 2023
IEEE Shri Pralhad P Chhabria Award
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
IEEE Shri Pralhad P Chhabria Award for Best Outgoing Student Awarded by IEEE
Awarded in 4-Mar-2023



ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Support for MSR 2023
PhD Scholar - Akhila Sri Manasa
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Awarded By ACM SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering)
Awarded in 7-Apr-2023
ACM Sigsoft Caps Support
MS Scholar - Shriram Shanbhag
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
For Conference Support to ESEC/FSE 2022 (Core A*)
Awarded in 17-Sep-2022


Microsoft Research Travel Grant
MS Scholar - Shriram Shanbhag
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Conference Grant for Foundations of Software Engineering 2022 (Core A*)
Awarded in 16-Sep-2022
Prime Minister Research Fellowship
Faculty Guided: Dr V Mahendran
Further Details about the fellowship - https://www.pmrf.in/fellowship
Awarded in 16-Aug-2022


Prime Minister Research Fellowship
PhD Scholar - A Eashaan Rao
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Further Details about the fellowship - https://www.pmrf.in/fellowship
Awarded in 26-Oct-2021
ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Grant/Award
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
150 Euros each to attend and present at ESEC/FSE 2021. Both Akhila and Eashaan also served as student volunteers at ESEC/FSE 2021.
Awarded on 29-July-2021



CVIP 2020 Best Paper Award
Awarded in the 5th IAPR International Conference by Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP) for Best Paper Presentation.
Faculty Guided: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
Further Details - https://cvip2020.iiita.ac.in/awards.php
Awarded in Dec 2020
ACM-W Scholarship - $1200
Area: Software Engineering
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Further Details - https://women.acm.org/scholars/acm-w-scholars/vartika-agrahari/
Awarded in July 2020


IEEE TCLT Travel Award - $500
PhD Scholar - Akhila Sri Manasa
Domain: Software Engineering
Faculty Guided: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
Further Details - https://tc.computer.org/tclt-demo/2019/04/22/ieee-tclt-student-travel-award-winners-attending-icalt-2019-2
Awarded in 2019
Smart India Hackathon - ₹ 1 Lakh
B.Tech Scholars - Team Beginner's Luck Strikes
Gowtham Senthil, Aravindh Rajiv, Nandhakumar K, Abishekh P, Koushik KS, Rishitha Reddy for the problem statement "App Based Solution for Digitization of Valuation of Mobile Assets"
Awarded in 2019
