News and Events Archive

• Talk on "Experiences of Building IT-Based Systems to Deliver Actionable Agricultural Information to Indian Farmers" by Prof. P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, Telangana, India at 5: 15 PM in Room 6121 (CSIS Meeting Room) on December 6th, 2019.
• Indian Workshop on Applied Deep Learning (IWADL2019), December 15-18, 2019 [Link]
• [Dec 10, 2019: Grant] The CSIS department received a grant for hosting an US expert (Prof. Arun Somani, Iowa State University) under Fulbright-Nehru Specialist Program (USIEF) 2019-20.
• [Dec 5, 2019: Talk] Prof. P Krishna Reddy from IIIT Hyderabad, Telangana, shall be delivering a talk on "Experiences of Building IT-Based Systems to Deliver Actionable Agricultural Information to Indian Farmers" at 5: 15 PM in Room 6121 (CSIS Meeting Room) on December 6th, 2019.
• [Dec 1, 2019: MoU] BITS Pilani (CSIS Dept.) signs an MoU with La Trobe University, Melbourne.
• [Oct 1, 2019: Workshop] The CSIS department is organizing an Indian Workshop on Applied Deep Learning (IWADL 2019) from Dec. 15 to 19, 2019. Click Here for details.
• [Oct 1, 2019: Workshop] The CSIS department is organizing one day workshop on Block Chain Technology & Applications on Nov 10, 2019. Click Here for details
• [Jan 1, 2019: Award] The BITS ACM student chapter has won the award for India's best ACM Student Chapter for the year 2018. Click Here for details.
• [April 1, 2018: Award] Prof. Vishal Gupta & Prof. Ashutosh Bhatia received an award in Rajasthan EDUHACK, which was a part of Rajasthan Hackathon 4.0, organized by Department of Information Technology and Communications, Government of Rajasthan, during March 19 - 21, 2018. Click Here for details.
• [April 1, 2018: News] Prof. Rahul Banerjee has been elevated by the IEEE to the grade of Senior Member. Click Here for details.
• [March 1, 2017: Award] Ph.D Student Mr. Nitin Singh Rajput received Outstanding Paper Award in the ICACT 2017 International Conference hosted by the Global IT Research Institute with IEEE communication Society with Co-Author(s): Ajinkya Rajput, Abhimanyu Siwach. Click Here for details.
• [Oct 1, 2016: Prize] BITS Pilani students win at "Ericsson Innovation Awards India 2016". Click Here for details.
• [Oct 1, 2016: News] India's Official First Aid App is launched by Govt. of India. The app was developed by 6 BITS Pilani students. Click Here for details.
• [Aug 1, 2016: Grant] Prof. Sudeept Mohan received a research grant of INR 20 Lakh from Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) of DRDO.
• [Jan 1, 2016: Award] Dr. Lavika Goel received Young Scientist Award and Gold medal in the category of Artificial Intelligence/ Engineering at VIFRA Annual Research Meet organized by Venus International Foundation held on 19th December, 2015 at Chennai. Click Here for details.
• [Nov 1, 2015: Award] Ms. Sonal Kumari received Best Paper Award in 8th Annual ACM Compute 2015 Conference. Click Here for details.
• [Nov 1, 2015: Award] Mr. Jagat Sesh Challa received Special Mention Poster Paper Award in 8th Annual ACM Compute 2015 Conference. Click Here for details.
  
• [Nov 1, 2012: Grant] Prof. Navneet Goyal, Prof. Poonam Goyal and Prof. Sundar Balasubramaniam receives a received a research grant of Rs 120 lakh from Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India.
• [Jan 1, 2012: Award] Dr. Poonam Goyal received the “Recognition of Women in Data Mining Citation” award by the Australian Data Mining committee in 2011 for Concept based Query recommendation. Click Here for details.
• [Jan 1, 2011: Award] Dr. Navneet Goyal & Dr. Poonam Goyal from Department of CSIS, BITS Pilani and along with Dr. Anil Rai (IASRI) received the prestigious IBM Scalable Innovation Faculty Award. Click Here for details.