Careers360 Faculty Research Awards 2023 for computer science given to IIIT Hyderabad, 2 other professors

NEW DELHI: Careers360 Faculty Awards 2023 for computer science have been awarded to the professors of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu’s Vel Tech Rangarajan R&D Institute of Science and Technology, and West Bengal’s Techno India College of Technology for their research studies.

Careers360 is hosting the second edition of the Faculty Research Awards 2023 and researchers across 27 domains from various universities and institutes. Minister of state for communication Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan was the chief guest at the event.

C V Jawahar from IIIT Hyderabad, Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan from the second institute and Nilanjan Dey from the third institute have received the awards. While Jawahar got the outstanding faculty award for public universities, Vaidyanathan received the outstanding faculty award for private universities. Dey won the commendable faculty award.

Jawahar is the professor and head of the centre for visual information technology at IIIT Hyderabad. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning and multimedia systems. He is an Amazon chair professor and fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineers.

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Vaidyanathan is professor and dean, research and development centre at Vel Tech Rangarajan R&D Institute of Science and Technology. He specializes in linear and nonlinear control systems, chaos theory, intelligent control, systems modelling and computational science. He completed his doctor of science in control systems at Washington University, St Louis. He has also served as professor and acting director at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM) Kerala.

Further, Dey is associate professor, department of computer science and engineering, Techno International New Town. His research interests are medical imaging, machine learning, computer-aided diagnosis, and data mining. He got his PhD degree from Jadavpur University (2015) and studied MTech from West Bengal University of Technology (2011). He is a visiting fellow at the University of Reading and fellow at The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication.

Moreover, Dey is also a senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence.