IBM announces ‘Best PhD and CAS Students Award’ winners

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This year’s winners are students from the Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology and Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

IBM has announced winners of the ‘IBM Best PhD Students Award' and 'IBM Best CAS Students Award' for this year. Prof. Robert J. Aumann, the 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics will give a talk on War & Peace at the award ceremony to be held at the JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, and present the Awards.

This year’s winners are students from the Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology and Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Prof. Aumann will hand the IBM Best PhD Students Award to Kannan S, IIT- Madras, Asharaf S, IISc, Sobhan Babu, IIT - Bombay, Parag K Chaudhuri, IIT - Delhi, Md. Abdul Hai Zahid, IIT - Roorkey, and Piyush Kurur, IMSc, Chennai while Rudresh Acharya, IISc and Vinay Kumar (M.Tech), IIT Kanpur will receive the IBM Best CAS Students Award.

“IBM is committed to nurturing talent and innovation in the region. As part of this initiative, IBM confers the Best PhD

Students Award to students in India for their outstanding work done in the area of Computer Science and allied fields” said Director, IBM India Research Laboratory, Dr. Daniel Dias. “IBM Best CAS student Award is given for outstanding work done by students who collaborate with IBM technical leaders under the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) collaborative research initiative”.

Selection of the students is based on the novelty of the dissertation, impact of work and quality of research as judged by publications and peer review. Nominations were invited from many premier institutes - including all IITs, IISc, TIFR, ISI, CMI and IMSc during 2006.

“Students of today will become the innovators of tomorrow. Today's increasingly complex world requires students and researchers to innovate as never before. To have real impact, whether within a company or society as a whole, we must not only develop technologically superior solutions, but also know how to think systemically and