We cordially invite you to join an "Ask Me Anything" session on March 12, 2025, where students and faculty of the CSA IISc will introduce the PhD n MTech (Research) programs of d department n will answer ur questions about these programs. For more information, please visit:

Many congrats to Prof. Anant Raj for being selected as one of the recipients of the newly-instituted Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant Scheme from the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).

The paper titled "Improved Approximation Algorithms for Three-Dimensional Bin Packing" authored by Debajyoti Kar, Arindam Khan, and Malin Rau, has been accepted for publication at the 52nd EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 2025.

The paper titled "Perfectly-secure Network-agnostic MPC with Optimal Resiliency" authored by Shravani Patil and Arpita Patra has been accepted to appear in ACM PODC 2025

The paper titled "Pay What You Spend! Privacy-Aware Real-Time Pricing with High Precision IEEE 754 Floating Point Division" by Soumyadyuti Ghosh, Boyapally Harishma, Ajith Suresh, Arpita Patra, Soumyajit Dey and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay has been accepted to AsiaCCS 2025 (CORE A).

The paper titled "Policy Gradient with Tree Expansion" by Gal Dalal, Assaf Hallak, Gugan Thoppe, Gal Chechik, and Shie Mannor has been accepted to ICML 2025 (arxiv.org/abs/2301.13236)

The paper titled "A Sharper Global Convergence Analysis for Average Reward Reinforcement Learning via an Actor-Critic Approach" by Swetha Ganesh, Washim Uddin Mondal, Vaneet Aggarwal has been accepted to ICML 2025.

A paper titled "CNFs and DNFs with exactly k solutions” authored by L. Sunil Chandran, Rishikesh Gajjala, and Kuldeep S. Meel has been accepted for publication at SAT 2025

Dhruva Kashyap is selected for the Computer Society of India (Bangalore Chapter) Medal for Best MTech Student 2023-2024   (Advisor: Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya)

Aditya Abhay Lonkar is selected for the Dr. MNS Swamy Medal for Best MTech (Research) Thesis 2023-2024   (Advisor: Prof. Arindam Khan)

Nishat Saipanmuluk Koti is selected for the Alumni Medal for Best PhD Thesis 2023-2024   (Advisor: Prof. Arpita Patra)

Congratulations to Prof. Arpita Patra for being promoted to Full Professor on 20th June 2025. This is a fast-track promotion.

Two Research Assistant / Pre-Doctoral Fellow positions are open IISc Bangalore, jointly with CSA & ECE depts. Work on cutting-edge research in Machine Learning, Statistics, & Applied Probability under Prof. Anant Raj & Prof. Shubhada Agrawal. Apply: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/49NpErjnTU