Indian student bags Yahoo award

Updated on: Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Hyderabad: Ashish Mangalampalli, a second year Ph.D student from the IIIT-Hyderabad figures among the 21 exceptionally good Ph.D scholars for this year's Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) programme award.

Selected for the award given by Yahoo, the scientist is in fact the only Indian and the only one from the Non-US University to have won the prestigious award that supports high quality researchers working on vital and demanding areas.

The awardee would receive $ 2,000 US support his research activities and invited to attend the KSC Graduate Student Summit planned for September 2009 in Sunnyvale, California.

He had applied for the award in the Computational Advertising area. The selection was based on the write-up he had given for his research idea and his research orientation.

Apart from the monetary aspect, he values the opportunity that to interact with Yahoo scientists and other top graduate students in a relaxed environment.

Carrying out his research on Data Mining and Fuzzy Logic from IIIT-H, Ashish, born and brought up in Jamshedpur, appreciates his advisor Vikram Pudi and his friends and the IIIT-H.

Rajeev Rastogi, VP and Head of Yahoo Labs, Bangalore says. 'We are delighted to support students like this for KSC grants, and look forward in having them as part of our extensive research alliance of outstanding students and faculty'.

The KSC programme was launched this year and it enables students to work alongside Yahoo's leading scientists to solve elementary challenges and potentially contribute to the next big thing on the Web.

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