Awards Details

Prof H N Mahabala Endowment Prize

Prof. H.N. Mahabala retired as a professor from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. He contributed immensely to building a very conductive academic atmosphere within the department. While retiring from IITM, he instituted a prize for Best M.Tech Project done in CSE Dept. The award is usually given during the convocation itself.

Frequency : every year.
Eligibility : All M.Tech Students who is getting the degree in the convocation.

Members from CSE Dept who won Prof H N Mahabala Endowment Prize

2022 : Shivam Cholin.
2021 : Athul M A.

Athul M A (CS19M015) - Hyper-IMRANK: Ranking-based Influence Maximization for Hypergraphs. (Guide: Dr.Arun Rajkumar)
2020 : Shahbaz Husain.

Shahbaz Husain (CS18M049) - (Guide: Rupesh Nasre)
2019 : Shubham Patel, Jaya Ingle.
- Shubham Patel (CS17M051) (Guide: Mitesh Khapra)
- Jaya Ingle (CS17M060) (Guide: Mitesh Khapra)
2018 : Ganesh K.

Thesis Guided by Rupesh Nasre
2017 : Ajay Fuloria, Naveen Kumar.
- Ajay Fuloria (CS15M003): Autonomous Navigation For Quadrotors (Guide: Anurag Mittal)
- Naveen Kumar (CS15M031): Design and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Controllers Assisting D2D Transfers in LTE-A Networks (Guide: C. Sivaram Murthy)
2016 : Surabhi Abhimithra Karthikeya, Gorla Sreekanth.
- Surabhi Abhimitra Karthikeya - "On Optimal Placement and Power-Aware Connectivity of Gateways in IOT Networks" (Guide: Prof. C. Siva Ram Murthy)
- Sreekanth Gorla - "List Coloring in Planar Graphs" (Guide: Dr. Meghana Nasre).
2015 : Harini A., Sharath Babu.
2014 : Sai Nageswar Sachitanand.

Thesis Title : (Guide : Balaraman Ravindran).
2013 : Dinesh Krishnamoorthy, Saurav Kant Jha.
- Dinesh Krishnamoorthy : Circuit Complexity and Geometric Representation of Graphs. (Guide : Jayalal Sarma).
- Saurav Kant Jha: (Guide : Shankar Balachandran)
2012 : Vijay Ekambaram.

Thesis Title : Interest flooding reduction techniques in CCN AND semi-CCN network architectures (Guide : Krishna Sivalingam).
2010 : Aashish A Dattani, Surendra Sharma.
- Thesis Title (Aashish Dattani) :Reducing Markov Decision Processes using Approximate Symmetries (Guide : Ravindran Balaraman)
- Suredra Sharma : Alpha beta filter based predictive target tracking and guidance in wireless sensor networks. (Guide : Krishna Sivalingam)
2009 : N. Srinath, P Uma Maheswari.
2008 : Gatta Suresh Babu, Reena Nair.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

Members from CSE Dept who won Prof H N Mahabala Endowment Prize