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<div class="columns large-12 medium-12 banner-content"> <p class="banner-heading"> <small></small> ACM India Council</p> <p><strong>Created by ACM to increase the level and visibility of ACM activities across India</strong></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article" id="maincontent"> <article class="has-edit-button" id="SkipTarget" tabindex="-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="columns small-12 zone-1"> <div> <div> <div class="articles"> <div class="landing"> <h1> ACM India Council</h1> <h2 id="h-the-acm-india-council-was-created-by-acm-to-recognize-and-support-indian-acm-members-and-activities.">The ACM India Council was created by ACM to recognize and support Indian ACM members and activities.</h2> <h3 id="h-about-the-acm-india-council">About the ACM India Council</h3> <p>The ACM India Council is an effort of ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, aimed at increasing the level and visibility of ACM activities across India. The ACM India Council activities, involving both academia and industry in computing, include research, organization of high-quality computing conferences, advancing Computer Science education, and awards to recognize achievement.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="columns large-8 medium-8 small-12 zone-2"> <div> <div> <div class="articles multi-cta"> <div class="two-cols article-block"> <div class="row" data-equalizer> <div class="large-6 medium-6 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left"><a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2025/ecr-award-2024' target='_blank'>ACM India ECR 2024 Award</a></h2> <div class="dek"> <p>Arkaprava Basu of IISc has received the ACM India Early Career Researcher Award for 2024 "for creative and impactful contributions towards efficient memory management for GPUs and CPUs through innovations spanning the software and hardware stacks." Honorable Mention goes to Dr. Sayan Ranu of IIT Delhi for “pioneering contributions to graph machine learning, advancing large-scale combinatorial optimization on network data with transformative applications in pollution monitoring, equitable gig economy solutions, and scientific discovery.”</p></div> </div> <a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2025/ecr-award-2024' target='_blank'><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/awards/india-ecr-2024.jpg" alt="Dr. Arkaprava Basu and Dr. Sayan Ranu" /></a></div> </div> </div></div> <div class="large-6 medium-6 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left"><a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2025/doctoral-dissertation-award-winner-2024' target='_blank'>ACM India 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Award</a></h2> <div class="dek"> <p>Priyanka Golia is the recipient of ACM India 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled "Functional Synthesis via Formal Methods and Machine Learning." Priyanka’s dissertation combines ideas from many areas from which she built a solver, Manthan, for synthesis of Boolean functions. Honorable Mention for 2024 goes to Abhijeet Awasthi for his dissertation titled "Learning Language Processing Models With Limited Labeled Data."</p></div> </div> <a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2025/doctoral-dissertation-award-winner-2024' target='_blank'><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/awards/idda-2024.jpg" alt="Priyanka Golia, Abhijeet Awasthi" /></a></div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="articles multi-cta"> <div class="two-cols article-block"> <div class="row" data-equalizer> <div class="large-6 medium-6 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left"><a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2025/kapoor-occw-2024' >ACM India OCCW 2024 Award</a></h2> <div class="dek"> <p>Prof. Hemangee Kapoor from IIT Guwahati is the recipient of the ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) award for 2024. She is being recognized “for her contributions to emerging nonvolatile memory technologies and her active leadership and involvement in the mentoring of women in the field.” Kapoor is a full Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Guwahati. She received her Masters degree from IIT Bombay in 2000 and her PhD from the London South Bank University, UK in 2004.</p></div> </div> <a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2025/kapoor-occw-2024' ><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/people/hemangee-kapoor-occw.jpg" alt="Prof. Hemangee Kapoor" /></a></div> </div> </div></div> <div class="large-6 medium-6 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left"><a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2024/occe-award-2024' target='_blank'>ACM India OCCE 2024 Award</a></h2> <div class="dek"> <p>Prof. Meenakshi D'Souza of IIIT Bangalore as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution for to Computing Education (OCCE) award for 2024. D'Souza is being recognized "for her exceptional contributions to computing education at multiple levels -- through online courses for software education, faculty development programmes, in the ACM India Teaching Partnership Program, in CSpathshala, and also via gender diversity initiatives".</p></div> </div> <a href='https://www.acm.org/articles/acm-india-bulletins/2024/occe-award-2024' target='_blank'><img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/people/meenakshi-dsouza-poa.jpg" alt="OCCE 2024 award recipient Meenakshi D'Souza" /></a></div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="articles single-cta"> <div class="two-col-alt article-block"> <div class="row" data-equalizer=""> <div class="large-12 medium-12 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left">2024 ACM India Council Election Results</h2> <div class="dek"> <p>As a result of the votes cast by the ACM Professional members residing in India who were eligible to vote in the ACM India Council election, the following individuals were elected to serve on the ACM India Council effective 1 July 2024.</p> <p><strong>Executive Council Member</strong><br /> (1 July 2024 – 30 June 2028)<br /> <br /> Maria D'Souza Choudhary, Oracle India Pvt Limited, Goa<br /> Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT Bangalore<br /> Amey Karkare, IIT Kanpur<br /> Viraj Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore<br /> Ponnurangam (PK) Kumaraguru, IIIT Hyderabad<br /> Shourya Roy, Zepto, Bangalore<br /> Vipul Shah, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Pune<br /> Revathi Venkataraman, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="articles multi-cta"> <div class="two-cols article-block"> <div class="row" data-equalizer> <div class="large-6 medium-6 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left">Meenakshi D'Souza</h2> <div class="dek"> <p> Meenakshi was elected as President of the ACM India Council for the term July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. She is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Computer Science at IIIT-Bangalore where she teaches a variety of courses including Automata Theory and Computability, Algorithms, Software Testing and Graph Theory. Meenakshi's Software Testing course offered on the NPTEL platform since 2017 and more than 57000 learners have enrolled for this course over these years. Her primary research interests are on Formal Methods and Software Testing focusing on embedded safety critical applications, she has been working on several sponsored projects in this area. Meenakshi did her PhD from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and worked for Honeywell, Bangalore, prior to joining IIIT-Bangalore.</p> <p> Meenakshi has been serving on the ACM India Council since 2018 and was the Secretary cum Treasurer of ACM India from July 2022 to June 2024. During her tenure, Meenakshi was on the Steering Committees of ARCS, CTiS and Annual Event, has co-organized three summer schools, two Grad Cohort events, and has worked on several operational aspects of ACM India. </p></div> </div> <img src="/binaries/ctaimagelarge/content/gallery/acm/ctas/people/meenakshi-dsouza.jpg" alt="Meenakshi D'Souza" /></div> </div> </div></div> <div class="large-6 medium-6 small-12 columns"> <div class="cta shadowed " data-equalizer-watch=""> <div class="row" style="margin: inherit;"> <div class="medium-12 columns d-table top-cta"> <div class="text-wrap"> <h2 class="text-left">Rutvi Shah</h2> <div class="dek"> <p><strong>Chair, ACM India Women Committee | Associate Professor, Ganpat University </strong></p> <p>ACM-W India Committee Chair Rutvi Shah has been volunteering ACMI-W since 2015, and has been instrumental in organizing events, conferences, workshops, and seminars focused on women in computing. She has served as Web Chair for the Ahmedabad Professional Chapter and as Secretary cum Treasurer on the ACMI-W Committee from 2021-23.</p> <p>She has been in academics for more than two decades and is currently working as Associate Professor at department of Computing Studies, Ganpat University, Gujarat, teaching at UG and PG Computer Applications Courses. She holds a PhD in Computer Science with research area focused on automated systems for medical image processing. She has undertaken research endeavors encompassing the realms of AI/ML, Data Science and their affiliated areas. She hosts sessions for trending research areas, is on the board of many reputed national and international conferences and serving as a reviewer for esteemed journals such as IEEE, Scopus, and Springer, she actively contributes to the advancement of research in computing.</p> <p>She believes that by leveraging her capabilities in information retrieval, analysis, and communication, she can be pivotal in generating strategic guidance in bridging the gender gap, nurturing talent, and championing diversity in the Indian technology landscape. 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