Inaugural Prof. Ram Kumar Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Research at IIT-Roorkee

It has been a privilege and honor for us to have been able to support the creation of the Annual Prof. Ram Kumar Prize at IIT-Roorkee. The prize has been instituted by the Board of Governors and the Director of IIT-Roorkee to nurture and celebrate excellence in teaching and research. Prof. Ram Kumar was a highly regarded faculty in the Department of Mathematics in the […]

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2016 ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series has established itself as one of the world’s premier research conference in data mining. It provides an international forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences.  Data mining is among the main technological cornerstones of the emergent applications that may […]

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Best Paper Awards and Student Fellowships at CIKM 2016

ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Since 1992, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three communities, with the purpose of identifying challenging problems facing the development of advanced knowledge and information systems and […]

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Ishika Memorial Action Fund at Womentum

Womentum is a non-profit organization with a mission to empower women entrepreneurs running micro-businesses. It is a global crowdfunding platform that donates 100% of raised funds directly to the women entrepreneurs world-wide. Once these women’s micro-businesses become successful, they re-donate a percentage of their original received donation to another woman entrepreneur in their community through a unique […]

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Prof. Ram Kumar Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Research at IIT-Roorkee

We feel very privileged and honored to have been able to support the creation of a Ram Kumar Prize Fund at the Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee.  The object and purpose of the Fund is to nurture and celebrate excellence in teaching and research by way of instituting an annual prize, named after Prof. Ram […]

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Ishika Memorial Action Fund

Womentum is a non-profit organization with a mission to empower women entrepreneurs running micro-businesses. It is a global crowdfunding platform that donates 100% of raised funds directly to the women entrepreneurs world-wide. Once these women’s micro-businesses become successful, they re-donate a percentage of their original received donation to another woman entrepreneur in their community through a unique […]

Annual Awards for Excellence at IIT-Roorkee

IIT-Roorkee Heritage Foundation Excellence Awards celebrate annually the excellence exhibited by the IIT-Roorkee students. The winners are selected based on demonstrated excellence in academics, sports, extra-curricular activities, and a self-assessment personal essay. The winners for 2016 have been announced and they will be recognized in the award ceremony slated for November 19, 2016. We have instituted four awards.  We […]

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Best Paper Awards at EDM 2016

International Educational Data Mining Society supports collaboration and scientific development in the emerging discipline of Educational Data Mining. This discipline is concerned with developing methods for exploring the data that comes from educational settings in order to shed light on the learning processes. EDM conference series has emerged as a leading international forum for discussing and disseminating recent advances in educational data mining. […]

Fellowships to the ICDE 2016 Next Generation Researchers

IEEE International Conferences on Data Engineering  address research issues in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data systems and applications. They provide leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. 32nd IEEE ICDE will be held in Helsinki, Finland, May 16-20, 2016. Due to its numerous […]

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Mathcounts Competitions

Mathcounts strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs. The Mathcounts competition series brings together students from all of our states in a series of in-person contests. We first sponsored the Peninsula Chapter Mathcounts competition in 2013.  We found the experience so gratifying that we  sponsored again the […]