Chennai:  Dr V. Kamakoti, Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has been selected as a recipient of IBM Faculty Award 2016.  The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations.

DR V Kamakoti was selected under Core Technologies category of the IBM Faculty Awards for the project “Distributed timing and congestion driven placement”.  The professors from the other countries who are recipients in the Core Technologies are as followed:  Babu S.V., Clarkson University;  Gizopoulos  Dimitris, University of Athens; Michielssen Eric, University of Michigan;  Albertson Lance, Oregon State University;  Gao Guangyu, Beijing Institute of Technology; and Jensen Carlos Oregon State University.

IBM Faculty Awards are cash awards granted annually. The current maximum award to any one recipient is USD 40,000 per year. The award aims at promoting courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM. IBM Faculty Awards are not contracts and no intellectual property rights are stipulated as part of a Faculty Award.

Previously two professors from CSE Department of IIT Madras won IBM Faculty Award. In 2013  Prof. Shankar Balachandran won the award for the project scalable algorithms and tools for data analytics while in 2007 Prof. D. Janakiram also received the award.