Yahoo! India Research & Development has announced the winner of the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Honorable Mention Award for 2010-11. Ramasuri Narayanam, a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore (IISc), was recognized for his research proposal on "Game Theoretic models for Social Network Analysis" which discusses complex communication patterns among individuals in a network and measures the strength of relationships between connected individuals.
The Yahoo! KSC Programme is a core element of Yahoo! Labs' charter to support new scientific discovery that will contribute towards, or shape the next-generation Internet.
Ramasuri is the only Indian national to win the Yahoo! KSC Award and he was selected from a short-list of six other candidates from different tertiary institutes. As part of the prize, Ramasuri will receive a cash payment to support his research activities.
"Our Key Scientific Challenges Programme is a part of our academic relations initiative and we are thrilled to reward Ramasuri for his excellent submission," said Rajeev Rastogi, Vice-President & Head of Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore. "We are heartened to witness increasing participation from PhD students across India for the KSC programme. We see this as a strong endorsement of Yahoo!'s ongoing endeavours to engage and encourage this community to work with us in building a better Internet," added Rastogi.
"I am thrilled to be selected for the KSC Honorable Mention Award and would like to credit some of the success to the excellent guidance by Prof. Y. Narahari and the research environment at the Department of CSA, IISc. I value the opportunity provided by Yahoo! to pursue my research that studies social relationships and interactions on the Internet," said Ramasuri Narayanam, Winner of KSC Honorable Mention Award.
