Anita Borg scholarship recipients declared

NEW DELHI: Four students of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITDelhi) havebben awarded the Google Women Tech-makers Scholarship Asia-Pacific 2017. Previously known as the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, it was instituted to honour the memory of the American computer scientist. As part of the scholarship, students receive a cash award, an invitation to a retreat (held this year in Seoul to engage with fellow scholars as well as access to a network of leaders and fellows in the field of technology.

The four recipients of the award are Anannya Uberoi and Katyayani Singh, both pre-final year BTech, CSE, Simran Saxena, MTech cnadidate and Vahini Ummalaneni, an ECE graduate.

While Uberoi is working studying the Apoptotic Cell Death Pathway at the Centre for Computational Biology, IIIT Delhi, Singh is exploring human computer interaction.

While Saxena’s Master’s thesis focuses on privacy, security and crowd sourcing, Ummalaneni is the co-founder of an e-commerce start-up Leocart, which aims to help women entrepreneurs and rural women.

This year, 75 candidates received the scholarship in Asia Pacific of which 16 represent Indian institutions.

Among the other institutes represented from India are the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, IIT Ropar, IIT Madras, Shiv Nadar University, Manipal Institute of Technology among others.