The scholarship is given to women for excellence in computer science, leadership and passion for technology
As a part of Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific), Spandana has received a financial award of Rs 1 lakh for this academic year and returned recently from Tokyo after attending the scholars' retreat at Google's Tokyo office. (Photo:
Chennai: It was a dream come true for Spandana Raj Babbula, the fifth year dual degree computer science and engineering student at IIT-Madras, who has won the prestigious Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific) and Facebook’s 2014 Grace Hopper scholarship.
The Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific) is given to women for excellence in computer science, leadership and passion for technology. The Anita Borg memorial scholarship is instituted after Dr Anita Borg who founded the Systers online community in 1987, well before the concept of an online community was part of the mainstream.
A group of women undergraduate and postgraduate students is chosen from the applicant pool, and scholarships are awarded, based on the strength of each candidate’s academic background and demonstrated leadership.
As a part of Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific), Spandana has received a financial award of Rs 1 lakh for this academic year and returned recently from Tokyo after attending the scholars’ retreat at Google’s Tokyo office.
Spandana will fly to Phoenix in Arizona, USA, to attend the Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing, one of the world’s largest gathering of women technologists from October 6 to 11, as part of Facebook’s scholarship.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle on Thursday, Spandana, a native of Warangal, said that it was her research project about efficient routing in wide area networks done as part of an internship at Microsoft Research, USA and a project she did in the IIT—analysis of hypergraph, that fetched her the prestigious scholarships.
“It was an inspirational meeting with legends in the field of computer science and interacting with my fellow scholars from across eight countries at Google’s Tokyo office” she says.
About her future plans, Spandana says that she will utilise the Google scholarship for her ongoing research in the field of computers.
“Spandana is a topper in her class. She is a smart and diligent student who does not hesitate to share her knowledge with others. Her classmates have probably learnt as much from her notes as from lectures in a class, if not more,” says Prof. B Ravindran, Spandana’s guide and faculty advisor.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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