Yahoo India announced 2nd year PHD student of IIIT Hyderabad, Ashish Managalampalli as one of the winners of the 2009-2010 Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program Award.

The award comprises selecting 21 exceptional PHD students from all over the world to be part of Yahoo’s KSC program. Ashish is the only student from a non-US institute or university. He has awarded with $ 2000 of funds to support research activities along with an invitation to the KSC Graduate Student Summit in Sunnyvale.

“Supporting the academic community is a top priority at Yahoo! and we created the KSC Program to support outstanding PhD students who we believe are doing research in very important and challenging areas,” said Rajeev Rastogi, VP and Head of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore. “We are excited to be able to support students like Ashish with KSC grants, and we look forward to having them as part of our broad research alliance of outstanding students and faculty,” Rastogi added.

“I am extremely happy to be the winner of this prestigious award and would like to thank Yahoo! for giving me this opportunity. Apart from the monetary aspect, I value the opportunity that Yahoo! will be providing to interact with Yahoo! scientists and other top graduate students in an informal and supportive environment, said Ashish Mangalampalli, Winner of KSC Award Program. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank my teachers and peers at IIIT Hyderabad, and in particular, my advisor, Dr. Vikram Pudi, Director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Dean (R&D), Prof. P.J. Narayanan, and Dean (Academics), Prof. Kamal Karlapalem,” he added.