About
Academic Research and Careers for Students (ARCS) is an annual symposium hosted by ACM India, dedicated to providing a unique platform for research scholars in Computer Science and related fields across India. This prestigious event invites PhD students to showcase their latest (accepted) research, fostering collaboration and discussions with peers and experts in the field. The 2026 edition of ARCS will be held on February 11-13 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad).
ARCS plays a crucial role in facilitating meaningful interactions between PhD scholars, faculty, and industry leaders, offering a much-needed space for intellectual exchange. The symposium features contributed talks, poster presentations, and special sessions, including presentations by the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient, the Early Career Research Awardee, and a distinguished keynote speaker.
Attendees will also engage in dynamic panel discussions, interactive sessions with ARCS speakers, and Ph.D. clinics. The audience, composed of students, academics, and industry professionals from across India, will have the opportunity to network and learn from notable invitees, including Turing Award laureates.
ACM-W Annual Summit for Women in Computing
ACM Annual Summit for Women in Computing celebrates every year the incredible achievements and contributions of women in the field of computing. This annual summit is a testament to the remarkable progress we have made in promoting gender diversity and inclusion in the world of technology.
Co-located with ACM India Annual Event and ARCS, the summit creates a platform for sharing knowledge, ideas and experiences, thereby facilitating the career growth of women in computing. The summit creates a forum for recognizing the immense talent and potential of women in computing and also provides an opportunity for the participants to interact with the experienced researchers from academia and industry across the globe. The main highlight of the summit is the keynote address by the Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) award winner.
This year’s edition of ACM-W Annual summit provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of collaboration and confidence in women’s leadership, providing both insights and actionable advice for attendees, by bringing the correct mix of industry and academia leaders across the country. We will share more details soon.
ACM India’s PhD Clinic was launched in Sept 2020, facilitates CS PhD students from all over the country to obtain inputs and advice from diverse expert mentors located in premier academic institutions and industry. The PhD Clinic has been very successful in helping students, with some representative feedback from students:
“The way she answered the questions was so good! She shared personal experiences as well and that made me connect to her.”
“He guided me in such a nice way about how to find a research topic, what areas can be there and how I should align my research in a proper manner.”
In ARCS 2026, you will get to meet fantastic mentors, we will have 1-on-1 in-person Clinic sessions for PhD students. Selected students will get travel support to attend ARCS and interact with mentors. It is mandatory to attend all days of the conference and the Clinic sessions for students who are getting supported by the conference.
If you are interested in getting feedback, and having a discussion with any of them, please register to interact.
Mentors for PhD Clinic: To be announced soon
Registration: To be open soon
Timeline
Registration form open: To be announced soon
Registration Deadline: December 10, 2025
PhD Clinic accepted students notification: December 15, 2025
Confirmation by students to attend PhD Clinic: December 30, 2025
Clinic sessions: February 11, 12 & 13, 2026
ACM-W Annual Summit for Women in Computing
ACM Annual Summit for Women in Computing celebrates every year the incredible achievements and contributions of women in the field of computing. This annual summit is a testament to the remarkable progress we have made in promoting gender diversity and inclusion in the world of technology.
Co-located with ACM India Annual Event and ARCS, the summit creates a platform for sharing knowledge, ideas and experiences, thereby facilitating the career growth of women in computing. The summit creates a forum for recognizing the immense talent and potential of women in computing and also provides an opportunity for the participants to interact with the experienced researchers from academia and industry across the globe. The main highlight of the summit is the keynote address by the Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) award winner.
This year’s edition of ACM-W Annual summit provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of collaboration and confidence in women’s leadership, providing both insights and actionable advice for attendees, by bringing the correct mix of industry and academia leaders across the country. We will share more details soon.
ACM India’s PhD Clinic was launched in Sept 2020, facilitates CS PhD students from all over the country to obtain inputs and advice from diverse expert mentors located in premier academic institutions and industry. The PhD Clinic has been very successful in helping students, with some representative feedback from students:
“The way she answered the questions was so good! She shared personal experiences as well and that made me connect to her.”
“He guided me in such a nice way about how to find a research topic, what areas can be there and how I should align my research in a proper manner.”
In ARCS 2026, you will get to meet fantastic mentors, we will have 1-on-1 in-person Clinic sessions for PhD students. Selected students will get travel support to attend ARCS and interact with mentors. It is mandatory to attend all days of the conference and the Clinic sessions for students who are getting supported by the conference.
If you are interested in getting feedback, and having a discussion with any of them, please register to interact.
Mentors for PhD Clinic: To be announced soon
Registration: To be open soon
Timeline
Registration form open: To be announced soon
Registration Deadline: December 10, 2025
PhD Clinic accepted students notification: December 15, 2025
Confirmation by students to attend PhD Clinic: December 30, 2025
Clinic sessions: February 11, 12 & 13, 2026
Call for poster presentations at ARCS
Are you a PhD student in India working in any area of Computer Science with an accepted or published paper in a conference or journal? This is your chance to showcase your research! Submit your publication details for a potential poster presentation at ARCS, held alongside the ACM India Annual Event.
We are specifically seeking accepted or published work to facilitate meaningful networking among PhD students and research mentors from both academia and industry. If selected, you will receive partial travel support and accommodation support to attend ARCS and the ACM India Annual Event.
Key dates:
– Submission deadline: December 7, 2025
– Notification of selection: December 20, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research and connect with the academic and professional community in Computer Science!
Speakers
To be announced soon!
Committees
- Mainack Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Niyati Chaya, Hyperbots Inc.
Algorithms
- Anup Bhattacharya (NISER, Bhubaneswar)
- Nikhil Gupta (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
Computing Complexity
- Abhranil Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
- Ramya C (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai)
Logic and automata
- Vaishnavi Sundararajan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Quantum computation
- Debajyoti Bera (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
Theory of ML
- Jatin Batra (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Information theory
- Gowtham Kurri (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
Cryptography
- Sikhar Patranabis (IBM)
- Satrajit Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
System & Applied research
NLP, Information retrieval, Social network analysis/ Computation Linguistics
- Parmeshwari (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
- Pawan Goyal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Computer Security and Privacy
- Sarani Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
- Sambuddha (Delhi)
OS and Architecture
- Manas Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
- Rajesh Kedia (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)
Databases and Data Management
- Prajna Upadhyay (BITS Pilani)
- Kaustubh Beedkar (Google)
Computer Networking
- Ayon Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Mukulika Maity (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Formal verification
- Kartik Nagar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Programming Languages and Compilers
- Rupesh Nasre (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
AI/ML/HCI
- Raghava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
- Sourangshu bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
- Jainendra Shukla (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
- Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Computer vision and graphics
- Anirban Chakraborty (IISC)
- Ayan Roy Chaudhuri (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Technology for society
- Abhijnan Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Software engineering
- Karthik Vaidhyanathan (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
- Sridhar Chimalakonda (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati)
Day-zero chairs:
- Shruti Sekar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
- Urbi Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Poster chair:
- Sarani Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Phd clinic chair :
- Ayan Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)
Web chair:
- Rajdeep Ghosh and Siddharth Jaiswal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
- Ayan Mondal (IIT Indore)
- Chitra Babu Co-chair (IIT Madras),
- Karthik Ramachandra Co-chair (Microsoft),
- Mainack Mondal (IIT Kharagpur)
- Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIIT Hyderabad)
- Ranga Rajagopal (ACM India)
- Geetanjali Kale (PICT, Pune)
- Rutvi Shah (Ganpat University)
- Venkatesh Raman (IMSc)
- Mainack Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Niyati Chaya, Hyperbots Inc.
Algorithms
- Anup Bhattacharya (NISER, Bhubaneswar)
- Nikhil Gupta (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
Computing Complexity
- Abhranil Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
- Ramya C (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai)
Logic and automata
- Vaishnavi Sundararajan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Quantum computation
- Debajyoti Bera (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
Theory of ML
- Jatin Batra (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Information theory
- Gowtham Kurri (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
Cryptography
- Sikhar Patranabis (IBM)
- Satrajit Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
System & Applied research
NLP, Information retrieval, Social network analysis/ Computation Linguistics
- Parmeshwari (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
- Pawan Goyal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Computer Security and Privacy
- Sarani Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
- Sambuddha (Delhi)
OS and Architecture
- Manas Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
- Rajesh Kedia (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)
Databases and Data Management
- Prajna Upadhyay (BITS Pilani)
- Kaustubh Beedkar (Google)
Computer Networking
- Ayon Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Mukulika Maity (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Formal verification
- Kartik Nagar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Programming Languages and Compilers
- Rupesh Nasre (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
AI/ML/HCI
- Raghava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
- Sourangshu bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
- Jainendra Shukla (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
- Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Computer vision and graphics
- Anirban Chakraborty (IISC)
- Ayan Roy Chaudhuri (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Technology for society
- Abhijnan Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Software engineering
- Karthik Vaidhyanathan (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
- Sridhar Chimalakonda (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati)
Day-zero chairs:
- Shruti Sekar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
- Urbi Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Poster chair:
- Sarani Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Phd clinic chair :
- Ayan Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)
Web chair:
- Rajdeep Ghosh and Siddharth Jaiswal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
- Ayan Mondal (IIT Indore)
- Chitra Babu Co-chair (IIT Madras),
- Karthik Ramachandra Co-chair (Microsoft),
- Mainack Mondal (IIT Kharagpur)
- Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIIT Hyderabad)
- Ranga Rajagopal (ACM India)
- Geetanjali Kale (PICT, Pune)
- Rutvi Shah (Ganpat University)
- Venkatesh Raman (IMSc)
Institutional Partners
Platinum Tier Partners
Gold Tier Partners
Silver Tier Partners
Previous Editions of ARCS
2024 :NISER Bhubaneswar
2020 :IIT Gandhinagar
2018 :VNIT/Persistent-Nagpur
2016 :Techno Park – Trivandrum
2015 :BITS Pilani – Goa
2014 :IIT Delhi
2013 :Bhopal
2012 :Pune
2011 :Hyderabad
2010 :Bangalore
2009 :IIT Guwahati
2007 :IIIT Hyderabad
2006 :IIT Madras
2005 :IIT Kanpur
2004 :IIT Bombay
2003 :IIT Delhi
2002 :IISc
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