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Google, Facebook scholarships bagged by Telangana State girl

Chennai: You will certainly feel happy if you live up to your dreams. So is the case with Spandana Raj Babbula, a Warangal native and a fifth-year dual degree computer science and engineering student at

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: September 26, 2014 23:23 IST
google facebook scholarships bagged by telangana state girl
google facebook scholarships bagged by telangana state girl

Chennai: You will certainly feel happy if you live up to your dreams. So is the case with Spandana Raj Babbula, a Warangal native and a fifth-year dual degree computer science and engineering student at IIT-Madras, who has just won the prestigious Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific) and Facebook's 2014 Grace Hopper scholarship.

This Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific) is presented to women who excel in computer science, leadership and passion for technology. The scholarship has been named after Dr Anita Borg, who founded the Systers online community in 1987 before the online community was a conceptual part of the mainstream.

For this scholarship, a group of women undergraduate and postgraduate students are chosen from the applicant pool, and scholarships are awarded to them based on the strength of each candidate's academic background and demonstrated leadership.

Babbula too has received a financial award of Rs 1 lakh for this academic year as a part of Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific). She has just returned from Tokyo after attending the scholars' retreat at Google's Tokyo office.

Next Babbula 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 a news website, Babbula said that her research project on efficient routing in wide area networks, done as part of an internship at Microsoft Research, USA, and a project she did at the IIT “analysis of hypergraph” had fetched her the scholarships.

“It was an inspiration to meet legends of the computer science field and interact with fellow scholars from across eight countries,” she said.  When asked about her future plans, she says that she will utilize the Google scholarship for her research.

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