Who We Are

Professor Ram Kumar Memorial Foundation seeks to accelerate societal advancements through scientific breakthroughs, technological innovations, and the democratization of knowledge acquisition and diffusion. The foundation commemorates the life and achievements of Prof. Ram Kumar. It has been set up in his memory by his wife, Mrs. Urmila Agrawal, and his sons, Dr. Rakesh Agrawal and Dr. Rajeev Agrawal, and […]

Board of Advisors

We have constituted a Board of Advisors for our Foundation to help with the following: Formulate policies and programs for the Foundation Provide advice on specific major grants Suggest ideas for maximizing the impact of the Foundation, consistent with Foundation’s goals We are very privileged to have the following as the  members of our Board: […]

Executive Board

Our Founding Executive Board comprises of: Dr. Rakesh Agrawal: President Dr. Rajeev Kumar Agrawal: Asia Director

Prof. Ram Kumar Research Awards at the Academic Conferences

Academic conferences play a vital role in catalyzing scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations by providing forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss new advances. We aim to support select conferences institute prestigious awards to celebrate accomplishments and thus motivate others to excel. Examples of such awards include test-of-time award, best paper award, career […]

Prof. Ram Kumar Fellowships to the Conference Attendees

Academic conferences play a vital role in catalyzing scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations by providing forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss new advances and get to know each other that helps with forming and nurturing collaborations. However, attending a conference is expensive. We aim to provide few (unfortunately!) fellowships to students and scholars […]

Gift4Giving

A Gift4Giving is an eGift that the recipients can use to recommend grants to the charities of their choice.  We love sending Gift4Giving as it allows many more causes to be supported and we get ideas for the future. The program is administered by Fidelity Charitable who contacts you through email, providing link to a simple tool that you […]

Tax-deductible Contributions to the Foundation

Our Foundation is set up as a Giving Account at Fidelity Charitable.  You can make a tax-deductible contribution by completing the Contribution Form , filling Sections 1-4 as follows: Section 1: Select: “Third-Party Contributor”. For Giving Account Number, put down our account number: 1044239. Section 2: Check the box corresponding to: “Allocate this contribution in the same percentages …”. […]

Inaugural Prof. Ram Kumar Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Research at IIT-Roorkee

It has been a privilege and honor for us to have been able to support the creation of the Annual Prof. Ram Kumar Prize at IIT-Roorkee. The prize has been instituted by the Board of Governors and the Director of IIT-Roorkee to nurture and celebrate excellence in teaching and research. Prof. Ram Kumar was a highly regarded faculty in the Department of Mathematics in the […]

2016 ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series has established itself as one of the world’s premier research conference in data mining. It provides an international forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences.  Data mining is among the main technological cornerstones of the emergent applications that may […]

Best Paper Awards and Student Fellowships at CIKM 2016

ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Since 1992, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three communities, with the purpose of identifying challenging problems facing the development of advanced knowledge and information systems and […]