Hack and Seek 2025

Capture the Flag competition testing skills in web exploitation, cryptography, reverse engineering, forensics, and binary exploitation.

WorldQuant Quantitative Finance Workshop

Greetings from Databased, We are excited to bring you a Quantitative Finance Workshop, organised by WorldQuant. The talk will cover an introduction to Quant Finance, a hands-on training session on building models as well as a mini challenge at the end with prizes for the winners. The speaker is Mr. Utkarsh C Doshi, a BRAIN researcher, and an IIT Kharagpur alumni. The workshop will also cover details of WorldQuant BRAIN and IQC 2025. The International Quant Championship has a prize pool of 100K, with internship and employment opportunities at WorldQuant available. The workshop is for anyone who is interested in quant, finance or just wants to know about this field.

Capture The Flag(CTF)

Abstract: Awake from stasis, you find yourself in the future, with only your trusty dbdPad by your side. Times have changed — humanity and technology have amalgamated into something quite dissimilar from both. Cyborgs patrol breathing mechanical factories dotting the wasteland. You must restore humanity to its former glory. This new world calls for a new set of skills. You try contacting your former clan, Databased. The TCP request goes through — turns out they were one of the few races that didn't die out (along with Samasya). You are then summoned to receive enlightenment. Boring Abstract: This session marks the first project showcase of DELTA, where we will introduce the world of Capture the Flag (CTF). The session will include an overview of various types of CTFs, as well as live walkthroughs of interesting problems. Over the summer, we plan to participate in multiple CTF contests as a team. These challenges not only sharpen problem solving and cybersecurity skills but also provide valuable experience for industry. We also intend to host internal CTF sessions during the summer break, where participants will be divided into teams to compete in a collaborative and hands on learning environment.

GPU Programming for Beginners - Part 2

Talk by Ullas Sir Abstract: If you have never tried your hand at  swimming, consider this class to be a first exposure to the extreme sport of swimming in deep water without having any prior experience. The title of the class is going to be: MILPSRLAEAL NE SMSAE, the meaning of which shall be elucidated if you attend the class 😂 You need not have attended the first class to be able to follow, although it would be good if you did.

GPU Programming for Beginners

Talk by Ullas Sir

How to NOT sit idle this summer

Basics of JavaScript

Basics of HTML and CSS

IISc Open Day 2025

Databased's showcase at IISc Open Day 2025 — interactive demos including terrain generation, Nim game, Tic-Tac-Toe with AI, and cryptography challenges.

A Deeper Look At Python Functions Part-3

Talk by Ullas Sir

A Deeper Look At Python Functions Part-2

Talk by Ullas Sir

A Deeper Look At Python Functions

Talk by Ullas Sir

Ideathon 2024

A 24-hour hackathon-style ideathon where teams pitched and prototyped solutions to real-world problems using data science and AI.

Missing Semester - Git

Operating Systems: Under the Hood

Guest talk on modern OS design, memory management, and scheduling algorithms by a researcher from the CDS department.

Missing Semester - Debuggers and Testing

Missing Semester - Linux and Shells

Adwords - An industrial problem and the theory behind

Talk by Mohar Kanti Biswas

Intro to Machine Learning

Hands-on workshop covering ML fundamentals — from linear regression to neural networks — with live coding sessions in Python and scikit-learn.

Game Theory and Machine Learning

Talk by Siddharth Reddy

Combinatorial Arguments in Linear Algebra

Talk by Saksham Agarwal

Summer Project Exposition - 2024

It is that time again! Time to see what wonderful projects the seniors have been working on over the past summer.

AI-ML and Opportunities

An informative talk by Shri. Sunny Manchanda (Director, DYSL-AI Lab, DRDO) introducing freshers to the world of AI-ML and sharing about the research their lab works on.

What is Information?

Beautiful talk given by Prof. C Pandu Rangan by posing the question "What is Information?" and slowly formalizing the notion of Information.

Tech Ideathon

The Databased Tech Ideathon was hosted for the freshers where they worked in teams to brainstorm innovative solutions to the problems faced by society.

Full-Stack Web Development

Three-session workshop on modern web development covering HTML/CSS/JS fundamentals, React, and backend APIs with Node.js.

Alumni Session: Life After IISc

Panel discussion with IISc alumni at Google, Amazon, and top research labs — covering career paths, research vs. industry, and advice for undergrads.

Algorithm Festival 2024

A day-long competitive programming contest with problems from beginner to expert difficulty, featuring live rankings and prizes.

Missing Semester Session on Git

The Missing Semester Sessions taken by Dhruva Kashyap, from CSA dept. on Git which is essential for every coding platform. The talk covered the basics of git, its structures and commands.

Randomness in Computation Talk

The talk on "Randomness in Computation" was taken by KVN Sreenivas, a PhD student in CSA dept. The talk covered about randomized algorithms and the usage of probabilities in the domain of Computer Science. The topics were covered starting from a basic level.

Mathematics for CS Series

Five-session series covering discrete math, combinatorics, probability, and linear algebra — essential foundations for any CS student.

IISc Open Day 2024

Our Open Day booth featured interactive exhibits on algorithms, computer vision, and cybersecurity for school students and visitors.

Maths Problem Solving Session-3

Maths problem Session organised by Databased club in collaboration with Samasya, where we dealt with olympiad style Mathematics problems, puzzles and discussed beautiful solutions or proofs for various problems. Students from BS, B Tech from various years came and attended.

Maths Problem Solving Session-2

Second Maths problem Session organised by Databased club in collaboration with Samasya, where we dealt with olympiad style Mathematics problems, puzzles and discussed beautiful solutions or proofs for various problems. Students from BS, B Tech from various years came and attended.

Graph Theory Session-1

First session by Ullas Sir from CSA Dept. on Graph Theory. He taught Graph Theory in the view point of a Compiler and Program Assembly Code. Various fun puzzles were discussed which had beautiful solutions from just simple graphs.

Competitive Programming Session 19/1/24

The club organised Competitive Programming session where in students coded problems under timer. Everyone in the class participated, tried to solve the problem and code it. The presenters explained efficient algorithms for the question. It helped everyone to test their speed and improve on their week points.

Maths Problem Solving Session-1

First Maths problem Session organised where we dealt with olympiad style Mathematics problems, puzzles and discussed beautiful solutions or proofs for various problems. Students from BS, B Tech from various years came and attended.

Developing and Deploying LLM based Solutions

First session of a new Workshop Series by Anupam Purwar (Senior Research Scientist, Amazon) where he shares his insights on utilizing modern LLM technology to engineer practical solutions to problems.

Competitive Programming Session 1/5/24

The club organised Competitive Programming session where five students presented respective problems. Everyone in the class participated, tried to solve the problem and code it. The presenters explained efficient algorithms for the question. More than 25 students from our batch joined the session.

Neurosymbolic Learning

A talk by Dr. Abhinav Verma from the CSE department of Penn State University on Neurosymbolic Learning where Machine Learning combines with Formal Methods. The talk is followed by an interactive session where he shares his insights about pursuing CS PhD in the US.

Databased Launch Event

The inaugural event of Databased — introducing the club, its vision, and the activities planned for the year to new B.Tech. students.

Bugathon

An event that's completely different from a hackathon! (not). Come join us and test your skills and win exciting prizes!

Pythonising Pseudocode

It's time to see how to convert a series of steps into physical code which can be implemented by a computer. Let's get pythonising!

Summer Project Exposition - 2023

It's time to delve into summer projects. Come join us in reminiscing our time during the various projects during the summer!

A Web Of Computer Science

Databased Launch Event

Cryptography Talk

Computational Physics Talk

Compiler

Paradox Festival

An event introducing the audience to the world of paradoxes in science and mathematics — from Berry's Paradox to Banach-Tarski.

Paradox Festival

An informative discussion session by the students about various mathematical paradoxes that form an integral part of how we perceive "infinity" <a href=" Click here to learn more</a>

Lecture 06: Python from a Compiler's Standpoint

Operators & Functions: Order of precedence

KNN

Constant folding, Template in C

AIML: D Scatter Plots & Pair plots

Garbage collection in C

Databases and datapoints

Garbage collection in Python

Reference Count

This was the first Lecture by Ullas😀 where we learnt python from a compiler's perspective .

Introduction to AIML