BANGALORE, INDIA: IT service provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced that two Indian professors - Soumen Chakrabarthi, from IIT Bombay and Anurag Mittal from IIT Madras, along with 39 others have been selected to receive its 'HP Labs Innovation Research Awards'.

The winners were selected after reviewing more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries. HP selected 41 projects at 34 institutions, said a press release.

The international universities that were selected include US's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Germany's Technische Universitaet Muenchen, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and China's Tsinghua University.

The Research Awards provide project funding of up to $100,000 for one year to each academic institution and are renewable for a total of three years based on the research progress and HP business requirements.

These awards include support for one graduate student researcher, who is also eligible to apply to the HP Labs internship program, said the release.

The awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing research, HP said.