Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Dr. Raghu Reddy participated in the esteemed Dagstuhl seminar on Software Architecture and Machine learning in Dagstuhl, Germany from 23 to 28 July.  Dagstuhl seminar  is regarded as one of the most prestigious, invitation-only workshops and the origin of the DBLP database, Dagstuhl facilitates events that promote intense collaboration among top computer science professionals, steering interdisciplinary progress and defining future trajectories.

The Crop Darpan app, a crop diagnostic tool,  which is being developed by researchers at  IT for Agricultural Research center (ITARD) headed by Prof. P Krishna Reddy will be used by farmers through the department of agriculture, Telangana. After a lot of  field tests and demonstrations for over two years,  the department of agriculture Telangana, has taken a decision to encourage farmers to use the Crop Darpan app.

The Week


17th  in Technical Universities –  All India Level

3rd in Private & Deemed Technical Universities –  All India Level

8th in Technical Universities – South Zone

2nd in Private & Deemed Technical Universities  – South Zone

Careers360: IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked  AAAAA  in All India level.

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Asia Rankings 2024 has ranked  IIIT Hyderabad No. 162

IIIT Hyderabad is in the Band 501 – 550 in QS World University Rankings by Subject –  Computer Science & Information Systems (CSIS)

Education World has ranked IIIT Hyderabad all India No. 2

Dr. Abhishek Srivastava’s research group at IC~WiBES Lab, CVEST breaks the barrier! IIITH achieved a significant milestone by successfully designing and fabricating a test chip for the first time in 25 years. The main IC designers are MS students at CVEST — Arpit Sahani, Srayan Sankar Chatterjee, Pranjal Mahajan, Anushka Tripathi, and Deeksha. The process of chip design and tape-out marks a crucial step in transitioning from theoretical designs to a manufacturable product, significantly advancing the institute’s technological capabilities. It’s crucial for bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation, enabling students and researchers to innovate, publish significant findings, and prepare for high-impact careers in the semiconductor industry.

IIIT Hyderabad joins MeitY’s prestigious SMDP chip to startup program in semiconductor domain for the first time since the program started (2005). Project proposal led by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava of CVEST is selected for the  prestigious Special Manpower Development Program for Chips to Startup (SMDP C2S) program by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY). It is for the first time IIITH has become a part of SMDP in the semiconductor domain since the program started.

In a survey conducted by DataQuest Best T-School, IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked No. 1 at All India Level and in the South zone. The survey focused on UG programs offered at the UG programs offered at technical / engineering institutions.

Research work on The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning was featured in TIME Magazine. Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) and his student Shashwat Goel, UG5 are among several authors of this research work.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the prestigious flagship journal: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
IEEE T-IFS ranks #2 in the list of top venues (conference & journals) in Computer Security & Cryptography and first (Rank #1) among all journal publications. Its impact factor is 6.8.

Prof. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been appointed chair of advisory board to UNU institute in Macau effective from January 2024.

Soham Nagnath Kale,  M.Tech first year; Gowlapalli Rohit, B.Tech-CSE-3rd year and Abhinav Reddy Boddu, B.Tech-CSE-3rd year received the Micron URAM Scholarship program 2023-2024. The scholarship provides Rs. 80,000 to the students to continue their education in different universities in India.

Research on Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Community Detection in Dynamic Graphs by Subhajit Sahu working with Prof. Kishore Kottapalli;  and Prof.  Dip Sankar Banerjee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur) was awarded the APDCM Outstanding Paper award at 26th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models  (APDCM) held from 27 to 30 May at San Francisco, California held in conjunction with 38th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2024).

IIITH students secured third place for their project on Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Himalayan Timberline Elevation: Developing a Novel Tool for Analyzing Correlation with Temperature and Precipitation at the first ever Climate and Sustainability Hackathon, hosted by Cloudera in collaboration with AMD. The event was held online from Santa Clara, California. The team members Lokesh Sharma (M.Tech-CSE) and Avantika Latwal (Ph.D-Scholar, Lab for Spatial Informatics), under the supervision of Dr. Rehana Shaik demonstrated outstanding innovation and expertise. The hackathon consisted of an Idea Phase that spanned from 18 October to 27 November 2023 to filter out the ideas. This was followed by a Prototype Submission Phase that occurred online from 29 January to 7 March 2024.
Details:
https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-04-24-cloudera-machine-learning-hackathon-generates-groundbreaking-climate-and-sustainability-projects.html

IIITH’s Mens Football and Basketball teams won second places at the Telangana State Inter College Football and Basketball tournament held on 5 April 2024 at IIITH campus.

Aditya Kumar Singh, MS by Research (CSE), 3rd year, supervised by Avinash Sharma; Chandradeep Pokhariya, MS by Research (CSE), 3rd year, and  Haran S K Raajesh, B.Tech (CSE) 3rd year, both supervised by Makarand Tapaswi have been awarded the Bank of Baroda Achievers Award for the year 2023-24 for their significant contributions to research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

Prakash Tekchandani and Saurabh Agrawal pursuing Ph.D with Dr. Ashok K Das won the best paper award for their work on Secure Big Data Analytics using Cloud Storage for Internet of Vehicles at Springer’s sixth International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA 2024) held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 16 to 18 April 2024.

Nancy Hada and Aditya Kumar Singh working with Dr. Kavita Vemuri won best paper award in Student category for their research work on FolkTalent: Enhancing Classification and Tagging of Indian Folk Paintings at the International Conference on FOSS Approaches towards Computational Intelligence and Language Technology (FOSS-CIL T24) held in Kerala from 21 to 22  March 2024.

Tanmay Bhatt (UG 2020, ECD); Krishna Singh (UG 2021, ECD); Ritik Yelekar (PG 2023, ECD) and Ankit Kriti (PG 2023, ECD) were awarded the TIH-IoT CHANAKYA Fellowship. The team’s research was on a smart, IoT-enabled solution for monitoring borewell water levels.

Students of Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) bagged best student poster awards at the 14th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference held in Bangalore from 22 – 24 February.

Rudra Dhar, Ph.D student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Vasudeva Varma for his work on Leveraging Generative AI for Architectural Knowledge Management.

Shubham Kulkarni, MS by research student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan for his work on AdaMLS: A Self-adaptive Approach for Enhancing the Quality of Service of ML-enabled Systems.

Team – Wanderlust consisting Aditya Ranjan Padhi (UG3); Aniketh Parkala (UG3); Gnaneswar Kulindala (UG3);  Harsh Kapoor (UG1); Mayank Goel (UG3); Madhan Sai Krishna Chamarthy (UG1);  Shreya Bollimuntha (UG3); Shreyas Kumar Sinha (UG3) and  Sreyas Saminathan (UG3) participated in the prestigious 2024 CanSat competition, a global event organised by the American Astronautical Society. Team – Wanderlust obtained a global rank of 4, securing an invitation to participate in the further phases of the competition.

IIITH students bagged several prizes at Elan and nVision techno-cultural fest of IIT Hyderabad.
Fix the bug  contest
1st prize – Rinish Sam I, MTech 2k23 (CSE); Varun Edachali, UG 2k22 (CSE);
Maddireddy Kritin, UG 2k22 (CSE)
2nd prize –  Udith Krishna M Nair, UG 2k23 (CSD); Adithya Kishor, UG 2k23 (CSD);
Shubham Goel, UG 2k23 (CSE)
3rd prize –  Anirudh Sankar, UG 2k23 (CSD); Aditya Shankar, UG 2k23 (CSD)

Top 2 prizes at Verilog Hackathon
Yash Bhutada and Arya Topale from Electronics and Robotics club (ERC) won 1st prize. Soham Vaishnav and Rupak Antani secured the runner-up spot.

Jewel Benny supervised by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava was awarded the Chanakya UG Fellowship by iHub IIIT Delhi for his research work on Design and Measurements of mmWave FMCW Radar Based Non-Contact Multi-Patient Heart Rate and Breath Rate Monitoring System.

Research work by IIITH researchers Shashwat Goel and Nikhil Chandak; and Dominik Peters, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris was awarded an outstanding paper award at AAAI 2024 for their research work on Proportional Aggregation of Preferences for Sequential Decision Making.

Anis Fatema, PhD student of Dr. Aftab M Hussain won second prize in Young Professionals (YP) session and another second prize in the Student Research Forum Award for Fabrication of Flexible Pressure Sensor Systems for Biomedical Applications  at the  IEEE APSCON 2024. Both awards carry significant cash prizes and a certificate.

Basketball team – girls were runners-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at Mahindra university, Hyderabad. The team members were Sriya Venepally, Pranali Jagdale, Anuhya Nallapati, Saumya Balina, Aishita Marri, Srujana Vanka, Bollimuntha Shreya and Prajna Penmesta.

Team Lucid- consisting of M.Tech PDM students – Shambhavi Ojha,  Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya, Vinaya Gopi and Venkat Sai Nadakudati, have won D’source DIC-BHU Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Design Challenge B under the Interaction design Category.

Startup – HydrowVerse Pvt Ltd  founded by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC) and  Smart City Research Centre(SCRC) and Co-Founded by Thomas David Tency, Research Assistant was awarded the NPCI Best Innovation Award at the event – Fetching Fortunes at E Summit organised by the IIT Hyderabad. The team was given  ₹1 Lac worth credits and awards.

Research work on Global Space Modelling Of Biological Processes With Cross-sectional Data by Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy and her students – J Thottupattu and  Venky P was awarded the best paper nomination award at ICVGIP 2023 – 14th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing held from 15 – 17 December 2023 at IIT Ropar.

IIIT Hyderabad Basketball team were Runner-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Madhapur from 2 to 3 February. Team members were Revanth Gundam, Atharv Johar,  Sriram Alluri, Aadarsh Raghunathan, Aniketh Atmakuri, Amogh Tiwari, Ashwin Rudraraju, Sudarshan Nikhil  and Janardan. Mr, Samson Xavier was the team coach.

Dr. T K Saroja was felicitated by the Department of Language and Culture, Telangana Government, in association with Arunodaya Kalasamithi on International Women’s Day Celebrations 2023 on 9 March at Ravindra Bharathi.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the Advisory Board members of the 5th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN’23) which will be held in Guimarães, Portugal from 12 to 14 July.

Dr. K S Rajan has been nominated by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare to be one of the lT Advisory committee members towards speedy and systematic implementation of Krishi Decision Support System project to be carved-out from Visualisation of Earth Observation Data and Archival (VEDAS) portal.

Prof. P Krishna Reddy was the General chair at the 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2022) held from 19 – 22 December at IIIT Hyderabad.

IIT Kharagpur (IIT Kgp) recognises Prof. B Yegnanarayana as its Institute Life Fellow. Prof. Yegnanarayana was honoured with this award during IIT Kharagpur’s convocation on 24 December.

Dr. Vinoo Alluri organized a satellite workshop on Music, Mind, Movement, and Technology (MMMT) for the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR-2022) from 4 – 8 December at Bengaluru.

Research work on Assessment of Flow Regimes and Water Temperature: A Case Study on Yamuna and Bhadra River Systems by Dr. Shaik Rehana and her students Satish Kumar Mummidivarapu, Ph.D; Jaya Bharat Redd ….

Pragati Gupta supervised by Dr. Kavita Vemuri won third prize at INOS-2023 in poster session for their research work on Binocular Pupillary Response to Chromatic Light as Potential Marker- A Preliminary Ob ….

Mr. Anirudh Palutla, a Dual-degree student of CCNSB, has been offered a Research Scientist position at Janelia Research Campus (JRC), USA. JRC is a scientific research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das served as one of the Technical Program Committee Chairs at the 7th International Conference on Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN-23) held in Bangalore from 18 – 20 December 2023.

Research work by Dr. Ankit Gangwal and his M.Tech students Shubham Singh and Abhijeet Srivastava on AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers won the best paper award at CODASPY 2023 and was also presented at BLACKHAT EU 2023.

IIIT Hyderabad received the coveted A++ grade from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). In all seven criteria of NAAC, the Institute has got an A++ grade with a 3.51 CGPA out of 4.00 scale.

IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked All India number 1 among India’s top BE/B.Tech in Computer Science stream, in a survey conducted by the Education World India Higher Education Rankings for 2022 – 23.

IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked number 1 at both, Overall (All India) and in South Zone categories by DataQuest and Cyber Media Research (CMR)’s Best T-School Survey 2023. The survey focus was on undergraduate programs offered at HEI’s / Technical Institutions. The methodology consists of 48 attributes grouped into six sections based on four parameters – PACE: Placements (30%) Academic & research (30%) Campus infrastructure (15%) and Engagement and Outreach etc (25%)

Faculty and students whose research work got patented were given Crystal awards on the second day of IIIT Hyderabad’s annual R&D showcase on 22 January. Here are the details: System and method for retrieving and extracting security information – Prof. Y Raghu Babu Reddy, Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu System and method for generating queryeable structured document from an unstructured document using machine learning – Prof. Manish Shrivastava, Vishnu Ramesh System of visualizing and querying data using data-pearls – Prof. Kamalakar Karlapalem, Nahil Jain, Ayush Jain, Nikhil Gogate AI driven self adaptive microelectronics circuits – Prof. Zia Abbas, Koushik De, Deepthi Amuru, Khanh Le

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) has been ranked subject wise by Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the year 2024. – In Computer Science: 401–500, – Engineering: 501–600, – Physical Sciences: 601–800

The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has recognised IIITH as one of the best performing NDLI clubs in Telangana for its outstanding performance and unwavering dedication in promoting knowledge and learning through the National Digital Library of India. As a token of appreciation and encouragement, NDLI has presented an Appreciation Certificate to IIIT Hyderabad.

IIITH has been ranked number 1 in T-Schools based on the Employability Index by Dataquest T-School Employability Index Survey 2023. IIITH’s Placement Office has consistently been number one for the past 3 years.

According to The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings IIIT Hyderabad is in the 601-800 bracket. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 included 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions. The rankings are based on WUR 3.0 methodology, which included 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

IIITH has set up a virtual reality facility at Osmania Medical College (OMC) to introduce advanced technology-assisted teaching in July 2023.

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2023 ranked IIITH 84th among the top 100 universities, and 55th among top 100 engineering colleges.

IIIT Hyderabad has retained its 2nd position in India Today’s Top Engineering Colleges 2023 Survey under Private Category in India. In the overall category, with government, HEIs ,IITs, NITs & IIITs, its position has moved up from 15th position in 2022 to 12th position in 2023.

IIIT Hyderabad has improved its performance according to Times Higher Education’s (THE) Asia Rankings 2023. IIITH’s has moved up from 174th rank in 2022 to 106th rank this year.

A survey conducted by The Week, an Indian news magazine founded in 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd ranked IIITH 11 in the Best Engineering Colleges in India category.

The 7th edition of the India Mobile Congress (IMC) witnessed a remarkable moment as the Honorable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, virtually presented IIIT Hyderabad with the prestigious 5G Lab Award. This recognition marked a significant achievement for the institute, securing its place among the top 100 institutes in India. IIITH is among the three top institutes selected from the state of Telangana.

Fourth-year students, Sriram Devata and Kanakala Ganesh Chandan, won the first and second prizes respectively. Rohit Modee, a Ph.D scholar was also awarded for methodology for innovative usage of ML irrespective of performance of the framework used. Sandeep Nagar, a Ph.D student, was also awarded for the best team name at a conference on Machine Learning for Molecular Sciences (ML4SCIENCE 2023), was held at Germanus Springs Resort at Kodaikanal from 9 – 12 March.

Team Vayu, consisting of Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE); Sara Spandhana (MS, ECE); Om Kathalkar and Shreyas Gujar (Interns, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC won the Environment Sensing Project Competition (2022) while team AirIoT comprising Ayu Parmar (MS, ECE); Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE) and Ritik Yelekar (Intern, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC, made it to the short-list. The event was organized by the MegaSense team, University of Helsinki.

IIITH students won medals in Table tennis (Women), Chess (Men) and Swimming (Women) at BITS Arena Sports Fest – 2023 held at BITS Hyderabad on 5 February.

Devika Bej, UG1-CSD was one of the top 20 winners in the 17 – 18 age category at the Desmos Global Art Contest held online from mid November 2022 to mid January 2023. Devika Bej was also the only entry from India to be chosen in the top 20 across all age categories.

The Team Tateists of Astronomy Club won the first prize in an inter-college Astronomy competition organised by IIT Patna. The competition had three rounds – a quiz, a SpaceX simulator challenge to dock a shuttle to the ISS, and a challenge to identify habitable exoplanets from a database of 10,000 exoplanets. The team members Shreyas Badami, UG2-CND and Pranav Agrawal, UG2-CSE topped all the rounds of the competition and finished with a perfect score in the final round.

Team Blue Bird comprising Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya, Dhiraj Shanmukha, Shambhavi Ojha, Vinaya Gopi and Venkat Sai from M.Tech Product Design and Management and SERC qualified as top 20 teams globally out of 90+ teams that participated in the Student Service Design Challenge 2023, an international competition that encourages students to design services that promote both personal well-being and collective happiness.

Anis Fatema, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain received the Best women-owned business pitch and Best overall pitch award at the WiSe-YP Big Idea Pitch Competition and a prize money of $400 at the IEEE Applied Sensors Conference 2023 (IEEE APSCON 2023) held at Bengaluru on 24 January.

G V Ihita, MS student in SPCRC working on IoT security for smart cities under the guidance of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, was selected as a representative of the Indian delegation and the Generation Connect initiative to attend United Nations agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-D Study Group-2 meeting at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 – 9 December 2022.

Mallela Jhansi, a 2nd-year Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra was selected for Research Week with Google 2023, organised by Google Research India from 29 – 31 January in Bangalore.

Research work by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded first prizes for their oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS – 2022), held from 22 – 23 December at Bengaluru, for their research work on: 1. Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Across Three Waves in India – Dr. Nita Parekh and her student Kushagra Agarwal. 2. Evaluating Generalizability of Deep Learning Models Using Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset – Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli.

Anis Fatema, a Ph.D scholar working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain at the Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) won second prize at Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR- 2022) under the Ph.D category for her popular science story on Breaking the Walls of Chronic Back Pain. The prize carried a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

Ihita G was invited by Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to co-chair a session on Diversity 4 Tech Young Leaders Focus Session during the Mobile World Congress (MWC-2023) held at Barcelona, Spain from 27 February to 2 March.

The Music Club won prizes for the following events/competitions at the cultural event of NIFT Spectrum-23 – First place in Battle of Bands – Ants; Second place in Oggy and the Penguins; First place in Duet Singing and First place in Duet Improv (skit)

Priyanka Kommagoun working under Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala, from the Speech Processing Lab, LTRC won the best poster award in Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW-2023) as part of INTERSPEECH 2023 held in Dublin, Ireland on 19 August. The poster was on research work done on Unravelling Speech Disfluencies: A Novel Approach to Distinguishing Typical and Atypical Stuttering Patterns by Priyanka Kommagouni, Narasinga Vamshi Raghu Simha, Anil Kumar Vuppala.

Dr. Manish Shrivastava and Srija M, 3rd year CLD student were team leaders for the Indian contingent consisting of Faraz Ahmed Siddique, Anshul Bhagwat, Saumya Goyal, and Ujaan Rakshit at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL-2023): Celebrating Language Prowess and Problem Solvers held at Bansko, Bulgaria from 23 to 29 July.

M Satish Kumar supervised by Dr. Shaik Rehana, has been awarded the esteemed Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) travel grant. This award helped him to participate in the distinguished International Conference – Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2023, held in Singapore from 30 July – 4 August.

Team BlueBird members Shambavi, Anuj, Aniket, VenkatSai, Gopi (M.Tech PDM) and Dhiraj (MS SERC) won the Silver Award at the prestigious London Design Awards 2023 in the Service Design category. They designed a solution to enhance the well-being of patients and families navigating the challenging journey of terminal illness.

IIITH students M Rajesh, M Satish Kumar and T Thomas David won first place for their low-cost IoT-based sensor for effective water management in Telangana State Pollution Control Board’s hackathon.

IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab team won the best user application award in the Korean Hackathon. Team was led by Leo J Francis along with Vaibhav Naware, Ushasri Mogadali, Gaurav and Sasidhar Varada.

Ankit Gangwal and his students Shubham Singh and Abhijeet Srivastava were awarded the best paper award for their research work on AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers at Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY 2023) held at Charlotte, USA from 24 – 26 April.

Arpan Singh, a third year MS by Research student in Civil Engineering, working under the supervision of Dr. Sunitha Palissery has been offered Ph.D admissions at the Department of Civil Engineering in the Meguro-Numada Laboratory at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), beginning in the fall of 2023. He has been selected as one of the 8 international candidates for the MEXT scholarship of the Japanese government through a highly competitive screening process.

Deepthi Amuru, a Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Zia Abbas received an award at the Woman Leaders Forum (WLF-2023) on 31 May at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Dubai under the category Award for Contribution at International Level.

Aditya Agarwal and Bipasha Sen, 2nd year MS by Research students in Computer Science working under the supervision of Prof. C V Jawahar and Prof. Vinay Namboodiri, University of Bath, UK have been offered Ph.D admissions to the highly competitive EECS program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) this fall 2023.

IIITH’s Team FLogic comprising of Amul Agrawal, Alapan Chaudhuri, and Aditya Verma beat nearly 1,500 teams from over 250 colleges at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

The Annual Awards Function where the academic and research successes of students are recognised was held on 15 November at institute amphitheatre. This year nearly 500 students have been recognized for their academic/research achievements.

Research work on Unsupervised approach to evaluate sentence-level fluency: Do we really need reference? By Dr. Manish Shrivastava and his students Gopichand Kanumolu, MS CSE; Lokesh Madasu, MS CSE; Pavan Baswani, MS CSE and Ananya Mukherjee, Ph.D CSE was given the Best paper award in SEALP2023 Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 held on Bali, Indonesia on 1 November.

Shambhavi Ojha, M.Tech Product Design and Management student bagged the silver award in the 7th mini product challenge organised by Airtribe. The challenge required participants to create a referral program for the mindfulness app Calm. Shambhavi’s proposal was Calm Connections which she submitted the program outline alongwith mockup screens and promotion idea.

Anuj Malviya and Josh Elias Joy, M.Tech Product Design and Management and Akshay Phate M.Tech CSE student who graduated in 2023 won 2nd place in Autodesk Instructables, Student Game Design Challenge, for their project Jumpfit (Wearable Joystick) which was done as a part of the Wearables System Design Course at IIIT Hyderabad under the mentorship of Dr. Raghu Reddy.

Astitva Srivastava in first year and Chennupati Sai Deep in third year of their Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) were awarded TCS Research Scholarships. Students selected for the scholarship will be given a stipend for a maximum of four years, or submission of a thesis whichever is earlier. A stipend of Rs. 70,000 per month for the first and second year and Rs. 75,000 per month for the third year and fourth year will be given to the Ph.D scholars.

Research work by Rishikesh Bose, Dr. Sujit Gujar, N Patil, A K Dwivedi, Dr. Kavita Vemuri, Prof. Sachin Chaudhari, on Comparative Analysis of Construction-Related Air Pollution In Indoor and Outdoor Environments’ won the Best Paper award at the 11th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP) 2023 in Brisbane, Australia in November.

Level Masters team – Ritik Yelekar (MS by Research, ECE); Thomas David Tency (Researcher and CEO, Hydrow); Nagesh Walchatwar (Research Intern, SPCRC) and Sahil Padole (Research Intern, SPCRC) supervised by Dr. Sachin Sachin Chaudhari secured the 2nd runner-up position for their project on IoT-based Smart Water Level Monitoring at the Environment Sensing Project Competition (ESPC-2023) organised by the University of Helsinki, Finland.

IIIT Hyderabad basketball boys team were runner-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (VNRVJIET). The team members were Janardan, Ashwin Rudraraju, Revanth Kumar Gundam, Aniketh Atmakuri, Aadarsh Ragunathan, Pradeep Kr Pal, Atharv Johar, Samson Xavier and coach Mr. Samson Xavier.

Team members G Krishna Sandilya, M.Tech-PDM 2nd year; Param Dubey, M.Tech-PDM 2nd year and G L Vaishnavi, M.Tech-PDM 1st year were national finalists at Tech-Tack product case competition for a live business case held online from 21 October to 2 November at XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Sajja Patel, a UG3 student currently pursuing B.Tech-CSE recently gained admission into IIT Guwahati’s Data Science and AI program through JEE advanced mode.

Rishikesh Bose, MS by research supervised by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari received the best presentation award for their research work on Comparative Analysis of Construction-Related Air Pollution in Indoor and Outdoor Environments at the 11th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP-2023) held from 10 -11 November at Brisbane, Australia.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has also been appointed as a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2023) to be held in Montreal, Canada from 21 – 23 June.

Research work done by Dr. Chittaranjan Hens on Emergent stability in complex network dynamics has been published in Nature Physics.

Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan was a member of the organising committee of the recently concluded 20th edition of the IEEE International conference on software architecture (ICSA-2023) held at L’Aquila, Italy from 13 to 17 March. ICSA-2023 is a premier (Tier A) conference in the field of Software Architecture. Karthik was part of the organising committee alongside some of the eminent researchers/scientists in the field of software architecture from different parts of the world.

The 9th edition of Research.com recognizes Dr. Ashok Kumar Das as best scientist in the discipline of Computer Science. His D-index is 65; Citations is 12,220; Publications is 270; world ranking is 1,560 and national ranking is 10.

Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar has been invited to be the editorial team member of Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) from 1 January 2024.

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been inducted as a panel member to the 7 member committee of the Civil Engineering Division (CED-13:P5) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for reviewing the old Indian standards.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the list of Web of Science (Clarivate™) Highly Cited Researcher 2023 in recognition for his exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% for field and year. Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science™ over the past decade.

Dr. Diganta Das’s Start-up Research Grant (SRG) proposal on Phenomenology of hadronic decays and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model was approved by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body under DST.

Prof. Madhava Krishna has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for the year 2023. The Indian National Academy of Engineering honours Indian and foreign nationals who are elected by “peer” committees in recognition of their personal achievements in “Engineering” which are of exceptional merit and demonstrated distinctive eminence in the new and developing fields of technology.

Prof. Kishore Kothapalli has been awarded the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam HPC Award for the year 2023 for developing parallel algorithm engineering techniques that efficiently harness the power of parallel architectures, especially for irregular computations arising from graphs and matrices and their applications. The award was given by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) a company committed to promoting advancements in High-Performance Computing. These awards celebrate and showcase individuals and organisations who have made significant contributions to the advancement of HPC in science, engineering, and beyond.