Achievements and Awards

 

Year 2023

Faculty
  • Research work of Dr. Sujit Gujar on Your Favorite Gameplay Speaks Volumes about You: Predicting User Behavior and Hexad Type has been awarded the Best Paper Award at HCI International 2023 held at Copenhagen, Denmark from 23 - 28 July.
  • Prof. Ashok Kumar Das, Center for Security, Theory and Algorithms (CSTAR) has been promoted as a Professor. His research areas are cryptography, network security, system security, blockchain, security in Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Internet of Drones (IoD), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and cloud computing, AI/ML security, intrusion detection, and post-quantum cryptography.
  • Prof. Anoop Namboodiri, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) has been promoted as a Professor. His research areas are pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision and biometrics.
  • Dr. Aftab M Hussain, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) has been promoted as an Associate Professor. His research areas are flexible and stretchable electronics, IoT devices, smart city research and LoRaWAN devices.
  • Dr. Shaik Rehana, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) has been promoted as an Associate Professor. Her research areas hydrologic impacts of climate change, statistical downscaling, uncertainty modelling, water quality management, reservoir operation, irrigation planning.
  • Dr. Subhadip Mitra, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) has been promoted as an Associate Professor. His research areas are high energy Physics theory, phenomenology and cosmology.
  • Adobe Inc. has awarded Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dr. Sujit Gujar and Dr. Makarand Tapaswi, Adobe Research Gift Awards for their research activities. The award is in the form of an unrestricted gift to the academic institution under the names of the researchers who submitted the proposal.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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.

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    Students
  • 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).
  • 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)
  • 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:
    • Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Across Three Waves in India - Dr. Nita Parekh and her student Kushagra Agarwal.
    • Evaluating Generalizability of Deep Learning Models Using Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset - Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli.

     

    Institute
  • 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.
  • 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

    • Year 2022

    Faculty
  • Dr. Vinoo Alluri organised 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.
  • 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. Sujit Prakash Gujar, Data Sciences and Analytics Center (DSAC) has been promoted as an Associate Professor.
  • Dr. Vinod Palakkad Krishnanunni, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) has been promoted as an Associate Professor.
  • 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.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar is among this elite group recognized for the exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™.
  • Dr. Vineet Gandhi was adjudged as an outstanding reviewer at the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2022) held at Baltimore, Maryland from 17 - 23 July.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the list of Web of Science (Clarivate™) Highly Cited Researcher 2022 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.
  • Dr. Pawan Kumar was awarded the Qualcomm Faculty award-2022 in March.
  • Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla is the new Director of Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) at Roorkee.
  • Research of Dr. Y Raghu Reddy, Prof. Vasudeva Varma and Lalit Mohan S on Information security search engine, has been granted a U.S Patent. The title of their invention is System and Method for Retrieving and Extracting Security Information.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the 14,000 Club of Google Scholar Citations. He has over 14,000 citations with an impressive h-index: 70 and i10-index: 203. Dr. Das has also been included in Stanford University's top 2% most influential scientists list with subject rank (world): 179 for the year: 2022.
  • Dr. P Pravin K V Rao has been selected for ISET D K Paul Research Award for best Ph.D thesis in Earthquake Risk Reduction in India for the year 2022. The award is given once in 4 years to only one person with an international reputation and excellent standing in the area of expertise. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 60,000 and a citation.
  • Dr. Siddhartha Das was a member of the program committee for the conference, Beyond IID in Information Theory 10 (BIID’10), held online from 26 - 30 September.
  • Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan was a co-organizer of the Second International Workshop on Software Architecture and Machine Learning (SAML) held at Prague, Czech Republic on 20 September.
  • Dr. Charu Sharma’s Start-up Research Grant (SRG) proposal on Advancing Self-Supervised 3D Point Cloud Representations with Domain Adaptation, Optimal Transport, and Prototypical Learning was approved by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body under DST.
  • Dr. Shantanav Chakraborty’s Start-up Research Grant (SRG) proposal on, to develop novel approaches to solving optimization problems using quantum computers was approved by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body under DST.
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru received a research grant of CHF 212,104 along with ETH Zürich to study and work on Homophily and the Spread of (Dis)Information in Social Media.
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru’s research work has so far attracted 10,000 citations as per Google Scholar.
  • Dr. Nazia Akhtar authors Bibi's Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose, co-published by Orient BlackSwan and New India Foundation.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is serving as a member of Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the 18th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2022), 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece from 10 - 12 October 2022.
  • Prof. Shatrunjay Rawat has been recently nominated to the Insurance Ombudsman Advisory Committee of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority India (IRDAI).
  • Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla was awarded an unrestricted research gift from Google, as part of its growing efforts to support excellent research in academia. Google has awarded the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad an unrestricted gift money which will support follow-up research of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla in collaboration with Pradeep Shenoy, Google Research on multi-object multi-part segmentation and visual scene understanding.
  • Prof. R Pradeep Kumar was awarded the Outstanding Concrete Engineer of Telangana 2021 by Indian Concrete Institute. This award is given annually for outstanding contribution in the field of concrete technology, promotion of concrete structures, research in concrete and more.
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been awarded the Flipkart Faculty Award for his work on security. The award includes a cash grant which he is utilizing for further research on fraud detection along with some of his students.
  • MeitY project fund for research work on Blockchain and Machine Learning Powered Unified Video Know Your Customer Framework has been granted to Dr. Ankit Gangwal (PI), Dr. Sudipta Banerjee (Co-PI), Dr. Anoop M. Namboodiri (Co-PI), and Dr. Kishore Kothapalli (Co-PI) by MeitY, Government of India from 2022 – 2024. It is a joint project with Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) Hyderabad and IIT Bhilai. Total budget sanctioned is Rs 23.72 Crore.
  • Dr. Vinoo Alluri was featured in the fifth edition of The Life of Science’s (TLoS) yearly desktop calendar. It featured 48 Indian women, transgender and non-binary persons working in various fields of science during 2022 – 2023. The calendar was launched on 11 February to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Dr. Alluri was featured under the theme Music.
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been featured in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as part of their People of ACM initiative. Prof. Kumaraguru is an ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding engineering contributions to computing. He is also an ACM India Eminent Speaker and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

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    Students
  • Naga Manoj Makkena, M.S Dual Degree-ECE, working under supervision of Dr. Ubaidulla P received the best paper award for their research work on Trajectory and power optimization for buffer assisted amplify-and-forward UAV relay at the 11th international conference on Communications, Networks and Satellites (COMNETSAT-2022) at Solo, Indonesian island of Java from 3 - 5 November.
  • Shri Vidhatri M M, UG4, CND working under the supervision of Dr. Tapan Kumar Sau participated in UNLEASH 2022 conducted at Infosys campus, Mysore from 3 - 11 December. The team of Shri Vidhatri was one of the top 7 finalists among all the teams participating in the innovation lab.
  • VidyutVanika22 was the winner with a normalized score 75% and became the only second broker to win the PowerTAC tournament in two consecutive years. The team members were Dr. Praveen Paruchuri and Dr. Sujit Gujar from IIITH, Dr. Easwar Subramanian and Dr. Sanjay Bhat from TCS and Sanjay Chandlekar was the lead student from IIITH.
  • IIITH researchers Jaidev Shriram, B.Tech student; Dr. Makarand Tapaswi and Dr.Vinoo Alluri created a music algorithm that curates and plays appropriate background music as you read books. The research team took the soundtrack from the Harry Potter movie and aptly juxtaposed it with the novel. This independent project walked away with the prestigious Brave New Idea Award at the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR-2022) held in Bengaluru from 4 - 8 December.
  • Research work on Overcoming Label Noise for Source-free Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation by Avijit Dasgupta; Prof. C V Jawahar and Karteek Alahari (Inria) was awardedthe Best paper award - Runner up at the Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP-2022) held at IIT Gandhinagar from 8 - 10 December.
  • Research work on Interpreting Intrinsic Image Decomposition using Concept Activations by Avani Gupta; Saurabh Saini and Prof. P J Narayanan was awarded the Best paper award at the Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP-2022) held at IIT Gandhinagar from 8 - 10 December.
  • A team from Electronics and Robotics Club (ERC) was the second runner-up in the Home Automation Event organized by Atomberg Technologies at Techfest, IIT Bombay from 16 to 18 December. Team members were Rishabh Agrawal, Aditya Sehgal, Tadimarri Desika Sreeharsha and Akshit Gureja (all UG3 - UG2k20).
  • Durga Prasad Dhulipudi working in Honeywell and a part time Ph.D student of Dr. K S Rajan was awarded the best paper award for his research work on Machine Learning for Multiclass Geospatial Objects—Need for Accelerated Mapping of Airports at the ISRS-ISG National Symposium held at HICC Hyderabad from 15 - 17 November.
  • Aniket Chandekar and Anuj Malviya pursuing M.Tech in Product Design and Management (PDM) were finalists at the Salesforce Design Challenge held on a national scale with students from prestigious design colleges like NID Bengaluru, IIIT Delhi, MITID Pune, and ISDI Mumbai.
  • Machine Learning Lab students Shailey Mishra and Manisha Padala working under the supervision of Dr. Sujit Prakash Gujar received the First runner-up best paper award for their research work on Fairness with Special Externalities at the 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2022) held from 10 to 13 November at Shanghai, China.
  • Research work on Does Audio Help in Deep Audio Visual Saliency Prediction Models by Dr. Vineet Gandhi and his students - Ritivik Agarwal, Shreyank Jyoti, Rohit Girmaji and Sarath Sivaprasd received the best student paper award at the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022) held from 7 - 11 November at Bangalore.
  • Advaita Saxena, PhD in ECE and Pragati Gupta, PhD in CSE under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri, CogSci were awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship Program, a competitive Fellowship program for pursuing PhD under the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) for the Academic Year 2022-23.
  • For the first time in the history of IIITH Sports the girls team won the intercollegiate state level basketball tournament held at B V Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT), Narasapur, Medak district on 13 October.
  • Bafna Jainit Sushil, Master of Science Computational Linguistics was a semifinalist at the online Amazon Web Services (AWS) deepRacer student league 2022.
  • Kiruthika Kannan working under the supervision of Dr. Ravi Kiran S has been awarded an ACM-W scholarship for attending the ACM MULTIMEDIA - 2022 conference in Lisbon, Portugal from 10 - 14 October.
  • Shubodh Sai, Master of Science student working under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna in the area of Visual Place Recognition has been selected as a winner of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) Outstanding Reviewer Award for his concerted review process.
  • Poorna Chandra Danamaraju, M.Tech in Product Design and Management course was invited as a guest of honor at the Literature Conclave held at his alma mater – DAV Public School, Hyderabad on 24 August. His book Earthly Realm was launched by his excellency, Mr. Syed Mohammed Ibrahimkhil, the acting consul general of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan during the Literature Conclave.
  • Josh Elias Joy, 2nd semester student of M.Tech Product design and Management, won the Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals contest conducted by Hackaday and partnered with Digi-Key Electronics. There were a total of 75 participants from all over the world. In this contest, participants were encouraged to make the strangest, fanciest, flashiest, or most custom computer peripherals, and share that work.
  • Vivek Mathur, UG3-CND, working under the supervision of Dr. Tapan Kumar Sau participated in the Summer Research Fellowship program from June - August organized jointly by The Indian National Science Academy (INSA), The Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) and The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). The program was onsite at IIT Delhi, Laboratory of Electronic Materials with Dr. Nirat Ray, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering. He was selected in the "Engineering including Computer Sciences" category.
  • Shri Vidhatri M M, UG4, CND received the best paper award in the Sensors and Measurements section for her work on Development of sensor for monitoring the integrity of lubrication system of heavy duty pumps in nuclear reactors at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET 2022) in NIT Patna from 24 - 25 June.
  • Research work on Bringing Linearly Transformed Cosines to Anisotropic GGX by Aakash K T under the supervision of Prof. P J Narayanan received the best paper award at ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2022.
  • Kumar Neelabh, working under the supervision of Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar, has been selected for the Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer School to be held at Eresfjord, Norway from 20 July to 5 August organised by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
  • Pranay Gupta and Debtanu Gupta under the mentorship of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla were super winners of this year’s edition of the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) award for their innovative proposal – Deep Neural Models for Generalized Synthesis of Multi-avatar Actions in the domain of Multimedia Computing. Harshithanjani Athi and Rasagna Chigullapally under the mentorship of Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani and Dr. Prasad Krishnan were winners of this year’s edition of the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) award for their innovative proposal – List Decoding Reed-Solomon and Locally Repairable Codes: How far can we go? in the domain of Advances in Communication Techniques and Theory.
  • Team Cerebrus, Robotics Research Center (RRC) secured second place at the ARTPARK Robotics Challenge conducted by IISc Bangalore’s Innovation Hub. IIITH team Cerebrus was led by Suraj Bonagiri, PhD scholar as well as founder of a drone startup, Arka Aerospace, and included Vedant Mundheda, Karan Mirakhor, Rahul Kashyap, Sreeharsha Paruhuri and Karnik Ram.
  • Team Lumos comprising Aditya Agarwal, Bipasha Sen, Vishal Reddy Mandadi and Shankara Narayanan, Robotics Research Center (RRC) secured 3rd place at an international robotics competition organized by IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022) held from 23 - 27 May at Philadelphia.
  • Adithya Sunil Edakkadan working under the supervision of Dr. Abhishek Srivastava has been selected for the Chanakya Undergraduate Fellowship in Quantum Technologies by the I-Hub Quantum Technology foundation at IISER Pune.
  • Dipanwita Guhathakurta, Dual Degree and Pravalika Mukkiri, BTech-Hons. have bagged this year’s Micron’s flagship University Research Alliance (URAM) Scholarship
  • Prof. R Pradeep Kumar’s external student, Mangesh Shendkar from IIT BHU received the best paper award for his work on Response reduction factor of RC-infilled frames by using different methods by the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) Journal.
  • Team PauliZ with team members Alapan Chaudhuri, (CSD UG3); Kushagra Garg, (CND UG3); Rutvij Menavlikar, (CSD UG3); Shreyas Pradhanm (CND UG3) and Zeeshan Ahmed, (CSD UG3) secured first place in Quantum Chemistry Challenge of QHack 2022 conducted from 14 – 25 February. The team won two spots for one month summer internships in Tokyo with QunaSys.
  • Rishikesh Bose, Master of Science 1st year; Ayush Kumar Lall, 3rd year Dual Degree; Nilesh Bawankar, Master of Science 1st year and Ansh Khandelwal, 3rd Year BTech Honors won the water challenge hackathon conducted by Smart City Living Lab with Govt. of Telangana.
  • Sarvesh Thakur pursuing Ph.D in CSE under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna had been awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship Program, a competitive Fellowship program for pursuing Ph.D at the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH).

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    • IIITH with its good score in research and innovation is now in the top 600 universities across the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023.

    • IIIT Hyderabad is amongst top 100 engineering colleges of India according to the Dataquest- CMR Survey on Employability Index 2022.

    • India Today’s July 2022 rankings of IIITH are:
      India’s number 2 in All India Best Engineering Colleges
      1st in Private colleges with best placement records
      1st in Emerging Private Colleges 1st in South zone Private colleges
      2nd in Private Engineering Colleges
      2nd in overall Private Engineering colleges
      7th in Private colleges with best value for money
      15th in New entrants among top 25 colleges for the first time

    • The Week’s July 2022 rankings of IIITH are:
      2nd in Private Technical Universities - South zone
      2nd in Deemed Technical Universities - South zone
      4th in Deemed Technical Universities - All India
      All India 7th in Technical Universities - South zone

    • IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked prominently in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) announced by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Ranked 62 in Engineering category In the overall category IIITH is in the 150 - 200 band.
    •  IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked India's number 1 and Telangana's number 1 Private University in a survey conducted by the Education World India Higher Education Rankings for 2022 - 2023.
    •  IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked India's number 1 private engineering institution in the annual Education World India Higher Education Rankings 2022-23.
    • In a survey conducted by DataQuest Best T-School, IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked third at All India Level and has been ranked second in the South zone. The survey focussed on UG programs offered at Higher education institutions and technical institutions. The methodology consists of 48 attributes grouped into 6 sections based on 4 parameters - PACE: (i) Placements - 30% (ii) Academic & research - 30% (iii) Campus infrastructure - 15% (iv) Engagement and Outreach etc. - 25%.
    • IIITH is recognised in the "PROMISING" category of "University & Deemed to be University (Private/Self Financed) (Technical)" by Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement(ARIIA) 2021, a flagship program of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

    • Year 2021

    Faculty
  • Dr. Nazia Akhtar received a special commendation from the jury of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation. Nazia translated the Urdu short story Chhottam Jaan written by Zeenath Sajida. In 2017, Nazia was awarded a New India Foundation fellowship to write a book on Urdu prose by Hyderabadi women.
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals.
  • Dr. Syed Azeemuddin has been selected as a co-guest editor for MDPI electronics special issue. He will be helping the team in making decisions on RF CMOS-related papers.
  • Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao’s research proposal on the topic Seismic Retrofitting for Historic and Contemporary Masonry Buildings using Textile Reinforced Mortar Composites: An Alternate to FRP was awarded a Startup Research Grant (SRG) by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Cyber Security and Applications (CSA) Elsevier journal.
  • Mission Parikshit was one of the winners of the Kohli Challenge Proposal Scheme funded by Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) endowed by TCS foundation. The principal investigator of this project is Dr. Abhishek Srivastava and co-principal investigators are Dr. Anshu Sarje, Dr. Kavita Vemuri and Prof. Bapi Raju.
  • Research paper on Design and Implementation of 0.23 nJ/bit Reference-Spur-Free FSK/OOK Transmitter at 400 MHz for Wearable Health Monitoring by Dr. Abhishek Srivastava, Dr. Devarshi Das, IIT Ropar and Dr. M Shojaei Baghini, IIT Bombay has been selected as one of the top contributions at IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS-2021) held in Berlin, Germany from 6 – 9 October. The authors have been invited to submit this paper in a special edition of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS). The selection of paper as one of the top contributions is usually equivalent to the Best Paper Award. The authors were not allowed to participate in the best paper award category as all the authors were professors.
  • Research work on SAW Resonator Oscillator Based Injection Locked OOK Transmitter by Dr. Abhishek Srivastava, CVEST and his collaborators Dr. Devarshi Das; IIT Ropar, Dr. M Shojaei Baghini, IIT Bombay was granted an Indian patent.
  • Prof. C V Jawahar receives the ACM India Outstanding Contribution to Computing Education (OCCE) Award for 2021. OCCE award selection is made by a committee comprising eminent international personalities.
  • Dr. Raghu Reddy and his students Neeraj Mathur and Sai Anirudh Karre have been granted a U.S Patent for their research work on System and method for evaluating and facilitating customized guidelines using usability code pattern analysis.
  • Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra has been awarded with Prof. D J Badkas Medal for the academic year 2019 - 2020 by the council of the institute for his best performance in Ph.D at IISc Bangalore during the online convocation held on 6 October.
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been inducted into the Academic Council (aka Senate, highest academic body of an institution) of The LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT).
  • Prof. Deva Priyakumar received the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal from the president of CSRI at the 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata from 26 - 30 September. He received this award for his significant contributions in computational chemistry to study reaction mechanisms and biological interactions.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is in the 10,000 Club of Google Scholar Citations. His Google Scholar h-index is 59 and i10-index is 171 with over 10,000 citations. Dr. Das has also been included in the top 2% of scientists world-wide in all fields and in the area of Networking & Telecommunications he has been ranked 321 in the world subject area for the year 2021. The ranking is based on an independent study done by the Stanford University, USA.
  • Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal Communication, Culture and Critique. Published by the International Communication Association (ICA) and Oxford University Press, Communication, Culture and Critique (CCC) is devoted to critical scholarship on communication, media, and cultural studies.
  • Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been appointed as a member of jury committee, CSI SIG eGovernance Awards 2021.
  • Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla has been appointed as a member of the Bridge Specifications and Standards Committee (BSSC) of the Indian Road Congress.
  • Prof. Vishal Garg has been elected as a member of the executive council of Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), one of the leading organizations in India that works on creating awareness about energy efficiency as a resource.
  • Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao was awarded the "Young Engineer of the Year Award-2021" by Institution of Engineers (India) on 15 September.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer) having 2020 SCI Impact Factor: 5.71.
  • Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been elected as a Member of the Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE).
  • Prof. Pawan Kumar has been awarded Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant for his research on Optimization methods for Deep Learning.
  • Prof. Vishal Garg has been appointed as Project Committee Voting Member (PCVM) in the Standing Standard Project Committee (SSPC) 90.2 – Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings of The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Prof. Garg will be serving on the lighting subcommittee. This appointment is for 4 years starting 1 July 2021.
  • Prof. K S Rajan has been co-opted to the Tech sub-committee of the Geospatial Data Promotion and Development Committee headed by the Principal Scientific Adviser in pursuant of the new National Geospatial data policy.
  • Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been elected as a Young Member of RILEM, France.
  • Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) has been awarded the Indian Association of Structural Engineers National Award 2020 in the category of Promising Young Structural Engineer of the Year Award 2020.
  • Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been awarded the PAKDD Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to a member of the PAKDD community who has made outstanding service contributions to the PAKDD, through organizational efforts, resulting in making PAKDD conferences successful and has taken exceptional leadership and responsibility towards his/her tasks.
  • Prof. R Pradeep Kumar has been requested by the Governing Council of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE) to be the Chief Editor of Structural Engineering Digest (SED).
  • Prof. Kishore Kothapalli, Head, Centre for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) has been appointed the new Dean of Dean Academics at IIIT Hyderabad.
  • Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, EERC has been elected as a member of the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) and has been selected as a life member for the very prestigious Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET).
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been selected as an Advisory Board member of the 3rd International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN ’21) to be held in Salamanca, Spain from 6 – 8 October.
  • Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of  Journal of Quantum Information Science (JQIS).
  • The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has appointed Prof. P Krishna Reddy as member of an Expert Committee for Evaluation/Review of multilateral R&D proposals submitted under joint call between DBT and EUREKA in the area of Key Enabling Technologies for Healthcare, Agriculture and Water.

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    Students
      • Avantika Latwal working under the supervision of Dr. Rehana Shaik was awarded second prize under the theme Geospatial Technologies in Water Resources Engineering  for research work on Water Quality Estimation Using Remote Sensing Technique: A case study of Bhadra Reservoir, Karnataka at  the 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO-2021 International) Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) Surat, Gujarat from 23 - 25  December.
      • An extensive article by Rishabh B Mishra, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) on Solar Powered Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review was published in the journal - Energy Technology and also got accepted as the cover article of the journal which reflects that the topic which was covered is highly interesting to editors of the journal and it’s quite unique as well.
      • A team of 8 students -  Aditya Kadam (UG3, Anmol Goel (RA), Jivitesh Jain (UG4), Mallika Subramanian (UG4), Manvith Reddy (UG4), Prashant Kodali (Ph.D), Arjun T H (UG3), Jushaan Singh Kalra (UG4, Delhi Technological University) and faculty members Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and  Prof. Manish Shrivastava from Precog IIITH participated in the Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC-2021) shared task as a part of the CEUR workshop organized by FIRE 2021 from 13 - 17 December.
      • Research work on Classroom Slide Narration System by Jobin K V Ajoy Mondal working under the supervision of Prof. C V Jawahar won the IAPR best paper award at the 6th IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing held at IIT Roper in a Hybrid mode from 3 - 5 December.
      • An international oneM2M hackathon organised by Korea Electronics Technology Institute to commemorate its 30th anniversary saw IIITH walk away with the Best User Application award.
      • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and his students received the best student paper award for their research work on What’s Kooking? Characterizing India’s Emerging Social Network, Koo at the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM-21) held virtually on ZOOM from 8 – 11 November.
      • Salma Khan, a Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Syed Azeemuddin received the best student paper presentation award at Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS-2021) for her research work on High-Speed CMOS Ramp Generator using Proteretic Comparator held in hybrid mode from 22 – 26 November from Malaysia.
      • IIITH-TCS Team Winners at PowerTAC ’21
      • Research work on A BIM Based Approach of Electrical Network Analysis and Applications Using GIS Tools by Prof. K S Rajan, Dr. Nagaraja Ravoori Tejaswini Venkumahanti, Kesava Rao Pyla and Sinha S K was given Best Paper Award at 2nd International virtual conference on Sustainable Construction Technologies and Advancements in Civil Engineering (ScTACE 2021), Bhimavaram from 14 - 16 October.
      • IIIT team tesla_protocol ranked 46 at the ACM-ICPC competition for 2020. tesla_protocol, made up of Sai Anurudh Peduri, Arjun Pitchanathan and Devansh Gautam was ahead of teams from Stanford, Virginia Tech, Purdue, etc. After a years delay due to Covid-19 pandemic, the ACM-ICPC- 2020 competition officially concluded on 6 October at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. More than 50,000 students, from more than 3000 universities from 111 countries participated in local and regional events.
      • IHub-Data fellowships were awarded to research students who can contribute to the mission of the center through their research objectives and projects - for details visit: https://blogs.iiit.ac.in/monthly_news/ihub-data-fellowships/
      • Prof. C V Jawahar and his students Sanjana Gunna and Rohit Saluja were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper on Transfer Learning for Scene Text Recognition in Indian Languages at the ICDAR 2021 workshop on camera-based document analysis and recognition (CBDAR 2021, 9th edition) in Lausanne, Switzerland from 5 - 10 September.

      • Jhansi Mallela (Ph.D – ECE) working under the supervision of Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra and Ruthwik Muppala (Ph.D – ECE) working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab M Hussain were awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship for the academic year 2021 – 2022.

      • Manisha Padala and Sankrshan Damle, Ph.D students working under the guidance of Dr. Sujit Gujar received Best Paper Award at the first Indian conference on (DAI) organized by Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras from 16 – 18 June for their work on Building Ethical AI: Federated Learning Meets Fairness and Differential Privacy. Manisha Padala and Sankrshan Damle were given a cash prize of USD 500.

      • A team comprising of students Pranay Gupta and Debtanu Gupta under the mentorship of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla has won this year’s edition of the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship award for their innovative proposal titled “Deep Neural Models For Generalized Synthesis of Multi-avatar Actions.

      • Sourav Kumar, 5th year dual degree student working under the supervision of Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma and Salil Aggarwal, 4th year dual degree student working under the supervision of Prof. Radhika Mamidi ranked second globally at a Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2021) shared task.

      • Research work by Aditya Srinivas Gear, Kritika Prakash, Nonidh Singh and Dr Praveen Paruchuri on PredictRV: A Prediction Based Strategy for Negotiations with Dynamically Changing Reservation Value has been accepted and also has been nominated for the best student paper at the 21st International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN 2021).
      • Anurag Jain working under the supervision of Dr. Sujit Gujar received the best poster design award for their work on We might walk together, but I run faster: Network Fairness and Scalability in Blockchains at the Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021 (AAMAS'21).

      • Maheshwari Himanshu and Bhavyajeet Singh working under the supervision of Prof. Vasudeva Varma participated in a 3C shared task at Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing @ NAACL 2021. The shared task focuses on classifying citation context in research publications based on their influence and purpose. It consisted of two subtasks. The model proposed by Maheshwari Himanshu and Bhavyajeet Singh was ranked number 1 for Subtask A and their macro F1 score was 0.26973. For Subtask B they were ranked number 2 and their macro F1 score is 0.59071 which is very close to the top team's macro F1 score 0.60025.

      • Research work on Recent Progress on Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors: From Design and Materials to Applications by Rishabh B. Mishra working under the supervision of Aftab M. Hussain, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technologies (CVEST) was featured as a cover page image in Advanced Materials Technologies, Vol 6, No 4 April 2021.

      • Achintya Manohar Desai, Master of Science in Computer Science & Engineering, Cryptography stream working under Dr. Kannan Srinathan has been accepted for a Ph.D programme in Computer Science, Cryptography at University of California – Santa Barbara, California, USA.

      • Dr. Kavita Vemuri and Vivek Kaushal’s paper on Clickbait – Trust and Credibility of Digital News is available in the Early Access area on IEEE Xplore.

      • Durga Prasad Dhulipudi working in Honeywell and a part time Ph.D student of Dr. K S Rajan was awarded best paper award for his research work on Geospatial Object Detection using Machine Learning Aviation Case Study at the 2021 Integrated Communication, Navigation, & Surveillance Conference (ICNS-2021) on Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for aviation applications.
    Staff
    • Dr. K S Vijaya Sekhar has been appointed as Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM) of Computer Science Journals, a platform for open access publications.

     Institute

    • IIIT Hyderabad is in the 601-800 bracket by The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022.
    • IIITH has been ranked 54 in engineering category and 83 in university category in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) announced by the Ministry of Education, Government of India on 9 September 2021.
    • IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked 3rd by DataQuest's T-School Employability Index Survey 2021.
    • IIITH ranked prominently in different categories of The Week: 1st in Private Engineering Colleges, South Zone; 1st in Private Engineering Colleges, Hyderabad; 2nd in All India Private Engineering Colleges; 2nd in Engineering Colleges, South Zone; 14th in All India Engineering Colleges
    • IIIT Hyderabad has been highly ranked by The Week: – 3rd best private & deemed technical universities (All India Category) – 2nd best private & deemed technical universities (South Zone) – ranked 18th under technical universities (All India) which includes both, Government and Private Universities. – ranked 7th under technical universities (South Zone) which includes both, Government and Private Universities.
    • IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked India’s number 5 and Telangana’s number 1 Private University in a survey conducted by the Education World India Higher Education Rankings for 2021 – 22.
    • In a survey conducted by DataQuest Best T-School, IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked second at All India Level and has been ranked No. 1 in the South zone.
    • Education World’s annual survey of Private Engineering Institutes ranks IIITH number 2 in India and number 1 in Telangana. And in the key parameters including faculty competence, curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, and placements record IIITH has been ranked India’s number 1. India Higher Education rankings by the Education World rankings are for the year 2021 - 2022. IIIT Hyderabad ranked #1 in India for its computer science courses in the Education World India Higher Education Rankings 2021-22 (Top 10 courses & institutes).

    Year 2020

    Faculty
  • Dr. Kishore Kothapalli has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC). The appointment is for a period of three years.
  • Prof. Abhishek Srivastava has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member. The senior membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions in their designated fields.
  • Analytics from the Virtual Labs initiative released by the IIIT Hyderabad, a consortium project of 11 institutes across the country, including several IIT’s and being led by IIT Delhi, crosses 20 million page views in the usage of Science and Engineering-related online laboratory materials.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Editor, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), for a period of 2 years renewable for another 2 years.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the subject-wise ranking of top 2% scientists from India in all fields, in the area of Networking and Telecommunications, and has a world-wide ranking of 580 in his area of research. The ranking is based on an independent study done by Stanford University scientists.
  • The 2nd edition of the book on Building Energy Simulation: A Workbook Using DesignBuilder by Prof. Vishal Garg; Prof. Jyotirmay Mathur, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur and Aviruch Bhatia, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi has been released. The first edition was released in 2017 and was published by Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Prof. Vasudeva Verma, was awarded the Google India AI/ML Research Award 2020 for his work on ‘Project ANGEL’, an initiative aimed at utilizing machine learning techniques for enhancing the well-being of teenagers, especially teenage girls.
  • Prof. Vasudeva Varma received a Research Award of USD 20,000 from Google for research in Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML).
  • Prof. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal and has also been appointed as an Editor (Technical Committee), Computer Communications (Elsevier).
  • Dr. Deva Priyakumar has been awarded the prestigious Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore (CRSI) Bronze medal for the year 2021 in recognition of his contributions to research in chemistry.
  • Prof. Madhava Krishna and Dr. Vineet Gandhi’s team won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2020 - 2021 for their innovation - Language-Based Navigation with Object Referenced Spatiotemporal Constraints in Autonomous Driving. The student members of this team are Unni Krishnan R Nair and Nivedita Rufus. The fellowship includes a cash prize of Rs.10 lakhs.
  • Prof. Madhava Krishna appointed Head of Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS)
  • Prof. Kishore Kothapalli, Center for Security, Theory and Algorithms (CSTAR) has been promoted as a Professor
  • Prof. K S Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI), Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Center for Open Software (COS) has been promoted as a Professor.
  • Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) and Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) has been promoted as an Associate Professor.
  • Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty, Center for Security, Theory and Algorithms (CSTAR) has been promoted as an Associate Professor
  • Prof. Ashok Kumar Das is serving as one of the Guest Editor(s) in Science Citation Indexed (SCI) Wiley-Hindawi journal: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 1.396) for the special issue on “Attacks, Challenges, and New Designs in Security and Privacy for Smart Mobile Devices.”
  • Prof. Ashok Kumar Das is serving as a member of Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair(s) in Springer International Conference on Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN'20) from 14 - 17 October 2020 in Chennai.
  • Research work of Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty and his group on Broadcasting of correlations: a cost-effective approach to perform information processing in large quantum networks was highlighted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
  • Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty has been selected as a reviewer for NPJ Quantum Information journal, which is a Nature Partner Journal.
  • Dr. Vikram Pudi’s Covid19 viral simulator featured in ACM-SIGMOD blog (http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=3100).
  • Dr. Shatrunjay Rawat has been appointed as a member of the online courses committee at NIT Warangal.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been listed in the top H-Index for Computer Science and Electronics database maintained by Guide2Research http://www.guide2research.com/
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das will be serving as one of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair(s) in the 2nd International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN 2020) to be held at L'Aquila, Italy, during 7 - 9 October 2020.
  • Prof. Shatrunjay Rawat has been appointed Member of Academia, Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), Ministry of Communications, Department of Posts (DoP), Technology Division.
  • Dr. Vinoo Alluri's student Arun Garimella’s research on Marijuana and the Hippocampus: A Longitudinal Study on the effects of Marijuana on Hippocampal Subfields has been accepted in international journal Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. Co-authors of the work include Sourabh Rajguru, Umesh Singla and Prof. Vinoo Alluri.
  • Dr. Radhika Mamidi and her student Kartikey Pant (5th year CLD) received Best System Paper Award for their research work on BERT-based Ensembles for Modeling Disclosure and Support in Conversational Social Media Text at Affective Content Analysis workshop in the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence at New York on 7 February.
  • Dr. Zia Abbas and his Master of Science students Mounika Kelam and Battu Balaji Yadav’s research work on 3.75ppm/C, -91dB PSRR, 27nW, 0.9V PVT Invariant Voltage Reference for Implantable Biomedical Applications has been selected for the Special Mention Recognition award at 33rd International Conference on VLSI Design VLSID 2020 held in Bangalore on 7 January.
  • Dr. Syed Azeemuddin has been selected as Vice-Chairman of IEEE Photonics Society, Hyderabad Chapter.

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    Students
  • Shweta Kumari, Ph.D student, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) and Abishek Bharadhwaj, Ph.D student of CCMB Hyderabad won the best poster award for their research work on Structural modulation in Smoothened (SMO) upon cholesterol binding at the second edition of student-driven conference Hy-Sci 2020 held virtually from 17 - 18 December.
  • In a global event conducted jointly by the University of Helsinki and Slush to tackle the growing urban air pollution crisis, a IIITH team of students made the jury’s cut and featured among the 8 shortlisted teams.
  • A team comprising Adhithya Arun and Meher Shashwat Nigam, 4th year BTech students, along with few others walked away with the second place in the 3rd edition of the virtual Blockchain and Data Science hackathon event that was conducted from 9 - 11 October 2020.
  • Fourth year CSE and CSD students Aadil Mehdi Sanchawala, Adhithya Arun, and Rahul Sajnani working under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri received Best Paper at IEEE Conference on Games 2020.
  • M.Tech CSE students Shanu Gandhi, Shreyas Nagraj, Upinder Singh and Manik Gupta, B.Tech CSE student Vijayraj S. and dual degree student Pradeep P. won the hackathon "Payments and Pandemic" in category "Best Use of Visa API", conducted during their virtual summer internship at VISA. Over 50 teams of interns participated from India and around the world in teams of 4-6 size and IIITH was among the 6 winning teams and only team from India to win.
  • K L Bhanu Moorthy doing Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Vineet Gandhi received a TCS Research Scholarship.
  • Himanshi Singh, Master of Science in Civil Engineering working under the supervision of Dr. Shaik Rehna was selected for the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Summer Training Program at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR).
  • IIITH team Occams Razor won the Smart India Hackathon 2020 for the problem statement DS165 Library Software for Andaman College.
  • IIITH students selected for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship
  • Third year BTech (Hons) students Rohan Chacko and Aadil Mehdi Sanchawala, have won the second place at the Microsoft CodeFunDo ++ 2019 hackathon
  • “tesla_protocol”, made up of Sai Anurudh Peduri, Arjun Pitchanathan and Devansh Gautam, has qualified for the Association for Computing Machinery – International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) world finals
  • IIIT Hyderabad team - The Third I won a hackathon on IoT for Smart City on 11 January at Panaji. The team proposed a low cost IoT solution for indoor pollution monitoring. A prize is a fully paid trip by EU to attend a leading startup event in Europe.

    • Institute

  • In a survey conducted by DataQuest in association with Dell Technologies, IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked second under India’s best 100 tech-enabled Engineering colleges and institutions (including both government and private colleges). And has been ranked first in the South zone.
  • IIITH ranked prominently in different categories of The Week, an Indian news magazine founded in 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd. - 1st in South Zone - 2nd in All India
  • IIITH is ranked 11th in Outlook’s annual ranking of India’s top 23 Technical Universities in 2020.
  • IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked AAAA+ (Outstanding) in All India Technical Colleges.
  • IIIT Hyderabad was ranked the 9th best university in India by a survey conducted by India Today. The ranking criteria is based on PG programs offered in three categories: General (Government and Private), Technical and Medical/Law.
  • IIITH ranked prominently in different categories of The Week, an Indian news magazine founded in 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd.
    - 3rd Best Private and Deemed Technical University in India
    - 2nd Private and Deemed Technical Universities, South Zone
    - 18th Top Technical Universities (All India), includes both Government and Private Universities.
    - 7th Technical Universities, South Zone
  • IIITH ranked 11th among 373 institutions in Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA-2020) Rankings in the self-finance universities category.
  • Dataquest's T-School Survey 2020 has ranked IIITH among the top 3 institutions in India and top 1 in South Zone. This annual survey evaluates the performance of Tech schools in the country based on four parameters (commonly known as the PACE scale): Placements (40%), Academic Environment (30%), Campus and Infrastructure (Physical and Digital) (15%), Engagement and Outreach (15%).
  • Education World’s annual survey ranks IIITH number 1 in key parameters including faculty competence, curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, and placements record.
  • Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal, which gives annual recognition for engineering colleges across the country, has shortlisted IIIT Hyderabad for 50 Must Watch Engineering Colleges in India 2020 under Higher Education Sector.
  • IIIT Hyderabad was ranked 78 under University category and 43 under Engineering category by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).

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    Year 2019

    Faculty
  • Rehana Shaik and her student N T Monish received Best Paper Award for their research work on Assessment of Regional Spatio-Temporal Trends of Water Availability over India at Hydro 2019, an International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources & Coastal Engineering, Hyderabad from 18 - 20 December.
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Hyderabad Chapter chaired by Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani awarded SPS Chapter of the year award 2019.
  • Prof. P Krishna Reddy was Steering Committee Chair and Publication Chair at the Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019) from 17 - 20 December at Ahmedabad University.
  • Research work of Vinoo Alluri and her student D Niranjan on Dynamic Functional Connectivity in the Musical Brain was awarded best paper at the 12th International Conference on Brain Informatics - Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence, Hainan, China from 13 - 15 December
  • Prof. Vishal Garg and his students received US patent rights for their research work on System and apparatus for and methods of control of localized energy use in a building using price set points. This patent is a joint application between IIITH and LBNL under the CBERD project (a five year Indo-US bilateral R&D project).
  • Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), Computer Science Department, IIIT Delhi created Prof. Rajeev Sangal Faculty Fellowship for fellow faculty members. It will be awarded each year to a faculty member having a wholesome impact on students.
  • Sunil Lohar, Lecturer and a Ph.D student of CEH, IIIT- Hyderabad completed his six weeks artist residency program at Bordeaux Metropole, France. The program was closely related to Sunil Lohar’s Ph.D work and provided him the opportunity to interact with several international scholars of Arts and Aesthetics. He visited many museums and art galleries in France during his residency program to view original artworks of great artists. Every year, only one Indian artist gets a chance to be a part of this prestigious artist residency program in Bordeaux Metropole, France. Sunil is also a recipient of the Telangana State Award for painting at the Kalanand art contest 2019.
  • Prof. Vishal Garg have been elevated as a Fellow of the international society - IBPSA, International Building Performance Simulation Association at the biannual conference in Rome from 2 - 4 September. Prof. Vishal Garg and Prof. Jyotirmay Mathur from MNIT Jaipur are the first Indian’s to receive this honour.
  • Dr. Vinoo Alluri wrote a book chapter on Neural Correlates of Timbre Processing in Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition published by Springer. The other author of this book chapter is Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri (currently doing postdoc in Helsinki, P.hD from IIITH)
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das edited a book on Blockchain and Applications - International Congress published by Springer. The other editors of this book are Javier Prieto, Stefano Ferretti, António Pinto, and Juan Manuel Corchado.
  • Prof. P K Vinod, Prof. C V Jawahar and Sairam Tabibu (research fellow) published a paper on Pan-Renal Cell Carcinoma classification and survival prediction from histopathology images using deep learning in Nature Scientific Reports. 
  • Dr. Priyanka Srivastava and her team – Anurag Rimzhim (CCSU, US), Palash Vijay (IIITH), Shruti Singh (IIITH), Sushil Chandra (INMAS, DRDO, New Delhi)  presented a paper on Desktop VR is better than Non-ambulatory HMD VR for spatial learning at EuroVR 2017, Laval, France from 12 – 17 December. Their paper was awarded one of the best papers from Euro VR 2017 in a peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2018) in July 2019.
  • Prof. Pradeep K. Ramancharla elected Vice President (South) of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE).
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the guest editors in the special issue on Blockchain Technologies and Applications for 5G Enabled IoT in ICT Express (Elsevier) journal.
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the program committee chairs for the International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'19), Avila, Spain from 26 - 28 June. This annual congress brings together blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, who share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains. The BLOCKCHAIN’19 congress is devoted to promoting the investigation of cutting-edge blockchain technology, to exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain and AI for the industry, and to identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research.
  • Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani and Aaditya M Nair won first runner-up best paper award at National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019) for their research on Maximally Recoverable Codes with Hierarchical Locality at the Silver Jubilee edition of National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019) from 20 – 23 February held at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
  • Dr. Sachin Chaudhari has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. IEEE Senior member is awarded to engineer, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated field with experience reflecting professional maturity and have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees). In order to be promoted to Senior Member, they also have to show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice
  • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor of IET Communications journal for a three-year term from February 2019 – 2022. The journal, in publication since 1980, is a prestigious SCI-indexed journal.
  • Dr. Radha Rangarajan, Head, Innovation and Strategy – OJAS MedTech BioNEST won the FICCI Award of Excellence – Women in R&D under the DST FICCI Global R&D Summit 2019. The award is given for outstanding R&D happening in the country across industry, academia and research establishments from the public and private sector. With the award, FICCI hopes to motivate corporates, academic institutions, government laboratories and professionals working in research and development across various sectoral domains.
  • Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been inducted into the board of advisors for United Nations University – Institute of computing society. The United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society is an institute of the United Nations University (UNU), located in São Lázaro, Macau, China. Established in 2015, UNU-CS serves as a bridge between the UN and international academic and public policy communities, training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists in computing, social sciences and design for international development.
  • Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been appointed as a member of executive committee, Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology (INSAIT), from October 2018.
  • Prof. Vasudeva Varma and his team came second at the CL-Aff Shared Task for their poster on  Ingredients for Happiness: Modeling constructs via semi-supervised content driven inductive transfer at the AAAI-19 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AFFCON 2019) - Modeling Affect-in-Action at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from  27 January to 1 February. The authors of this paper are Bakhtiyar Syed, Vijayasaradhi Indurthi, Kulin Shah, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma.
  • Dr. Abhishek Srivastava won the best paper award for his research on Analysis and Design of Low Phase Noise LC Oscillator for Sub-mW PLL-free Biomedical Receivers at the 32nd International Conference on VLSI Design and 18th International Conference on Embedded systems (VLSID 2019) from 5 - 9 January at Manekshaw Center, New Delhi.
  • Two papers by IIIT-H selected among the best 25 papers in the history of HiPC. The two papers selected were: - Pawan Harish, P J Narayanan (2007) - Accelerating Large Graph Algorithms on the GPU Using CUDA - Kishore Kothapalli, Rishabh Mukherjee, M. Suhail Rehman Suryakant Patidar, P J Narayanan, Kannan Srinathan (2009) - A performance prediction model for the CUDA GPGPU platform More information visit: https://hipc.org/hipc-25th-year-celebration

    • Students

        • Utkarsh Azad, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) received the best paper award for his research on Noise Analysis of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Weighted Max-Cut in Computer and Software Systems track at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT-2019).
        • Tanashree Jaganade (Ph.D in Bioinformatics, student of Dr. Deva Priyakumar) received the first best poster award for her work on Unravelling dynamics and energetic events involved in flipping process of Thymine Glycol lesion using computational approaches at Australasia's premier Molecular Modelling (MM) conference which was held on Bintan Island, Indonesia from 5 - 8 December. She also received Bursary Award as a fellowship from the organising committee of the conference. The conference was organised by the Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA).
        • PEC Coach P Shiva Shalini has been selected to be a part of the Osmania University women’s hockey team. She participated in the South Zone Inter University Hockey Tournament in Chennai last month. Interestingly, Shalini learnt to play hockey at IIITH campus.
        • IIITH students won first place in the first round of Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon 2019. Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon is held every year by Microsoft in a few institutes like IIIT Hyderabad, IITs and BITS. The first round is held at the college level where participants compete with other teams from their college. IIITH team -Greenticks will represent IIIT Hyderabad in the National Round competing against all other winning teams from their respective colleges. As a prize for the first place, IIITH students won Rs. 20,000 per participant and have qualified for the National Round which will be early next year. The theme for the hackathon was to use blockchain in the electoral process to improve reliability and transparency. For more details visit codefundo.io.
        • Venkata Appa Rao Yempada, Research Scholar, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) working under the supervision of Dr. Srivatsava Jandhyala, was awarded the best poster award for his work on Simulation study of III-V Lateral Tunnel FETs with Gate-Drain underlap at the 23rd International symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) at IIT Indore from 4 - 6 July.
        • Divija Swetha Gadiraju, Ph.D student of SPCRC working under the supervision of Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani, has been awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2019 for their proposal - Codes for distributed computing and sharding.The participating institutes included 9 IITs, IISc as well as IIIT Hyderabad. Out of 28 finalist teams, 10 winning teams were awarded the fellowship. Each winning team will receive 10 lakhs INR fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.
      • Mihir Bani (CND, 1st Year) and Mukund Choudhary (CLD, 2nd Year) have been selected to represent IIITH in the National Level Quiz - Lallantop Quiz 2019, organized by the India Today Group.
      • Aditya Kumar (2nd year BTech, CSE) has been selected as a Campus Director for the 2020 Hult Prize on Campus Program at IIIT Hyderabad. In partnership with the United Nations, the Hult Prize is hosting college and university events around the world in search of the next game-changing start-up.
      • Sreeja Kamishetty working under the supervision of Praveen Paruchuri has been selected for the Google Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship. Every year Google offers the Venkat Memorial Scholarship to 6 students from India pursuing Computer Science or a closely related field. Selected students receive a financial award of 750 USD towards tuition and education related expenses, and will be invited to visit the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, USA. Selected students will also have an opportunity to submit a proposal, and potentially receive a funding of up to 225 USD to spend on growing computer science in the local community.

    Year 2018

    Faculty
    • Dr. Ravi Kiran S and Yashaswi Verma were awarded the IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) – Best Doctoral Dissertation Award during the ICVGIP 2018 Conference held from 18 – 22 December at IIIT-Hyderabad. The awardees were given a citation and a cash prize for their achievement. The dissertation topic of Dr. Ravi Kiran S was Deep learning for hand-drawn sketches: Analysis, synthesis and cognitive process models.
    • Prof. C V Jawahar, has been elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) with effect from November 2018.
    • Prof. Vishal Garg received the Arthur H Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Award from the Global Cool Cities Alliance in California, USA. The Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) has established an award to honor the legacy and impact of Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld’s advocacy for cooler buildings, cooler cities, and a cooler planet. Dr. Rosenfeld was a founder of GCCA and a tireless advocate for building materials that improve thermal comfort and make a positive impact on global climate change.
    • Dr. K S Rajan has been invited to be the Associate Editor of Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS). It is the premier publication of the Society and has been in publication since 1973. Over the last decade, it became an international journal with Springer publishing and distributing it world over.
    • Dr. K S Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI), Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Center for Open Software (COS) has been invited to be the Associate Editor of Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS).
    • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das, center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) was promoted to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. As the world's largest technical professional organization, IEEE offers a number of ways to get involved with technical and local communities. These communities are active participants in research and authorship, conferences, and important conversations about today's most relevant technical topics locally and globally.
    • Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dean RnD, Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) has been elected for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India council. He will be its Executive Council Member from 1 July 2018 - 30 June 2022.
    • Samyak Datta, Gaurav Sharma and Prof. C V Jawahar, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) were conferred Best Paper Award for their paper Unsupervised Learning of Face Representations at 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018), Xi'an, China during 15 - 19 May.
    • Dr. Jolly Thomas, Center for Exact Humanities (CEH) won the BM Matilal Logic prize for the year 2018. This prize is awarded biennially.
    • Dr. Anoop Namboodiri, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) won the Best Paper Award (Silver) for his work on Semi-Adversarial Networks: Convolutional Autoencoders for Imparting Privacy to Face Images at the 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2018), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
    • Dr. Shatrunjay Rawat, Center for Security, Theory andAlgorithmic Research (CSTAR):
      - chaired the combined committee for curriculum for Polytechnic (Diploma) in Computer Science and IT.
      - renominated for CAG’s Audit Advisory Board for the state of Telangana for the period 2017-19.
    • Prof. P J Narayanan appointed institute’s Director for a second term for a period of another five years by the Governing Council of IIIT-Hyderabad. He will be heading the institute till April 2023.

    Students

        • Rahul Suresh Vishwakarma (4th year dual degree student in EERC) working under the supervision of Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla won the Excellent Young Researcher Award for the best poster presentation for his research work on Analysis of Hill Slope Buildings for Twist Variation with Change in Aspect Ratio at the 17th International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia at IIIT-Hyderabad from 12 to 14 December.
      • Tarnpreet Gill, (M.Tech Students of CASE, EERC) won the Best Paper Presentation Award in the general track category for his paper on Age Detection of Moon Minerals Using Crater Counting Techniques at FOSS4G-ASIA - 2018 Conference at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka from 2 - 5 December
      • 1st Year UG Student Mukund Choudhary is one of  the top 20 finalists selected through a rigorous 2-stage jury process among 470 submissions from 60 countries to attend  the prestigious 10th Global Peter Drucker forum in Vienna from 29 - 30 November. He also received travel funding to attend the award ceremony.
      • Team VidyutVanika, a collaborative team between TCS and IIITH came second in the PowerTac 2018 competition. The team consisted of Susobhan Ghosh (student), Dr. Sujit Gujar, Dr. Praveen Paruchuri from IIIT-Hyderabad and Dr. Easwar Subramanian, Dr. Sanjay Bhat from TCS.
      • Salghuna Nair, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Ramachandra Prasad P. Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) won the best paper and best contribution among young researchers for their paper A surrogate approach of identifying Artocarpus heterophyllus species of Attappadi forest, India at the AIT2018 - the IX Conference of the Italian Society of Remote Sensing, Florence,Italy during 4 - 6 July. Salghuna received 300 Euros as prize money.
      • Mayank Agrawal’s research under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri, Cognitive Science Lab (CogSci) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) was awarded the Best Poster Award for his work on A Heterogeneous traffic virtual-reality simulator to study irritation/anger and driving behaviour under adverse conditions at the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference from 2 - 6 July at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
      • Sreeja Kamishetty, Master of Science student in Computer Science working under the supervision of Dr. Praveen Paruchuri, Data Sciences and Analytics Center (DSAC), Machine Learning Lab (MLL) has been selected for the Google student retreat in London. Google Students Retreat is a three day event for students to connect with each other, develop their skill set and gain unique insights at Google. Google Students Retreat is from 7 - 9 August at Google London Office.
      • Mounika K V won Best Poster Award in 3rd Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology, conducted as a part of INTERSPEECH 2018.
      • IIIT-H Team TooWeakTooSlow - Tanuj Khattar (4th year B.Tech - CSE), C. G. Vedant (4th year B.Tech - CSE) and Rajas Vanjape (4th year CSD-Dual Degree) - have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM-ICPC programming competition to be held in Beijing, China on 19 April 2018.
      • Avijit Dasgupta, a second year Ph.D student won the Google India Ph.D. Fellowship for Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision. Avijit is pursuing his research in computer vision and machine learning under the joint supervision of Prof. C V Jawahar, IIIT-Hyderabad and Dr. Karteek Alahari, INRIA, France.

    International

            • Praveen Krishnan, Katrik Dutta and C. V. Jawahar won the Nakano best paper award for their paper Word spotting and recognition using deep embedding at DAS. This was the 13th edition of the IAPR International workshop focusing on system-level issues and approaches in document analysis and recognition held at Vienna from 24-27 April. 

    Year 2017

    Faculty
    • Prof. Ramesh Loganathan,  Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) received the Telangana State Award for championing the cause of start-ups.
    • Prof. C. V. Jawahar, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
      • received the IAPR Fellowship in December 2016 at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
      • Amazon Chair Professor for a period of five years starting from July 2016.
      • Outstanding Reviewer of CVPR 2017.
    • Prof. Vishal Garg, Center for IT in Building Science (CBS) was elected as a Fellow of Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).
    • Prof. P. J. Narayanan, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) received the INAE Fellowship in December 2016.
    • Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar’s INSA Young Scientist grant got renewed for second year.
    • Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla, Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) has been appointed as Chairman of IAStructE "Indian Association of Structural Engineers”, Telangana State Centre.
    • Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya was awarded the “Mahatma Gandhi Sahitya Samman” for 2016 by the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan in recognition of his writings on Mahatma Gandhi. The award consists of a citation and a cash reward of Rs. 4 lakhs.

    Students

    • G. Ramya, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was awarded DST Women Scientist Fellowship.

    International

    • Harish Yenala and Dr. ManojChinnakotla, Adjunct Faculty and Applied Scientist, Microsoft were conferred Best Paper Award at The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)2017 Jeju, South Korea for their paper Convolutional Bi-Directional LSTM for Detecting Inappropriate Query Suggestions in Web Search.
    • Srishti Srivastava, Team Lahoo was chosen as a participant of the delegation to Isreal for Innovation Competition for Indian start-ups.
    • G. Drushti Apoorva and Prof. Radhika Mamidi, Natural Language Processing – Machine Translation (NLP-MT) won the best student paper award for their paper - BolLy: Annotation of Sentiment Polarity in Bollywood Lyrics Dataset at the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING), in Myanmar during 16 – 18 August.

    National

    • Sneha Jain, Master of Science student from Building Science Research Centre  (BSRC) received a Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Award 2018 from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
    • Charudatt Pachorkar, Meher Chaitanya, Dr. Kishore Kothapalli,Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR)and Debajyoti Bera won Best Paper Award for their paperEfficient Parallel Ear Decomposition of Graphs with Application to Betweenness-Centralityat the 23rd Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 2016.

     

    Year 2016

    Faculty
    • Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya, Center of Exact Humanities (CEH) was awarded the prestigious Kendriya Sangeet Natak Academy Award for his contribution to playwriting. 
    • Prof. P. Krishna Reddy, Center for Data Engineering (CDE), has been appointed as a member of the sub-group of the task force on the use of technology in IT/ ICT in insurance by NITI Aayog.
    • Prof. C. V. Jawahar, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
          - appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).
          - elected as an Outstanding Reviewer for the prestigious conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
    • Dr. Ashok Kumar Das, Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research CSTAR), was appointed as an Editor for the KSII Transactionson Internet and Information Systems.
    • Dr. P. Ubaidulla, Signal Processing and Communications Research Center  (SPCRC)
         - elected to IEEE Senior Member Grade.
         - awarded Young Faculty Award as part of Vivesvaraya PhD scheme supported by DietY.
    • Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) was appointed a Member of Research Advisory Council of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology.
    • Dr. Supriya Mohanty, Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC), Dr. Vinod Palakkad, Dr. Prasad Krishnan, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) and Dr. Rahul Shrestha have received the Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology.
    • Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC); Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) won Young Scientist Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST.
    • Dr. Sheikh Rehana, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) won Young Scientist Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST.
    • Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB), was awarded the JSPS Invitation Fellowship by Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan.
    • Dr. Vishal Garg, Center for IT in Building Science (CBS) is a member of the panel introducing a new chapter “Part 11-Approach to Sustainability” in the National Building Code of India, by BIS.
    • Dr. Vineet Gandhi, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), was awarded Best Paper Award for his paper Capturing and Indexing Rehearsals: The Design and Usage of a Digital Archive of Performing Arts at Digital Heritage, 2015 in Granada, Spain.
    Students
    • Aviruch Bhatia (PhD student), Center for IT in Building Science was selected for Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Internship program supported by DST, Government of India and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTIF). As part of the internship, he will be working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA to contribute his expertise in "Building Technology Urban Systems Division".
    • Abhinav Mittal (Dual Degree student) under the supervision of Prof. Abhijit Mitra, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) topped Bioinformatics National Certification Examination (BINC 2016). 
    • Broto Chakrabarty (PhD student) under the supervision of Dr. Nita Parekh, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB), secured All India 1st Rank in Bioinformatics National Certification (BINC) – 2015 organized by Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
    • Swetha Bikkina (PhD student) under the supervision of Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was awarded DST Women Scientist Fellowship.
    • Sridhar Chimalakonda (PhD student), Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) was Co-Editor for two international standards (ISO/IEC 26551, 26555) in the area of software product lines. 
    • Lalit Mohan (PhD student), Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) was chosen as Panel Speakerat CII National Cloud Summit.
    International
    • Aniket Singh (PhD student) under the supervision of Dr. Anoop Namboodiri, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), was awarded Best Paper Award for their paper Laplacin Pyramids for Deep Feature Inversion at 3rd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2015) in  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    • Sunil Kumar Maddigatla (Master of Science student) and Dr. Srivatsava Jandhyala, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST), were awarded Best Paper Award for their paper An Accurate CMOS Integrated Temperature Sensor for IOT Applications at IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
    • Sumit Gautam (Master of Science student) under the supervision of Dr. P. Ubaidulla, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC), was awarded Best Paper Award for their paper Simultaneous Transmission of Information and Energy in OFDM Systems at Proc. IEEE Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC2015).
    • Nishith Maheshwari (Dual Degree student) under the supervision of Dr. K. S. Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI), was awarded Best Poster Award for their paper A semantic model to define indoor space in context of emergency evacuation at International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing congress (ISPRS) 2016, Prague.
    • Padmalata Nistala (PhD student), Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) conducted a 60 minute Session @ American Society for Quality (ASQ) titled A Synthesis Approach to Achieving Product Quality in Milwaukee, USA , May 2016.

    National
    • Chandan Pradhan (Master of Science student) under the supervision of Dr. G. Rama Murthy, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC), was awarded Best Paper Award for their paper Full-Duplex Transceiver for Future Cellular Network: A Smart Antenna Approach” at International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2015).
    • Sandhya Rai (PhD student) and Siladitya Padhi (PhD student), under the supervision of Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) were awarded Best Poster Award at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium 2015.    

    Year 2015

    Faculty
    • R. Pradeep Kumar was a member of Expert Committees constituted to study the impact of HudHud Cyclone on infrastructure facilities in Visakhapatnam and the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal. He also visited Sydney, Australia as part of Indian delegation for attending ISO Plenary Meeting on Cement & Concrete Structures.
    • Shaik Rehana, was awarded Prof. N. S. Govinda Rao Gold Medal for Best PhD thesis award, 2015, in the Department of Civil Engineering, IISc, Bangalore.
    • Nand Kishore Acharya, Professor of Eminence, Center for Exact Humanities (CEH), was awarded Pandit Vidyanivas Mishra Smriti Samman by Vidyashri Nyasa of Varanasi. This award is given in recognition of his literary achievements.
    • Kishore Kothapalli, Associate Professor, Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR)
      - nominated as Council member for Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS)
      - nominated as Executive Committee Member for IEEE TCPP, Indian Subcontinent
    • Dr. Vishal Garg, Center for IT in Building Science (CBS) and team were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper Assessment of the Impact of Cool Roofs in Rural Buildings in India at Intl Conference on Counter measures to Urban Heat Island 2014.
    Students
    • Siddharth Tourani, Robotics Research Center (RRC) and Dr. K. Madhava Krishna Robotics Research Center (RRC) were awarded the Best Paper Runner-Up for their paper Using In-frame Shear Constraints for Monocular Motion Segmentation of Rigid Bodies, at ICVGIP 2014.
    • Best poster and oral presentation award in the Symposium on Accelerating Biology. Sanchari Sircar, PhD student from Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) for Gene Co-expression Network Analysis of Oryza sativa under Abiotic Stress.
    • Best poster award at the Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2014). Siladitya, PhD student and Sandhya, PhD student both from Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB).
    • Special Jury Mention at Devthon Metropolis for the idea “Smart Spectrum” was awarded to Sumit Kumar, Master of Science student in Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC).
    • Deepak Rajamohan (Master of Science, CSE), Bhavana Ganu (CSD), Dr. K. S. Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) were awarded First prize at the Tracking and Imaging Challenge at PCV-2014 Conference on Road Condition and Texture Estimation by Fusing GPS, Accelerometer and Camera Data.
    • D. Prashanthi (PhD student), Center for Computational Natural Sciences and  Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was awarded Best Poster Award for his paper on Copy Number Variation Analysis of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)Subtypes at Indo-US Bilateral Conferences-cum-Workshop.
    • Amit Jaiswal and Dipanjan Roy were awarded Best Paper Award for their paper on Focal localization of brain electromagnetic activity using CS-sLORETA at ACCS 2014.
    • Sanchari Sircar (PhD student), Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) were awarded the Best Poster and Oral Presentation Award for their paper Gene Co-expression Network Analysis of Oryza sativa under Abiotic Stressat  Symposium on Accelerating Biology.
    • Siladitya (PhD student) and Sandhya (PhD student), Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) were awarded Best Poster Award at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2014).
    • IIIT-H team lead by Master of Science student Avinash Siravuru, Robotics Research Center (RRC) came within top twenty in the Simulating Reality Contest Winner conducted worldwide on the theme Modular robot design and analysis for the uneven terrain exploration.
    • Sumit Kumar (Master of Science student), Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) was awarded Special Jury Mention for his idea Smart Spectrum at Devthon Metropolis.
    • Broto Chakrabarty (PhD student),  Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was awarded Best Oral Presentation Award at International Conference on Genome Informatics.

    Year 2014

    Faculty
    • Prof B. Yegnanarayana, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC)
      - elected as ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Fellow for his outstanding contributions to research and education in processing of speech.
      - awarded The Syed Hussain Zaheer Medal (2014) by the Indian National Science Academy.
    • Dr. K. S. Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) was awarded the Indian National Geospatial Award 2013 of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. 
    Students
    • AdityaDeshpande won the Best GPU Paper Award at the HiPC conference in December 2013.
    • Harini Sampath (Ph.D in CSE), Rajeev Rajeshuni (Master of Science) and BipinIndurkhya (Cognitive Science Lab) received the Best Research Paper – Honorable Mention Award at the ACM Conference on Computer Human Interface (CHI 2014), Toronto, April 26 - May 1, 2014.
    • Tejaswinee Kelkar and Sonal Aggarwal (Master of Science) were awarded the ACM -W scholarship to present their papers in UK and Greece respectively.

    Year 2013

    Faculty
    • Prof B. Yegnanarayana, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC)
      - Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to digital signal processing research and education.
      - Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
    • Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) became a Fellow of the Computer Society of India.
    • Dr. Suril Shah received the prestigious Inspire Faculty Award from the Department of Science and Technology.
    • Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was selected as a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
    • Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury received the Young Engineer Award from Institution of Engineers India.
    • Prof. P. J. Narayanan, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) received Presidential Award from ACM for his service to the company community.
    • Shri Vijaya Sekhar received the CSI Service Award for his significant contribution in the eGovernance domain.
    • Mr. T. J. David, Inventor in Engineering Technology and Innovation Centre (ENTICE) was awarded the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme 2013 for his technology “Solar Powered Crop Harvester”.

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competitions

    • Harini Sampath (PhD student) won 3rd prize and Yashaswi Verma (PhD student) won the honorable mention award in TechVista 2013. TechVista is an annual Computer Science research symposium organized by Microsoft Research India.
    • Yashaswi Verma (PhD student) from Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) received prestigious Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship for the year 2013.
    • Rajvi Shah (PhD student) from Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) received prestigious Google India PhD Fellowship for the Year 2013.
    • Harit Pandya (PhD student) from Robotics Research Center (RRC) and Saurabh Saini (PhD student) from Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) received TCS PhD fellowship for the year 2013.
    • P. Raghu Nandan Vyas (PG2, MTech-CASE) and Akash K. Chauhan (PG1, M.Tech CASE) won first prize in IASTRUCTE – S. C. Mehrotra Essay Competition. This award is given to students by Indian Association of Structural Engineering.
    • M. Kumaraswamy (PhD student) received the best paper presentation award for the paper "Village-level eSagu: A Scalable and Location-Specific Agro-advisory System" in National Seminar on Futuristic Agricultural Extension for Livelihood Improvement and Sustainable Development in January 2013 at Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
    • IIIT-H team represented India for a record 5th time in a row at finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in St. Petersburg.
    • Seven PhD students received fellowships:
      - 5 from TCS
      - 1 from Google
      - 1 from Microsoft Research.

    Year 2012

    Faculty
    • Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya, Center for Exact Humanities (CEH), has been awarded Maharana Kumbha Samman 2012 for outstanding contributions to Hindi literature.
    • Dr. Neelima Satyam, Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) received the Young Engineers Award 2011-12 from Institution of Engineers.
    • Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhary was selected as the Fellow of Society of Applied Biotechnology.
    • Mr. Jayadev, Head of Placement - awarded Best Placement & Brand Marketing Officer at World Education Congress, 2012. - conferred the Best Placement & Brand Marketing Officer Award, by the Stars of the Industry Group.

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competitions

    • IIIT-H finished Top 18 at the World Finals of the 36th Annual ACM ICPC 2012, Warsaw, Poland (14 – 18 May). Best performance by an Indian team in ICPC history. Only college from India to qualify for the World Finals for the fourth time in a row. ACM ICPC is the world’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest, and the 2012 edition drew for its first stage over 30,000 participants on more than 7,000 teams, representing around 2,200 universities, in over 85 countries, on six continents.
    • K. Sai Deepak, in the first semester of his PhD program, Center for Visual Information Technologies (CVIT), was selected for 2012 Google PhD Fellowship. He was one of the four to be awarded the fellowship in India. Sai Deepak did Master of Science in Medical Image Analysis at CVIT, under the guidance of Prof. Jayanti Sivaswamy, in 2012.
    • IIIT-H’s Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) launched VRGeo, an open-source collaborative technology for mapping geospatial information in India, at Garuda NKN (National Knowledge Networks) Partners Meet, C-DAC, Bengaluru, on July 20, 2012
    • IIIT-H secured World No.3 place at the 10th Annual Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM), in Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012. TAC SCM was designed to capture many of the challenges involved in supporting dynamic supply chain practices. Check IIIT-H team IOTA in final rankings.
    • Music curriculum designed by IIIT-H’s Cultural Advisor Sri. D. V. K. Vasudevan was adopted by the Government of AP’s Education Department for the Jawahar Bal Bhavan. Jawahar Bal Bhavan is a state wide, non formal educational initiative and targets children aged between 5 and 16 years.
    • Seven PhD students received prestigious fellowships:
      - 4 from TCS
      - 1 from Google
      - 1 from IBM Research
      - 1 from Microsoft Research.

    Year 2011

    Faculty
    • Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya, Center for Exact Humanities (CEH) has been awarded Subrahmanyam Bharati Award 2011 for contributions in critical and creative areas in literature
    • Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) has been awarded Young Scientist Medal 2011 by Indian National Science Academy (INA).

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competitions

    • IIIT-H team (Mission Gaganyaan) won the third place at CANSAT-2011 competition held at Abilene, Texas, USA
    • Two IIIT-H teams were the in top 4 in the ACM - ICPC 2011 national contest.
    • IIIT-H team won the Best Poster Award at the National Conference on Sensors and Actuators 2011 jointly organised by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
    • IIIT-H team won the First Prize at a National Level Techno Symposium for "Aarogyam" a software enabled tool for patient diagnosis.
    • IIIT-H team won the Forth Place at the World Embedded software contest 2010 (WESC 2010), Seoul, South Korea. The work involved the development and demonistation of a virtual gaming environment called Red Eye.
    • Mr. T. J. Devid, Project Co-ordinator, ENTICE and Mr. Kudikala Shravan Kumar have won the coveted Intel India Embedded Challenge 2011 Grand Prize for their projects Solar Powered Crop Harvesting Robot out of 1600 entries.

    Year 2010

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competition
    • IIIT-H continues to be ranked Number 1globally at the Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ), a highly popular programming site with over 10, 000 users from 120 countries, since April 2009.
    • IIIT-H's team Mission Gaganyaan was ranked World First at CanSat 2010, at Amarillo, Texas, USA, sponsored by NASA. The contest required teams to design and fabricate a satellite capable of being launched and returning back safely. The payload was the egg of a hen, which had to come back intact.
    • Dual degree research students, Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) won the first and second ranks in the international contest Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), in the unsupervised machine learning category.
    • The Cloud Computing Group was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the third India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2010, Mysore.
    • IIIT-H represented India in the 34th Annual ACM Programming Contests World Finals, Harbin, China, in Feb 2010.
    • IIIT-H was ranked among the Best 7 Universities in South Asia, in 2009, in terms of Scholarly Papers on the Internet, by Cybermetric Lab, Spain’s largest public research institution. The global survey is conducted once every three years.

    Year 2009

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competition
    • IIIT-H has been ranked Number 1 globally at the highly popular programming contest Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) with over 10, 000 users from 120 countries.
    • Ajay Somani and Anshuman Singh (Undergraduate students) were among the top 3 winners, in the three online programming contests conducted between March and May 2009 by codechef.com, a popular Indian programming contest website.
    • IIIT-H team won the National ACM programming contest, Stockholm, Sweden; April 2009).
    • Ashish Mangalampalli (Research student) is one of the twenty exceptional PhD students from all over the world to have been selected to be part of Yahoo!’s Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program, and is the only student from India to receive this award, April 2009
    • IIIT-H team qualified for CanSat 2009, which is a NASA sponsored and American Astronautical Society organized international competition that requires participants to design and build, a micro-satellite, and also the team is one of the 14 teams from around the world to qualify for the finals (June 2009). IIIT-H team built a satellite that was launched and descended to ground sending data to the telemetry system.
    • IIIT-H’s VLSI team is one of the three first-prize winners for a research proposal on Power reduction in off-chip buses for block data at the National Level Intel Scholar Program 2008 (in Graduate category; Feb 2009).
    • IIIT-H has been selected by IBM for the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award, under which the institute will be supported financially, to set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) on cell and power multi-core architecture, in order to leverage on the institute’s very early research in these areas, (March 2009).

    Year 2008

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competition
    • The eSagu project has been awarded the Diploma for Excellence in the prestigious Stockholm Challenge 2008 for IT in Economic Development.
    • The eSagu project won the Manthan Award 2007 and CSI-Nihilent award 2006.
    • Four B.Tech students secured 11th rank worldwide on a popular website www.spoj.pl that posts programming problems.
    • Team IIIT-H was among the finalists in Intel India student research contest.
    • IIIT-H student was among the top 5 Indians finalists in Indian Student Mathematica Competition.

    Year 2007

    Achievements of students and faculty in national and international technical conferences and competition
      • IIIT-H team won First Place in Document Understanding Contest (DUC-2006) run by NIST, USA.
      • IIIT-H team won the shared task contest as part of the workshop on Shallow Parsing of IJCAI-07.
      • A research paper from IIIT-H was awarded the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE International Services Computing Conference held at Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
      • IIIT-H team won First Prize at the Intel India Student Research Challenge (IIISRC) for the year 2006 – 2007. This recognition was for their research on Design of a high speed 32-bit arithmetic and logic unit.

    International Achievements (Multi-year)

  • CanSat is a NASA sponsored and American Astronautical Societyorganizedannual international competition. The contest allows student teams, from colleges and Universities around the world, to design, fabricate, and launch an aerospace system (CanSat).IIIT-Hhasbeenhas been the only team from India to qualify for World Finals, each time, since 2009.
    • 2011
      • World Third, at Finals, at Abilene, Texas, USA, June 10-12
      • Check Cansat website for final rankings.
      • Read IIIT-H internal announcement (PDF, HTML)
    • 2010
      • World First, at the Finals at Amarillo, Texas, USA, June 13
      • Only team from Asia to qualify for World Finals
    • 2009
        • World 8th at World Finals. (June 2009)
        • First ever team from India to qualify for CanSat.
        • Check Cansat website for final rankings.
        • Text Analysis Conference (TAC)
          Document Understanding Conferences (DUC)

          US Department of Commerce’ agency National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) holds Text Analysis Conference (TAC) every year. TAC was called Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) till 2008. In 2009, TAC attracted from across the world around 40 leading research teams including the University of Columbia, Stanford, Microsoft Research, IBM Research Labs, University of Edinburgh, and National University of Singapore (NUS). Below are the results of IIIT-H’s participation at TAC/ DUC.

          2009
          World No.1           in Knowledge Based Population Track (TAC). Check

          2008
          World No.1           in Squishy Question Answering Task (TAC). Check

          2007
          World No.1           in Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization Tasks (DUC). Check

          2006
          World No. 1           in Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization Tasks (DUC). Check

        • ACM ICPC

          It is the world’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest. The 2012 edition drew for its first stage over 30,000 participants on more than 7,000 teams, representing around 2,200 universities, in over 85 countries. Results of IIIT-H’s participation over the past four years.

          2012 (36th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Warsaw, Poland)

          • Only Indian college to qualify for World Finals, for fourth time in a row.
          • World 18th position.Check
          • Best performance by an Indian team in ICPC history (co-shared with IIT Delhi).

          2011 (35th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Orlando, Florida, USA)

          • Top Indian team
          • World 42nd position.Check
          • Only Indian college with two teams qualified for World Finals
          • Awarded Certificate of Achievement

          2010 (34th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Harbin, China)

          • Top Indian team.
          • World 36th position.Check
          • Awarded Certificate of Achievement

          2009 (33rd Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Stockholm, Sweden)

          • Top Indian team
          • World 54th position. Check
          • Received Honorable Mention
        • Google India Women in Engineering Awards

          The Awards –called Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship from 2012 – are meant to recognize and reward deserving women students in Computer Science and related majors, and inspire them to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. Given annually, the award is based on excellence in academics, passion for technology, demonstrated leadership, and originality of thought

          2011
          Lydia Manikonda, a dual degree student (CSE).
          Check the official list of awardees.

          2010 – Two students
          Chhaya Methani, dual degree (CSE).
          Kirti Garg, PhD (CSE)
          Check the list of awardees.

          2009
          Sahiti Polishetty, B Tech (CSE).
          Check the list of awardees.

        • RoboCup

          IIIT-H’s Team Kshitji was the only team from India to have qualified for the finals of the RoboCup events, each year, for five years, since the inception of the international contest in 2004. Awarded Best New Agent Award at the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM), 2006.

    • National Achievements (Multi-year)

    • SPOJ – Every month since April 2009

      Number #1 globally at the Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ), a highly popular programming site, with over 30, 000 users from 120 countries, since April 2009.
      For rankings, click www.spoj.pl/ranks/institutions/

    • Codechef – Every month since Jan 2010
      - At least five of the top 20 winners at the Codechef’s national-level monthly programming contests, since Jan 2008, have been IIIT-H students.
      - For details click here or check at http://www.codechef.com

    • Dataquest’s all-India ranks of IIIT-H. Ranks cover the IITs too.

      • 2012 --- Top 3 overall and #1 on placements
      • 2011 --- Top 5 overall and #1 on placements
      • 2010 --- Top 5 overall and top 3 on placements
      • 2009 --- Top 7 overall and top 5 on placements
      • 2008 --- Top 7 overall and top 3 on placements
      • 2007 --- Top 9 overall and top 5 on placements
      • 2006 --- Top 10 overall

      India Today magazine rankings of IIIT-H. Ranks cover the IITs too.

      • 2012 --- Top 20 over all
      • 2011 --- Top 14 over all
      • 2010 --- Top 16 over all
      • 2009 --- Top 16 over all
      • 2008 --- Top 13 over all
      • 2007 --- Top 16 over all

      Outlook Magazine rankings of IIIT-H. Ranks cover the IITs too.

      • 2012 --- Top 14 over all
      • 2011 --- Top 16 over all
      • 2010 --- Top 11 over all
      • 2009 --- Top 25 over all

    A Lasting Contribution to the Nation

    • IIIT Hyderabad is  the very first Not-for-Profit Public-Private-Partnership (NPPP) model in the field of IT education in the country.
    • Serves as a role model institution for about 20 new IIITs which were started in the year 2012 across the country. 
    • Since its inception, IIIT Hyderabad has been conducting a two-day Excitement of Research (ExoR) workshop to allow students of local engineering colleges to see how research is conducted, and get an overall view of career opportunities in research.  
    •  IIITH’s annual R&D Showcase demonstrate research and disseminates knowledge to the industry, academia, government, research organizations, and the general public.  
    • IIITH organises annual summer schools in focused domains viz., AI, ML, NLP, DA/DS, and Vision etc., and executive education on AI&ML and Blockchain technologies for industry professionals. 
    • The institute emphasizes applied research in the focused areas and diverse fields, which is a rare convergence of ICTs linked to societal problems - an unprecedented model of the research-focused academic environment. 
    • Sampark, the Indian languages machine translation system developed by a IIITH led consortium, was launched by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, at the international conference WWW 2011, in March 2011. The first edition of the system provided automatic text translation in four Indian language pairs and the next versions  featured a dozen more Indian languages. The consortium consisting of 11 Indian academic institutions has been funded by the Government of India's Department of Information Technology (DIT).


     

     

     

     

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