Tech-driven ESG to combat climate change
A roundtable conference by IIITH’s Smart City Research Centre on Environmental Social Governance (ESG) deliberated on climate change and ideas to retrofit technology across institutions, to strengthen our environment and societies. An alarming effect of climate change is wet bulb temperature that many parts of India reported during the heat wave that swept the nation […]
Making Quantum Sense of a Chanakya Award winner
Adithya Sunil Edakkadan, a 4th year B. Tech student from IIITH’s Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology was recently awarded the Chanakya fellowship for his ongoing research in quantum sensing circuits. What fires the brain of the back-bencher who suddenly discovered his mojo? We check. It was on Prof. Abhishek Srivastava’s advice that Adithya […]
Accepting Human-like Digital Avatars as Friends or Colleagues
Audiences watching Polar Express, the first CGI musical fantasy reported a gamut of conflicting emotions. Somewhere between “Dang, this is some futuristic animation” to “Stop! Get me off this train” is where they experienced Uncanny Valley. IIITH student Medha Sharma’s research paper deep-dived into this strange phenomenon. “What do you do when your internet is […]
IIITH-incubated AI start-up to be a springboard for affordable Lip-sync technology
A deep Tech AI web app built by two Ph.D scholars of IIITH’s CVIT is all set to disrupt the art of video-editing and dubbing. The patented software from the newly launched start-up can morph authentic-looking speeches with a single video clip of a human or digital avatar, in a matter of minutes, in the […]
IIITH’s Innovation-focused strategy, a patently feel-good story
“One of the gold standards to measure your innovation is your ability to patent it. Does it have scope to be globally accepted and recognized? This is something that you owe to yourself” believes Prakash Yalla, Head of IIITH’s Product Labs who spoke about the recently concluded felicitation of patent-holders by the Institute. The icing […]
Gurneet Decodes the Art of Building Sustainable and Intelligent Spaces
What happens when you hardwire computational skills into the soul of an architect? You get Gurneet Singh, a IIIT Hyderabad alumnus who specializes in sustainability in the built environment, with a push towards resilient and low carbon development. Way back in 2002, when IIIT Hyderabad started a bridge program between pure technology and building design, […]
Rumble-strips in the Last Mile. NGOs leveraging tech for rural transformation
AI-driven initiatives may soon be overhauling the collective social initiatives in Rural India. A roundtable with Hysea CSR group and CSR leaders, academia and NGOs explored challenges and possibilities for new tech to catalyze rural transformation in key sectors. A roundtable organized by the Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS) on 23 February 2022, […]
AI to catalyze technology-driven social change in rural India
IIITH’s Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society (RCTS) is leading the way toward a tech-savvy rural India. A think-tank is going glocal, percolating the essence of emerging technologies in public health and grassroot education, to solve societal problems at the base of the socio-economic pyramid. Low income rural communities across India face area-specific challenges […]
IIIT Hyderabad’s IHub-Data Fellowships to fuel tomorrow’s growth story
A coveted Fellowship program of IHub-Data from IIIT Hyderabad, part of a DST-funded National Mission aims to create well-honed, future-ready generations of data-leaders and innovators, with a holistic world view of data analytics and big data systems. The grant is available to Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, Postdoctoral, young faculty & senior professionals from institutions across the […]
Intelligent Technology to Help India Leapfrog that Last Mile in Rural Healthcare
There’s good news in the pipeline for India’s rural healthcare system. A roundtable on ‘Technology to address the last mile in Healthcare’, hosted by IIITH’s Raj Reddy Centre for Technology & Society, grappled with challenges in the rural Medicare system and emerged with innovative technology-based solutions. The Great pandemic of 2020 turned the world on […]