Can the Ripple-IIITH Fellowship create waves in blockchain technology?
The first recipient of the coveted Ripple-IIITH Fellowship, IIITHian Sankarshan Damle is exploring the uncharted waters of blockchain and its limitless possibilities. We also look at what’s cooking at one of the first institutes to set-up a dedicated Center of Excellence in distributed ledger technology. When soccer legend Messi moved to the French club PSG […]
Finally, an AI book that hits the sweet spot between textbook and trenches
“Practical Natural Language Processing”, a book co-authored by IIITians, has caught the eye of the global AI community, snagging a place in the top 1% of all general and technical books sold on Amazon. Anuj Gupta, Harshit Surana and Sowmya Vajjala shared the backstory on how their book was published by industry giant O’Reilly Media, […]
Smart technology on your finger tips
India is on the cusp of a big technology leap. Smart phones will soon control fully automated homes in smart cities. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Read on to know how IIITH is contributing to these smart homes. The technology of tomorrow will have your fingers tap-dancing on your mobile phone […]
Dr. Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu: How a corporate VP got schooled
Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu gives up a plum job to deep dive into academics at the pinnacle of his career. He resurfaces with a Ph. D from IIITH in an emerging field in software engineering. Did he get back the controls of a hi-flying corporate career, after a 5-year sabbatical? Find out. Dr. Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu’s […]
A Covid War Room Story
A IIITH alumni rapid response team saves 1,000 lives in a month, at the peak of the pandemic. The passionate volunteer group is connecting critical Covid patients to vital medical services and financial aid, helping India fight back the 2nd wave of the pandemic. The Covid War Room (CWR) comprising of IIIT-H alumni and students, […]
Post-doctoral Culture at IIIT Hyderabad
Researchers from IIITH’s Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) are working in diverse areas in basic and applied research in natural sciences. We spoke to Shampa Raghunathan, research scientist at CCNSB at IIITH about her research and the work culture on campus. IIITH is encouraging a high level of contribution by post-doctoral fellows […]
Lyrics to fine-tune Music emotion recognition
A sweet lyrical revolution is playing out at IIITH labs. The Cognitive Science laboratory worked on a Natural Language Processing-based Transformer model to identify emotions from the lyrics of a song, a hitherto underexplored area of study. We met with the team to learn more. Imagine you are navigating through dense traffic, while an online […]
Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula – The Roboticist with Music in his Veins
It was definitely a SLAM dunk for IIITH alumnus Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, the young Robotics Engineer from Kakinada, who was recently awarded the prestigious NVIDIA fellowship for 2020-21. Currently, on the final stretch to completing his PhD at Mila, Université de Montréal, we caught up with Krishna at the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab to […]
How to build a Wall, pixel by pixel
IIIT Hyderabad’s Art Society has traded in their easels for a mouse at Felicity 2021 to create The Wall – 250,000 pixels. 320 digital artists. One canvas. Gone are the days when Graffiti was a can of paint and an empty brick wall! Breathtaking wall murals on the verdant IIIT campus have become a much […]
Finding Math in a Slice of Citrus Fruit
Such exciting mysteries were the topic of intense debate at the Teaching the Learning Brain 2021 workshop for primary school teachers held earlier this month. Researchers at IIITH’s Neuro-cognitive Science Research laboratory have been working on getting educators to take the quantum leap, from teaching from a script, to moulding innovators and thinkers. The idea […]