Research work on The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning was featured in TIME Magazine. Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) and his student Shashwat Goel, UG5 are among several authors of this research work.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the prestigious flagship journal: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.<br>IEEE T-IFS ranks #2 in the list of top venues (conference & journals) in Computer Security & Cryptography and first (Rank #1) among all journal publications. Its impact factor is 6.8.
Prof. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been appointed chair of advisory board to UNU institute in Macau effective from January 2024.
Soham Nagnath Kale, M.Tech first year; Gowlapalli Rohit, B.Tech-CSE-3rd year and Abhinav Reddy Boddu, B.Tech-CSE-3rd year received the Micron URAM Scholarship program 2023-2024. The scholarship provides Rs. 80,000 to the students to continue their education in different universities in India.
IIITH students secured third place for their project on Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Himalayan Timberline Elevation: Developing a Novel Tool for Analyzing Correlation with Temperature and Precipitation at the first ever Climate and Sustainability Hackathon, hosted by Cloudera in collaboration with AMD. The event was held online from Santa Clara, California. The team members Lokesh Sharma (M.Tech-CSE) and Avantika Latwal (Ph.D-Scholar, Lab for Spatial Informatics), under the supervision of Dr. Rehana Shaik demonstrated outstanding innovation and expertise. The hackathon consisted of an Idea Phase that spanned from 18 October to 27 November 2023 to filter out the ideas. This was followed by a Prototype Submission Phase that occurred online from 29 January to 7 March 2024.<br>Details:<br> https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-04-24-cloudera-machine-learning-hackathon-generates-groundbreaking-climate-and-sustainability-projects.html
IIITH’s Mens Football and Basketball teams won second places at the Telangana State Inter College Football and Basketball tournament held on 5 April 2024 at IIITH campus.
Aditya Kumar Singh, MS by Research (CSE), 3rd year, supervised by Avinash Sharma; Chandradeep Pokhariya, MS by Research (CSE), 3rd year, and Haran S K Raajesh, B.Tech (CSE) 3rd year, both supervised by Makarand Tapaswi have been awarded the Bank of Baroda Achievers Award for the year 2023-24 for their significant contributions to research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
Prakash Tekchandani and Saurabh Agrawal pursuing Ph.D with Dr. Ashok K Das won the best paper award for their work on Secure Big Data Analytics using Cloud Storage for Internet of Vehicles at Springer’s sixth International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA 2024) held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 16 to 18 April 2024.
Nancy Hada and Aditya Kumar Singh working with Dr. Kavita Vemuri won best paper award in Student category for their research work on FolkTalent: Enhancing Classification and Tagging of Indian Folk Paintings at the International Conference on FOSS Approaches towards Computational Intelligence and Language Technology (FOSS-CIL T24) held in Kerala from 21 to 22 March 2024.
Tanmay Bhatt (UG 2020, ECD); Krishna Singh (UG 2021, ECD); Ritik Yelekar (PG 2023, ECD) and Ankit Kriti (PG 2023, ECD) were awarded the TIH-IoT CHANAKYA Fellowship. The team’s research was on a smart, IoT-enabled solution for monitoring borewell water levels.
