Eat.Sleep.Code? Not Quite.
While the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad has a prevailing competitive coding culture, to ignore its non-geeky vibrant side would be missing the complete picture. Here’s an attempt to compile some of the non-academic activities that seem to be thriving despite moving into the virtual realm. Read on. Engineering aspirants in the quest of […]
IIITH’s Child Trafficking Serious Game Presented and Shortlisted For Best Paper At IEEE Conference on Games 2020
Technological advances have come in handy for promoting awareness about social issues. Students at IIITH demonstrate an immersive and transformative experience with a game on child trafficking which was also shortlisted for the Best Paper Award at the the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). Read more below. The chances of learning and retaining a newly […]
IIITH’s Early Studies On Radio Frequency Biosensors For Pathological Testing Show Promise
Researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad have conducted an experimental study of radio frequency-based sensing of antigens that has potential impact on the current widespread use of chemical-based diagnostic testing. An early diagnosis and subsequent treatment of any disease begins with early screening. If someone who is unwell from the apparently healthy […]
Living A Life Of Learning
Sai Prasad Gollapudi recently obtained his doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering, a process that he began in 2009. As a living example of the adage, ‘You’re never too old to learn’, the 52-year-old talks of his motivations behind going back to school, his takeaways from the experience and what he plans next. When Sai […]
IIITH Team Wins Prize At Smart India Hackathon 2020
Since 2017, a nationwide hackathon has enabled lakhs of students to pitch in and innovatively solve some everyday pressing problems faced by governments, industries, and NGOs with the help of technology. This year, a IIITH team of students built an advanced library software solution for a college in the Andamans winning them a prize in […]
CovidWire – Verified News Snippets In The (Mis)Information Pandemic
When students joined hands to beat misinformation about the pandemic, CovidWire.in was born. Here’s how they’ve simplified information consumption even for non-native speakers of English. When Raghavendra R, 68, read an online article of a study with a headline suggesting that being indoors and in your own homes was more fraught with risk of contracting […]
CVIT Researchers’ Submission in MOT 2020 Ranks No. 1
In June 2020, when two student researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) turned in their entry to the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) challenge, the submission gained them the first rank in the famously challenging problem. Here’s a simultaneous look at the benchmark as well as the students, Karthik Shyamgopal and Ameya Prabhu, […]
VR Dating Ups Chances of Real Life Hook-Ups, Finds IIITH Study
The Indian match-making scene has gotten severely disrupted thanks to the advent of technology. Now, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad have attempted to analyse the effects of virtual reality (VR) on dating and find the envelope being pushed even further. University students’ interactions on chat-based Tinder as […]
IIITH Student Snags Competitive Inaugural MLH Fellowship
In response to the thousands of globally lost student internships due to Covid-19, Major League Hacking (MLH) has teamed up with a group of companies such as Facebook, Amazon Web Services, PlutoVR, Indeed, Royal Bank of Canada and many such others, to offer a unique apprenticeship. Meet Jivitesh Jain, 2nd year CSE student and part […]
Now A Machine Learns to Map Music-induced Movement To Your Traits
Just like physical gestures are quick giveaways of your personality and your current emotional state, the way you groove to music also says a lot about you. In a new study that has significant implications for music cognition research, scientists at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) have developed a machine learning model […]