Spotlight on SPCRC
With high-speed connectivity becoming the latest buzzword and businesses, devices and individuals getting connected like never before, the Signal Processing and Communications Research Centre (SPCRC) at IIIT Hyderabad gets its spot in the sun. Here’s how. When the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) was formally launched in 1998, it offered only a BTech […]
IIITH Builds ML Models to Detect Cancer
Researchers at IIIT Hyderabad have developed an automatic system for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. The deep learning networks can automatically classify subtypes of renal cancer and predict patient survival outcome from digital histopathological images. The foray of Computer Vision in the medical healthcare space has turned diagnostic imagery on its head. Convolutional Neural […]
The Datafication of Music And Its Implications On Mental Well-being
Mental illness identification in India gets a boost with non-intrusive methods developed by music psychology researchers at IIIT Hyderabad. It was while streaming Coldplay in an endless loop that I first discovered Kodaline. A suggested playlist that popped up based on my listening history seemed to exhort me to consider Steve Garrigan’s soulful voice. Needless […]
Calling Angels…Is Anybody Online?
NLP researchers at IIITH join hands with social scientists in first-of-its-kind multi-disciplinary project that seeks to build a digital mentor shielding adolescent girls from online toxicity while promoting their emotional well being. The Age of Adolescence is a trying one. Ask the parents! But seriously, it’s a deadly concoction of raging hormones and a roller […]
Natya Like A Man!
At first glance, 20-year-old ECD student Supreeth Karan can pass off as yet another nerd on campus, especially when he explains his unshaven, unkempt looks as an ‘offering’ for having been accepted at the Google Summer of Code. However, this Hyderabadi boy’s list of accomplishments in Bharatnatyam is atleast a few pages long: Limca Book […]
IIITH Researchers Develop first-of-its-kind Hinglish Code-Mixed Data NLP tool
Researchers from the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), IIITH make a first-of-its-kind attempt at semantic role labelling of Hindi-English code mixed tweets. This was presented at the Linguistic Annotation Workshop during ACL 2019, Italy. Chalo jaldi karo, or we’ll miss the beginning of the movie. Nothing out of the ordinary in this sentence here. In […]
“Sophia, The Humanoid Robot Is Essentially A Sort Of A Puppet,” says Prof. Kambhampati
When the past president of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and one of the leading authorities on AI, Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati came visiting IIITH to deliver a talk on Human-AI collaboration, we caught up with him. Over a free-wheeling conversation, he talked about the past and the current AI buzz, portents of […]
How IIITH Alumnus Kiran Tharanath Has Been Riding The Hallyu
He’s no regular Koreaboo. In fact long before K-Pop and K-Culture made inroads into our own lifestyle, this 2007 BTech (Hons) graduate has been creating waves of his own in Korea. Meet Kiran Tharanath, Director of NextGen Sales and Strategy at Samsung Electronics, Seoul. In an email interview, he talks about his cultural immersion, and […]
How This Frenchman Came About An Internship Chez Nous
It’s been raining international interns at IIITH lately. This time, we tracked down Marius Dufraisse for a tête-à-tête. Did you know he has quietly been working at the Machine Learning Lab for over 5 months? Well, now you do! ‘An Indian experience’ wasn’t entirely novel for 22-year-old Marius Dufraisse, having toured Kerala and Tamil Nadu […]
KCIS: Where The Intelligent Systems Are
What do aspiring Computer Science students, Hyderabad-based deep tech startups and industries with a focus on AI and ML have in common? Well, they all seek the same address: The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), Gachibowli, Hyderabad. With all the buzz on revolutionary technologies, we try to learn more about the largest AI […]