Q&A With Alum Santosh Kumar Nanduru
As Managing Director of his own construction company, IIITH alumnus Santosh Kumar Nanduru, MTech CASE graduate of 2009 tells us about the R&R he believes in. And it’s not rest and recreation but repair and restoration. Find out more in this edited excerpt from a telephonic interview. Tell us a bit about your background. What did you […]
IIITH Researchers Collate Earthquake Risk Index For NDMA
IIITH collaborates with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to develop an Earthquake Disaster Risk Index (EDRI) for cities. Index based on pilot study of 50 selected Indian cities located in seismically active regions Risk has been categorized as Low, Medium and High The hope is that the report will help the appropriate decision makers and […]
Teacher Training On The Learning Brain
Neuro-cognitive science researchers at IIITH to conduct a first-of-its-kind workshop on ‘Teaching The Learning Brain’ – targeted at teachers interacting with students from grade 1 to grade 8. Here’s what it’s about. They say it takes a genius to know one. Little wonder then that it was Albert Einstein who famously wrote,”Everybody is a genius. […]
IIIT Hyderabad’s Fine Analysis Of Traffic Violations
Researchers from IIITH analyse Ahmedabad traffic e-challans data and discover interesting patterns in motorists’ behaviour both in terms of repeat offenses as well as fine payment. – Traffic offenders with more number of e-challans are less likely to pay fines – Payment of smaller fines preferred over larger ones – ML model trained on dataset […]
What Drives The Uber Wallah?
Ethnographic study by IIITH researchers provides new insights about the ride-sharing workforce in the Indian gig economy that is fundamentally different from that of the West. Driving for Uber is viewed as a permanent, full-time livelihood option in India. Religious minorities and nomadic communities find it non-discriminatory in providing employment. Uber drivers see themselves as […]
Building A Brain Atlas: For Indians, By Indians
IIITH researchers create first-ever Indian Brain Atlas demonstrating significant differences in size and structure of the average Indian brain vis-a-vis Caucasian as well as other Eastern brains. Future work in this direction is aimed at creating atlases for different age-groups to study age-related effects on brain anatomy. When you receive the results of any pathological […]
How To Sample A Semester At IIITH
Have you ever eyed those awesome courses offered at IIITH and regretted missing the bus? Well, thou shall covet no more. A lateral entry programme is not the only way to land up at the esteemed campus. There’s a possibility of doing an entire semester at IIITH. Here’s how. A few weeks ago, when the […]
IIITH Researchers Use ML Tools To Salvage The Shastras
Ancient palm leaf manuscripts are our cultural heirlooms with a wealth of knowledge residing in them. While previous conservation efforts have been made in the direction of digitizing these fragile texts, IIITH researchers have gone a step further and created the first ever large-scale database of such manuscript images that can automatically identify and label […]
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 […]