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 […]
Medical Devices Get Real With Next Gen Tech
This medtech startup gives you an immersive experience by letting you see and feel complex medical equipment remotely. In an edited conversation with the CEO of NexRea, Dr. Ramya Gujjula, we find out how it all began, what they do and where they are headed. The best ideas don’t always come in the shower. Science […]
When MIT Interns Came A-Visiting
From visiting the Chowmahalla Palace and the Charminar to walking alongside the Hussain Sagar, from eating Hyderabadi biryani to craving for the deep-fried potato served for Friday lunches at the mess, from riding the Metro to taking the ubiquitous Uber, from dabbling in tennis on campus to checking out Cult. Fit, these young MIT interns […]