IIIT-H Students Shine At World-Class NLP Conference
As the largest academic centre of speech and language technology in South Asia, the Language Technology Research Centre at IIIT-H carries out pioneering work in the areas of natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech processing, information retrieval through four specialized labs, whose works complement each other. In the area of natural language processing, there is […]
How AI is helping Crowd Control at Mega Melas
It’s a theme that has been rehashed to death by Bollywood: siblings separated at melas. While a happily-ever-after reunion happens in reel, massive, unorganized crowds, pandemonium and panic often leading to stampedes are real. Let’s look at how technology from the Lab for Spatial Informatics at IIIT-H can play a role in providing a solution […]
Tarnpreet Gill Wins Best Presentation Award At Geospatial Conference
One of the advantages of studying at premier tech institutes such as the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad lies in the immense scope it provides for interdisciplinarity. Masters student, Tarnpreet Singh Gill at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center should know. Although studying Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE), where advances in structural engineering and computer […]
Meet IIIT-H Student Sri Teja Allaparthi Who Thinks Sewage Treatment Plants Are Sludge Fun
As a Masters student under Prof. Vikram Pudi, Sri Teja Allaparthi has been working on detection of misinformation in social media. But not many know that apart from developing a deep learning model that tags news articles in media based on classes such as hatred, bias, satire, and so on, he is also the technical […]
What Makes IIIT-H Alumnus Anand Rathi Click?
With the recent spate of celebrity weddings, it seems natural to turn our own lens on an acclaimed photographer – Anand Rathi. Ask him if he clicked any pictures from his campus days and he replies in the negative. Yet, this 2008 CSE graduate is an engineer-turned-hedge fund manager-turned-self taught shutterbug. As specialists in wedding […]
Online Social Media: ‘Like’ It or Hate it, You have to FACE it
It’s said that ‘Google before you Tweet’ is the new ‘Think Before You Speak’. Living and breathing this very adage are today’s millennials. Hence the runaway success and the response generated by a recent poster presentation on campus about ‘Privacy and Security in Online Social Media’ comes as no surprise. Let’s see what the buzz […]
Serious Games Lab Shows How Power of Belief Helps In Neuro-Rehabilitation
Displaced families, disinterested physiotherapists and a sense of despondency. This is what greeted Prof. Kavita Vemuri when she initially set out to study plasticity of the brain at rehab centres. She found her ‘why’ in the lack of motivation witnessed in stroke patients there and thus began the Serious Gaming lab at IIIT-H. Read on […]
Gayam Motor Works Shows How To Conductor Business
In our alumni series this month, we put the spotlight on electric vehicle company Gayam Motor Works (GMW). Its CEO Raja Gayam and COO Sri Harsha Bavirsetty are both IIIT-H alumni. Its CTO Rahul Gayam was on the 2018 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 and was recently selected among 10 others for the Summit […]
IIITH Student Mukund Choudhary Wins Most Original Essay Award in The Drucker Challenge
Every year, the Peter Drucker Society Europe unveils a unique essay contest inviting original ideas and thoughts from students and young professionals from all over the world: The Drucker Challenge. With this year’s theme, “How to stay human in a robot society”, the challenge invited opinions on how Peter Drucker would react if he met […]
IIIT-H researcher wins Best Poster award at InterSpeech 2018 workshop
Mounika Kamsali Veera’s award-winning poster showed how deep neural networks can automatically identify the language from a short duration of speech signal uttered by an unknown speaker. Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive annual conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of […]