CIE@IIITH-based drone startup THANOS delivers!
At the premier biennale air show and exhibition, Aero India 2019, typical visitor interest centers around the spectacular air displays. The aerobatic feats of the shiny metal birds can draw your breath away. But alongside crowd-pulling pavilions and aerial stunts are the slew of initiatives undertaken by the Defence Ministry to promote innovation in the […]
Q&A with Alumnus Vipul Kedia On Managing Technology And Finding Your Forte
If you ever wanted to know the brain behind the maiden Felicity or the IIIT-H Alumni Fund, meet Vipul Kedia. His name crops up frequently in conversations with early staffers and faculty. He is from the second batch of IIIT-H, a self-confessed early stakeholder for whom the institute is not just “a second home”, but […]
AI in Sports: How IIIT-H’s Research Is Making Inroads Into Broadcasting Studios
Staying true to its motto of ‘From Lab to Land’, the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad’s Product Labs has successfully developed and tested a viable market prototype of badminton analytics developed at its Center for Visual Information Technology. A pilot study was conducted in collaboration with Star Sports which saw the data going live […]
IIIT-H Alumnus Deepesh Data’s ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019
Meet Deepesh Data, batch of 2011, BTech (CSE). He is the winner (Honourable Mention) of the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019. Calling himself a “small-town boy” with limited exposure, he shrugs and says that it all worked out in the end. In a telephonic conversation, he modestly talks of himself, his journey so far and […]
Alumnus Ravikanth Chittiprolu on How to Build a Career and Engineer Jobs
Meet Ravikanth Chittiprolu, alumnus of the 2007-2009 Masters batch in Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE). He currently runs his own group of companies, the Vyuha Group with a motto of “Sadhanath Sadhyathe Sarvam”, which is Telugu for ‘Everything is possible with efforts’. In an email interview, he talks about how he believes in entrepreneurship and […]
IIIT-H Prof Wins Best Paper Award at VLSI Design Conference-2019
With the emergence of the Internet of Things, over the past couple of years, there has been a significant focus on the integration of large scale wireless communication technologies with medical care. And more specifically, the focus has been on the development of tiny, wireless sensor devices that can be either implanted in the body […]
2019 Elections: Deciphering The Dance of Democracy
While the Mood of the Nation surveys typically undertaken at regular intervals by the Centre for the Study of Developing Economies (CSDS) through its research programme, Lokniti, collect data through traditional means to gauge public opinion on contemporary politics, social life or economic issues, in the run-up to the general elections this year, IIIT-H is […]
Industry-Institute Collaboration Results In Scalable Real World Solutions
Industry is constantly on the lookout for state-of-the-art innovative technologies that can provide that edge to its product or service. While premier academic institutions typically churn out newer research in their labs, they often miss the exact focus required by industry. To plug this very disconnect, interactions between the two were kickstarted a few years […]
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 […]