Of Hindi Tales: From Texas to Telangana
When 23-year-old Kelsey Ball came to Hyderabad as a Teaching Assistant last Summer, she knew it wasn’t going to be her last time. The Teaching Assistantship was part of a study abroad programme that brought students from the University of Texas at Austin to IIT Hyderabad. “The experience made me curious about India. I wanted […]
Q&A with Alumnus Rachita Choudhary
Tell us briefly about yourself. I was born and brought up in Bikaner which is a desert city in Rajasthan. During my growing years, not many girls pursued higher technical education. There were hardly any girls in my Engineering college and my parents were constantly advised to get me married rather than sending me so […]
How to Spend Your Summer Breaks And Other Tips
“I loved to play video games as a child. And I thought I would eventually build one. That was my main motivation to study Computer Science,” grins Arushi Dogra. Hailing from Pathankot, Arushi says she first learned of IIIT-H from her brother’s friend. She did a lot of research, crawling through forums, reading questions on […]
Information and The Art of Relevant Retrieval
Who amongst us is not guilty of doing a quick internet search in the midst of an argument to prove a point? Or which millennial parent has not resorted to the Internet to answer their child’s queries? Simplistically put, such a process through which relevant answers are fetched for us is essentially known as Information […]
Onward Health takes plunge into healthcare analytics
An engineer, with an MBA from IIM Lucknow, Dinesh Koka was exposed to the healthcare sector with his first stint at GE Healthcare. Having worked in the healthcare sector for 15+ years and in a country like India that faces huge healthcare challenges, Dinesh says, it was pretty obvious that he wanted to do something […]
Priya Radhakrishnan – Back-to-School and How!
They say inspiration can strike at the most unexpected of times. For Priya, it couldn’t have been more opportune. She was a software engineer, an overwhelmed new mother, exhausted and on the verge of giving up her technical aspirations. That was when she saw an image of Kim Clijsters with the 2009 US Open trophy […]
TooWeakTooSlow in ACM-ICPC Finals
Participating in and representing India in the finals of World programming contests is second nature for the students at IIIT-Hyderabad. This year has been no exception with the team TooWeakTooSlow topping the regional finals of the ACM-ICPC (Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest) to represent India at the 2018 ACM-ICPC World Finals. The […]
Sneha Jain Bags prestigious internship at Berkeley Lab
Sneha Jain, who is currently pursuing her Masters in Building Science Research at IIIT-Hyderabad has been awarded an internship that will allow her to work at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), USA for six months. The Building Energy Efficiency Higher And Advanced Network (BHAVAN) internship is the result of collaborative efforts between […]
Art at IIIT-Hyderabad: More Than Just A Hobby
Painted benches. Murals. Sculptures. Installations and more. If you thought all this had to do with IIIT-Hyderabad’s annual cultural fest, Felicity, or was related to an event on campus, you couldn’t be more wrong. Turns out it’s all in a day’s work for the first year UG students at IIITH. From the next academic year, […]
Saumya Rawat – The Sky’s The Limit For This Undergrad
A cursory search about IIIT-Hyderabad on Quora reveals that the most frequently asked questions from aspirants deal with the distinction between IIITH and “other Indian institutes”. And one of the most upvoted answers is the unprecedented opportunity given to undergraduate students to pursue research and publish papers at international conferences. A case in point is […]