Author: web admin

R&D Showcase 2026

Andhra Jyothi (Print) BizBuzz (Print) Business News This Week Eenadu (Print) Edu Advice Hindi Milap (Print) Hyderabad Mail Metro India (Print) Praja Jyothi (Print) Press Network of India Sakshi (Print-1) Saskshi (Print-2) Skill Outlook SME Street Swatantra Vaartha (Print) Telangana Today The Hans India (Print) The Hans India The Rahnuma United News of India

R&D Showcase 2026

The 25th R&D Showcase at IIIT Hyderabad began on 14 March featuring over 400 research posters, demos and prototypes from 29 centres. The two-day R&D Showcase is the institute’s major annual exhibition where faculty and students present their latest research projects, prototypes and innovations to academia, industry and the public Themed ‘Trust in Technology – Security, Privacy and Transparency. The programme included spotlight sessions by the Centre for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) and the Cyber Manthan Centre (CMC), an inaugural keynote by Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO-ANRF, and a panel discussion on “Building Trust in the Indian Cyberspace: Privacy, Security and Transparency in the Era of Emerging Technologies.” Prof Sandeep K Shukla, Director of IIIT-H, said, “It is encouraging to see our researchers engaging with industry, policymakers and the wider public to translate research into meaningful societal impact.”

Indian App Turns Impaired Speech into Clear Speech

Vineet Gandhi of IIIT Hyderabad, leader of the team that developed an app that converts slurred speech into clear speech or uses a camera to analyse lip movements and subtle throat vibrations to generate intelligible speech. The delay is only a few hundred milliseconds, and the developers are now focusing on regional languages. A whisper. A few slurred words. For those who suffer from dysarthria, a motor speech disorder, basic communication is a challenge, indelibly affecting both their professional and personal life. But now a new innovation based on artificial intelligence (AI) and developed in India could be life-changing. Led by associate professor Vineet Gandhi a team has developed a simple app that can help people talk as an audio translation converts the speaker’s voice almost in real-time. The app can either convert slurred speech into clear, natural-sounding speech or use a camera to analyse lip movements and subtle throat vibrations to generate intelligible speech.

F C Kohli Day (17 March 2026)

Every year, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad commemorates Kohli Day to honour the legacy of F. C. Kohli—widely regarded as the father of the Indian IT industry. The annual event celebrates his vision of building world-class computing research and education in India, bringing together pioneers whose work continues to shape the future of technology.

This year’s F. C. Kohli Day Distinguished Lecture (17 March, 4 PM) features legendary roboticist Takeo Kanade, a pioneer of computer vision and autonomous systems and a longtime professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute.

In his talk, Prof. Kanade will share stories of “fun research” in robotics—how curiosity-driven experimentation and bold ideas can lead to transformative innovation. From foundational advances in computer vision to real-world robotics applications, his work has influenced generations of researchers and engineers worldwide.

If you’re interested in AI, robotics, computer vision, or the future of intelligent systems, this is a lecture you won’t want to miss.

📅 17 March 2026
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 IIIT Hyderabad / Online

🔗 Register here: https://iiit-ac-in.zoom.us/meeting/register/kpmXIddeQk-GYcefWVWBTw#/registration

Join us as we celebrate the spirit of innovation that F. C. Kohli championed and hear from one of the pioneers shaping the future of robotics. 🚀

ANRF Awards Advanced Grants to 10 IIIT-H researchers

Among the 15,700 proposals submitted nationwide, ten research projects from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) emerged as winners of the prestigious Advanced Research Grant (ARG) – the Anusandhan National Research Foundation’s (ANRF) flagship funding scheme – an extraordinary showing that underscores the institute’s growing influence in cutting-edge science and technology. The Advanced Research Grant by ANRF, India’s national funding body for research and innovation that has been set up by the Government of India, is designed to support ambitious, investigator-driven research projects led by established researchers working on novel, high-impact ideas. From foundational research to real-world innovation, the selected projects spotlight the depth, diversity, and ambition of IIIT-Hyderabad’s research ecosystem. The selected projects cover areas including quantum computing, robotics, artificial intelligence, communication systems, speech technology and climate research.

IIIT-H Projects Win ANRF ARG Awards

Business World – Education Deccan Chronicle (Print) Deccan Chronicle Hindi Milap (Print) Hyderabad Mail  Janta Se Rishta  Sakshi (Print) The Times of India – Education Times

Digital Protection Shield

As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and digital finance redraws economic boundaries, the risks beneath our connected world are growing just as fast. At IIIT-H, the Security and Privacy (SyPy) Research Group is working behind the scenes to uncover hidden vulnerabilities, defend emerging technologies, and build the foundations of digital trust. “We live in an online world,” says Prof. Ankit Gangwal, continuing, “Our savings move through digital wallets. Our faces unlock our phones. Our conversations are filtered through machine learning systems that predict what we want before we type it. Every swipe, tap, and transaction depends on layers of invisible code. But what happens when that code is compromised?” Prof. Gangwal’s group, is not just asking exactly that question but working relentlessly to answer it. “To secure the future, we must first understand the vulnerabilities of the present,” he remarks. Security failures rarely announce themselves loudly at first. They hide in edge cases, in overlooked assumptions, in code that “should work.”

Trust, but verify: Rethinking our reliance on AI

In an era where large language models dazzle us with fluency, confident reasoning, and near-human responses, Prof. Manish Shrivastava urges caution by pulling back the curtain on AI’s “illusion of reasoning,” and makes a compelling case for smarter data, smaller models, and a more thoughtful future for AI, especially in the Indian context. Prof. Manish Shrivastava’s research philosophy can be best described with two ‘Rs’: “R for research and R for rabbit holes.” Explaining that there are three types of research, the goal-oriented kind which is focused and socially impactful, the opportunistic kind which jumps into emerging gaps in a field and the exploratory type, driven by intellectual curiosity, Prof. Shrivastava elaborates that most of his work falls into the third category. It’s these rabbit holes that have led him deep into one of today’s most urgent questions: Are large language models (LLMs) actually doing what we think they are? Anybody who is using an large language model (LLM) treats it as an intelligent entity. But for Prof. Shrivastava, it is “facts plus language”.