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IIIT-Hyderabad releases book on evolution of UPI

Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) D. Subbarao on Saturday said UPI may look like an inevitable revolution today but it is the result of years of institutional choices, technological innovation and determined execution. Speaking at the release of a book ‘Cashless Nation: How UPI Changed Everything’ authored by Santanu Paul and B. Sambamurthy, he said UPI is not just a new payment product. It is a new payment ecosystem — an open, interoperable public infrastructure that has transformed financial inclusion and enabled unprecedented private innovation. The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, which played host to the event, said the book chronicles the origin story of UPI and the rise of India as a digital superpower. UPI celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. Congratulating the authors, IIIT Hyderabad Director Sandeep Shukla said it is a well-researched book that captures an important transformation in India’s journey towards a cashless nation. UPI is a technology that has made the world sit up and look at India as a global leader in payment technology.

A research paper titled “VRSpecML: A Profile for Realizing Domain-Specific Virtual Reality Systems,” co-authored by Bavya Sri and Sai Anirudh Karre, with collaboration from Prof. Y. Raghu Reddy, has been accepted to the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track of MODELS 2026 – International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, a CORE A conference. The conference is scheduled to be held from 4–9 October 2026 in Málaga, Spain.

A research paper titled “VRSpecML: A Profile for Realizing Domain-Specific Virtual Reality Systems,” co-authored by Bavya Sri and Sai Anirudh Karre, with collaboration from Prof. Y. Raghu Reddy, has been accepted to the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track of MODELS 2026 – International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, a CORE A conference. The conference is scheduled to be held […]

A research paper by Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) undergraduate students Hemang Jain, Shailender Goyal, and Divyansh Pandey, co-authored with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan, titled “Dissecting Transformers: A CLEAR Perspective Towards Green AI,” has been accepted as a main conference paper at Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026).

Prof. Nimmi Rangaswamy and her student, Pratyay Suvarnapathaki, have been featured on the cover story of Interactions, one of ACM’s leading publications showcasing Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) research from around the world. This impressive double victory reflects the students’ dedication, discipline, and strong teamwork, along with the invaluable guidance and support of their coaches. IIIT-H teams winners […]

India Today Rankings

The India Today – MDRA Best Universities Ranking 2026 ranked IIIT Hyderabad in 10th place among Top Technical Universities in India.

Team India sweeps Gold and multiple awards at International Linguistics Olympiad at Romania. When IIIT-H mentored Team India dazzled at the recently held International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) at Romania, with a Gold and an impressive medal tally, it honoured an ancient legacy that goes back to grammarian Panini, from the 4th century BCE.

Team India sweeps Gold and multiple awards at International Linguistics Olympiad at Romania. When IIIT-H mentored Team India dazzled at the recently held International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) at Romania, with a Gold and an impressive medal tally, it honoured an ancient legacy that goes back to grammarian Panini, from the 4th century BCE. 

IIIT-H sets up new centre to redefine learning in the age of AI

With artificial intelligence becoming all-pervasive, the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT Hyderabad) is setting up a new research centre, the Centre for Educational Technology and Learning Sciences (CETLS), to explore how people, including students and older people, learn in the age of AI, and how to help them improve their cognitive skills. Centre for Educational Technology and Learning Sciences – CETLS will focus on students up to Class 12, higher education, executive training, and learning for the third age. Instead of arguing for a blanket ban on AI in the classroom, the centre plans to focus on helping children improve their cognitive skills. The Centre for Educational Technology and Learning Sciences will work with schools to gain insights into the actual learning process, which it can then use to refine and improve educational methods. Globally known AI thought leader and the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) founder Raj Reddy will address the inaugural event on September 5 at the institute’s Gachibowli campus.

Dr Vishnu Sreekumar received the 2026 HPS–IMH Oration Award from Hyderabad Psychiatric Society on 23 August. In his oration, he examined the role of AI and computational cognitive science in psychiatry, separating hype from reality. He also proposed a framework for collaboration among AI researchers, cognitive scientists, engineers, psychiatrists, and patients that moves beyond early detection towards understanding treatment-relevant mechanisms.

Dr Aakansha Natani, Assistant Professor, Human Sciences Research Centre, was awarded the Australia–France Indo-Pacific Visiting Fellowship Studies Grant 2026 by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She will join the University of Queensland, Brisbane, later this year to work on her project, “Data as Public Good: Cross-regional Insights from India and Australia”.

For more: https://socialsciences.org.au/news/afips-visiting-fellowship-grant-recipients-announced/

Dr Aakansha Natani, Assistant Professor, Human Sciences Research Centre, was awarded the Australia–France Indo-Pacific Visiting Fellowship Studies Grant 2026 by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She will join the University of Queensland, Brisbane, later this year to work on her project, “Data as Public Good: Cross-regional Insights from India and Australia”.

Dr Aakansha Natani, Assistant Professor, Human Sciences Research Centre, was awarded the Australia–France Indo-Pacific Visiting Fellowship Studies Grant 2026 by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She will join the University of Queensland, Brisbane, later this year to work on her project, “Data as Public Good: Cross-regional Insights from India and Australia”.

For more: https://socialsciences.org.au/news/afips-visiting-fellowship-grant-recipients-announced/

IIIT-H Launches Centre for Educational Technology and Learning Sciences (CETLS) to Reimagine Learning in the Age of AI

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