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Sushil Umasudhan –  International Olympiad in Informatics champion

When IIITH’s Sushil Raaja Umasudhan won the silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2024) at Alexandria recently, it was his third international medal. He won the silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2024), held at Alexandria, Egypt in September this year. He and his team had earlier won the bronze at Hungary’s IOI-2023 and Gold medal in this year’s Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO-2024), an online competition hosted by China in which 35 countries from the Asia Pacific region participated.

IIITH’s social incubator hosts Roundtable on Startup Innovation in Climate Action

IIITH’s Social Incubator, AIC-IIITH, held a roundtable discussion on ‘Financial and Non-Financial Support for Startup Innovation in Climate Action’ at IIITH. This collaborative event brought together key stakeholders to discuss challenges and solutions for supporting climate-tech startups through financial mechanisms, policy enhancements, and ecosystem collaboration. Participants in the Roundtable included Gareth Wynn Owen, British Deputy High Commissioner to Hyderabad, and representatives from RICH and IIITH.

IIITH researchers turn stethoscope into a tool that can help people speak

A team of researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad has developed an innovative Silent Speech Interface (SSI) that can convert non-audible murmurs into vocalised speech.
This groundbreaking technology has the potential to improve communication for people with speech impairments. The research team, led by TCS researcher and PhD student Neil Shah, along with Neha Sahipjohn and Vishal Tambrahalli, worked under the guidance of Dr Ramanathan Subramanian and Prof Vineet Gandhi.