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Medals at the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) 2025

India’s student team has pulled off a historic performance at at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL-2025), held in Taiwan from July 21 to 27, with all four team members winning individual honours — a first for India since it began participating in 2009. Competing against 227 students from 42 countries. The Indian team consisted of: V Surendran (Chennai) – Gold medal; A Misra (Delhi NCR) – Bronze medal; Nandagovind Anurag (Hyderabad) – Honourable mention and Siripurapu Bhuvan (Hyderabad) – Honourable mention. They were selected through the Panini Linguistics Olympiad (PLO) and underwent intensive training at IIIT Hyderabad under Prof. Parameswari Krishnamurthy, a long-time academic mentor for the Indian team. IOL is one of the 13 major International Science Olympiads. It tests logic, pattern recognition, and analytical thinking using rare or under-documented languages — no prior language knowledge required. Instead, students must crack linguistic puzzles using data and deduction, like decoding grammar rules from scratch.

New FabLab inaugurated on campus

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New FabLab inaugurated on campus

Prof. P J Narayanan, Director, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad inaugurated the “FabLab” at IIIT Hyderabad campus today. The lab has been made possible by the support from the Department of Science and Technology, under the Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (PURSE) scheme.
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad has been granted the project for the development of biosensors and bio-actuators focused on healthcare applications. Some of the microfabrication tools available in the facility include UV lithography, sputtering, spin coater and vacuum chamber, along with material characterization tools such as Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and optical profilometer.
The facility also consists of semiconductor IC characterization tools such as probe station, Vector Network Analyzer (VNA), Vector Signal Generator (VSG), signal analyzer and oscilloscope, with the capability of supporting measurements in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band.

TechForward July 2025 Edition (AI in Energy Transition)

IIITH’s TechForward research seminar series is an academia-industry confluence around emerging technologies. Deep insights, directional talks & industry/business outlooks from highly accomplished thought leaders on one theme every month. The July edition explores AI in Energy Transition at GE Vernova Hyderabad Technology Centre on 30 July. To attend register at https://tinyurl.com/4ss47wa7

How digitalisation and technology are changing lived realities

Nazia Akhtar, whose research involves the literary history of Hyderabad, talked about — the challenges in digitising people’s personal archives. Nazia’s work on Hyderabadi Urdu women’s literature includes The Deccan Sun, a translation of Zeenath Sajida’s writings. Nazia, who is building an online archive of such texts, said “When I work on a writer’s oeuvre, I find their processes in their notebooks, places where they doodle, letters to friends where they complain that they couldn’t put a certain metaphor together. This is why I am interested in the private papers of writers—things they scribble among grocery lists, backs of calendars, receipts, etc,”. Often, families of deceased writers have huge volumes of unpublished writing, including diaries that they hope someone else can preserve and make accessible for researchers. “In such cases, digital technology appears to be a saviour. But there are questions of how much private details to put out, who can access these, what is our responsibility towards writers or their families, who may not be in a position to negotiate for themselves,”