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24th Convocation 2025

24th Convocation (12th July 2025) The 24th Convocation of IIIT Hyderabad will be held on Saturday, 12th July 2025 during the afternoon session at “Global Peace Auditorium, Brahmakumaris Shanti Sarovar“, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. Chief Guest Ms Debjani Ghosh Distinguished Fellow – NITI Aayog, Chief Architect – NITI Frontier Tech Hub, (ex-President, NASSCOM) will give the convocation address […]

AI advancements in the mobility space

At the recently concluded TechForward series seminar on AI in Vehicles, Prof. C V Jawahar described the mobility-related research efforts being undertaken at IIITH. Here’s a summarized version. At IIITH, we have been aiming to solve problems on Indian roads and driving conditions using data-driven technologies. With the help of techniques from machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, computational sensing, and allied areas, we have been creating solutions and transferring these solutions across diverse practical conditions on roads. One of the research studies that was undertaken includes early anticipation of driver actions before the onset of a manoeuvre, such as a turn, a lane change, a sudden halt and so on. When you know the driver in front of you is going to take a right turn without indicating with a signal, you anticipate and get ready for it perhaps by slowing down or changing lanes.

Prof. P J Narayanan on IIITH’s Unique Research-led Curriculum

In an interview with Business World team, Prof. P J Narayanan describes the industrial, social and healthcare applications of the translational research being carried out at the institute. Answering a question, Prof. P J Narayanan says, IIITH has been a leader in AI and related areas through KCIS that was endowed by TCS in 2015. Our strengths include all core Al areas including machine learning, cognitive science, data analytics, natural language processing, speech processing and synthesis, robotics, computer vision, etc. Building on the foundations of academic research, we have been focusing on applied and translational research in the past several years. This involves research with specific industrial or social application as the focus. We established two entities – INAI and RCTS – for large-scale applied research. The Technology Innovation Hub established by the DST at the institute has data-driven applications as its focus and works synergistically with the institute’s research centres and labs.

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and his students Arvindh Arun, Karuna K Chandra, Akshit Sinha, Balakumar Velayutham, Jashn Arora and Manish Jain from  Google DeepMind, Bangalore received best paper award for their research work on  Topo Goes Political: TDA-Based Controversy Detection in Imbalanced Reddit Political Data at BeyondFacts – 5nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis (KnOD 2025), collocated with The Web Conference 2025 held at Sydney, Australia in May 2025