IIIT-H Research Students Win Google ‘Build For India’ Hackathon
To make its products more relevant to Indians, Google is working on a host of initiatives especially customized for its Indian audiences. From working with Indian language publishers, to bringing more relevant content online, to launching a new feature in Google Go that lets you listen to web pages, these products show it has Indian […]
IIITH’s Robotics Research Centre Proves Mettle With Two Prestigious Wins
Team Cerebrus comes second with its janitorial assistant at the ARTPARK-organised robotics challenge while Team Lumos wins third place in the Open Cloud Table Organization Challenge at ICRA 2022. At the recently concluded Robotics Challenge held by Bangalore-based not-for-profit foundation, AI and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) at IISc, IIITH’s students competed with 133 other teams […]
Meet IIITH’s URAM Scholarship Recipients
Dipanwita Guhathakurta and Pravalika Mukkiri’s academic and career aspirations get a boost with this unique initiative from Micron India that targets talented women engineers in their pre-final years. Every year Micron India offers 59 scholarships “to nurture and reward academic rigour, innovation, research and co-curricular pursuits of women engineers” who are in their pre-final year […]
IIITH-TCS Team Shocks Competition To Emerge Winner In This Power Play
A collaborative IIITH and TCS effort that strategically deploys game theory and ML techniques in a smart grid network bagged first place at the annual niche tournament, PowerTAC which simulates retail electric power markets. The team not only won by a huge margin but continues to be the only Indian presence at the event so […]
Student Researcher Earns Dual Degree in Quick Time
What makes Rajashekar Reddy Chinthalapani special is that he has speed tracked through a 5-year dual degree program, to finish a semester early. His story is noteworthy because of one small detail. He didn’t make it to IIIT Hyderabad in the first cut. Rajashekar is just a normal guy with the usual favorites and phobias […]
IIITH Innovations Bag Winner And Super Winner Awards At Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Program
IIITH students take home the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship award two years in a row. Last year’s winning team also gets awarded ‘winner of winners’ for the year 2020-2021. A team comprising of students Pranay Gupta and Debtanu Gupta under the mentorship of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla has won this year’s edition of the prestigious Qualcomm […]
IIITH’s Child Trafficking Serious Game Presented and Shortlisted For Best Paper At IEEE Conference on Games 2020
Technological advances have come in handy for promoting awareness about social issues. Students at IIITH demonstrate an immersive and transformative experience with a game on child trafficking which was also shortlisted for the Best Paper Award at the the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). Read more below. The chances of learning and retaining a newly […]
IIITH Team Wins Prize At Smart India Hackathon 2020
Since 2017, a nationwide hackathon has enabled lakhs of students to pitch in and innovatively solve some everyday pressing problems faced by governments, industries, and NGOs with the help of technology. This year, a IIITH team of students built an advanced library software solution for a college in the Andamans winning them a prize in […]
CVIT Researchers’ Submission in MOT 2020 Ranks No. 1
In June 2020, when two student researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) turned in their entry to the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) challenge, the submission gained them the first rank in the famously challenging problem. Here’s a simultaneous look at the benchmark as well as the students, Karthik Shyamgopal and Ameya Prabhu, […]
IIITH Student Snags Competitive Inaugural MLH Fellowship
In response to the thousands of globally lost student internships due to Covid-19, Major League Hacking (MLH) has teamed up with a group of companies such as Facebook, Amazon Web Services, PlutoVR, Indeed, Royal Bank of Canada and many such others, to offer a unique apprenticeship. Meet Jivitesh Jain, 2nd year CSE student and part […]