Smart City Living Lab team-NEXUS consisting of Mr. Likhith Kanigolla, Mr. Varada Sasidhar, Mr. Surya Suhaas, Mr. Himanshu Fanibhare won the Best Promotion of oneM2M award at the 4th International oneM2M Hackathon, held from 7 October to 13 December for their innovative project – oneM2M: Enabling Water Network Twins.
Anika Roy, a 4th year CND student working with Dr. Chittaranjan Hens received the Khorana Scholarship in 2024 and went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA as a visiting research student from 14 June to 31 August.
Aishani Pandey, (B.Tech + MS in CSE) working with Dr. Aniket Alam was awarded the Young Authors Recognition Award for her poster presentation on UnSight: Bridging the Educational Gap for Blind Learners at the 15th ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference 2024 held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi from 21 to 23 October. The other authors of this paper are Arush Sachdeva, (B.Tech-3rd year-LCD working with Dr. Anirban Dasgupta) and Vivek Mathur, ( 5th year-CND working with Dr. Chittaranjan Hens).
Research work on Citation Anchor Text for Improving Precedent Retrieval: An Experimental Study on Indian Legal Documents by Gaurang Patil, Bhoomeendra Singh Sisodiya, K V K Santhy working with Prof. P Krishna Reddy was awarded Best Paper Award at the 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX-2024) from 11 to 13 December held at Brno, Czech Republic.
Research work on Application of SWMM for Urban Storm Water Management- A Case Study of Hyderabad City by Dr. Shaik Rehana and her Ph.D student Satish Kumar Mummidivarapu was awarded the best paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Engineering Education (iCAEED-2024), held in Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, from 20 – 23 November.
Rishabh Bhattacharya, a 3rd Year DD Student working Dr. Naresh Manwani won the First Prize in Naval Hackathon 2024, held virtually in October. The theme of his project was Navigation and real-time tracking of flying objects. He received the prize from the Defence Minister of India, Shri Rajnath Singh Ji.
The institute launched the first version of the My IIIT mobile app developed by a team of students on 23 October. The app is designed to offer a user-friendly interface, providing seamless access to key institute resources, particularly the IMS system, without requiring a VPN for students, faculty, and staff. Notably, it also introduces the first digital version of the institute’s faculty and staff contact directory – IIIT Soochika.
Remote Labs project team – Akshit Gureja (UG5 ECD), Vedant Nipane (UG4 ECE), Nagesh Walchatwar (MS 1st year) and Devansh Kantesaria (UG3 ECD) working with Dr. Sachin Chaudhari have won first prize at the Hyderabad regionals of the 5G and 6G hackathon conducted by Telecom Centres of Excellence India (TCOE) India on behalf of Department of Telecommunication (DoT), India at IIIT Hyderabad on 26 – 27 September.
Remote Labs team – Akshit Gureja (UG5 ECD) and Nagesh Walchatwar (MS 1st year) working with Dr. Sachin Chaudhari from Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) was selected by Qualcomm under their Qualcomm Design in India Program (QDIP) to exhibit their innovative project as a part of Qualcomm’s booth at India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024, organised at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 15 to 18 October.
The Annual Awards Function to recognise the academic and research successes of students was held on 23 October. Dean’s List and Research List awards for the academic year 2023-24: Total students for Dean’s list – 453 (graduated – 110); Total students for Research list – 39 (graduated – 3)
Total students for Dean’s list – 453 (graduated – 110) Total students for Research list – 39 (graduated – 3) Total students for Dean’s list – 453 (graduated – 110) Total students for Research list – 39 (graduated – 3) Total students for Dean’s list – 453 (graduated – 110) Total students for Research list […]