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Students of Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) bagged best student poster awards at the 14th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference held in Bangalore from 22 – 24 February. 

  • Rudra Dhar, Ph.D student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Vasudeva Varma for his work on Leveraging Generative AI for Architectural Knowledge Management.
  • Shubham Kulkarni, MS by research student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan for his work on AdaMLS: A Self-adaptive Approach for Enhancing the Quality of Service of ML-enabled Systems. 
Team – Wanderlust consisting Aditya Ranjan Padhi (UG3); Aniketh Parkala (UG3); Gnaneswar Kulindala (UG3); Harsh Kapoor (UG1); Mayank Goel (UG3); Madhan Sai Krishna Chamarthy (UG1); Shreya Bollimuntha (UG3); Shreyas Kumar Sinha (UG3) and Sreyas Saminathan (UG3) participated in the prestigious 2024 CanSat competition, a global event organised by the American Astronautical Society. Team – Wanderlust obtained a global rank of 4, securing an invitation to participate in the further phases of the competition.

IITH students bagged several prizes at Elan and nVision techno-cultural fest of IIT Hyderabad.
Fix the bug contest
1st prize – Rinish Sam I, MTech 2k23 (CSE); Varun Edachali, UG 2k22 (CSE);
Maddireddy Kritin, UG 2k22 (CSE)
2nd prize – Udith Krishna M Nair, UG 2k23 (CSD); Adithya Kishor, UG 2k23 (CSD); Shubham Goel, UG 2k23 (CSE)
3rd prize – Anirudh Sankar, UG 2k23 (CSD); Aditya Shankar, UG 2k23 (CSD)

Top 2 prizes at Verilog Hackathon
Yash Bhutada and Arya Topale from Electronics and Robotics club (ERC) won 1st prize. Soham Vaishnav and Rupak Antani secured the runner-up spot.

Jewel Benny supervised by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava was awarded the Chanakya UG Fellowship by iHub IIIT Delhi for his research work on Design and Measurements of mmWave FMCW Radar Based Non-Contact Multi-Patient Heart Rate and Breath Rate Monitoring System.
Research work by IIITH researchers Shashwat Goel and Nikhil Chandak; and Dominik Peters, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris was awarded an outstanding paper award at AAAI 2024 for their research work on Proportional Aggregation of Preferences for Sequential Decision Making.

Anis Fatema, PhD student of Dr. Aftab M Hussain won second prize in Young Professionals (YP) session and another second prize in the Student Research Forum Award for Fabrication of Flexible Pressure Sensor Systems for Biomedical Applications  at the  IEEE APSCON 2024. Both awards carry significant cash prizes and a certificate.

Basketball team – girls were runners-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at Mahindra university, Hyderabad. The team members were Sriya Venepally, Pranali Jagdale, Anuhya Nallapati, Saumya Balina, Aishita Marri, Srujana Vanka, Bollimuntha Shreya and Prajna Penmesta.
Team Lucid- consisting of M.Tech PDM students – Shambhavi Ojha, Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya, Vinaya Gopi and Venkat Sai Nadakudati, have won D’source DIC-BHU Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Design Challenge B under the Interaction design Category.
Startup – HydrowVerse Pvt Ltd founded by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC) and Smart City Research Centre(SCRC) and Co-Founded by Thomas David Tency, Research Assistant was awarded the NPCI Best Innovation Award at the event – Fetching Fortunes at E Summit organised by the IIT Hyderabad. The team was given ₹1 Lac worth credits and awards.
Research work on Global Space Modelling Of Biological Processes With Cross-sectional Data by Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy and her students – J Thottupattu and Venky P was awarded the best paper nomination award at ICVGIP 2023 – 14th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing held from 15 – 17 December 2023 at IIT Ropar.
IIIT Hyderabad Basketball team were Runner-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Madhapur from 2 to 3 February. Team members were Revanth Gundam, Atharv Johar, Sriram Alluri, Aadarsh Raghunathan, Aniketh Atmakuri, Amogh Tiwari, Ashwin Rudraraju, Sudarshan Nikhil and Janardan. Mr, Samson Xavier was the team coach.
Mr. Anirudh Palutla, a Dual-degree student of CCNSB, has been offered a Research Scientist position at Janelia Research Campus (JRC), USA. JRC is a scientific research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Pragati Gupta supervised by Dr. Kavita Vemuri won third prize at INOS-2023 in poster session for their research work on Binocular Pupillary Response to Chromatic Light as Potential Marker- A Preliminary Observation at the 5th Annual Conference of Indian Neuro Ophthalmology Society held from 9 – 10 December at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH).
Research work on Assessment of Flow Regimes and Water Temperature: A Case Study on Yamuna and Bhadra River Systems by Dr. Shaik Rehana and her students Satish Kumar Mummidivarapu, Ph.D; Jaya Bharat Reddy, CSE Dual Degree was awarded the best paper award at the 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, and River Engineering (HYDRO-2023) held at National Institute of Technology Warangal (NIT Warangal) from 20 to 22 December 2023.
Research work by Rishikesh Bose, Dr. Sujit Gujar, N Patil, A K Dwivedi, Dr. KavitaVemuri, Prof. Sachin Chaudhari, on Comparative Analysis of Construction-Related AirPollution In Indoor and Outdoor Environm ….
Level Masters team – Ritik Yelekar (MS by Research, ECE); Thomas David Tency (Researcher and CEO, Hydrow); Nagesh Walchatwar (Research Intern, SPCRC) and Sahil Padole (Research Intern, SPCRC) supervised by ….
IIIT Hyderabad basketball boys team were runner-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (VNRVJIET). The team members wer ….
Team members G Krishna Sandilya, M.Tech-PDM 2nd year; Param Dubey, M.Tech-PDM 2nd year and G L Vaishnavi, M.Tech-PDM 1st year were national finalists at Tech-Tack product case competition for a live busine ….
Sajja Patel, a UG3 student currently pursuing B.Tech-CSE recently gained admission into IIT Guwahati’s Data Science and AI program through JEE advanced mode.
Rishikesh Bose, MS by research supervised by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari received the best presentation award for their research work on Comparative Analysis of Construction-Related Air Pollution in Indoor and Ou ….
The Annual Awards Function where the academic and research successes of students are recognised was held on 15 November at institute amphitheatre. This year nearly 500 students have been recognized for the ….
Research work on Unsupervised approach to evaluate sentence-level fluency: Do we really need reference? By Dr. Manish Shrivastava and his students Gopichand Kanumolu, MS CSE; Lokesh Madasu, MS CSE; Pavan B ….
Shambhavi Ojha, M.Tech Product Design and Management student bagged the silver award in the 7th mini product challenge organised by Airtribe. The challenge required participants to create a referral progra ….
Anuj Malviya and Josh Elias Joy, M.Tech Product Design and Management and Akshay Phate M.Tech CSE student who graduated in 2023 won 2nd place in Autodesk Instructables, Student Game Design Challenge, for t ….
Astitva Srivastava in first year and Chennupati Sai Deep in third year of their Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) were awarded TCS Research Scholarships. Students selected for the scholarship ….
M Satish Kumar supervised by Dr. Shaik Rehana, has been awarded the esteemed Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) travel grant. This award helped him to participate in the distinguished Internatio ….
Priyanka Kommagoun working under Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala, from the Speech Processing Lab, LTRC won the best poster award in Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW-2023) ….
Dr. Manish Shrivastava and Srija M, 3rd year CLD student were team leaders for the Indian contingent consisting of Faraz Ahmed Siddique, Anshul Bhagwat, Saumya Goyal, and Ujaan Rakshit at the Internationa ….
Team BlueBird members Shambavi, Anuj, Aniket, VenkatSai, Gopi (M.Tech PDM) and Dhiraj (MS SERC) won the Silver Award at the prestigious London Design Awards 2023 in the Service Design category. They design ….
MS by Research students, Bipasha Sen and Aditya Agarwal have earned admission into the coveted Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program at MIT in July 2023
IIITH students M Rajesh, M Satish Kumar and T Thomas David won first place for their low-cost IoT-based sensor for effective water management in Telangana State Pollution Control Board’s hackathon.
IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab team won the best user application award in the Korean Hackathon. Team was led by Leo J Francis along with Vaibhav Naware, Ushasri Mogadali, Gaurav and Sasidhar Varada.
Ankit Gangwal and his students Shubham Singh and Abhijeet Srivastava were awarded the best paper award for their research work on AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers at Proceedings ….
Arpan Singh, a third year MS by Research student in Civil Engineering, working under the supervision of Dr. Sunitha Palissery has been offered Ph.D admissions at the Department of Civil Engineering in the ….
Deepthi Amuru, a Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Zia Abbas received an award at the Woman Leaders Forum (WLF-2023) on 31 May at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Dubai under the category Award for Contribution at International Level.
Aditya Agarwal and Bipasha Sen, 2nd year MS by Research students in Computer Science working under the supervision of Prof. C V Jawahar and Prof. Vinay Namboodiri, University of Bath, UK have been offered ….
IIITH’s Team FLogic comprising of Amul Agrawal, Alapan Chaudhuri, and Aditya Verma beat nearly 1,500 teams from over 250 colleges at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
Anis Fatema, a Ph.D scholar working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain at the Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) won second prize at Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating ….
Ihita G was invited by Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to co-chair a session on Diversity 4 Tech Young Leaders Focus Session durin ….
The Music Club won prizes for the following events/competitions at the cultural event of NIFT Spectrum-23 – First place in Battle of Bands – Ants; Second place in Oggy and the Penguins; First place in Duet ….
Fourth-year students, Sriram Devata and Kanakala Ganesh Chandan, won the first and second prizes respectively. Rohit Modee, a Ph.D scholar was also awarded for methodology for innovative usage of ML irresp ….
IIITH students won medals in Table tennis (Women), Chess (Men) and Swimming (Women) at BITS Arena Sports Fest – 2023 held at BITS Hyderabad on 5 February.
Devika Bej, UG1-CSD was one of the top 20 winners in the 17 – 18 age category at the Desmos Global Art Contest held online from mid November 2022 to mid January 2023. Devika Bej was also the only entry fro ….
The Team Tateists of Astronomy Club won the first prize in an inter-college Astronomy competition organised by IIT Patna. The competition had three rounds – a quiz, a SpaceX simulator challenge to dock a s ….
Team Blue Bird comprising Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya, Dhiraj Shanmukha, Shambhavi Ojha, Vinaya Gopi and Venkat Sai from M.Tech Product Design and Management and SERC qualified as top 20 teams globally ….
Team Vayu, consisting of Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE); Sara Spandhana (MS, ECE); Om Kathalkar and Shreyas Gujar (Interns, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC won the Environment Sensing ….
Anis Fatema, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain received the Best women-owned business pitch and Best overall pitch award at the WiSe-YP Big Idea Pitch Competition and a prize ….
G V Ihita, MS student in SPCRC working on IoT security for smart cities under the guidance of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, was selected as a representative of the Indian delegation and the Generation Connect init ….
Mallela Jhansi, a 2nd-year Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra was selected for Research Week with Google 2023, organised by Google Research India from 29 – 31 January in Bangalore.
Research work by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded first prizes for their oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS – 2022), held from 22 ….
Naga Manoj Makkena, M.S Dual Degree-ECE, working under supervision of Dr. Ubaidulla P received the best paper award for their research work on Trajectory and power optimization for buffer assisted amplify- ….
Shri Vidhatri M M, UG4, CND working under the supervision of Dr. Tapan Kumar Sau participated in UNLEASH 2022 conducted at Infosys campus, Mysore from 3 – 11 December. The team of Shri Vidhatri was one of ….
VidyutVanika22 was the winner with a normalized score 75% and became the only second broker to win the PowerTAC tournament for two consecutive years. The team members were Dr. Praveen Paruchuri and Dr. Suj ….
IIITH researchers Jaidev Shriram, B.Tech student; Dr. Makarand Tapaswi and Dr.Vinoo Alluri created a music algorithm that curates and plays appropriate background music as you read books. The research team ….
Research work on Interpreting Intrinsic Image Decomposition using Concept Activations by Avani Gupta; Saurabh Saini and Prof. P J Narayanan was awarded the Best paper award at the Indian Conference on Comp ….
A team from Electronics and Robotics Club (ERC) was the second runner-up in the Home Automation Event organized by Atomberg Technologies at Techfest, IIT Bombay from 16 to 18 December. Team members were Ri ….
Research work on Overcoming Label Noise for Source-free Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation by Avijit Dasgupta; Prof. C V Jawahar and Karteek Alahari (Inria) was awarded the Best paper award – Runner up a ….
Durga Prasad Dhulipudi working in Honeywell and a part time Ph.D student of Dr. K S Rajan was awarded the best paper award for his research work on Machine Learning for Multiclass Geospatial Objects—Need f ….
Aniket Chandekar and Anuj Malviya pursuing M.Tech in Product Design and Management (PDM) were finalists at the Salesforce Design Challenge held on a national scale with students from prestigious design col ….
Machine Learning Lab students Shailey Mishra and Manisha Padala working under the supervision of Dr. Sujit Prakash Gujar received the First runner-up best paper award for their research work on Fairness wi ….
Research work on Does Audio Help in Deep Audio Visual Saliency Prediction Models by Dr. Vineet Gandhi and his students – Ritivik Agarwal, Shreyank Jyoti, Rohit Girmaji and Sarath Sivaprasd received the bes ….
Advaita Saxena, PhD in ECE and Pragati Gupta, PhD in CSE under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri, CogSci were awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship Program, a competitive Fellowship progr ….
Kiruthika Kannan working under the supervision of Dr. Ravi Kiran S has been awarded an ACM-W scholarship for attending the ACM MULTIMEDIA – 2022 conference in Lisbon, Portugal from 10 – 14 October.
Shubodh Sai, MS student working under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna in the area of Visual Place Recognition has been selected as a winner of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelli ….
Poorna Chandra Danamaraju, M.Tech in Product Design and Management course was invited as a guest of honor at the Literature Conclave held at his alma mater – DAV Public School, Hyderabad on 24 August. Hi ….
Josh Elias Joy, 2nd semester student of M.Tech Product design and Management, won the Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals contest conducted by Hackaday and partnered with Digi-Key Electronics. There were a ….
Shri Vidhatri M M, UG4, CND received the best paper award in the Sensors and Measurements section for her work on Development of sensor for monitoring the integrity of lubrication system of heavy duty pump ….
Vivek Mathur, UG3-CND, working under the supervision of Dr. Tapan Kumar Sau participated in the Summer Research Fellowship program from June – August organized jointly by The Indian National Science Acad ….

Kumar Neelabh, working under the supervision of Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar, has been selected for the Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer School to be held at Eresfjord, Norway from 20 July to 5 August organised by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The competitive selection process for 25 seats was based partly on a summary of his ongoing master’s thesis which aims to describe and understand neural trajectories on low-dimensional manifolds during human learning.

Pranay Gupta and Debtanu Gupta under the mentorship of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla were super winners of this year’s edition of the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) award for their innovative proposal – Deep Neural Models for Generalized Synthesis of Multi-avatar Actions in the domain of Multimedia Computing. Harshithanjani Athi and Rasagna Chigullapally under the mentorship of Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani and Dr. Prasad Krishnan were winners of this year’s edition of the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) award for their innovative proposal – List Decoding Reed-Solomon and Locally Repairable Codes: How far can we go? in the domain of Advances in Communication Techniques and Theory.

Team Lumos, Robotics Research Center (RRC) secured 3rd place at an international robotics competition organized by IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022) held from 23 – 27 May at Philadelphia.

Team Cerebrus, Robotics Research Center (RRC) secured second place at the ARTPARK Robotics Challenge conducted by IISc Bangalore’s Innovation Hub.

Research work on Bringing Linearly Transformed Cosines to Anisotropic GGX by Aakash K T under the supervision of Prof. P J Narayanan received the best paper award at ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2022.

Dipanwita Guhathakurta, Dual Degree and Pravalika Mukkiri, BTech-Hons. have bagged this year’s Micron’s flagship University Research Alliance (URAM) Scholarship

Adithya Sunil Edakkadan working under the supervision of Dr. Abhishek Srivastava has been selected for the Chanakya Undergraduate Fellowship in Quantum Technologies by the I-Hub Quantum Technology foundation at IISER Pune.

Prof. R Pradeep Kumar’s external student, Mangesh Shendkar from IIT BHU received the best paper award for his work on Response reduction factor of RC-infilled frames by using different methods by the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) Journal.

Team PauliZ with team members Alapan Chaudhuri, (CSD UG3); Kushagra Garg, (CND UG3); Rutvij Menavlikar, (CSD UG3); Shreyas Pradhanm (CND UG3) and Zeeshan Ahmed, (CSD UG3) secured first place in Quantum Chemistry Challenge of QHack 2022 conducted from 14 – 25 February. The team won two spots for one month summer internships in Tokyo with QunaSys.

Rishikesh Bose, MS 1st year; Ayush Kumar Lall, 3rd year Dual Degree; Nilesh Bawankar, MS 1st year and Ansh Khandelwal, 3rd Year BTech Honors won the water challenge hackathon conducted by Smart City Living Lab with Govt. of Telangana.

Sarvesh Thakur pursuing Ph.D in CSE under the supervision of Prof. Madhava Krishna had been awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship Program, a competitive Fellowship program for pursuing Ph.D at the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH).

Avantika Latwal working under the supervision of Dr. Rehana Shaik was awarded second prize under the theme Geospatial Technologies in Water Resources Engineering for research work on Water Quality Estimation Using Remote Sensing Technique: A case study of Bhadra Reservoir, Karnataka at the 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO-2021 International) Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) Surat, Gujarat from 23 – 25 December.

An extensive article by Rishabh B Mishra, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) on Solar Powered Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review was published in the journal – Energy Technology and also got accepted as the cover article of the journal which reflects that the topic which was covered is highly interesting to editors of the journal and it’s quite unique as well.

A team of 8 students – Aditya Kadam (UG3, Anmol Goel (RA), Jivitesh Jain (UG4), Mallika Subramanian (UG4), Manvith Reddy (UG4), Prashant Kodali (Ph.D), Arjun T H (UG3), Jushaan Singh Kalra (UG4, Delhi Technological University) and faculty members Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Prof. Manish Shrivastava from Precog IIITH participated in the Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC-2021) shared task as a part of the CEUR workshop organized by FIRE 2021 from 13 – 17 December.

Research work on Classroom Slide Narration System by Jobin K V Ajoy Mondal working under the supervision of Prof. C V Jawahar won the IAPR best paper award at the 6th IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing held at IIT Roper in a Hybrid mode from 3 – 5 December.

An international oneM2M hackathon organised by Korea Electronics Technology Institute to commemorate its 30th anniversary saw IIITH walk away with the Best User Application award.

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and his students received the best student paper award for their research work on What’s Kooking? Characterizing India’s Emerging Social Network, Koo at the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM-21) held virtually on ZOOM from 8 – 11 November.

Salma Khan, a Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Syed Azeemuddin received the best student paper presentation award at Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS-2021) for her research work on High-Speed CMOS Ramp Generator using Proteretic Comparator held in hybrid mode from 22 – 26 November from Malaysia.

IIITH-TCS Team Winners at PowerTAC ’21. For more details Visit

Research work on A BIM Based Approach of Electrical Network Analysis and Applications Using GIS Tools by Prof. K S Rajan, Dr. Nagaraja Ravoori Tejaswini Venkumahanti, Kesava Rao Pyla and Sinha S K was given Best Paper Award at 2nd International virtual conference on Sustainable Construction Technologies and Advancements in Civil Engineering (ScTACE 2021), Bhimavaram from 14 – 16 October.

IIIT team tesla_protocol ranked 46 at the ACM-ICPC competition for 2020. tesla_protocol, made up of Sai Anirudh Peduri, Arjun Pitchanathan and Devansh Gautam was ahead of teams from Stanford, Virginia Tech, Purdue, etc.

IHub-Data fellowships were awarded to research students who can contribute to the mission of the center through their research objectives and projects – for details Visit

Prof. C V Jawahar and his students Sanjana Gunna and Rohit Saluja were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper on Transfer Learning for Scene Text Recognition in Indian Languages at the ICDAR 2021 workshop on camera-based document analysis and recognition (CBDAR 2021, 9th edition) in Lausanne, Switzerland from 5 – 10 September.

Jhansi Mallela (Ph.D – ECE) working under the supervision of Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra and Ruthwik Muppala (Ph.D – ECE) working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab M Hussain were awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship for the academic year 2021 – 2022.

Manisha Padala and Sankrshan Damle, Ph.D students working under the guidance of Dr. Sujit Gujar received Best Paper Award at the first Indian conference on (DAI) organized by Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras from 16 – 18 June for their work on Building Ethical AI: Federated Learning Meets Fairness and Differential Privacy. Manisha Padala and Sankrshan Damle were given a cash prize of USD 500.

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 Innovation Fellowship award for their innovative proposal titled “Deep Neural Models For Generalized Synthesis of Multi-avatar Actions

Sourav Kumar, 5th year dual degree student working under the supervision of Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma and Salil Aggarwal, 4th year dual degree student working under the supervision of Prof. Radhika Mamidi ranked second globally at a Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2021) shared task.

Anurag Jain working under the supervision of Dr. Sujit Gujar received the best poster design award for their work on We might walk together, but I run faster: Network Fairness and Scalability in Blockchains at AAMAS-21.

Maheshwari Himanshu and Bhavyajeet Singh working under the supervision of Prof. Vasudeva Varma participated in a 3C shared task at Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing @ NAACL 2021.

Research work by Aditya Srinivas Gear, Kritika Prakash, Nonidh Singh and Dr Praveen Paruchuri on PredictRV: A Prediction Based Strategy for Negotiations with Dynamically Changing Reservation Value has been accepted and also has been nominated for the best student paper at GDN 2021.

D Durga Prasad a part time PhD student of Dr. K S Rajan was awarded best paper award for his research work on Geospatial Object Detection using Machine Learning Aviation Case Study at ICNS-202 on Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for aviation applications.

Dr. Kavita Vemuri and Vivek Kaushal’s paper on Clickbait – Trust and Credibility of Digital News is available in the Early Access area on IEEE Xplore.

Achintya Manohar Desai accepted to University of California, Santa Barbara.

Research work on Recent Progress on Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors: From Design and Materials to Applications by Rishabh B. Mishra working under the supervision of Aftab M. Hussain, CVEST was featured as a cover page image in Advanced Materials Technologies, Vol 6, No 4 April 2021.

Prakrati Dangarh accepted to Imperial College London, London.

Shashwat Shrivastava accepted to École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Shashwat Khandelwal accepted to Trinity College, Dublin

Shravya Kanchi accepted to Virginia Tech

Shweta Kumari, Ph.D student, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) and Abishek Bharadhwaj, Ph.D student of CCMB Hyderabad won the best poster award for their research work on Structural modulation in Smoothened (SMO) upon cholesterol binding at the second edition of student-driven conference Hy-Sci 2020 held virtually from 17 – 18 December.

In a global event conducted jointly by the University of Helsinki and Slush to tackle the growing urban air pollution crisis, a IIITH team of students made the jury’s cut and featured among the 8 shortlisted teams.

A team comprising Adhithya Arun and Meher Shashwat Nigam, 4th year BTech students, along with few others walked away with the second place in the 3rd edition of the virtual Blockchain and Data Science hackathon event that was conducted from 9 – 11 October 2020.

Fourth year CSE and CSD students Aadil Mehdi Sanchawala, Adhithya Arun, and Rahul Sajnani working under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri received Best Paper at IEEE Conference on Games 2020.

M.Tech CSE students Shanu Gandhi, Shreyas Nagraj, Upinder Singh and Manik Gupta, B.Tech CSE student Vijayraj S. and dual degree student Pradeep P. won the hackathon Payments and Pandemic in category Best Use of Visa API, conducted during their virtual summer internship at VISA. Over 50 teams of interns participated from India and around the world in teams of 4-6 size and IIITH was among the 6 winning teams and only team from India to win.

K L Bhanu Moorthy doing Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Vineet Gandhi received a TCS Research Scholarship.

Himanshi Singh, MS by Research in Civil Engineering working under the supervision of Dr. Shaik Rehna was selected for the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Summer Training Program at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR).

IIITH team Occams Razor won the Smart India Hackathon 2020 for the problem statement DS165 Library Software for Andaman College.

IIITH students selected for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship.

Third year BTech (Hons) students Rohan Chacko and Aadil Mehdi Sanchawala, have won the second place at the Microsoft CodeFunDo ++ 2019 hackathon.

tesla_protocol, made up of Sai Anurudh Peduri, Arjun Pitchanathan and Devansh Gautam, has qualified for the Association for Computing Machinery – International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) world finals.

IIIT Hyderabad team – The Third I won a hackathon on IoT for Smart City on 11 January at Panaji. The team proposed a low cost IoT solution for indoor pollution monitoring. A prize is a fully paid trip by EU to attend a leading startup event in Europe.

Utkarsh Azad, CCNSB student received Best Paper award at CICT-2019.

Tanashree Jaganade receieves Best Poster Award and Bursary Award at Molecular Modelling Conference – 2019.

IIITH students win first place in Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon 2019.

Venkata Appa Rao Yempada receives Best poster award at International symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT).

Divija Swetha awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2019.

Mihir Bani and Mukund Choudhary selected for National Level Lallantop Quiz 2019.

Aditya Kumar (2nd year BTech, CSE) has been selected as a Campus Director for the 2020 Hult Prize on Campus Program at IIIT Hyderabad.

Sreeja Kamishetty receives Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship.

Research work on The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning was featured in TIME Magazine. Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) and his student Shashwat Goel, UG5 are among several authors of this research work.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the prestigious flagship journal: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. IEEE T-IFS ranks #2 in the list of top venues (conference & journals) in Computer Security & Cryptography and first (Rank #1) among all journal publications. Its impact factor is 6.8.
Prof. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been appointed chair of advisory board to UNU institute in Macau effective from January 2024.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das served as one of the Technical Program Committee Chairs at the 7th International Conference on Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN-23) held in Bangalore from 18 – 20 December 2023.
Research work by Dr. Ankit Gangwal and his M.Tech students Shubham Singh and Abhijeet Srivastava on AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers won the best paper award at CODASPY 2023 and was also presented at BLACKHAT EU 2023.
Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar has been invited to be the editorial team member of Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) from 1 January 2024.
Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been inducted as a panel member to the 7 member committee of the Civil Engineering Division (CED-13:P5) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for reviewing the old Indian standards.
Dr. Diganta Das’s Start-up Research Grant (SRG) proposal on Phenomenology of hadronic decays and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model was approved by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body under DST.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the list of Web of Science (Clarivate™) Highly Cited Researcher 2023 in recognition for his exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple ….
Dr. Shatrunjay Rawat has been invited to be the external expert for the university-level committee of AICTE – University Human Values Cell (UHV Cell) by the Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad. This ….
Prof. Kishore Kothapalli has been awarded the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam HPC Award for the year 2023 for developing parallel algorithm engineering techniques that efficiently harness the power of parallel archi ….
Prof. Madhava Krishna has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for the year 2023. The Indian National Academy of Engineering honours Indian and foreign nationals w ….
Prof. Madhava Krishna has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for the year 2023. The Indian National Academy of Engineering founded on 20 April 1987 comprises In ….
The Crop Darpan app, a crop diagnostic tool, which is being developed by researchers at IT for Agricultural Research center (ITARD) headed by Prof. P Krishna Reddy will be used by farmers through the dep ….
Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Dr. Raghu Reddy participated in the esteemed Dagstuhl seminar on Software Architecture and Machine learning in Dagstuhl, Germany from 23 to 28 July. Dagstuhl seminar is rega ….
Research work of Dr. Sujit Gujar on Your Favorite Gameplay Speaks Volumes about You: Predicting User Behavior and Hexad Type has been awarded the Best Paper Award at HCI International 2023 held at Copenhag ….
Adobe Inc. has awarded Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dr. Sujit Gujar and Dr. Makarand Tapaswi, Adobe Research Gift Awards for their research activities. The award is in the form of an unrestricted gift to the academic institution under the names of the researchers who submitted the proposal.
The 9th edition of Research.com recognizes Dr. Ashok Kumar Das as best scientist in the discipline of Computer Science. His D-index is 65; Citations is 12,220; Publications is 270; world ranking is 1,560 a ….
Research work done by Dr. Chittaranjan Hens on Emergent stability in complex network dynamics has been published in Nature Physics.
Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan was a member of the organising committee of the recently concluded 20th edition of the IEEE International conference on software architecture (ICSA-2023) held at L’Aquila, Italy f ….
Dr. T K Saroja was felicitated by the Department of Language and Culture, Telangana Government, in association with Arunodaya Kalasamithi on International Women’s Day Celebrations 2023 on 9 March at Ravindra Bharathi.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the Advisory Board members of the 5th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN’23) which will be held in Guimarães, Portugal from 12 to 14 July.
Dr. K S Rajan has been nominated by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare to be one of the lT Advisory committee members towards speedy and systematic implementation of Krishi Decision Support Sys ….
Prof. P Krishna Reddy was the General chair at the 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2022) held from 19 – 22 December at IIIT Hyderabad.
IIT Kharagpur (IIT Kgp) recognises Prof. B Yegnanarayana as its Institute Life Fellow. Prof. Yegnanarayana was honoured with this award during IIT Kharagpur’s convocation on 24 December.
Dr. Vinoo Alluri organized a satellite workshop on Music, Mind, Movement, and Technology (MMMT) for the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR-2022) from 4 – 8 December at Bengaluru.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is serving as a member of Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the 18th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2022), 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece from 10 – 12 October 2022.

Prof. Shatrunjay Rawat has been recently nominated to the Insurance Ombudsman Advisory Committee of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority India (IRDAI).

Dr. Syed Azeemuddin has been selected as a co-guest editor for MDPI electronics special issue. He will be helping the team in making decisions on RF CMOS-related papers.

Prof. R Pradeep Kumar was awarded the Outstanding Concrete Engineer of Telangana 2021 by Indian Concrete Institute. This award is given annually for outstanding contribution in the field of concrete technology, promotion of concrete structures, research in concrete and more.

MeitY project fund for research work on Blockchain and Machine Learning Powered Unified Video Know Your Customer Framework has been granted to Dr. Ankit Gangwal (PI), Dr. Sudipta Banerjee (Co-PI), Dr. Anoo…

Dr. Vinoo Alluri was featured in the fifth edition of The Life of Science’s (TLoS) yearly desktop calendar. It featured 48 Indian women, transgender and non-binary persons working in various fields of science…

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been featured in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as part of their People of ACM initiative. Prof. Kumaraguru is an ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding engine…

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been awarded the Flipkart Faculty Award for his work on security. The award includes a cash grant which he is utilizing for further research on fraud detection along with some of his students.

Dr. Nazia Akhtar received a special commendation from the jury of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation. Nazia translated the Urdu short story Chhottam Jaan written by Zeenath Sajida. In 2017, Nazia was awarded a New India Foundation fellowship to write a book on Urdu prose by Hyderabadi women.

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals.

Dr. Syed Azeemuddin has been selected as a co-guest editor for MDPI electronics special issue. He will be helping the team in making decisions on RF CMOS-related papers.

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao’s research proposal on the topic Seismic Retrofitting for Historic and Contemporary Masonry Buildings using Textile Reinforced Mortar Composites: An Alternate to FRP was awarded a Startup Research Grant (SRG) by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Cyber Security and Applications (CSA) Elsevier journal.

Mission Parikshit was one of the winners of the Kohli Challenge Proposal Scheme funded by Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) endowed by TCS foundation. The principal investigator of this project is Dr. Abhishek Srivastava and co-principal investigators are Dr. Anshu Sarje, Dr. Kavita Vemuri and Prof. Bapi Raju.

Research paper on Design and Implementation of 0.23 nJ/bit Reference-Spur-Free FSK/OOK Transmitter at 400 MHz for Wearable Health Monitoring by Dr. Abhishek Srivastava, Dr. Devarshi Das, IIT Ropar and Dr. M Shojaei Baghini, IIT Bombay has been selected as one of the top contributions at IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS-2021) held in Berlin, Germany from 6 – 9 October. The selection of paper as one of the top contributions is usually equivalent to the Best Paper Award. The authors were not allowed to participate in the best paper award category as all the authors were professors.

Research work on SAW Resonator Oscillator Based Injection Locked OOK Transmitter by Dr. Abhishek Srivastava, CVEST and his collaborators Dr. Devarshi Das; IIT Ropar, Dr. M Shojaei Baghini, IIT Bombay was granted an Indian patent.

Research paper on Design and Implementation of 0.23 nJ/bit Reference-Spur-Free FSK/OOK Transmitter at 400 MHz for Wearable Health Monitoring by Dr. Abhishek Srivastava, Dr. Devarshi Das, IIT Ropar and Dr. M Shojaei Baghini, IIT Bombay has been selected as one of the top contributions at IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS-2021) held in Berlin, Germany from 6 – 9 October. The selection of paper as one of the top contributions is usually equivalent to the Best Paper Award. The authors were not allowed to participate in the best paper award category as all the authors were professors.

Research work on SAW Resonator Oscillator Based Injection Locked OOK Transmitter by Dr. Abhishek Srivastava, CVEST and his collaborators Dr. Devarshi Das; IIT Ropar, Dr. M Shojaei Baghini, IIT Bombay was granted an Indian patent.

Prof. C V Jawahar receives the ACM India Outstanding Contribution to Computing Education (OCCE) Award for 2021. OCCE award selection is made by a committee comprising eminent international personalities.

Dr. Raghu Reddy and his students Neeraj Mathur and Sai Anirudh Karre have been granted a U.S Patent for their research work on System and method for evaluating and facilitating customized guidelines using usability code pattern analysis.

Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra has been awarded with Prof. D J Badkas Medal for the academic year 2019 – 2020 by the council of the institute for his best performance in Ph.D at IISc Bangalore during the online convocation held on 6 October.

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumara guru has been inducted into the Academic Council (aka Senate, highest academic body of an institution) of The LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT).

Prof. Deva Priyakumar received the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal from the president of CSRI at the 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata from 26 – 30 September. He received this award for his significant contributions in computational chemistry to study reaction mechanisms and biological interactions.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is in the 10,000 Club of Google Scholar Citations. His Google Scholar h-index is 59 and i10-index is 171 with over 10,000 citations. Dr. Das has also been included in the top 2% of scientists world-wide in all fields and in the area of Networking & Telecommunications he has been ranked 321 in the world subject area for the year 2021. The ranking is based on an independent study done by the Stanford University, USA.

Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal Communication, Culture and Critique. Published by the International Communication Association (ICA) and Oxford University Press, Communication, Culture and Critique (CCC) is devoted to critical scholarship on communication, media, and cultural studies.

Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been appointed as a member of jury committee, CSI SIG eGovernance Awards 2021.

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao was awarded the Young Engineer of the Year Award-2021 by Institution of Engineers (India) on 15 September.

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla has been appointed as a member of the Bridge Specifications and Standards Committee (BSSC) of the Indian Road Congress.

Prof. Vishal Garg has been elected as a member of the executive council of Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), one of the leading organizations in India that works on creating awareness about energy efficiency as a resource.

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been elected as a Member of the Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE).

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer) having 2020 SCI Impact Factor: 5.71.

Prof. Pawan Kumar has been awarded Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant for his research on Optimization methods for Deep Learning.

Prof. Vishal Garg has been appointed as Project Committee Voting Member (PCVM) in the Standing Standard Project Committee (SSPC) 90.2 – Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings of The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Prof. Garg will be serving on the lighting subcommittee.

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been elected as a Young Member of RILEM, France.

Prof. K S Rajan has been co-opted to the Tech sub-committee of the Geospatial Data Promotion and Development Committee headed by the Principal Scientific Adviser in pursuant of the new National Geospatial data policy.

Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been awarded the PAKDD Distinguished Service Award.

Prof. R Pradeep Kumar has been requested by the Governing Council of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE) to be the Chief Editor of Structural Engineering Digest (SED).

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, has been awarded the Indian Association of Structural Engineers National Award 2020 in the category of Promising Young Structural Engineer of the Year Award 2020.

Prof. Kishore Kothapalli, Head, Centre for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) has been appointed the new Dean of Dean Academics.

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao has been elected as a member of the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) and has been selected as a life member for the very prestigious Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET).

Crop Darpan app for rice developed by Prof. P Krishna Reddy and team was released on 22 March at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU).

Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Quantum Information Science (JQIS).

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has appointed Prof. P Krishna Reddy as member of an Expert Committee for Evaluation/Review of multilateral R&D proposals submitted under joint call between DBT and EUREKA in the area of Key Enabling Technologies for Healthcare, Agriculture and Water.

Dr. Kishore Kothapalli has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC). The appointment is for a period of three years.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Editor, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), for a period of 2 years renewable for another 2 years.

Prof. Abhishek Srivastava has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member. The senior membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions in their designated fields.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the subject-wise ranking of top 2% scientists from India in all fields, in the area of Networking and Telecommunications, and has a world-wide ranking of 580 in his area of research. The ranking is based on an independent study done by Stanford University scientists.

Prof. Vasudeva Verma, was awarded the Google India AI/ML Research Award 2020 for his work on ‘Project ANGEL’, an initiative aimed at utilizing machine learning techniques for enhancing the well-being of teenagers, especially teenage girls.

Analytics from the Virtual Labs initiative released by the IIIT Hyderabad, a consortium project of 11 institutes across the country, including several IIT’s and being led by IIT Delhi, crosses 20 million page views in the usage of Science and Engineering-related online laboratory materials.

The 2nd edition of the book on Building Energy Simulation: A Workbook Using DesignBuilder by Prof. Vishal Garg; Prof. Jyotirmay Mathur, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur and Aviruch Bhatia, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi has been released. The first edition was released in 2017 and was published by Taylor and Francis Group.