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The Cultural Wing of Student Life Committee (SLC) organised International Mother Language Day Celebrations on 21 February with talks by Dr. Madri Kakoti, Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow on Language and Society: Reflections of Reality and Dr. A Giridhar Rao, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru on Biocultural Diversity, Linguistic Human Rights, and Mother-Tongue Medium Education. This was followed by events by The Language Club of IIIT Hyderabad.
Campus Life Council organised Saraswati Puja/Basant Panchami was celebrated on 2 February at Bakul Warehouse. This auspicious occasion embraces the arrival of Maa Saraswati, the deity of knowledge, learning, music, art and wisdom. Students, faculty, staff, and their family members participated in the festivities. After the puja a special lunch was organised for all the devotees.
IIITH celebrated India’s 76th Republic Day on 26 January at the Football Grounds. Celebrations began with a welcome address by the Chair-SLC; march past by students and security guards; hoisting of the national flag by Prof. P J Narayanan and singing of the national anthem. This was followed by the Director’s address, Registrar’s address and speeches by Student Parliament general secretary and speaker; and cultural programs – Songs of Renaissance by Ruhani Sangat, The Musical Research Scholars Group from University of Hyderabad (UoH); IIIT student clubs and cultural council; and faculty and staff kids. The programme concluded with distribution of refreshments to all present.
Campus Life Council organised Saraswati Puja/Basant Panchami on 14 and 15 February 2024 at Bakul Warehouse. This auspicious occasion embraces the arrival of Maa Saraswati, the deity of knowledge, learning, music, art and wisdom. Basant Panchami’s main puja began on 14 February morning which was followed by pushpanjali. In the evening there was sandhya aarti followed by cultural programmes. The puja concluded on the morning of 15 February with visarjan puja, followed by dadhikarma.
IIITH celebrated India’s 75th Republic Day on 26 January 2024 at the institute football ground. Celebrations began with a welcome address by the Prof Tapan Kumar Sau, Chair-SLC, then a march past by students and security guards, after which Prof. P J Narayanan hoisted the national flag with the entire football ground reverberating with the national anthem. This was followed by his address; registrar’s address; speeches from student parliament general secretary & speaker; cultural programmes by students, faculty and staff kids. NSS IIIT Hyderabad organised a blood donation camp on campus with the help of Osmania General Hospitals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prof. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal and has also been appointed as an Editor (Technical Committee), Computer Communications (Elsevier).
Prof. Vasudeva Varma received a Research Award of USD 20,000 from Google for research in Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML).
Dr. Deva Priyakumar has been awarded the prestigious Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore (CRSI) Bronze medal for the year 2021 in recognition of his contributions to research in chemistry.
Prof. Madhava Krishna and Dr. Vineet Gandhi’s team won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) India 2020 – 2021 for their innovation – Language-Based Navigation with Object Referenced Spatiotemporal Constraints in Autonomous Driving.
Prof. Madhava Krishna appointed Head of Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS).
Prof. Ashok Kumar Das is serving as one of the Guest Editor(s) in Science Citation Indexed (SCI) Wiley-Hindawi journal: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 1.396) for the special issue on “Attacks, Challenges, and New Designs in Security and Privacy for Smart Mobile Devices.
Research work of Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty and his group on Broadcasting of correlations: a cost-effective approach to perform information processing in large quantum networks was highlighted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Dr. Vikram Pudi’s Covid19 viral simulator featured in ACM-SIGMOD blog.
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. Vinoo Alluri’s student Arun Garimella’s research on Marijuana and the Hippocampus: A Longitudinal Study on the effects of Marijuana on Hippocampal Subfields has been accepted in international journal Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. Co-authors of the work include Sourabh Rajguru, Umesh Singla and Prof. Vinoo Alluri.
Dr. Radhika Mamidi and her student Kartikey Pant (5th year CLD) received Best System Paper Award for their research work on BERT-based Ensembles for Modeling Disclosure and Support in Conversational Social Media Text at Affective Content Analysis workshop in the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence at New York on 7 February.
Dr. Zia Abbas and his MS by Research students Mounika Kelam and Battu Balaji Yadav’s research work on 3.75ppm/C, -91dB PSRR, 27nW, 0.9V PVT Invariant Voltage Reference for Implantable Biomedical Applications has been selected for the Special Mention Recognition award at 33rd International Conference on VLSI Design VLSID 2020 held in Bangalore on 7 January.
Dr. Syed Azeemuddin has been selected as Vice-Chairman of IEEE Photonics Society, Hyderabad Chapter.
Rehana Shaik and N T Monish receive Best Paper Award at Hydro 2019.
IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Hyderabad Chapter chaired by Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani awarded SPS Chapter of the year award 2019.
Prof. P Krishna Reddy made Steering Committee Chair and Publication Chair of BDA-2019.
Vinoo Alluri and D Niranjan receive best paper award at International Conference on Brain Informatics.
Prof. Vishal Garg and his students received US patent rights for their research work on System and apparatus for and methods of control of localized energy use in a building using price set points.
Prof. Rajeev Sangal Faculty Fellowship was created by Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), Computer Science Department, IIIT Delhi. It will be awarded each year to a faculty member having a wholesome impact on students.
Sunil Lohar completed artist residency program at Bordeaux Metropole, France.
Prof. Vishal Garg has been elevated as a Fellow of the international society – IBPSA, International Building Performance Simulation Association at the biannual conference in Rome. Prof. Vishal Garg and Prof. Jyotirmay Mathur from MNIT Jaipur are the first Indian’s to receive this honour.
Dr. Vinoo Alluri writes a book chapter in Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das co-edits book on Blockchain and Applications.
Prof. P K Vinod and Prof. C V Jawahar’s research published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Best paper award to Dr. Priyanka Srivastava and her team at Euro VR 2017 in a peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2018).
Prof. Pradeep Ramancharla elected Vice President (South)of IAStructE.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the guest editors in the special issue on Blockchain Technologies and Applications for 5G Enabled IoT in ICT Express (Elsevier) journal.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the program committee chairs for the International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN’19), Avila, Spain.
Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani and Aaditya M Nair win first runner-up best paper award at National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019).
Dr. Sachin Chaudhari elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das – Associate Editor of IET Communications Journal.
Dr. Radha Rangarajan wins FICCI Award of Excellence – Women in R&D.
Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy selected to be on board of advisors of United Nations University.
Prof. P Krishna Reddy made a member of executive committee, Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology (INSAIT).
Prof. Vasudeva Varma ‘s team wins second spot at AFFCON 2019 poster award.
Dr. Abhishek Srivastava wins best paper award at VLSID 2019.
IIITH rankings by India Today, The Week and NIRF
India Today’s July 2022 rankings of IIITH are:
1. India’s number 2 in All India Best Engineering Colleges
2. 1st in Private colleges with best placement records
3. 1st in Emerging Private Colleges
4. 1st in South zone Private colleges
5. 2nd in Private Engineering Colleges
6. 2nd in overall Private Engineering colleges
7. 7th in Private colleges with best value for money
8. 15th in New entrants among top 25 colleges for the first time
The Week’s July 2022 rankings of IIITH are:
1. 2nd in Private Technical Universities – South zone
2. 2nd in Deemed Technical Universities – South zone
3. 4th in Deemed Technical Universities – All India
4. 7th in Technical Universities – South zone
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked prominently in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) announced by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
1. Ranked 62 in Engineering category
2. In the overall category IIITH is in the 150 – 200 band
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked India’s number 1 and Telangana’s number 1 Private University in a survey conducted by the Education World India Higher Education Rankings for 2022 – 23.
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked India’s number 1 private engineering institution in the annual Education World India Higher Education Rankings 2022-23. In a survey conducted by DataQuest Best T-School.
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked third at All India Level and has been ranked second in the South zone. The survey focussed on UG programs offered at Higher education institutions and technical institutions.
The methodology consists of 48 attributes grouped into 6 sections based on 4 parameters – PACE: (i) Placements – 30%
(ii) Academic & research – 30%
(iii) Campus infrastructure – 15%
(iv) Engagement and Outreach etc. – 25%.
IIITH is recognised in the PROMISING category of University & Deemed to be University (Private/Self Financed) (Technical) by Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement(ARIIA) 2021, a flagship program of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
IIIT Hyderabad is placed in the 601-800 bracket by The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022.
IIITH ranked prominently in different categories of The Week: 1st in Private Engineering Colleges, South Zone, 1st in Private Engineering Colleges, Hyderabad, 2nd in All India Private Engineering Colleges, 2nd in Engineering Colleges, South Zone and 14th in All India Engineering Colleges
IIITH has been ranked 54 in engineering category and 83 in university category in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) announced by the Ministry of Education, Government of India on 9 September 2021.
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked 3rd by DataQuest’s T-School Employability Index Survey 2021.
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked India’s number 5 and Telangana’s number 1 Private University in a survey conducted by the Education World India Higher Education Rankings for 2021 – 22.
IIIT Hyderabad has been highly ranked by The Week 3rd best private & deemed technical universities (All India Category), 2nd best private & deemed technical universities (South Zone), ranked 18th under technical universities (All India) which includes both, Government and Private Universities, ranked 7th under technical universities (South Zone) which includes both, Government and Private Universities.
Education World’s annual survey of Private Engineering Institutes ranks IIITH number 2 in India and number 1 in Telangana. In key parameters – faculty competence, curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, and placements IIITH has been ranked India’s number 1.
In a survey conducted by DataQuest Best T-School, IIITH has been ranked second at All India Level and has been ranked No. 1 in the South zone.
In a survey conducted by DataQuest in association with Dell Technologies, IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked second under India’s best 100 tech-enabled Engineering colleges and institutions (including both government and private colleges). And has been ranked first in the South zone.
IIITH ranked prominently in different categories of The Week, an Indian news magazine founded in 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd. – 1st in South Zone – 2nd in All India; 11th in Outlook’s annual ranking of India’s top 23 Technical Universities in 2020 and has been ranked AAAA+ (Outstanding) in All India Technical Colleges.
IIIT Hyderabad was ranked the 9th best university in India by India Today. IIITH ranked prominently in different categories of The Week, 3rd Best Private and Deemed Technical University in India, 2nd in Private and Deemed Technical Universities, South Zone,18th in Top Technical Universities (All India), includes both Government and Private Universities and 7th in Technical Universities, South Zone. And was ranked 11th among 373 institutions in Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA-2020) Rankings in the self-finance universities category.
Dataquest’s T-School Survey 2020 has ranked IIITH among the top 3 institutions in India and top 1 in South Zone. This annual survey evaluates the performance of Tech schools in the country based on four parameters (commonly known as the PACE scale): Placements (40%), Academic Environment (30%), Campus and Infrastructure (Physical and Digital) (15%), Engagement and Outreach (15%).
Education World’s annual survey ranks IIITH number 1 in key parameters including faculty competence, curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, and placements record.
Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal, which gives annual recognition for engineering colleges across the country, has shortlisted IIIT Hyderabad for 50 Must Watch Engineering Colleges in India 2020 under Higher Education Sector.
Two papers by IIITH selected among the best 25 papers in the history of HiPC.
Dr. Sachin Chaudhari elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
Dr. K S Vijaya Sekhar has been appointed as Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM) of Computer Science Journals, a platform for open access publications.
Prof. Alison Noble, University of Oxford gave a distinguished lecture on The emergence of sonography data science.
Prof. Qing Zhao, Cornell University gave a Distinguished Lecture on Random Walk on a Tree for Stochastic Optimization and Learning.
Ms. Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, software developer by profession, and independent researcher by passion, gave an online invited talk on Indus Inscriptions Were Logographic, Don’t Spell Them Out: Says Semantic Co-occurrence Restriction Patterns.
Prof. Raj Reddy of CMU reflected on a part of his life. He recalled how from a small village in AP, taught in Telugu medium, he ended up being a pioneer in AI, the first PhD graduate in CS of Stanford, etc. IIIT Hyderabad is enriched by his presence as the Chair of its Governing Council, by his gentle push and grand vision!
Dr. Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore gave an online invited lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Application in Psychiatry.
Mr. Baijesh Ramesh, a licensed clinical psychologist and life coach based in Hyderabad gave a talk online on psychological wellbeing amid the growing uncertainties due to COVID-19
Dr. P N Sylaja, professor and in-charge of neurology, comprehensive stroke care program, SCTIMST, Trivandrum gave an online invited lecture on Role of AI in CT analysis for acute stroke and its implications in urgent treatment.
Dr. Yogesh Snehi, Ambedkar University, Delhi, gave a talk on Urs, Qawwali and Memorialising Sufi Saints of Punjab.
Oncology medical team from Continental Hospital gave a talk on cancer awareness, prevention, early detection, cure, and palliation as part of World Cancer Day celebration.
Sri Gunaranjan founder of United Care Development Services gave a talk on Joy of Giving Early.
Dr. Mazharuddin Syed Ahmed, Technology Evangelist gave a talk on Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) in Architectural Curriculum.
Prof. B Ananthanarayan, IISc Bangalore gave a talk on Joys of Discovery in Modern Research.
Prof. Petri Toiviainen from University of Jyväskylä gave a KCIS Invited talk on Machine Learning in Music Research.
Dr. Vineet Vashista, IIT Gandhinagar gave a talk on Human-Robot Collaboration – A Focus on System Design and Control.
Social activist Dr. Sandeep Pandey gave a talk on present discontent in society and its future consequences.
Dr. C Mohan, IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China gave a talk on State of permissionless and permissioned blockchains: myths and reality.
Dr. Yu Wang, Tsinghua University gave a talk on Neural Networks on Chip Design from the Users perspective.
Prof. Amit Sheth gave a talk on Knowledge Graphs and their central role in big data processing: Past, Present, and Future on.
Prof. Philippe Fournier-Viger, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China on Algorithms to Discover High Utility Patterns in Symbolic Data.
Alumnus Tarun Nayak (IPS), batch of 2002-2006 gave a talk on Journey from IIIT to Government and interacted with the students.
Prof. Martin Banks, University of California, Berkeley gave a distinguished lecture on Picture Perception.
Dr. Mohit Kumar, Data Scientist at Udaan gave a talk on Data Science Challenges in trillion dollar B2B e-commerce.
Prof. Raghu Santanam, McCord Endowed Chair of Business, W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University delivered a KCIS Invited Talk on AI & Future of Work.
Dr. Srinath Sridhar, Stanford University gave a talk on Digitizing Human Physical Interactions and Skills from Visual Data.
Prof. Takayuki Arai, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, Japan gave a ISCA Distinguished Lecture on Introduction to Speech Science with Vocal-tract Models.
Prof. Raymond M Klein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada gave a Distinguished Lecture on Applications of Experimental Psychology to Real World Problems.
Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati, Department of Computer Science at Arizona State University gave a talk on Synthesizing Explainable Behavior for Human-AI Collaboration.
Dr. Sajan Goud Lingala, Assistant Professor at the Roy J Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Radiology, University of Iowa gave a talk on Seeing speech using novel high speed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Mr. Sandeep Gupta, Product Manager for TensorFlow at Google presented an Overview of TensorFlow and its ecosystem.
Prof. Amit Sheth gave a talk on Knowledge Graphs and their central role in big data processing: Past, Present, and Future on.
Prof. Philippe Fournier-Viger, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China on Algorithms to Discover High Utility Patterns in Symbolic Data.
Mr. Sandeep Gupta, Product Manager for TensorFlow at Google presented an Overview of TensorFlow and its ecosystem.
Madhuri Gaddam, UG2k11 batch gave a talk in which she shared her experiences, in life and beyond and interacted with students and faculty.
Mr. Akun Sabharwal, IPS Officer gave a talk on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances’ Abuse.
Dr. Ram Mohan Vadapalli, Radiologist at Vijaya Diagnostics, Hyderabad gave a talk on My Brain in relation to the use of Substance.
Mr. Baijesh Ramesh, Psychotherapist, Chetna Hospital gave a talk on A Mind Body Behaviour and Substance Use – An Encounter with Hungry Ghosts! as part of Human Values-II course.
Dr. Sk Sazim, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad gave Journal Club talk on Coherence Makes Quantum Systems ‘Magical’.
Dr. Richard Socher, Chief Scientist – Salesforce delivered a KCIS Invited Talk on The Natural Language Decathlon (DecaNLP).
Dr. Srinath Sridhar, Stanford University gave a talk on Digitizing Human Physical Interactions and Skills from Visual Data.
Dr. Ujwal Gadiraju, Senior Researcher at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany gave a talk on Crowd Computing – Human Intelligence Meets the Machine.
Prof. Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida gave a talk on The effects of community feedback on idea refinement in online idea contests.
Prof. Seiji Mori, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Ibaraki University, Japan gave a talk on Bridges between experiment and theory on catalytic functions.
Mr. Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary, Information Technology (IT), Government of Telangana inaugurated the facility at CIE@IIIT-H in the presence of Dr. Manish Diwan, Head, Strategy Partnership and Entrepreneurship Development, BIRAC.
Dr. Girish Keshav Palshikar, Principal Scientist, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Pune gave a talk on HR Analytics: Applications of Data and Text Mining to Human Resources Management.
Prof. T E S Raghavan, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago (Emeritus) gave a talk on Two Specific Combinatorial Games.
Mr. Srinivasa Moorthy, Chief Executive Officer of the Andhra Pradesh Electronics & IT Agency gave a talk on Creating IoT Solutions for Industry – Challenges and Frameworks.
Dr. Samyadeb Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral fellow at S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata gave a talk on Convex resource theory of non-Markovianity.
Dr. Michel Yorke, Senior Tutor in Filmmaking at University College London gave a talk on Understanding Others as part of Human Values II course.
Dr. Bharath Ramesh, Research Scientist at NUS, Singapore gave a talk on Towards Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems: Object Recognition and Tracking using Event Cameras on Low-power Devices.
Altaf Shaik, Technical University of Berlin gave a talk on LTE network Automation under threat.
Prof. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford, one of the principal architects of modern computer vision presented a KCIS Distinguished Lecture on Learning from Sight and Sound.
Amar Budhiraja, Research Fellow in the Machine Learning and Applied Sciences Group at MSR India gave a talk on Building an intelligent feed system for effective information recommendation.
A team of faculty and students from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology (MGIT), Gandipet, Hyderabad met faculty and students working in NLP/Language technologies. The visitors were given a lab tour and interacted with faculty and students who explained to them the research work going on in their labs.
IIITH in collaboration with Pravaha Foundation conducted a pan-India Makers Hackathon for students between the ages of 10 – 17 years.
Prof. P J Narayanan shared his views on education and learning the digital way at Reboot Telangana conclave.
Prof. P J Narayanan spoke on Learning or Assessment – What’s More Important? at TEDxHyderabad.
IIITH, Intel and CSIR signed an MoU to collaborate to fast track the understanding of Covid19 and accelerate drug / vaccine discovery.
IIITH and University of Hyderabad renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a period of 5 years.
A Panel Discussion on How Can Youth Aid the Government in Making Indian Roads Safer was conducted for the student community by IITians to spread the importance of Road Safety across the country under the The Indian Road Safety Campaign (IRSC) initiative.
Officers of the Army Higher Command Course (AHCC) from Army War College visited IIIT Hyderabad during their Southern tour.
IIIT Hyderabad along with Pravaha/Mytrah Foundation piloted a course on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Thinking for class 8 & 9 students at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Ranga Reddy school.
