IIIT Hyderabad https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Prof. Ashok Kumar Das has achieved a significant milestone in his research journey, with his Google Scholar profile reflecting an h-index of 100, over 31,550 citations, and an i10-index of 373. This accomplishment highlights the sustained impact, relevance, and wide recognition of his research contributions over the years. Dr. Nazia Akhtar’s short story “The Letter” has been shortlisted for the Hope Prize 2025, a prestigious global platform that celebrates stories of resilience, courage, and hope—grounded in the belief that storytelling can inspire empathy and meaningful action. Dr. Aftab M Hussain has been selected for the Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF) under the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked No. 1 in both the Overall (All India) and South Zone categories in DataQuest’s Best T-School Survey 2026. In addition in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 for Computer Science, the institute has moved up from the 601–650 band last year to the 551–600 band this year. BITS Hyderabad Quiz Club organized BITS Pearl Quizmos on 21 and 22 February where IIIT-H teams secured top honors in the Travel, Lifestyle and Culture Quiz and the Sports Quiz. In the Travel, Lifestyle and Culture Quiz, Prabhav and Monish clinched first place, winning a cash prize of ₹6,000. The team of Ashwin, Pranay, and Prabhav achieved second place in the Sports Quiz, earning ₹4,000. Additionally, in the General Quiz, the team comprising Vinayak, Arush, and Prabhav received a Special Mention as the best-performing college team. Dr. Bhaktee Dongaonkar and her students Kunal Angadi, 4th year CSD; Maneesh Manoj, 4th year CSD and  Hurshitha Vasudevan received the  best presentation award for their paper on Relationship of Age, Cognition and Brain Structural Volume in Healthy Indian Adults at the International Conference on Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (I-CNCNC) held at NIMHANS, Bengaluru from 5 to 7 March. IIIT-H team Megalodon walked away with the first prize for developing a novel machine learning system to detect faulty code at the Student Data Science Challenge (SDC) competition held on 20 and 21 February along with Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2026. IIIT-H teams were winners at Summit 2026 held at IIIT Hyderabad from 6 – 8 March 2026.  Basketball-Men – Winner: IIIT-H; Basketball-Women – Runner-up: IIIT-H; Football-Men – Winner: IIIT-H Dr. Aakansha Natani and her student Sujal Deoda’s paper on the etymology of keywords in AI,  piqued the curiosity of AI experts and social scientists and earned him an all-expenses paid trip to the 2nd annual conference of the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI) held in Paris from  24 – 25 February 2026. IIIT Hyderabad’s basketball boys’ team secured the Runner-Up position at the Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament held on 12 and 13 February at Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNRVJIET), Bachupally. IIIT Hyderabad students Akshat Puneet, UG3-LED; Sudheera Y S, UG3-CSD; Vedant Pahariya, UG3 ECD and Prit Kanadiya, MS1-CS secured first place in the Maze Explorer competition held at IIT Hyderabad on 11 January 2026.  Research work on Low-cost IoT-based Downtime Detection for UPS and Behaviour Analysis, carried out by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari along with his student Sannidhya Gupta, 5th-year Dual Degree student and Prakash Nayak, IT staff member, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2026) from 6 – 10 January 2026.  IIITH’s Pentaprism Club secured Second Place at “Tales in a Frame”, a photography competition hosted by IIT Hyderabad on 10 January 2026. The winning IIITH team comprised Priyanshu De, UG1 CND; Neeraj N, UG1 CND; Katta Srikaushik, UG1 ECE and Shravani K, UG3 CHD. Research work on An Epigenetics-based Signature Prognostic Model For Breast Cancer Survival by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded the  Best Paper Award (Track 7 Online) at the 8th IEEE Pune Section International Conference (IEEE PUNECON 2025) held from 12 – 15 December 2025. Research work on Methylation-based Markers in Breast Cancer: Insights from Functional and Co-Methylation Network Analysis by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students Sri Lakshmi Bhavani Pagolu and Suba S received the Best Poster Award by Digital Discovery (Royal Society of Chemistry) at the International Conference on Modeling Chemical and Biological (Re)Activity (MCBR-2025) held in Hyderabad from 11 to 14 December 2025. Chasing Rabbit Holes: Why We Shouldn’t Trust AI Blindly Home IIIT-H incubated startup BioReform bags global award for ditching plastic IIIT-H’s alumna Deepti Ghadiyaram: Where Computer Vision Meets Human Values IIIT-H incubated startup BioReform bags global award for ditching plastic IIIT-H incubated startup BioReform bags global award for ditching plastic Words carry weight – IIIT-H student Sujal Deoda wows at international Ethical AI Conference IIIT-H hosts Roundtable on Quantum Technologies for Life Sciences in association with Frontier Tech Hub, NITI Aayog IIIT-H hosts Roundtable on Quantum Technologies for Life Sciences in association with Frontier Tech Hub, NITI Aayo Aicte Report R&D Showcase 2026 IIIT-H’s Social Tech Incubator & EPAM launch 4th ESIIP Cohort for Deep-Tech Climate Impact IIIT Hyderabad’s ambitious Code for Good Tech has the potential to move virtual mountains NIT under Two-Cover Bid System for supply of Compression and Universal Testing Machine R&D Showcase R&D Showcase 2026 IIIT-H’s Social Tech Incubator & EPAM Launch 4th ESIIP Cohort for Deep-Tech Climate Impact Research Centers From Unorganized Traffic to Global Security: Two Decades of Innovation in AI Course Syllabus & Designs NIT under Two-Cover Bid System for supply of NDT Instruments Urbanization Alchemist Dr. Khaliq Parkar on Social tools & Tech Apps Jayanthi Sivaswamy IIIT-H Students Take Home Top Prize In ISEC Data Science Challenge For Bug Prediction Model Digital Protection Shield Securing the Digital Frontier: Inside the SyPy Research Group 10 IIIT-H Projects That Clinched ANRF ARG Awards R&D Showcase 2018 IIIT-H Projects Win ANRF ARG Awards Digital Protection Shield F C Kohli Day (17 March 2026) Indian App Turns Impaired Speech into Clear Speech Postgraduate Programmes M.Tech in VLSI and Semiconductor Technologies ANRF Awards Advanced Grants to 10 IIIT-H researchers