A team of students from IIIT Hyderabad has qualified for the finale of the Indian CanSat Competition 2025, organised by IN-SPACe and ISRO. The event will take place from 25 to 30 October on the banks of the Narayani River in Uttar Pradesh.
The team – Team Brahmand, will travel to the venue to demonstrate and launch their CanSat on 28 October Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through various rounds. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0
Dr. Radhika Krishnan authors Shankar Guha Niyogi: A Politics in Red and Green published by Orient Blackswan.
Prof. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) has been appointed the new Dean of Research & Development at IIIT Hyderabad.
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Sahithi Kukkala, MS student, supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and co-supervised by Dr. Mitesh Khapra, IIT Madras – AI4Bhāra and Oikantik Nath, Ph.D scholar, IIT Madras received the Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on IndicDLP: A Foundational Dataset for Multi-Lingual and Multi-Domain Document Layout Parsing. ICDAR, the flagship document understanding conference, was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through various rounds. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0
Rohan Kumar, B.Tech, alumni and Jyothi Swaroopa Jinka, MS student supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla received the Best Student Paper Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on TexTAR – Textual Attribute Recognition in Multi-domain and Multi-lingual Document Images. ICDAR, the flagship document understanding conference, was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September 2025.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through various rounds. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0
Dr. Rama Chandra Pillutla, a key member of the project team for Cattle Health Monitoring Intelligence titled Aarogya Vaidya Rekha (AVR), played an important role in its successful launch on 15 September 2025 in Pedapalli district, Telangana. Dr. Pillutla was conferred with the Leader of Change Award by the District Collector of Peddapalli, Sri K. Sriharsha, IAS for his guidance and valuable contributions to the project.
Dr. Rama Chandra Pillutla was nominated as a member of the Board of Studies, Andhra Mahila Sabhā Arts & Science College, Hyderabad. In this role Dr. Pillutla proposed and designed the syllabus for an Environmental Informatics course for UG Computer Science Honours students and actively conducted the classes.
Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla’s project proposal on developing AI based solutions for understanding historical manuscripts was awarded second prize at the GyanSetu AI Innovation Challenge at Gyan Bharatam International Conference at Delhi on 13 September 2025.
