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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.

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.

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.

IIIT Hyderabad has shown a significant improvement in this year’s NIRF rankings. Among the top universities in India (both government and private), IIITH was ranked 55 (74 last year). In the list of top engineering colleges in India, the institute secured the 38th position (47 last year) and was placed 89th in the overall category.
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