Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla was awarded an unrestricted research gift from Google, as part of its growing efforts to support excellent research in academia. Google has awarded the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad an unrestricted gift money which will support follow-up research of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla in collaboration with Pradeep Shenoy, Google Research on multi-object multi-part segmentation and visual scene understanding.
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 Research (AWSAR- 2022) under the Ph.D category for her popular science story on Breaking the Walls of Chronic Back Pain. The prize carried a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
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) as part of INTERSPEECH 2023 held in Dublin, Ireland on 19 August. The poster was on research work done on Unravelling Speech Disfluencies: A Novel Approach to Distinguishing Typical and Atypical Stuttering Patterns by Priyanka Kommagouni, Narasinga Vamshi Raghu Simha, Anil Kumar Vuppala.
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 International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL-2023): Celebrating Language Prowess and Problem Solvers held at Bansko, Bulgaria from 23 to 29 July.
Research work by Rishikesh Bose, Dr. Sujit Gujar, N Patil, A K Dwivedi, Dr. Kavita Vemuri, Prof. Sachin Chaudhari, on Comparative Analysis of Construction-Related Air Pollution In Indoor and Outdoor Environments’ won the Best Paper award at the 11th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP) 2023 in Brisbane, Australia in November.
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 Dr. Sachin Sachin Chaudhari secured the 2nd runner-up position for their project on IoT-based Smart Water Level Monitoring at the Environment Sensing Project Competition (ESPC-2023) organised by the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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 were Janardan, Ashwin Rudraraju, Revanth Kumar Gundam, Aniketh Atmakuri, Aadarsh Ragunathan, Pradeep Kr Pal, Atharv Johar, Samson Xavier and coach Mr. Samson Xavier.
