Prof. Vasudeva Varma and his team came second at the CL-Aff Shared Task for their poster on Ingredients for Happiness: Modeling constructs via semi-supervised content driven inductive transfer at the AAAI-19 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AFFCON 2019) – Modeling Affect-in-Action at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from 27 January to 1 February. The authors of this paper are Bakhtiyar Syed, Vijayasaradhi Indurthi, Kulin Shah, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma.
Dr. Abhishek Srivastava won the best paper award for his research on Analysis and Design of Low Phase Noise LC Oscillator for Sub-mW PLL-free Biomedical Receivers at the 32nd International Conference on VLSI Design and 18th International Conference on Embedded systems (VLSID 2019) from 5 – 9 January at Manekshaw Center, New Delhi.
Two papers by IIIT-H selected among the best 25 papers in the history of HiPC. The two papers selected were: – Pawan Harish, P J Narayanan (2007) – Accelerating Large Graph Algorithms on the GPU Using CUDA – Kishore Kothapalli, Rishabh Mukherjee, M. Suhail Rehman Suryakant Patidar, P J Narayanan, Kannan Srinathan (2009) – A performance prediction model for the CUDA GPGPU platform More information visit: https://hipc.org/hipc-25th-year-celebration
Utkarsh Azad, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) received the best paper award for his research on Noise Analysis of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Weighted Max-Cut in Computer and Software Systems track at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT-2019).
Tanashree Jaganade (Ph.D in Bioinformatics, student of Dr. Deva Priyakumar) received the first best poster award for her work on Unravelling dynamics and energetic events involved in flipping process of Thymine Glycol lesion using computational approaches at Australasia’s premier Molecular Modelling (MM) conference which was held on Bintan Island, Indonesia from 5 – 8 December. She also received Bursary Award as a fellowship from the organising committee of the conference. The conference was organised by the Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA).
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the program committee chairs for the International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN’19), Avila, Spain from 26 – 28 June. This annual congress brings together blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, who share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains. The BLOCKCHAIN’19 congress is devoted to promoting the investigation of cutting-edge blockchain technology, to exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain and AI for the industry, and to identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research.
Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani and Aaditya M Nair won first runner-up best paper award at National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019) for their research on Maximally Recoverable Codes with Hierarchical Locality at the Silver Jubilee edition of National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019) from 20 – 23 February held at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.