Harish Yenala and Dr. ManojChinnakotla, Adjunct Faculty and Applied Scientist, Microsoft were conferred Best Paper Award at The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)2017 Jeju, South Korea for their paper Convolutional Bi-Directional LSTM for Detecting Inappropriate Query Suggestions in Web Search.
Rahul Suresh Vishwakarma (4th year dual degree student in EERC) working under the supervision of Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla won the Excellent Young Researcher Award for the best poster presentation for his research work on Analysis of Hill Slope Buildings for Twist Variation with Change in Aspect Ratio at the 17th International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia at IIIT-Hyderabad from 12 to 14 December.
1st Year UG Student Mukund Choudhary is one of the top 20 finalists selected through a rigorous 2-stage jury process among 470 submissions from 60 countries to attend the prestigious 10th Global Peter Drucker forum in Vienna from 29 – 30 November. He also received travel funding to attend the award ceremony.
Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dean RnD, Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) has been elected for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India council. He will be its Executive Council Member from 1 July 2018 – 30 June 2022.
Samyak Datta, Gaurav Sharma and Prof. C V Jawahar, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) were conferred Best Paper Award for their paper Unsupervised Learning of Face Representations at 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018), Xi’an, China during 15 – 19 May.
Salghuna Nair, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Ramachandra Prasad P. Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) won the best paper and best contribution among young researchers for their paper A surrogate approach of identifying Artocarpus heterophyllus species of Attappadi forest, India at the AIT2018 – the IX Conference of the Italian Society of Remote Sensing, Florence,Italy during 4 – 6 July. Salghuna received 300 Euros as prize money.
Mayank Agrawal’s research under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri, Cognitive Science Lab (CogSci) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) was awarded the Best Poster Award for his work on A Heterogeneous traffic virtual-reality simulator to study irritation/anger and driving behaviour under adverse conditions at the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference from 2 – 6 July at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.