Dr. P Pravin K V Rao has been selected for ISET D K Paul Research Award for best Ph.D thesis in Earthquake Risk Reduction in India for the year 2022. The award is given once in 4 years to only one person with an international reputation and excellent standing in the area of expertise. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 60,000 and a citation.
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.
Dr. Sachin Chaudhari has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. IEEE Senior member is awarded to engineer, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated field with experience reflecting professional maturity and have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees). In order to be promoted to Senior Member, they also have to show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice
Prof. Vishal Garg and his students received US patent rights for their research work on System and apparatus for and methods of control of localized energy use in a building using price set points. This patent is a joint application between IIITH and LBNL under the CBERD project (a five year Indo-US bilateral R&D project).
Sunil Lohar, Lecturer and a Ph.D student of CEH, IIIT- Hyderabad completed his six weeks artist residency program at Bordeaux Metropole, France. The program was closely related to Sunil Lohar’s Ph.D work and provided him the opportunity to interact with several international scholars of Arts and Aesthetics. He visited many museums and art galleries in France during his residency program to view original artworks of great artists. Every year, only one Indian artist gets a chance to be a part of this prestigious artist residency program in Bordeaux Metropole, France. Sunil is also a recipient of the Telangana State Award for painting at the Kalanand art contest 2019.