IIITH students won first place in the first round of Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon 2019. Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon is held every year by Microsoft in a few institutes like IIIT Hyderabad, IITs and BITS. The first round is held at the college level where participants compete with other teams from their college. IIITH team -Greenticks will represent IIIT Hyderabad in the National Round competing against all other winning teams from their respective colleges. As a prize for the first place, IIITH students won Rs. 20,000 per participant and have qualified for the National Round which will be early next year. The theme for the hackathon was to use blockchain in the electoral process to improve reliability and transparency. For more details visit codefundo.io.
Venkata Appa Rao Yempada, Research Scholar, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) working under the supervision of Dr. Srivatsava Jandhyala, was awarded the best poster award for his work on Simulation study of III-V Lateral Tunnel FETs with Gate-Drain underlap at the 23rd International symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) at IIT Indore from 4 – 6 July.
Dr. Radha Rangarajan, Head, Innovation and Strategy – OJAS MedTech BioNEST won the FICCI Award of Excellence – Women in R&D under the DST FICCI Global R&D Summit 2019. The award is given for outstanding R&D happening in the country across industry, academia and research establishments from the public and private sector. With the award, FICCI hopes to motivate corporates, academic institutions, government laboratories and professionals working in research and development across various sectoral domains.
Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been inducted into the board of advisors for United Nations University – Institute of computing society. The United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society is an institute of the United Nations University (UNU), located in São Lázaro, Macau, China. Established in 2015, UNU-CS serves as a bridge between the UN and international academic and public policy communities, training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists in computing, social sciences and design for international development.
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).