Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the 14,000 Club of Google Scholar Citations. He has over 14,000 citations with an impressive h-index: 70 and i10-index: 203. Dr. Das has also been included in Stanford University’s top 2% most influential scientists list with subject rank (world): 179 for the year: 2022.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das, center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) was promoted to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. As the world’s largest technical professional organization, IEEE offers a number of ways to get involved with technical and local communities. These communities are active participants in research and authorship, conferences, and important conversations about today’s most relevant technical topics locally and globally.
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. 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
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. 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.