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
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.
Rehana Shaik and her student N T Monish received Best Paper Award for their research work on Assessment of Regional Spatio-Temporal Trends of Water Availability over India at Hydro 2019, an International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources & Coastal Engineering, Hyderabad from 18 – 20 December.
