Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla was awarded an unrestricted research gift from Google, as part of its growing efforts to support excellent research in academia. Google has awarded the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad an unrestricted gift money which will support follow-up research of Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla in collaboration with Pradeep Shenoy, Google Research on multi-object multi-part segmentation and visual scene understanding.
IHub-Data fellowships were awarded to research students who can contribute to the mission of the center through their research objectives and projects – for details visit: https://blogs.iiit.ac.in/monthly_news/ihub-data-fellowships/
Prof. C V Jawahar and his students Sanjana Gunna and Rohit Saluja were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper on Transfer Learning for Scene Text Recognition in Indian Languages at the ICDAR 2021 workshop on camera-based document analysis and recognition (CBDAR 2021, 9th edition) in Lausanne, Switzerland from 5 – 10 September.
Avantika Latwal working under the supervision of Dr. Rehana Shaik was awarded second prize under the theme Geospatial Technologies in Water Resources Engineering for research work on Water Quality Estimation Using Remote Sensing Technique: A case study of Bhadra Reservoir, Karnataka at the 26th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO-2021 International) Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) Surat, Gujarat from 23 – 25 December.
An extensive article by Rishabh B Mishra, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) on Solar Powered Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review was published in the journal – Energy Technology and also got accepted as the cover article of the journal which reflects that the topic which was covered is highly interesting to editors of the journal and it’s quite unique as well.
A team of 8 students – Aditya Kadam (UG3, Anmol Goel (RA), Jivitesh Jain (UG4), Mallika Subramanian (UG4), Manvith Reddy (UG4), Prashant Kodali (Ph.D), Arjun T H (UG3), Jushaan Singh Kalra (UG4, Delhi Technological University) and faculty members Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Prof. Manish Shrivastava from Precog IIITH participated in the Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC-2021) shared task as a part of the CEUR workshop organized by FIRE 2021 from 13 – 17 December.
Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been awarded the PAKDD Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to a member of the PAKDD community who has made outstanding service contributions to the PAKDD, through organizational efforts, resulting in making PAKDD conferences successful and has taken exceptional leadership and responsibility towards his/her tasks.