Achievements and Awards
Smart City Living Lab from IIIT Hyderabad has been awarded the Best Education Institute Exhibit of the year at the eighth edition of India Mobile Congress held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, in concurrence with WTSA’24, the governing conference of the ITU Standardization Sector (ITU-T) from 15 – 18 October 2024.
Team India wins at the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024. Competing against 206 participants drawn from 51 teams across 38 countries, the Indian contestants shone at the 21st International Linguistic Olympiad (IOL) held in Brasília, Brazil, from July 23 to July 31, 2024. The Indian team demonstrated their prowess in the individual categories with Animikha Dutta Dhar bagging a silver medal, Shrilakshmi Venkatraman and Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui winning a bronze medal each and Ananya Agarwal receiving an Honourable Mention.
Remote Labs project team – Akshit Gureja (UG5 ECD), Vedant Nipane (UG4 ECE), Nagesh Walchatwar (MS 1st year) and Devansh Kantesaria (UG3 ECD) working with Dr. Sachin Chaudhari have won first prize at the Hyderabad regionals of the 5G and 6G hackathon conducted by Telecom Centres of Excellence India (TCOE) India on behalf of Department of Telecommunication (DoT), India at IIIT Hyderabad on 26 – 27 September.
Remote Labs team – Akshit Gureja (UG5 ECD) and Nagesh Walchatwar (MS 1st year) working with Dr. Sachin Chaudhari from Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) was selected by Qualcomm under their Qualcomm Design in India Program (QDIP) to exhibit their innovative project as a part of Qualcomm’s booth at India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024, organised at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 15 to 18 October.
Research on ILAEDA: An Imitation Learning Based Approach for Automatic Exploratory Data Analysis by Dr. Naresh Manwani and his student Abhijit Manatkar was awarded the Best Paper Runners-up Award in the Research Track category at AIML Systems 2024 held at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA from 8 to 11 October.
Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC) faculty – Dr. Sunitha Palissery, Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao and Dr. Shubham Singh have been inducted as panel members to the Earthquake Engineering Sectional Committee (EESC) of the Civil Engineering Division (CED-39) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for reviewing the Indian standards related to Earthquake Resistant Design and Construction.
IIIT Hyderabad ranks high in various categories in a survey conducted by India Today.
2nd in top 10 colleges in Private Engineering Colleges
13th in overall category, with government, HEIs ,IITs, NITs & IIITs
1st position among the engineering private colleges in best placement record, highest- scoring colleges among those set up in and after 2000 and in south region
2nd in top 10 colleges in Private Engineering Colleges
13th in overall category, with government, HEIs ,IITs, NITs & IIITs
1st position among the engineering private colleges in best placement record, highest- scoring colleges among those set up in and after 2000 and in south region
IIIT Undergraduate students along with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanthan bagged the best poster award at ICSA 2024 held at IIIT Hyderabad from 4 to 8 June 2024. The poster was based on the research work done by Hiya Bhatt, Shrikara A, Adyansh Kakran and Karthik Vaidhyanthan on Towards Architecting Sustainable MLOps: A Self-Adaptation Approach.
Research on Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Community Detection in Dynamic Graphs by Subhajit Sahu working with Prof. Kishore Kothapalli; and Prof. Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIT Jodhpur was awarded the APDCM Outstanding Paper award at 26th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM) held from 27 to 30 May at San Francisco, California held in conjunction with 38th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2024).
Prof. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as a member of the Experts Review Committee (ERC) in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for technical evaluation of VAIBHAV fellowship proposals by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, International Cooperation Division, Government of India, for a term of three years, starting from June 2024.
Prof. K S Rajan is one of the jury members for selecting grand finale winners of Bhartiya Antariksh Hackathon (BAH). The hackathon is being organized as part of National Space Day – 2024 celebrations. Secretary, DOS/Chairman, ISRO launched the BAH programme on 4 July in the area of geospatial domain, space science, image processing and AI/ML. The programme is open for UG, PG and Ph.D students in India.
Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Dr. Raghu Reddy participated in the esteemed Dagstuhl seminar on Software Architecture and Machine learning in Dagstuhl, Germany from 23 to 28 July. Dagstuhl seminar is regarded as one of the most prestigious, invitation-only workshops and the origin of the DBLP database, Dagstuhl facilitates events that promote intense collaboration among top computer science professionals, steering interdisciplinary progress and defining future trajectories.
The Crop Darpan app, a crop diagnostic tool, which is being developed by researchers at IT for Agricultural Research center (ITARD) headed by Prof. P Krishna Reddy will be used by farmers through the department of agriculture, Telangana. After a lot of field tests and demonstrations for over two years, the department of agriculture Telangana, has taken a decision to encourage farmers to use the Crop Darpan app.
Dr. Abhishek Srivastava’s research group at IC~WiBES Lab, CVEST breaks the barrier! IIITH achieved a significant milestone by successfully designing and fabricating a test chip for the first time in 25 years. The main IC designers are MS students at CVEST — Arpit Sahani, Srayan Sankar Chatterjee, Pranjal Mahajan, Anushka Tripathi, and Deeksha. The process of chip design and tape-out marks a crucial step in transitioning from theoretical designs to a manufacturable product, significantly advancing the institute’s technological capabilities. It’s crucial for bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation, enabling students and researchers to innovate, publish significant findings, and prepare for high-impact careers in the semiconductor industry.
IIIT Hyderabad joins MeitY’s prestigious SMDP chip to startup program in semiconductor domain for the first time since the program started (2005). Project proposal led by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava of CVEST is selected for the prestigious Special Manpower Development Program for Chips to Startup (SMDP C2S) program by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY). It is for the first time IIITH has become a part of SMDP in the semiconductor domain since the program started.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the prestigious flagship journal: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
IEEE T-IFS ranks #2 in the list of top venues (conference & journals) in Computer Security & Cryptography and first (Rank #1) among all journal publications. Its impact factor is 6.8.
IEEE T-IFS ranks #2 in the list of top venues (conference & journals) in Computer Security & Cryptography and first (Rank #1) among all journal publications. Its impact factor is 6.8.
Research on Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Community Detection in Dynamic Graphs by Subhajit Sahu working with Prof. Kishore Kottapalli; and Prof. Dip Sankar Banerjee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur) was awarded the APDCM Outstanding Paper award at 26th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM) held from 27 to 30 May at San Francisco, California held in conjunction with 38th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2024).
IIITH students secured third place for their project on Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Himalayan Timberline Elevation: Developing a Novel Tool for Analyzing Correlation with Temperature and Precipitation at the first ever Climate and Sustainability Hackathon, hosted by Cloudera in collaboration with AMD. The event was held online from Santa Clara, California. The team members Lokesh Sharma (M.Tech-CSE) and Avantika Latwal (Ph.D-Scholar, Lab for Spatial Informatics), under the supervision of Dr. Rehana Shaik demonstrated outstanding innovation and expertise. The hackathon consisted of an Idea Phase that spanned from 18 October to 27 November 2023 to filter out the ideas. This was followed by a Prototype Submission Phase that occurred online from 29 January to 7 March 2024.
Details:
https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-04-24-cloudera-machine-learning-hackathon-generates-groundbreaking-climate-and-sustainability-projects.html
Details:
https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-04-24-cloudera-machine-learning-hackathon-generates-groundbreaking-climate-and-sustainability-projects.html
Aditya Kumar Singh, MS by Research (CSE), 3rd year, supervised by Avinash Sharma; Chandradeep Pokhariya, MS by Research (CSE), 3rd year, and Haran S K Raajesh, B.Tech (CSE) 3rd year, both supervised by Makarand Tapaswi have been awarded the Bank of Baroda Achievers Award for the year 2023-24 for their significant contributions to research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
Prakash Tekchandani and Saurabh Agrawal pursuing Ph.D with Dr. Ashok K Das won the best paper award for their work on Secure Big Data Analytics using Cloud Storage for Internet of Vehicles at Springer’s sixth International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA 2024) held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 16 to 18 April 2024.
Nancy Hada and Aditya Kumar Singh working with Dr. Kavita Vemuri won best paper award in Student category for their research work on FolkTalent: Enhancing Classification and Tagging of Indian Folk Paintings at the International Conference on FOSS Approaches towards Computational Intelligence and Language Technology (FOSS-CIL T24) held in Kerala from 21 to 22 March 2024.
Students of Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) bagged best student poster awards at the 14th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference held in Bangalore from 22 – 24 February.
Rudra Dhar, Ph.D student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Vasudeva Varma for his work on Leveraging Generative AI for Architectural Knowledge Management.
Shubham Kulkarni, MS by research student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan for his work on AdaMLS: A Self-adaptive Approach for Enhancing the Quality of Service of ML-enabled Systems.
Rudra Dhar, Ph.D student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Vasudeva Varma for his work on Leveraging Generative AI for Architectural Knowledge Management.
Shubham Kulkarni, MS by research student working with Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan for his work on AdaMLS: A Self-adaptive Approach for Enhancing the Quality of Service of ML-enabled Systems.
Team – Wanderlust consisting Aditya Ranjan Padhi (UG3); Aniketh Parkala (UG3); Gnaneswar Kulindala (UG3); Harsh Kapoor (UG1); Mayank Goel (UG3); Madhan Sai Krishna Chamarthy (UG1); Shreya Bollimuntha (UG3); Shreyas Kumar Sinha (UG3) and Sreyas Saminathan (UG3) participated in the prestigious 2024 CanSat competition, a global event organised by the American Astronautical Society. Team – Wanderlust obtained a global rank of 4, securing an invitation to participate in the further phases of the competition.
IIITH students bagged several prizes at Elan and nVision techno-cultural fest of IIT Hyderabad.
Fix the bug contest
1st prize – Rinish Sam I, MTech 2k23 (CSE); Varun Edachali, UG 2k22 (CSE);
Maddireddy Kritin, UG 2k22 (CSE)
2nd prize – Udith Krishna M Nair, UG 2k23 (CSD); Adithya Kishor, UG 2k23 (CSD);
Shubham Goel, UG 2k23 (CSE)
3rd prize – Anirudh Sankar, UG 2k23 (CSD); Aditya Shankar, UG 2k23 (CSD)
Top 2 prizes at Verilog Hackathon
Yash Bhutada and Arya Topale from Electronics and Robotics club (ERC) won 1st prize. Soham Vaishnav and Rupak Antani secured the runner-up spot.
Fix the bug contest
1st prize – Rinish Sam I, MTech 2k23 (CSE); Varun Edachali, UG 2k22 (CSE);
Maddireddy Kritin, UG 2k22 (CSE)
2nd prize – Udith Krishna M Nair, UG 2k23 (CSD); Adithya Kishor, UG 2k23 (CSD);
Shubham Goel, UG 2k23 (CSE)
3rd prize – Anirudh Sankar, UG 2k23 (CSD); Aditya Shankar, UG 2k23 (CSD)
Top 2 prizes at Verilog Hackathon
Yash Bhutada and Arya Topale from Electronics and Robotics club (ERC) won 1st prize. Soham Vaishnav and Rupak Antani secured the runner-up spot.
Anis Fatema, PhD student of Dr. Aftab M Hussain won second prize in Young Professionals (YP) session and another second prize in the Student Research Forum Award for Fabrication of Flexible Pressure Sensor Systems for Biomedical Applications at the IEEE APSCON 2024. Both awards carry significant cash prizes and a certificate.
Startup – HydrowVerse Pvt Ltd founded by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC) and Smart City Research Centre(SCRC) and Co-Founded by Thomas David Tency, Research Assistant was awarded the NPCI Best Innovation Award at the event – Fetching Fortunes at E Summit organised by the IIT Hyderabad. The team was given ₹1 Lac worth credits and awards.
Research work on Global Space Modelling Of Biological Processes With Cross-sectional Data by Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy and her students – J Thottupattu and Venky P was awarded the best paper nomination award at ICVGIP 2023 – 14th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing held from 15 – 17 December 2023 at IIT Ropar.
IIIT Hyderabad Basketball team were Runner-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Madhapur from 2 to 3 February. Team members were Revanth Gundam, Atharv Johar, Sriram Alluri, Aadarsh Raghunathan, Aniketh Atmakuri, Amogh Tiwari, Ashwin Rudraraju, Sudarshan Nikhil and Janardan. Mr, Samson Xavier was the team coach.
Dr. K S Rajan has been nominated by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare to be one of the lT Advisory committee members towards speedy and systematic implementation of Krishi Decision Support System project to be carved-out from Visualisation of Earth Observation Data and Archival (VEDAS) portal.
IIIT Hyderabad has been ranked number 1 at both, Overall (All India) and in South Zone categories by DataQuest and Cyber Media Research (CMR)’s Best T-School Survey 2023. The survey focus was on undergraduate programs offered at HEI’s / Technical Institutions. The methodology consists of 48 attributes grouped into six sections based on four parameters – PACE:
Placements (30%)
Academic & research (30%)
Campus infrastructure (15%) and
Engagement and Outreach etc (25%)
Faculty and students whose research work got patented were given Crystal awards on the second day of IIIT Hyderabad’s annual R&D showcase on 22 January. Here are the details:
System and method for retrieving and extracting security information – Prof. Y Raghu Babu Reddy, Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu
System and method for generating queryeable structured document from an unstructured document using machine learning – Prof. Manish Shrivastava, Vishnu Ramesh
System of visualizing and querying data using data-pearls – Prof. Kamalakar Karlapalem, Nahil Jain, Ayush Jain, Nikhil Gogate
AI driven self adaptive microelectronics circuits – Prof. Zia Abbas, Koushik De, Deepthi Amuru, Khanh Le
The 7th edition of the India Mobile Congress (IMC) witnessed a remarkable moment as the Honorable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, virtually presented IIIT Hyderabad with the prestigious 5G Lab Award. This recognition marked a significant achievement for the institute, securing its place among the top 100 institutes in India. IIITH is among the three top institutes selected from the state of Telangana.
The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has recognised IIITH as one of the best performing NDLI clubs in Telangana for its outstanding performance and unwavering dedication in promoting knowledge and learning through the National Digital Library of India. As a token of appreciation and encouragement, NDLI has presented an Appreciation Certificate to IIIT Hyderabad.
According to The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings IIIT Hyderabad is in the 601-800 bracket. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 included 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions. The rankings are based on WUR 3.0 methodology, which included 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.
Fourth-year students, Sriram Devata and Kanakala Ganesh Chandan, won the first and second prizes respectively. Rohit Modee, a Ph.D scholar was also awarded for methodology for innovative usage of ML irrespective of performance of the framework used. Sandeep Nagar, a Ph.D student, was also awarded for the best team name at a conference on Machine Learning for Molecular Sciences (ML4SCIENCE 2023), was held at Germanus Springs Resort at Kodaikanal from 9 – 12 March.
Team Vayu, consisting of Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE); Sara Spandhana (MS, ECE); Om Kathalkar and Shreyas Gujar (Interns, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC won the Environment Sensing Project Competition (2022) while team AirIoT comprising Ayu Parmar (MS, ECE); Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE) and Ritik Yelekar (Intern, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC, made it to the short-list. The event was organized by the MegaSense team, University of Helsinki.
The Team Tateists of Astronomy Club won the first prize in an inter-college Astronomy competition organised by IIT Patna. The competition had three rounds – a quiz, a SpaceX simulator challenge to dock a shuttle to the ISS, and a challenge to identify habitable exoplanets from a database of 10,000 exoplanets. The team members Shreyas Badami, UG2-CND and Pranav Agrawal, UG2-CSE topped all the rounds of the competition and finished with a perfect score in the final round.
Team Blue Bird comprising Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya, Dhiraj Shanmukha, Shambhavi Ojha, Vinaya Gopi and Venkat Sai from M.Tech Product Design and Management and SERC qualified as top 20 teams globally out of 90+ teams that participated in the Student Service Design Challenge 2023, an international competition that encourages students to design services that promote both personal well-being and collective happiness.
Anis Fatema, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain received the Best women-owned business pitch and Best overall pitch award at the WiSe-YP Big Idea Pitch Competition and a prize money of $400 at the IEEE Applied Sensors Conference 2023 (IEEE APSCON 2023) held at Bengaluru on 24 January.
G V Ihita, MS student in SPCRC working on IoT security for smart cities under the guidance of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, was selected as a representative of the Indian delegation and the Generation Connect initiative to attend United Nations agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-D Study Group-2 meeting at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 – 9 December 2022.
Research work by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded first prizes for their oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS – 2022), held from 22 – 23 December at Bengaluru, for their research work on:
1. Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Across Three Waves in India – Dr. Nita Parekh and her student Kushagra Agarwal.
2. Evaluating Generalizability of Deep Learning Models Using Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset – Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli.
Anis Fatema, a Ph.D scholar working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain at the Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) won second prize at Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR- 2022) under the Ph.D category for her popular science story on Breaking the Walls of Chronic Back Pain. The prize carried a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
Priyanka Kommagoun working under Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala, from the Speech Processing Lab, LTRC won the best poster award in Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW-2023) as part of INTERSPEECH 2023 held in Dublin, Ireland on 19 August. The poster was on research work done on Unravelling Speech Disfluencies: A Novel Approach to Distinguishing Typical and Atypical Stuttering Patterns by Priyanka Kommagouni, Narasinga Vamshi Raghu Simha, Anil Kumar Vuppala.
Dr. Manish Shrivastava and Srija M, 3rd year CLD student were team leaders for the Indian contingent consisting of Faraz Ahmed Siddique, Anshul Bhagwat, Saumya Goyal, and Ujaan Rakshit at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL-2023): Celebrating Language Prowess and Problem Solvers held at Bansko, Bulgaria from 23 to 29 July.