IIIT Hyderabad has launched BrainLab, an advanced human electroencephalography (EEG) research facility to enable cutting-edge research into how the human brain processes information, attention, perception and behaviour. The new facility has been established with support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, under the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (DST-FIST) programme. The Cognitive Science Lab (CSL) received the grant in 2024 under the Life Sciences FIST (FIST-LS) programme. The grant-winning team comprised Prof. Bapi Raju, Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar, Dr. Bhaktee Dongaonkar, Dr. Vinoo Alluri, Dr. Priyanka Srivastava, and Dr. Kavita Vemuri.

Hyderabad’s Applied AI Research Centre (INAI), low-cost cameras mounted on police and towing vehicles are being paired with artificial intelligence and computer vision to turn road footage into actionable traffic-enforcement data. The system can identify violations such as wrong-side driving, helmetless riding and triple riding, read licence plates and feed verified evidence into the e-challan system. CE spoke to Govind Krishnan, head of engineering, Mobility, INAI, to understand how the technology works, the challenges of deploying AI on the road and what lies ahead. “INAI’s objective is to take research in areas such as artificial intelligence and computer vision and translate it into solutions for real-world problems,” he said.

Four research students from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), a research institute in Gachibowli, which is not only a home for research but also recognised as a higher education institution at the national and international level, have been recognised at the national level. A list of the top 100 artificial intelligence/machine learning researchers in India has been compiled. Four research students from IIIT Hyderabad have found a place in it. It is a special privilege that Amazon has recognised these four students from IIIT Hyderabad. They are Asitva Srivastava, Nilga, Kiran Ravish, and Chirag Parikh. They were congratulated by several IIIT-H professors, faculty representatives, officials, and research students.