A Covid War Room Story
A IIITH alumni rapid response team saves 1,000 lives in a month, at the peak of the pandemic. The passionate volunteer group is connecting critical Covid patients to vital medical services and financial aid, helping India fight back the 2nd wave of the pandemic. The Covid War Room (CWR) comprising of IIIT-H alumni and students, […]
Post-doctoral Culture at IIIT Hyderabad
Researchers from IIITH’s Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) are working in diverse areas in basic and applied research in natural sciences. We spoke to Shampa Raghunathan, research scientist at CCNSB at IIITH about her research and the work culture on campus. IIITH is encouraging a high level of contribution by post-doctoral fellows […]
Lyrics to fine-tune Music emotion recognition
A sweet lyrical revolution is playing out at IIITH labs. The Cognitive Science laboratory worked on a Natural Language Processing-based Transformer model to identify emotions from the lyrics of a song, a hitherto underexplored area of study. We met with the team to learn more. Imagine you are navigating through dense traffic, while an online […]
Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula – The Roboticist with Music in his Veins
It was definitely a SLAM dunk for IIITH alumnus Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, the young Robotics Engineer from Kakinada, who was recently awarded the prestigious NVIDIA fellowship for 2020-21. Currently, on the final stretch to completing his PhD at Mila, Université de Montréal, we caught up with Krishna at the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab to […]
How to build a Wall, pixel by pixel
IIIT Hyderabad’s Art Society has traded in their easels for a mouse at Felicity 2021 to create The Wall – 250,000 pixels. 320 digital artists. One canvas. Gone are the days when Graffiti was a can of paint and an empty brick wall! Breathtaking wall murals on the verdant IIIT campus have become a much […]
Finding Math in a Slice of Citrus Fruit
Such exciting mysteries were the topic of intense debate at the Teaching the Learning Brain 2021 workshop for primary school teachers held earlier this month. Researchers at IIITH’s Neuro-cognitive Science Research laboratory have been working on getting educators to take the quantum leap, from teaching from a script, to moulding innovators and thinkers. The idea […]
ASR makes the world your oyster
IIITH is poised to disrupt Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in India by building a six language multi-lingual system by August 2021. Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala from IIITH’s Speech Processing Lab helps deconstruct this emerging industry. Industry pundits forecast that the Indian speech domain is destined to be a multi-million-dollar market, with international conglomerates lining up […]
Lydia Manikonda – Seeking a Moral Compass in the Digital Age
Like millions of youngsters her age in India, IIT was the ultimate goal for Lydia. But goalposts have a strange way of shifting willy-nilly. For Lydia Manikonda, it was a chance comment by her brother’s lecturer that her AIEEE rank would fetch her a seat in a great school like IIIT-Hyderabad, that set her career […]
‘Echo’es of IIITH in Seattle
From a backbencher with a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIITH to the saddle of a principal engineer at Amazon, Seattle, IIITH alumnus Vikram Gundeti’s journey has been one of opportunities turned into achievements. We sat down with Vikram to deconstruct what fires his synapses. Early days and influences When Vikram Gundeti completed his intermediate […]