IIITH Women UG Students STEP In To The Light
Having just wrapped up their Google STEP internship, Shradha Sehgal and Mallika Subramanian speak at length about their virtual internship experience, girls in STEM and are all praise for IIITH’s unique curriculum that lets one explore diverse topics of interest. Early this year when Coronavirus came a-calling, the IT&ES sector was the first to quickly […]
Coding And More In The Summer Of 2020
A definite attention-grabber on a resume is the word ‘Google’. Little wonder then that each Summer, thousands of university students from across the globe prepare feverishly in a bid to apply to what must be the most competitive 3-month program in open source software development – the Google Summer of Code. With this summer project […]
IIITH Students Win 2nd Place in CodeFunDo++ Hackathon
Microsoft’s Annual Hackathon Seeking Solutions to Social Problems Sees IIITH Students In Second Place. Third year BTech (Hons) students Rohan Chacko and Aadil Mehdi Sanchawala, have won the second place at the Microsoft CodeFunDo ++ 2019 hackathon. This annual event which is open only to premier institutes across the country such as the IITs, IIIT […]
IIITH Student Tanashree Jaganade Wins Best Poster Award At Molecular Modelling Conference
Tanashree Jaganade, Ph.D student of Bioinformatics won the Best Poster Award as well as a Bursary Award as a fellowship at Australasia’s premier molecular modelling conference, organized by the Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA). More details below. All living systems have a unique mechanism by which damaged cells in the body are self-repaired. […]
IIITH Researchers Develop first-of-its-kind Hinglish Code-Mixed Data NLP tool
Researchers from the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), IIITH make a first-of-its-kind attempt at semantic role labelling of Hindi-English code mixed tweets. This was presented at the Linguistic Annotation Workshop during ACL 2019, Italy. Chalo jaldi karo, or we’ll miss the beginning of the movie. Nothing out of the ordinary in this sentence here. In […]
KCIS: Where The Intelligent Systems Are
What do aspiring Computer Science students, Hyderabad-based deep tech startups and industries with a focus on AI and ML have in common? Well, they all seek the same address: The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), Gachibowli, Hyderabad. With all the buzz on revolutionary technologies, we try to learn more about the largest AI […]
IIITH Researcher Wins Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2019
Divija Shwetha Gadiraju from the Signal Processing and Communication Research Centre was among 10 other winners chosen from a select list of Indian universities who received a 10 lakh financial award. On July 4th, 24-year-old PhD student from the Signal Processing and Communication Research Centre (SPCRC), Divija Shwetha Gadiraju received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship award […]
IIIT-H Researcher Presents Paper at Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2019
The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing recently held it’s 34th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) at Limassol, Cyprus. Part-Time PhD student Sai Anirudh Karre who is working under Prof. Y. Raghu Reddy presented his paper in the “software engineering” technical track of the main conference. Towards VR Practices Tracing his journey towards virtual […]
IIIT-H Student Sreeja Kamishetty Wins Memorial Scholarship Instituted By Google
21-year-old Sreeja Kamishetty’s self-confessed “passion for all things Google” has led to her keenly following all opportunity updates from the multinational tech giant, be it scholarships, resources or internships. The last time she was featured here was when she was selected as the only Indian to attend the EMEA Google Students Retreat 2018. This time, […]
CIE@IIITH-based drone startup THANOS delivers!
At the premier biennale air show and exhibition, Aero India 2019, typical visitor interest centers around the spectacular air displays. The aerobatic feats of the shiny metal birds can draw your breath away. But alongside crowd-pulling pavilions and aerial stunts are the slew of initiatives undertaken by the Defence Ministry to promote innovation in the […]