IIIT-H Prof Wins Best Paper Award at VLSI Design Conference-2019
With the emergence of the Internet of Things, over the past couple of years, there has been a significant focus on the integration of large scale wireless communication technologies with medical care. And more specifically, the focus has been on the development of tiny, wireless sensor devices that can be either implanted in the body […]
IIIT-H Students Shine At World-Class NLP Conference
As the largest academic centre of speech and language technology in South Asia, the Language Technology Research Centre at IIIT-H carries out pioneering work in the areas of natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech processing, information retrieval through four specialized labs, whose works complement each other. In the area of natural language processing, there is […]
Tarnpreet Gill Wins Best Presentation Award At Geospatial Conference
One of the advantages of studying at premier tech institutes such as the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad lies in the immense scope it provides for interdisciplinarity. Masters student, Tarnpreet Singh Gill at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center should know. Although studying Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE), where advances in structural engineering and computer […]
Gayam Motor Works Shows How To Conductor Business
In our alumni series this month, we put the spotlight on electric vehicle company Gayam Motor Works (GMW). Its CEO Raja Gayam and COO Sri Harsha Bavirsetty are both IIIT-H alumni. Its CTO Rahul Gayam was on the 2018 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 and was recently selected among 10 others for the Summit […]
IIITH Student Mukund Choudhary Wins Most Original Essay Award in The Drucker Challenge
Every year, the Peter Drucker Society Europe unveils a unique essay contest inviting original ideas and thoughts from students and young professionals from all over the world: The Drucker Challenge. With this year’s theme, “How to stay human in a robot society”, the challenge invited opinions on how Peter Drucker would react if he met […]
IIIT-H researcher wins Best Poster award at InterSpeech 2018 workshop
Mounika Kamsali Veera’s award-winning poster showed how deep neural networks can automatically identify the language from a short duration of speech signal uttered by an unknown speaker. Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive annual conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of […]
IIIT-H’s Computer Vision Lab In Focus
IIIT-H researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology made their mark in the international arena by presenting papers at 3 of the most distinguished conferences in the field of computer vision. Here’s a brief look at the conferences and some of the path-breaking work presented there. One of the most prestigious events earmarked on […]
IIIT-H Research Students Win Google ‘Build For India’ Hackathon
To make its products more relevant to Indians, Google is working on a host of initiatives especially customized for its Indian audiences. From working with Indian language publishers, to bringing more relevant content online, to launching a new feature in Google Go that lets you listen to web pages, these products show it has Indian […]
Graduating Batch of 2018: The World Is Their Oyster
The graduating batch of 2018 BTech students is gearing up for their convocation this weekend. And all of them are doing the happy dance. While some of them have decided to further their interests towards higher education in research, the rest have all gotten comfortably placed in reputed firms. Of these industry-bound students, 16 have […]
Prof Vineet Gandhi wins patent for split screens research
One usually associates split screens with news channel panel discussions with multiple guests in the same frame. And that is typically done with an elaborate camera crew and their multiple cameras, a cameraperson focussing one camera each on a panel member. Similar is the case of stage performances like a dance recital or a play. […]