Team FalconX Ranks 24th at CANSAT
A team of students from IIIT-H that qualified for the final launch phase of the annual CanSat competition organized by The American Astronautical Society (AAS) has just returned from Stephenville, Texas, securing a rank of 24 out of 41. This is an annual student design-build-launch competition for space-related topics. The IIIT-H team was among 40 […]
Enna Sachdeva selected for Aspiring Woman Entrepreneur (AWE) program
3rd Year, MS by Research student, Enna Sachdeva is back from a 2-day weekend workshop at the Nexus Startup Hub at the American Center in New Delhi. She was part of a 16-member strong contingent of Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) chosen from across India based on their innovative ideas and capabilities to address the needs […]
Best Paper Award for Using Deep Learning In Retrieval And Recognition of Handwritten Word Images
Simplistically put, Document Analysis is about trying to extract content from a scanned document image so that it is easily editable and searchable. While the currently popular Optical Character Recognition software gives almost 100% accuracy for recognizing scanned and printed Latin text, the approach doesn’t work very well with scanned handwritten (HW) Latin text, due […]
Civil Services Calling: Meet IIIT-H Alumni Who Topped The 2018 Exam
Indian students are no strangers to competitive examinations with the mantra of ‘No Pain, No Gain’ ingrained in our DNA. With the announcement of the 2018 toppers of the Union Public Service Commission exam (UPSC), we have reason to do the happy dance. Making the institute proud are two of our alumni, Madhuri Gaddam, from […]
Information and The Art of Relevant Retrieval
Who amongst us is not guilty of doing a quick internet search in the midst of an argument to prove a point? Or which millennial parent has not resorted to the Internet to answer their child’s queries? Simplistically put, such a process through which relevant answers are fetched for us is essentially known as Information […]
The Highs and Lows of Academic Institutional Rankings
Ranking of educational institutions is popular today. Publications like Outlook, India Today, Dataquest etc., have been doing it for over a decade, primarily aimed at admissions into the bachelors programs. Times Higher Eduction, QS, and Shanghai rank international universities and other academic institutions, with strong emphasis on their research impact and international presence. It’s a given […]
Hate Speech Detection in Tweets through Deep Learning
It’s a few words restricted to 160 characters, but the reach and impact of a single tweet goes way beyond. With 313 million monthly active users, and 1 billion unique monthly visits to sites with embedded tweets in over 40 languages, its influence is phenomenal to say the least. True to the micro blogging site’s […]