Gurneet Decodes the Art of Building Sustainable and Intelligent Spaces
What happens when you hardwire computational skills into the soul of an architect? You get Gurneet Singh, a IIIT Hyderabad alumnus who specializes in sustainability in the built environment, with a push towards resilient and low carbon development. Way back in 2002, when IIIT Hyderabad started a bridge program between pure technology and building design, […]
How Focusing On Consumer Healthtech Products Has Worked For This IIITH-alumnus Startup
BlueSemi, a CIE-incubated startup founded by IIITH alumnus Sunil Kumar Maddikatla has received an impressive funding of USD 69 million from Luxembourg-based investment group GEM Global Yield LLC. The infusion is set to fuel the growth of its soon-to-be launched disruptive healthtech product that is inspired by ikigai. It was the Consumer Electronics Showcase 2020 […]
What would Sourav Chatterjee define as the Quantum of Solace?
Young Sourav Chatterjee has recently embarked on his career of interest as a Scientist at the prestigious Raman Research Institute, working on the secure communication project with ISRO. We caught up with the IIITH alumnus who believes that it was his highly unusual curriculum and experience garnered at the Institute that shaped his career. That […]
Finally, an AI book that hits the sweet spot between textbook and trenches
“Practical Natural Language Processing”, a book co-authored by IIITians, has caught the eye of the global AI community, snagging a place in the top 1% of all general and technical books sold on Amazon. Anuj Gupta, Harshit Surana and Sowmya Vajjala shared the backstory on how their book was published by industry giant O’Reilly Media, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
IIITH Alumni Startups InterviewBit and Scaler Academy – Reimagining Online Tech Education
They say college friends are your friends for life. This sure holds true for IIITH alumni Anshuman Singh and Abhimanyu Saxena. From batchmates in 2010 to startup founders of InterviewBit & Scaler Academy, they’ve come a long way. Picture this. You’ve been working on your lab project through the day and way into the night […]
The Boy Who Loved Math: Tales and Times of Rahul Saladi
Rahul Saladi did his BTech and MS in Computer Science at IIITH from 2004-2011. He currently works as an Assistant Professor at IISc, Bangalore. In a telephonic conversation, he talks at length about the side to research that rarely receives much attention and claims that the alma mater gave him his life – a wife, […]