Alumnus Sriram Venkatapathy On Research and Self-Exploration At IIIT-H
When Sriram Venkatapathy originally came to IIIT-H for a BTech degree in 1999, little did he know that he would call the campus his home for 10 years. An acclaimed researcher with over 8 patents to his name, Sriram is now a Senior Scientist with the Alexa Machine Learning group at Amazon. Read on to […]
Q&A With Alum Santosh Kumar Nanduru
As Managing Director of his own construction company, IIITH alumnus Santosh Kumar Nanduru, MTech CASE graduate of 2009 tells us about the R&R he believes in. And it’s not rest and recreation but repair and restoration. Find out more in this edited excerpt from a telephonic interview. Tell us a bit about your background. What did you […]
How IIITH Alumnus Kiran Tharanath Has Been Riding The Hallyu
He’s no regular Koreaboo. In fact long before K-Pop and K-Culture made inroads into our own lifestyle, this 2007 BTech (Hons) graduate has been creating waves of his own in Korea. Meet Kiran Tharanath, Director of NextGen Sales and Strategy at Samsung Electronics, Seoul. In an email interview, he talks about his cultural immersion, and […]
Don’t Change Your Dreams. Change The World says IIIT-H alumnus Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda
A conversation with Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda is peppered with terms such as ‘Pushing the boundaries’, ‘Thinking Out of The Box’, and ‘Innovation’. As someone who aims to reverse the brain drain happening in the country, Dr. Chimalakonda is actively innovating by using technology to improve the current quality of education. We caught up with the […]
Alumnus Deepthi Singh Sharma on What It Techs To Be An Entrepreneur
Not confining the celebrations of International Women’s Day to a single day, we begin this month with the focus on a successful woman entrepreneur from the batch of 2004. Meet Deepthi Singh Sharma. A serial entrepreneur, she co-founded Fashiate that was acquired by SnapDeal in 2015. She also founded Trailchain, a blockchain-based tech startup. Now, […]
Q&A with Alumnus Vipul Kedia On Managing Technology And Finding Your Forte
If you ever wanted to know the brain behind the maiden Felicity or the IIIT-H Alumni Fund, meet Vipul Kedia. His name crops up frequently in conversations with early staffers and faculty. He is from the second batch of IIIT-H, a self-confessed early stakeholder for whom the institute is not just “a second home”, but […]
IIIT-H Alumnus Deepesh Data’s ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019
Meet Deepesh Data, batch of 2011, BTech (CSE). He is the winner (Honourable Mention) of the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019. Calling himself a “small-town boy” with limited exposure, he shrugs and says that it all worked out in the end. In a telephonic conversation, he modestly talks of himself, his journey so far and […]
Alumnus Ravikanth Chittiprolu on How to Build a Career and Engineer Jobs
Meet Ravikanth Chittiprolu, alumnus of the 2007-2009 Masters batch in Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE). He currently runs his own group of companies, the Vyuha Group with a motto of “Sadhanath Sadhyathe Sarvam”, which is Telugu for ‘Everything is possible with efforts’. In an email interview, he talks about how he believes in entrepreneurship and […]
What Makes IIIT-H Alumnus Anand Rathi Click?
With the recent spate of celebrity weddings, it seems natural to turn our own lens on an acclaimed photographer – Anand Rathi. Ask him if he clicked any pictures from his campus days and he replies in the negative. Yet, this 2008 CSE graduate is an engineer-turned-hedge fund manager-turned-self taught shutterbug. As specialists in wedding […]
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 […]