How AI is helping Crowd Control at Mega Melas
It’s a theme that has been rehashed to death by Bollywood: siblings separated at melas. While a happily-ever-after reunion happens in reel, massive, unorganized crowds, pandemonium and panic often leading to stampedes are real. Let’s look at how technology from the Lab for Spatial Informatics at IIIT-H can play a role in providing a solution […]
Meet IIIT-H Student Sri Teja Allaparthi Who Thinks Sewage Treatment Plants Are Sludge Fun
As a Masters student under Prof. Vikram Pudi, Sri Teja Allaparthi has been working on detection of misinformation in social media. But not many know that apart from developing a deep learning model that tags news articles in media based on classes such as hatred, bias, satire, and so on, he is also the technical […]
Online Social Media: ‘Like’ It or Hate it, You have to FACE it
It’s said that ‘Google before you Tweet’ is the new ‘Think Before You Speak’. Living and breathing this very adage are today’s millennials. Hence the runaway success and the response generated by a recent poster presentation on campus about ‘Privacy and Security in Online Social Media’ comes as no surprise. Let’s see what the buzz […]
Serious Games Lab Shows How Power of Belief Helps In Neuro-Rehabilitation
Displaced families, disinterested physiotherapists and a sense of despondency. This is what greeted Prof. Kavita Vemuri when she initially set out to study plasticity of the brain at rehab centres. She found her ‘why’ in the lack of motivation witnessed in stroke patients there and thus began the Serious Gaming lab at IIIT-H. Read on […]
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 […]
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 Researcher Sreekavitha Parupalli Develops Largest Computational Version of Telugu Dictionary
In conversation with Sreekavitha Parupalli, an MS by Research graduate from the Centre for Exact Humanities who speaks of her research work inspired by the vision of the Late. Prof. Navjyoti Singh and how it has enabled her to contribute to her own community. For researchers working in the areas of language processing, machine translation, […]
From A Search Engine To A Personalized News Aggregator: The Evolution Of IIIT-H’s First Startup
A business incubator typically helps fledgling startups grow and develop their business. But here’s the story of how the first startup that germinated on IIIT-H campus laid the foundation for CIE, the startup incubator. In conversation with Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dean (R&D) and CEO of IIIT-H Foundation, who on the occasion of IIIT-H’s 20th anniversary […]
This Research Team Shows How ML Knowledge is Power
First Indian presence at simulated power trading competition; walks away with 2nd place What happens when machine learning algorithms, game theory and smart electricity markets come together? A IIIT-H team led by Dr. Praveen Paruchuri, Dr. Sujit Gujar, and Dual Degree student Susobhan Ghosh in collaboration with scientists from TCS Research and Innovation, Dr. Sanjay […]
Towards A Truly Connected World With 5G Technology
The existing mobile network technology (2G, 3G and 4G) is unable to accommodate an ever-increasing mobile phone subscriber base putting pressure on limited data. Add to this: Over-stressed and clogged mobile networks. We met up with Shaik Zakir Hussain, MS by Research student from the Signal Processing and Communications Research Centre (SPCRC) who chatted about […]