Vinay Singh On The Sporting Habit He’ll Never Kick
IIITH-ians have learned not to bat an eyelid at the sight of Vinay Singh scorching the campus roads at 12 in the night. For this 24-year-old captain of the football club, it is a way of unwinding. In a free-wheeling conversation he tells us how sports is therapeutic and hopes physical activity is given a […]
Busting The Dual Degree Course Myths
For all ye fence-sitters who are debating the merits or otherwise of the Dual Degree programme, before you head to online forums in search of answers, find out what it takes. Straight from the horse’s mouth. In conversation with B.Tech, MS by Research student Dhruv Khattar. Dhruv Khattar’s grisly beard is in sharp contrast with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Meet The Unseen Pillars of IIIT-H
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of IIIT-H, we take a look at the early staffers, the unsung heroes who have equal stake in the progress of this institute, whose chests swell with pride when they talk nostalgically of their journey at IIIT-H where they went out of their way to put the institute […]
Total Recall @20 with IIIT-H Alumni Meets
IIIT-H’s 20 years of existence owes a large part to its alumni. Especially the first batches who were the bravest and took the biggest risk in joining a fledgling institute that was conferring diplomas and not degrees, had neither permanent faculty nor big infrastructure. These students put their faith in the new institute and grew […]
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 […]
Megathon 2018 – A Student Hackathon To Solve Social And Corporate Challenges
Time to put your thinking caps back on! The Megathon is here. What is it? A mega brainstorming of life hacks over a marathon session. And this student-led event jointly organized by the Entrepreneurial-cells (E-cells) of IIIT-H and IIT Hyderabad respectively is here again, but in different avataars.For those who came in late, the E-cell […]
Alumnus Vedant Kidambi’s Memorial Endowment to Support Research
In honour of their much loved, only child, Vedant Kidambi (special MS by Research student, 2008-2010), Girija and Uday Kumar (Kidambi) have created an endowment fund supported by a generous donation of 20 lakhs towards research in the field of Cognitive Science at IIIT-Hyderabad. Vedant Kartik Kidambi was an exceptional MS by Research student in […]