Dr. Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu: How a corporate VP got schooled
Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu gives up a plum job to deep dive into academics at the pinnacle of his career. He resurfaces with a Ph. D from IIITH in an emerging field in software engineering. Did he get back the controls of a hi-flying corporate career, after a 5-year sabbatical? Find out. Dr. Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu’s […]
Post-doctoral Culture at IIIT Hyderabad
Researchers from IIITH’s Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) are working in diverse areas in basic and applied research in natural sciences. We spoke to Shampa Raghunathan, research scientist at CCNSB at IIITH about her research and the work culture on campus. IIITH is encouraging a high level of contribution by post-doctoral fellows […]
SPECs of Gold In the Dust
The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad believes in diversity and runs a special mode of admission to induct talented students from rural hinterlands. We trace the remarkable journeys of two such youngsters from its inaugural batch that will leave you inspired. This semester, when Prerna Gupta recorded her dance moves and sent it over […]
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 […]
Standing On The Shoulders Of Srinivasa Ramanujan
When 27-year-old Dual Degree student Sumit Kumar Jha quietly revealed the publication of not one but three single-author papers during the course of the tumultuous 2020, the research community sat up and noticed. We probed a bit to first learn more about his area of expertise, the genius himself, and discovered what the excitement was […]
CVIT Researchers’ Submission in MOT 2020 Ranks No. 1
In June 2020, when two student researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) turned in their entry to the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) challenge, the submission gained them the first rank in the famously challenging problem. Here’s a simultaneous look at the benchmark as well as the students, Karthik Shyamgopal and Ameya Prabhu, […]
IIITH Women UG Students STEP In To The Light
Having just wrapped up their Google STEP internship, Shradha Sehgal and Mallika Subramanian speak at length about their virtual internship experience, girls in STEM and are all praise for IIITH’s unique curriculum that lets one explore diverse topics of interest. Early this year when Coronavirus came a-calling, the IT&ES sector was the first to quickly […]
When An Internship Is King
What does it feel like to be studying under a Professor you idolized and whose talks on YouTube you once followed? And then again, what is it like to intern under the said Professor’s former advisor, a pioneer himself at a world-class facility – the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Ask Rishabh […]
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, […]
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 […]