IIITH’s dual degree student Vaibhav Gupta’s 2019: Looking Back In Wonder
Every year-end, with just a few days left in it, institutions, individuals, and various other entities typically undertake a review exercise – a reflective ‘looking back’ of sorts where they take stock of the highs and the lows that marked the year for them. Among students on campus, we found Vaibhav Gupta, a 5th year […]
How To Sample A Semester At IIITH
Have you ever eyed those awesome courses offered at IIITH and regretted missing the bus? Well, thou shall covet no more. A lateral entry programme is not the only way to land up at the esteemed campus. There’s a possibility of doing an entire semester at IIITH. Here’s how. A few weeks ago, when the […]
Nishtha Pandey Comes Full Circle
Going ‘back to school’ in your 30s requires a great deal of commitment and a certain je ne sais quoi. Juggling the demands of a student life along with those of a family can probably put a circus performer to shame. We caught up with a stellar student Nishtha Pandey who came back to campus […]
IIIT-H Student Sreeja Kamishetty Wins Memorial Scholarship Instituted By Google
21-year-old Sreeja Kamishetty’s self-confessed “passion for all things Google” has led to her keenly following all opportunity updates from the multinational tech giant, be it scholarships, resources or internships. The last time she was featured here was when she was selected as the only Indian to attend the EMEA Google Students Retreat 2018. This time, […]
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 […]
Tarnpreet Gill Wins Best Presentation Award At Geospatial Conference
One of the advantages of studying at premier tech institutes such as the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad lies in the immense scope it provides for interdisciplinarity. Masters student, Tarnpreet Singh Gill at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center should know. Although studying Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE), where advances in structural engineering and computer […]
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 […]
IIITH Student Mukund Choudhary Wins Most Original Essay Award in The Drucker Challenge
Every year, the Peter Drucker Society Europe unveils a unique essay contest inviting original ideas and thoughts from students and young professionals from all over the world: The Drucker Challenge. With this year’s theme, “How to stay human in a robot society”, the challenge invited opinions on how Peter Drucker would react if he met […]
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, […]
IIIT-H Research Students Win Google ‘Build For India’ Hackathon
To make its products more relevant to Indians, Google is working on a host of initiatives especially customized for its Indian audiences. From working with Indian language publishers, to bringing more relevant content online, to launching a new feature in Google Go that lets you listen to web pages, these products show it has Indian […]