How IIIT-H Student Sireesha Naidu Galla Plans On Impacting Lives
Having spent the majority of her primary education in Tirupati and later in Vijayawada, final year CS student Sireesha Naidu Galla comments wryly that much like everyone else, she too had to “endure a rat race to come here”. “When I first joined IIIT-H and chose CS as a dual degree student, I had no […]
IIIT-H student, Sreeja Kamishetty Only Indian to Attend EMEA Google Students Retreat 2018
Like many other hopeful peers, 20-year-old Sreeja Kamishetty too applied for an internship at Google last year. She was hoping to learn out of the entire interview and selection process. Hence she says she wasn’t particularly disappointed when she didn’t get selected for the internship. But her application didn’t go unnoticed. Sreeja was chosen instead […]
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 […]
Salghuna Nair – first Indian to attend DART workshop at Paul Sabatier University
When everyone else was either out on vacation or cribbing about the rising mercury levels, this soft-spoken and unassuming senior research fellow from the Lab of Spatial Informatics has been winning accolades and creating waves at every international conference and workshop she’s attended in May, June and July 2018. Meet 26-year-old Salghuna Nair from Trichy, […]
Enna Sachdeva selected for Aspiring Woman Entrepreneur (AWE) program
3rd Year, MS by Research student, Enna Sachdeva is back from a 2-day weekend workshop at the Nexus Startup Hub at the American Center in New Delhi. She was part of a 16-member strong contingent of Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) chosen from across India based on their innovative ideas and capabilities to address the needs […]
Of Hindi Tales: From Texas to Telangana
When 23-year-old Kelsey Ball came to Hyderabad as a Teaching Assistant last Summer, she knew it wasn’t going to be her last time. The Teaching Assistantship was part of a study abroad programme that brought students from the University of Texas at Austin to IIT Hyderabad. “The experience made me curious about India. I wanted […]
How to Spend Your Summer Breaks And Other Tips
“I loved to play video games as a child. And I thought I would eventually build one. That was my main motivation to study Computer Science,” grins Arushi Dogra. Hailing from Pathankot, Arushi says she first learned of IIIT-H from her brother’s friend. She did a lot of research, crawling through forums, reading questions on […]
Priya Radhakrishnan – Back-to-School and How!
They say inspiration can strike at the most unexpected of times. For Priya, it couldn’t have been more opportune. She was a software engineer, an overwhelmed new mother, exhausted and on the verge of giving up her technical aspirations. That was when she saw an image of Kim Clijsters with the 2009 US Open trophy […]
Sneha Jain Bags prestigious internship at Berkeley Lab
Sneha Jain, who is currently pursuing her Masters in Building Science Research at IIIT-Hyderabad has been awarded an internship that will allow her to work at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), USA for six months. The Building Energy Efficiency Higher And Advanced Network (BHAVAN) internship is the result of collaborative efforts between […]
Saumya Rawat – The Sky’s The Limit For This Undergrad
A cursory search about IIIT-Hyderabad on Quora reveals that the most frequently asked questions from aspirants deal with the distinction between IIITH and “other Indian institutes”. And one of the most upvoted answers is the unprecedented opportunity given to undergraduate students to pursue research and publish papers at international conferences. A case in point is […]