IIIT-H Students Shine At World-Class NLP Conference
As the largest academic centre of speech and language technology in South Asia, the Language Technology Research Centre at IIIT-H carries out pioneering work in the areas of natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech processing, information retrieval through four specialized labs, whose works complement each other. In the area of natural language processing, there is […]
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 wins Best Poster award at InterSpeech 2018 workshop
Mounika Kamsali Veera’s award-winning poster showed how deep neural networks can automatically identify the language from a short duration of speech signal uttered by an unknown speaker. Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive annual conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]