Dr. P Pravin K V Rao has been selected for ISET D K Paul Research Award for best Ph.D thesis in Earthquake Risk Reduction in India for the year 2022. The award is given once in 4 years to only one person with an international reputation and excellent standing in the area of expertise. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 60,000 and a citation.
G V Ihita, MS student in SPCRC working on IoT security for smart cities under the guidance of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, was selected as a representative of the Indian delegation and the Generation Connect initiative to attend United Nations agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-D Study Group-2 meeting at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 – 9 December 2022.
Research work by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded first prizes for their oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS – 2022), held from 22 – 23 December at Bengaluru, for their research work on:
1. Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Across Three Waves in India – Dr. Nita Parekh and her student Kushagra Agarwal.
2. Evaluating Generalizability of Deep Learning Models Using Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset – Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli.
Priyanka Kommagoun working under Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala, from the Speech Processing Lab, LTRC won the best poster award in Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW-2023) as part of INTERSPEECH 2023 held in Dublin, Ireland on 19 August. The poster was on research work done on Unravelling Speech Disfluencies: A Novel Approach to Distinguishing Typical and Atypical Stuttering Patterns by Priyanka Kommagouni, Narasinga Vamshi Raghu Simha, Anil Kumar Vuppala.
Dr. Manish Shrivastava and Srija M, 3rd year CLD student were team leaders for the Indian contingent consisting of Faraz Ahmed Siddique, Anshul Bhagwat, Saumya Goyal, and Ujaan Rakshit at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL-2023): Celebrating Language Prowess and Problem Solvers held at Bansko, Bulgaria from 23 to 29 July.
M Satish Kumar supervised by Dr. Shaik Rehana, has been awarded the esteemed Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) travel grant. This award helped him to participate in the distinguished International Conference – Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2023, held in Singapore from 30 July – 4 August.
Team BlueBird members Shambavi, Anuj, Aniket, VenkatSai, Gopi (M.Tech PDM) and Dhiraj (MS SERC) won the Silver Award at the prestigious London Design Awards 2023 in the Service Design category. They designed a solution to enhance the well-being of patients and families navigating the challenging journey of terminal illness.
