Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been included in the 14,000 Club of Google Scholar Citations. He has over 14,000 citations with an impressive h-index: 70 and i10-index: 203. Dr. Das has also been included in Stanford University’s top 2% most influential scientists list with subject rank (world): 179 for the year: 2022.
Anis Fatema, a Ph.D scholar working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain at the Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) won second prize at Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR- 2022) under the Ph.D category for her popular science story on Breaking the Walls of Chronic Back Pain. The prize carried a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
Research work on Unsupervised approach to evaluate sentence-level fluency: Do we really need reference? By Dr. Manish Shrivastava and his students Gopichand Kanumolu, MS CSE; Lokesh Madasu, MS CSE; Pavan Baswani, MS CSE and Ananya Mukherjee, Ph.D CSE was given the Best paper award in SEALP2023 Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 held on Bali, Indonesia on 1 November.
Shambhavi Ojha, M.Tech Product Design and Management student bagged the silver award in the 7th mini product challenge organised by Airtribe. The challenge required participants to create a referral program for the mindfulness app Calm. Shambhavi’s proposal was Calm Connections which she submitted the program outline alongwith mockup screens and promotion idea.
Anuj Malviya and Josh Elias Joy, M.Tech Product Design and Management and Akshay Phate M.Tech CSE student who graduated in 2023 won 2nd place in Autodesk Instructables, Student Game Design Challenge, for their project Jumpfit (Wearable Joystick) which was done as a part of the Wearables System Design Course at IIIT Hyderabad under the mentorship of Dr. Raghu Reddy.
Astitva Srivastava in first year and Chennupati Sai Deep in third year of their Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) were awarded TCS Research Scholarships. Students selected for the scholarship will be given a stipend for a maximum of four years, or submission of a thesis whichever is earlier. A stipend of Rs. 70,000 per month for the first and second year and Rs. 75,000 per month for the third year and fourth year will be given to the Ph.D scholars.
Research work by Rishikesh Bose, Dr. Sujit Gujar, N Patil, A K Dwivedi, Dr. Kavita Vemuri, Prof. Sachin Chaudhari, on Comparative Analysis of Construction-Related Air Pollution In Indoor and Outdoor Environments’ won the Best Paper award at the 11th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP) 2023 in Brisbane, Australia in November.
Level Masters team – Ritik Yelekar (MS by Research, ECE); Thomas David Tency (Researcher and CEO, Hydrow); Nagesh Walchatwar (Research Intern, SPCRC) and Sahil Padole (Research Intern, SPCRC) supervised by Dr. Sachin Sachin Chaudhari secured the 2nd runner-up position for their project on IoT-based Smart Water Level Monitoring at the Environment Sensing Project Competition (ESPC-2023) organised by the University of Helsinki, Finland.
IIIT Hyderabad basketball boys team were runner-up at the intercollegiate tournament held at Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (VNRVJIET). The team members were Janardan, Ashwin Rudraraju, Revanth Kumar Gundam, Aniketh Atmakuri, Aadarsh Ragunathan, Pradeep Kr Pal, Atharv Johar, Samson Xavier and coach Mr. Samson Xavier.
