Dr. Ravi Kiran S and Yashaswi Verma were awarded the IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) – Best Doctoral Dissertation Award during the ICVGIP 2018 Conference held from 18 – 22 December at IIIT-Hyderabad. The awardees were given a citation and a cash prize for their achievement. The dissertation topic of Dr. Ravi Kiran S was Deep learning for hand-drawn sketches: Analysis, synthesis and cognitive process models.
Prof. Vishal Garg received the Arthur H Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Award from the Global Cool Cities Alliance in California, USA. The Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) has established an award to honor the legacy and impact of Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld’s advocacy for cooler buildings, cooler cities, and a cooler planet. Dr. Rosenfeld was a founder of GCCA and a tireless advocate for building materials that improve thermal comfort and make a positive impact on global climate change.
Dr. K S Rajan has been invited to be the Associate Editor of Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS). It is the premier publication of the Society and has been in publication since 1973. Over the last decade, it became an international journal with Springer publishing and distributing it world over.
Venkata Appa Rao Yempada, Research Scholar, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) working under the supervision of Dr. Srivatsava Jandhyala, was awarded the best poster award for his work on Simulation study of III-V Lateral Tunnel FETs with Gate-Drain underlap at the 23rd International symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) at IIT Indore from 4 – 6 July.
IIITH students won first place in the first round of Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon 2019. Microsoft CodeFunDo hackathon is held every year by Microsoft in a few institutes like IIIT Hyderabad, IITs and BITS. The first round is held at the college level where participants compete with other teams from their college. IIITH team -Greenticks will represent IIIT Hyderabad in the National Round competing against all other winning teams from their respective colleges. As a prize for the first place, IIITH students won Rs. 20,000 per participant and have qualified for the National Round which will be early next year. The theme for the hackathon was to use blockchain in the electoral process to improve reliability and transparency. For more details visit codefundo.io.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the program committee chairs for the International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN’19), Avila, Spain from 26 – 28 June. This annual congress brings together blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, who share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains. The BLOCKCHAIN’19 congress is devoted to promoting the investigation of cutting-edge blockchain technology, to exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain and AI for the industry, and to identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research.
Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani and Aaditya M Nair won first runner-up best paper award at National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019) for their research on Maximally Recoverable Codes with Hierarchical Locality at the Silver Jubilee edition of National Conference on Communications (NCC 2019) from 20 – 23 February held at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.