Josh Elias Joy, 2nd semester student of M.Tech Product design and Management, won the Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals contest conducted by Hackaday and partnered with Digi-Key Electronics. There were a total of 75 participants from all over the world. In this contest, participants were encouraged to make the strangest, fanciest, flashiest, or most custom computer peripherals, and share that work.
Durga Prasad Dhulipudi working in Honeywell and a part time Ph.D student of Dr. K S Rajan was awarded the best paper award for his research work on Machine Learning for Multiclass Geospatial Objects—Need for Accelerated Mapping of Airports at the ISRS-ISG National Symposium held at HICC Hyderabad from 15 – 17 November.
MeitY project fund for research work on Blockchain and Machine Learning Powered Unified Video Know Your Customer Framework has been granted to Dr. Ankit Gangwal (PI), Dr. Sudipta Banerjee (Co-PI), Dr. Anoop M. Namboodiri (Co-PI), and Dr. Kishore Kothapalli (Co-PI) by MeitY, Government of India from 2022 – 2024. It is a joint project with Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) Hyderabad and IIT Bhilai. Total budget sanctioned is Rs 23.72 Crore.
Dr. Vinoo Alluri was featured in the fifth edition of The Life of Science’s (TLoS) yearly desktop calendar. It featured 48 Indian women, transgender and non-binary persons working in various fields of science during 2022 – 2023. The calendar was launched on 11 February to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Dr. Alluri was featured under the theme Music.
Machine Learning Lab students Shailey Mishra and Manisha Padala working under the supervision of Dr. Sujit Prakash Gujar received the First runner-up best paper award for their research work on Fairness with Special Externalities at the 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2022) held from 10 to 13 November at Shanghai, China.
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru has been featured in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as part of their People of ACM initiative. Prof. Kumaraguru is an ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding engineering contributions to computing. He is also an ACM India Eminent Speaker and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Research work on Does Audio Help in Deep Audio Visual Saliency Prediction Models by Dr. Vineet Gandhi and his students – Ritivik Agarwal, Shreyank Jyoti, Rohit Girmaji and Sarath Sivaprasd received the best student paper award at the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022) held from 7 – 11 November at Bangalore.
Advaita Saxena, PhD in ECE and Pragati Gupta, PhD in CSE under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri, CogSci were awarded the prestigious Kohli Research Fellowship Program, a competitive Fellowship program for pursuing PhD under the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) for the Academic Year 2022-23.