International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) is an autonomous university, founded as a not-for-profit public private partnership (N-PPP) in 1998, and is the first IIIT in India under this model. Over the years, the institute has evolved strong research programmes in various areas, with an emphasis on technology and applied research for industry and society. The institute facilitates interdisciplinary research and a seamless flow of knowledge. Several world-renowned centres of excellence are part of IIITH’s research portfolio. It has established various joint collaboration and co-innovation models with an industry outreach spanning significant national and multinational companies. Its innovative curriculum allows students the flexibility of selecting their courses and projects. Apart from academics the institute provides students with a comprehensive environment that promotes art and culture, sports, societal contributions and self-governance. Even undergraduate students get to participate in ongoing research and technology development - an opportunity unprecedented in India. As a result, a vibrant undergraduate programme co-exists along with a strong postgraduate programme.
Dr. Vinoo Alluri's student Arun Garimella’s research on Marijuana and the Hippocampus: A Longitudinal Study on the effects of Marijuana on Hippocampal Subfields has been accepted in international journal Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. Co-authors of the work include Sourabh Rajguru, Umesh Singla and Prof. Vinoo Alluri.
Dr. Radhika Mamidi and her student Kartikey Pant (5th year CLD) received Best System Paper Award for their research work on BERT-based Ensembles for Modeling Disclosure and Support in Conversational Social Media Text at Affective Content Analysis workshop in the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence at New York on 7 February.
Dr. Zia Abbas and his MS by Research students Mounika Kelam and Battu Balaji Yadav’s research work on 3.75ppm/C, -91dB PSRR, 27nW, 0.9V PVT Invariant Voltage Reference for Implantable Biomedical Applications has been selected for the Special Mention Recognition award at 33rd International Conference on VLSI Design VLSID 2020 held in Bangalore on 7 January.
Dr. Syed Azeemuddin has been selected as Vice-Chairman of IEEE Photonics Society, Hyderabad Chapter.
Students
“tesla_protocol”, made up of Sai Anurudh Peduri, Arjun Pitchanathan and Devansh Gautam, has qualified for the Association for Computing Machinery – International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) world finals
IIIT Hyderabad team - The Third I won a hackathon on IoT for Smart City on 11 January at Panaji. The team proposed a low cost IoT solution for indoor pollution monitoring. A prize is a fully paid trip by EU to attend a leading startup event in Europe.
Faculty
Rehana Shaik and her student N T Monish received Best Paper Award for their research work on Assessment of Regional Spatio-Temporal Trends of Water Availability over India at Hydro 2019, an International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources & Coastal Engineering, Hyderabad from 18 - 20 December.
IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Hyderabad Chapter chaired by Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani awarded SPS Chapter of the year award 2019.
Prof. P Krishna Reddy was Steering Committee Chair and Publication Chair at the Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019) from 17 - 20 December at Ahmedabad University.
Research work of Vinoo Alluri and her student D Niranjan on Dynamic Functional Connectivity in the Musical Brain was awarded best paper at the 12th International Conference on Brain Informatics - Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence, Hainan, China from 13 - 15 December
Prof. Vishal Garg and his students received US patent rights for their research work on System and apparatus for and methods of control of localized energy use in a building using price set points. This patent is a joint application between IIITH and LBNL under the CBERD project (a five year Indo-US bilateral R&D project).
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), Computer Science Department, IIIT Delhi created Prof. Rajeev Sangal Faculty Fellowship for fellow faculty members. It will be awarded each year to a faculty member having a wholesome impact on students.
Sunil Lohar, Lecturer and a Ph.D student of CEH, IIIT- Hyderabad completed his six weeks artist residency program at Bordeaux Metropole, France. The program was closely related to Sunil Lohar’s Ph.D work and provided him the opportunity to interact with several international scholars of Arts and Aesthetics. He visited many museums and art galleries in France during his residency program to view original artworks of great artists. Every year, only one Indian artist gets a chance to be a part of this prestigious artist residency program in Bordeaux Metropole, France. Sunil is also a recipient of the Telangana State Award for painting at the Kalanand art contest 2019.
Prof. Vishal Garg have been elevated as a Fellow of the international society - IBPSA, International Building Performance Simulation Association at the biannual conference in Rome from 2 - 4 September. Prof. Vishal Garg and Prof. Jyotirmay Mathur from MNIT Jaipur are the first Indian’s to receive this honour.
Dr. Vinoo Alluri wrote a book chapter on Neural Correlates of Timbre Processing in Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition published by Springer. The other author of this book chapter is Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri (currently doing postdoc in Helsinki, P.hD from IIITH)
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das edited a book on Blockchain and Applications - International Congress published by Springer. The other editors of this book are Javier Prieto, Stefano Ferretti, António Pinto, and Juan Manuel Corchado.
Prof. P K Vinod, Prof. C V Jawahar and Sairam Tabibu (research fellow) published a paper on Pan-Renal Cell Carcinoma classification and survival prediction from histopathology images using deep learning in Nature Scientific Reports.
Dr. Priyanka Srivastava and her team – Anurag Rimzhim (CCSU, US), Palash Vijay (IIITH), Shruti Singh (IIITH), Sushil Chandra (INMAS, DRDO, New Delhi) presented a paper on Desktop VR is better than Non-ambulatory HMD VR for spatial learning at EuroVR 2017, Laval, France from 12 – 17 December. Their paper was awarded one of the best papers from Euro VR 2017 in a peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2018) in July 2019.
Prof. Pradeep K. Ramancharla elected Vice President (South) of Indian Association of Structural Engineers (IAStructE).
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is one of the guest editors in the special issue on Blockchain Technologies and Applications for 5G Enabled IoT in ICT Express (Elsevier) journal.
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.
Dr. Sachin Chaudhari has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. IEEE Senior member is awarded to engineer, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated field with experience reflecting professional maturity and have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees). In order to be promoted to Senior Member, they also have to show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been appointed as an Associate Editor of IET Communications journal for a three-year term from February 2019 – 2022. The journal, in publication since 1980, is a prestigious SCI-indexed journal.
Dr. Radha Rangarajan, Head, Innovation and Strategy – OJAS MedTech BioNEST won the FICCI Award of Excellence – Women in R&D under the DST FICCI Global R&D Summit 2019. The award is given for outstanding R&D happening in the country across industry, academia and research establishments from the public and private sector. With the award, FICCI hopes to motivate corporates, academic institutions, government laboratories and professionals working in research and development across various sectoral domains.
Dr. Nimmi Rangaswamy has been inducted into the board of advisors for United Nations University – Institute of computing society. The United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society is an institute of the United Nations University (UNU), located in São Lázaro, Macau, China. Established in 2015, UNU-CS serves as a bridge between the UN and international academic and public policy communities, training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists in computing, social sciences and design for international development.
Prof. P Krishna Reddy has been appointed as a member of executive committee, Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology (INSAIT), from October 2018.
Prof. Vasudeva Varma and his team came second at the CL-Aff Shared Task for their poster on Ingredients for Happiness: Modeling constructs via semi-supervised content driven inductive transfer at the AAAI-19 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AFFCON 2019) - Modeling Affect-in-Action at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from 27 January to 1 February. The authors of this paper are Bakhtiyar Syed, Vijayasaradhi Indurthi, Kulin Shah, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma.
Dr. Abhishek Srivastava won the best paper award for his research on Analysis and Design of Low Phase Noise LC Oscillator for Sub-mW PLL-free Biomedical Receivers at the 32nd International Conference on VLSI Design and 18th International Conference on Embedded systems (VLSID 2019) from 5 - 9 January at Manekshaw Center, New Delhi.
Two papers by IIIT-H selected among the best 25 papers in the history of HiPC. The two papers selected were: - Pawan Harish, P J Narayanan (2007) - Accelerating Large Graph Algorithms on the GPU Using CUDA - Kishore Kothapalli, Rishabh Mukherjee, M. Suhail Rehman Suryakant Patidar, P J Narayanan, Kannan Srinathan (2009) - A performance prediction model for the CUDA GPGPU platform More information visit: https://hipc.org/hipc-25th-year-celebration
Students
Utkarsh Azad, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) received the best paper award for his research on Noise Analysis of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Weighted Max-Cut in Computer and Software Systems track at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT-2019).
Tanashree Jaganade (Ph.D in Bioinformatics, student of Dr. Deva Priyakumar) received the first best poster award for her work on Unravelling dynamics and energetic events involved in flipping process of Thymine Glycol lesion using computational approaches at Australasia's premier Molecular Modelling (MM) conference which was held on Bintan Island, Indonesia from 5 - 8 December. She also received Bursary Award as a fellowship from the organising committee of the conference. The conference was organised by the Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA).
PEC Coach P Shiva Shalini has been selected to be a part of the Osmania University women’s hockey team. She participated in the South Zone Inter University Hockey Tournament in Chennai last month. Interestingly, Shalini learnt to play hockey at IIITH campus.
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.
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.
Divija Swetha Gadiraju, Ph.D student of SPCRC working under the supervision of Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani, has been awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2019 for their proposal - Codes for distributed computing and sharding.The participating institutes included 9 IITs, IISc as well as IIIT Hyderabad. Out of 28 finalist teams, 10 winning teams were awarded the fellowship. Each winning team will receive 10 lakhs INR fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.
Mihir Bani (CND, 1st Year) and Mukund Choudhary (CLD, 2nd Year) have been selected to represent IIITH in the National Level Quiz - Lallantop Quiz 2019, organized by the India Today Group.
Aditya Kumar (2nd year BTech, CSE) has been selected as a Campus Director for the 2020 Hult Prize on Campus Program at IIIT Hyderabad. In partnership with the United Nations, the Hult Prize is hosting college and university events around the world in search of the next game-changing start-up.
Sreeja Kamishetty working under the supervision of Praveen Paruchuri has been selected for the Google Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship. Every year Google offers the Venkat Memorial Scholarship to 6 students from India pursuing Computer Science or a closely related field. Selected students receive a financial award of 750 USD towards tuition and education related expenses, and will be invited to visit the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, USA. Selected students will also have an opportunity to submit a proposal, and potentially receive a funding of up to 225 USD to spend on growing computer science in the local community.
Faculty
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. C V Jawahar, has been elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) with effect from November 2018.
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.
Dr. K S Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI), Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Center for Open Software (COS) has been invited to be the Associate Editor of Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS).
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das, center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR) was promoted to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. As the world's largest technical professional organization, IEEE offers a number of ways to get involved with technical and local communities. These communities are active participants in research and authorship, conferences, and important conversations about today's most relevant technical topics locally and globally.
Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dean RnD, Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) has been elected for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India council. He will be its Executive Council Member from 1 July 2018 - 30 June 2022.
Samyak Datta, Gaurav Sharma and Prof. C V Jawahar, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) were conferred Best Paper Award for their paper Unsupervised Learning of Face Representations at 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018), Xi'an, China during 15 - 19 May.
Dr. Jolly Thomas, Center for Exact Humanities (CEH) won the BM Matilal Logic prize for the year 2018. This prize is awarded biennially.
Dr. Anoop Namboodiri, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) won the Best Paper Award (Silver) for his work on Semi-Adversarial Networks: Convolutional Autoencoders for Imparting Privacy to Face Images at the 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2018), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Dr. Shatrunjay Rawat, Center for Security, Theory andAlgorithmic Research (CSTAR):
- chaired the combined committee for curriculum for Polytechnic (Diploma) in Computer Science and IT.
- renominated for CAG’s Audit Advisory Board for the state of Telangana for the period 2017-19.
Prof. P J Narayanan appointed institute’s Director for a second term for a period of another five years by the Governing Council of IIIT-Hyderabad. He will be heading the institute till April 2023.
Students
Rahul Suresh Vishwakarma (4th year dual degree student in EERC) working under the supervision of Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla won the Excellent Young Researcher Award for the best poster presentation for his research work on Analysis of Hill Slope Buildings for Twist Variation with Change in Aspect Ratio at the 17th International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia at IIIT-Hyderabad from 12 to 14 December.
Tarnpreet Gill, (M.Tech Students of CASE, EERC) won the Best Paper Presentation Award in the general track category for his paper on Age Detection of Moon Minerals Using Crater Counting Techniques at FOSS4G-ASIA - 2018 Conference at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka from 2 - 5 December
1st Year UG Student Mukund Choudhary is one of the top 20 finalists selected through a rigorous 2-stage jury process among 470 submissions from 60 countries to attend the prestigious 10th Global Peter Drucker forum in Vienna from 29 - 30 November. He also received travel funding to attend the award ceremony.
Team VidyutVanika, a collaborative team between TCS and IIITH came second in the PowerTac 2018 competition. The team consisted of Susobhan Ghosh (student), Dr. Sujit Gujar, Dr. Praveen Paruchuri from IIIT-Hyderabad and Dr. Easwar Subramanian, Dr. Sanjay Bhat from TCS.
Salghuna Nair, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Ramachandra Prasad P. Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) won the best paper and best contribution among young researchers for their paper A surrogate approach of identifying Artocarpus heterophyllus species of Attappadi forest, India at the AIT2018 - the IX Conference of the Italian Society of Remote Sensing, Florence,Italy during 4 - 6 July. Salghuna received 300 Euros as prize money.
Mayank Agrawal’s research under the supervision of Dr. Kavita Vemuri, Cognitive Science Lab (CogSci) and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) was awarded the Best Poster Award for his work on A Heterogeneous traffic virtual-reality simulator to study irritation/anger and driving behaviour under adverse conditions at the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference from 2 - 6 July at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Sreeja Kamishetty, M.S student in Computer Science working under the supervision of Dr. Praveen Paruchuri, Data Sciences and Analytics Center (DSAC), Machine Learning Lab (MLL) has been selected for the Google student retreat in London. Google Students Retreat is a three day event for students to connect with each other, develop their skill set and gain unique insights at Google. Google Students Retreat is from 7 - 9 August at Google London Office.
Mounika K V won Best Poster Award in 3rd Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology, conducted as a part of INTERSPEECH 2018.
IIIT-H Team TooWeakTooSlow - Tanuj Khattar (4th year B.Tech - CSE), C. G. Vedant (4th year B.Tech - CSE) and Rajas Vanjape (4th year CSD-Dual Degree) - have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM-ICPC programming competition to be held in Beijing, China on 19 April 2018.
Avijit Dasgupta, a second year Ph.D student won the Google India Ph.D. Fellowship for Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision. Avijit is pursuing his research in computer vision and machine learning under the joint supervision of Prof. C V Jawahar, IIIT-Hyderabad and Dr. Karteek Alahari, INRIA, France.
Faculty
Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) received the Telangana State Award for championing the cause of start-ups.
Prof. C. V. Jawahar, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
received the IAPR Fellowship in December 2016 at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
Amazon Chair Professor for a period of five years starting from July 2016.
Outstanding Reviewer of CVPR 2017.
Prof. Vishal Garg, Center for IT in Building Science (CBS) was elected as a Fellow of Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).
Prof. P. J. Narayanan, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) received the INAE Fellowship in December 2016.
Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar’s INSA Young Scientist grant got renewed for second year.
Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla, Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) has been appointed as Chairman of IAStructE "Indian Association of Structural Engineers”, Telangana State Centre.
Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya was awarded the “Mahatma Gandhi Sahitya Samman” for 2016 by the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan in recognition of his writings on Mahatma Gandhi. The award consists of a citation and a cash reward of Rs. 4 lakhs.
Students
G. Ramya, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was awarded DST Women Scientist Fellowship.
International
Harish Yenala and Dr. ManojChinnakotla, Adjunct Faculty and Applied Scientist, Microsoft were conferred Best Paper Award at The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)2017 Jeju, South Korea for their paper Convolutional Bi-Directional LSTM for Detecting Inappropriate Query Suggestions in Web Search.
Srishti Srivastava, Team Lahoo was chosen as a participant of the delegation to Isreal for Innovation Competition for Indian start-ups.
G. Drushti Apoorva and Prof. Radhika Mamidi, Natural Language Processing – Machine Translation (NLP-MT) won the best student paper award for their paper - BolLy: Annotation of Sentiment Polarity in Bollywood Lyrics Dataset at the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING), in Myanmar during 16 – 18 August.
National
Sneha Jain, MS by Research student from Building Science Research Centre (BSRC) received a Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Award 2018 from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
Charudatt Pachorkar, Meher Chaitanya, Dr. Kishore Kothapalli,Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research (CSTAR)and Debajyoti Bera won Best Paper Award for their paperEfficient Parallel Ear Decomposition of Graphs with Application to Betweenness-Centralityat the 23rd Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 2016.
Faculty
Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya, Center of Exact Humanities (CEH) was awarded the prestigious Kendriya Sangeet Natak Academy Award for his contribution to playwriting.
Prof. P. Krishna Reddy, Center for Data Engineering (CDE), has been appointed as a member of the sub-group of the task force on the use of technology in IT/ ICT in insurance by NITI Aayog.
Prof. C. V. Jawahar, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
- appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).
- elected as an Outstanding Reviewer for the prestigious conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das, Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research CSTAR), was appointed as an Editor for the KSII Transactionson Internet and Information Systems.
Dr. P. Ubaidulla, Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC)
- elected to IEEE Senior Member Grade.
- awarded Young Faculty Award as part of Vivesvaraya PhD scheme supported by DietY.
Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) was appointed a Member of Research Advisory Council of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology.
Dr. Supriya Mohanty, Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC), Dr. Vinod Palakkad, Dr. Prasad Krishnan, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) and Dr. Rahul Shrestha have received the Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology.
Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC); Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) won Young Scientist Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST.
Dr. Sheikh Rehana, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) won Young Scientist Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST.
Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB), was awarded the JSPS Invitation Fellowship by Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan.
Dr. Vishal Garg, Center for IT in Building Science (CBS) is a member of the panel introducing a new chapter “Part 11-Approach to Sustainability” in the National Building Code of India, by BIS.
Dr. Vineet Gandhi, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), was awarded Best Paper Award for his paper Capturing and Indexing Rehearsals: The Design and Usage of a Digital Archive of Performing Arts at Digital Heritage, 2015 in Granada, Spain.
Students
Aviruch Bhatia (PhD student), Center for IT in Building Science was selected for Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Internship program supported by DST, Government of India and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTIF). As part of the internship, he will be working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA to contribute his expertise in "Building Technology Urban Systems Division".
Abhinav Mittal (Dual Degree student) under the supervision of Prof. Abhijit Mitra, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) topped Bioinformatics National Certification Examination (BINC 2016).
Broto Chakrabarty (PhD student) under the supervision of Dr. Nita Parekh, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB), secured All India 1st Rank in Bioinformatics National Certification (BINC) – 2015 organized by Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
Swetha Bikkina (PhD student) under the supervision of Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) was awarded DST Women Scientist Fellowship.
Sridhar Chimalakonda (PhD student), Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) was Co-Editor for two international standards (ISO/IEC 26551, 26555) in the area of software product lines.
Lalit Mohan (PhD student), Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) was chosen as Panel Speakerat CII National Cloud Summit.
International
Aniket Singh (PhD student) under the supervision of Dr. Anoop Namboodiri, Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), was awarded Best Paper Award for their paper Laplacin Pyramids for Deep Feature Inversion at 3rd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2015) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sunil Kumar Maddigatla (MS by Research student) and Dr. Srivatsava Jandhyala, Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST), were awarded Best Paper Award for their paper An Accurate CMOS Integrated Temperature Sensor for IOT Applications at IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sumit Gautam (MS by Research student) under the supervision of Dr. P. Ubaidulla, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC), was awarded Best Paper Award for their paper Simultaneous Transmission of Information and Energy in OFDM Systems at Proc. IEEE Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC2015).
Nishith Maheshwari (Dual Degree student) under the supervision of Dr. K. S. Rajan, Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI), was awarded Best Poster Award for their paper A semantic model to define indoor space in context of emergency evacuation at International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing congress (ISPRS) 2016, Prague.
Padmalata Nistala (PhD student), Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) conducted a 60 minute Session @ American Society for Quality (ASQ) titled A Synthesis Approach to Achieving Product Quality in Milwaukee, USA , May 2016.
National
Chandan Pradhan (MS by Research student) under the supervision of Dr. G. Rama Murthy, Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC), was awarded Best Paper Award for their paper Full-Duplex Transceiver for Future Cellular Network: A Smart Antenna Approach” at International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2015).
Sandhya Rai (PhD student) and Siladitya Padhi (PhD student), under the supervision of Dr. U. Deva Priyakumar, Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) were awarded Best Poster Award at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium 2015.
Aayush Maini
B.Tech. 2013 - 2017, CSE
Srujai Varikuti
B.Tech. 2012 - 2016, CSE
Anubhav Chaturvedi
B.Tech. (dual) 2011 - 2016, CND
Charvi Dhoot
B.Tech. (dual) 2007 - 2012, ECD
Nisarg Jhaveri
B.Tech. (dual) 2013 - 2018, CSD
Venkataramanan Subramanian
M.Tech. 2007 - 2009, CSE
SRIRAMAPRASAD SADINENI
MSIT 2013 - 2015
Vinay Singh
B.Tech. (dual) 2014 - 2019, CSD
Sukesh Adiga V
MS by Research 2017 - 2019, ECE
Samrat Pasila
B.Tech. (dual) 2010 - 2015, CSD
ROHITH BV
B.Tech. 2008 - 2012, CSE
Akhil Reddy Dereddy
B.Tech. 2012 - 2016, ECE
Khaja Syed
M.Tech. 2009 - 2011, CSE
Davidson Cherian
M.Tech. 2012 - 2014, Bio
Raviram Kolipaka
M.Tech. 2006 - 2008, CSE
Rachit Acharya
M.Tech. 2012 - 2014, VLSI & CE
Manju Karthik
M.Tech. 2013 - 2015, CASE
Abhishek Chinni
B.Tech. 2011 - 2015, CSE
Dr. MOHD WAJID
M.Tech. 2007 - 2009, VLSI & ES
Ishit Mehta
B.Tech. (dual) 2013 - 2018, CSD
Mrinal Dhar
B.Tech. (dual) 2013 - 2018, CLD
The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) offers residential facilities to all of its students who pursue any course on regular basis.The students are allotted hostel rooms equipped with all modern amenities of comfort at reasonable cost.
B.Tech.first year students are provided double seated rooms in the hostel.All other students are provided with individual rooms.Two hostels for the men and one for the ladies have a total of about 876 rooms.The ladies hostel has attached bathrooms in each of the rooms.There is an optical fibre network connecting all buildings on campus including the hostels.The institute is now moving towards wireless campus.
The institute has a comfortable Guest - house with four air conditioned suites.
The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) offers residential facilities to all of its students who pursue any course on regular basis.The students are allotted hostel rooms equipped with all modern amenities of comfort at reasonable cost.
B.Tech.first year students are provided double seated rooms in the hostel.All other students are provided with individual rooms.Two hostels for the men and one for the ladies have a total of about 876 rooms.The ladies hostel has attached bathrooms in each of the rooms.There is an optical fibre network connecting all buildings on campus including the hostels.The institute is now moving towards wireless campus.
The institute has a comfortable Guest - house with four air conditioned suites.
Aayush Maini
B.Tech. 2013 - 2017, CSE
Srujai Varikuti
B.Tech. 2012 - 2016, CSE
Anubhav Chaturvedi
B.Tech. (dual) 2011 - 2016, CND
Charvi Dhoot
B.Tech. (dual) 2007 - 2012, ECD
Nisarg Jhaveri
B.Tech. (dual) 2013 - 2018, CSD
Venkataramanan Subramanian
M.Tech. 2007 - 2009, CSE
SRIRAMAPRASAD SADINENI
MSIT 2013 - 2015
Vinay Singh
B.Tech. (dual) 2014 - 2019, CSD
Sukesh Adiga V
MS by Research 2017 - 2019, ECE
Samrat Pasila
B.Tech. (dual) 2010 - 2015, CSD
ROHITH BV
B.Tech. 2008 - 2012, CSE
Akhil Reddy Dereddy
B.Tech. 2012 - 2016, ECE
Khaja Syed
M.Tech. 2009 - 2011, CSE
Davidson Cherian
M.Tech. 2012 - 2014, Bio
Raviram Kolipaka
M.Tech. 2006 - 2008, CSE
Rachit Acharya
M.Tech. 2012 - 2014, VLSI & CE
Manju Karthik
M.Tech. 2013 - 2015, CASE
Abhishek Chinni
B.Tech. 2011 - 2015, CSE
Dr. MOHD WAJID
M.Tech. 2007 - 2009, VLSI & ES
Ishit Mehta
B.Tech. (dual) 2013 - 2018, CSD
Mrinal Dhar
B.Tech. (dual) 2013 - 2018, CLD