IIIT Hyderabad
Achievements
Completing Spring 2020 Semester Entirely Online in...
The corona virus shocked and seriously disturbed everyone including the educational institutions. The autonomous, undergraduate-dominated, national, and primarily-residential institutions – including IITs, IIITs, NITs, etc. – had to necessarily close down the hostels and send their students home to all parts of the country. Fortunately, most including IIIT Hyderabad could send the students back safely in the middle of March when the alarm of transmission was low enough. It was quite clear to us that the students weren’t coming back for at least two months. Nearly all regions of the country need to be safe, and travel has to be […]
Faculty Achievements
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das listed in top H-Index by Guide...
– Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has been listed in the top H-Index for Computer Science and Electronics database maintained by Guide2Research (http://www.guide2research.com/). The Guide2Research website lists only scientists having H-Index >= 40 and indexed DBLP papers >=40 within the area of Computer Science and Electronics. Google H-index: 40 Number of google citations: 5,545 Guide2Research World ranking: 4651 Guide2Research National ranking (India): 34 Number of articles on DBLP: 190 List of top H-Index for scientists in India: http://www.guide2research.com/scientists/IN – Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is serving as one of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair(s) in the 2nd International Congress on […]
Dr. Shatrunjay Rawat appointed member of online ...
Dr. Shatrunjay Rawat has been appointed as a member of the online courses committee. NIT Warangal proposes to offer all courses through online mode during the Coronavirus pandemic. They are looking at several alternatives like developing their own platform, adopting open source platforms like Moocs / commercial platforms like TCSion or any such platforms. The committee will discuss requirements and specifications of a good platform for offering courses online.
Dr. Vikram Pudi’s Covid19 viral simulator fe...
ACM-SIGMOD blog (http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=3100) has published details on the COVID19 viral simulator developed by Dr. Vikram Pudi. Dr. Vikram Pudi explains: It might seem obvious that reducing social movement will reduce the spread of infection. However, it is not obvious how much it will reduce. Will it be enough to stop the virus? Will it only slow it down? How long do we expect the virus to last in regions with differing population densities? While there is a definite space for recent advances in AI and deep learning in tackling the current COVID-19 pandemic, such as in drug discovery, medical imaging and […]