IIIT Hyderabad
When Your Campus Is A Rakshak
Even as engineering colleges across the country await a governmental nod for resuming normalcy in academic sessions, IIITH is quietly rolling out a slew of measures as part of a pilot project that will help other technical institutes reopen their campuses with a Covid-19 readiness plan in hand. “It is important to realise that this is the new normal. From what we’ve been hearing internationally with regards to various variants of the virus cropping up all over the world, the worst case scenario is that it will continue for another 1 or 2 years. So we have to learn how […]
Student Achievements
February 26, 2021
Shashwat Shrivastava accepted to EPFL
Shashwat Shrivastava, (ECD-Dual Degree) working under the supervision of Prof. Suresh Purini has been accepted for the Ph.D programme in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in natural sciences and engineering.
February 26, 2021
Shashwat Khandelwal accepted to Trinity College
Shashwat Khandelwal, (ECD-Dual Degree) working under the supervision of Prof. Suresh Purini has been accepted for a Ph.D programme in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) at Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity College (Irish: Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland.
February 26, 2021
Shravya Kanchi accepted to Virginia Tech
Shravya Kanchi, (MS) working under Prof. Kamal Karlapalem has been accepted for a Ph.D programme in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at University Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech and by the initials VT and VPI, is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
New Appointments
February 12, 2021
Dr. Nagamanikandan Govindan
Dr. Nagamanikandan Govindan has joined the Robotics Research Center ( RRC) as Assistant Professor. He obtained his Ph.D from IIT Madras. His research areas include robotics and control, mechanism design (multimodal grasper and robot design), mobile manipulation, variable stiffness mechanism. Homepage: https://nagamanigi.wixsite.com/home
Ph.D Thesis
Rahul Tallamraju – CSE
Rahul Tallamraju received his doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering. His research work was supervised by Prof. Kamal Karlapalem. Here’s a summary of Rahul Tallamraju’s thesis, Motion Planning for Cooperative Multi-Robot Target Following Systems as explained by him: Motion planning deals with the computation of a sequence of robot states and control actions to navigate between a start and a goal robot state. As part of this planning, a robot must detect environmental objects, monitor their changes, reason about them, and finally compute kinodynamically feasible real time trajectories for task-specific navigation. The work in this thesis is motivated by real-time […]
Santosh K – CSE
Santosh K received his doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering. His research work was supervised by Dr. Suryakanth V G. Here’s a summary of Santosh’s thesis, Generative models for learning document representations along with their uncertainties as explained by him: Majority of speech and natural language processing applications rely on word and document representations (or embeddings). The document embeddings encode semantic information which makes them suitable for tasks such as topic identification (document classification), topic discovery (document clustering), language model adaptation, and query-based document retrieval. These embeddings are usually learned from widely available un-labelled data; hence generative or probabilistic topic […]