Author: Deepa Shailendra

From Panini’s ancient grammar to the frontiers of AI, language continues to inspire discovery. At IIIT Hyderabad, that legacy lives on through its mentoring of India’s Panini Linguistics Olympiad team, which has returned from Romania with Gold and multiple honours

What began, twenty years ago, as India’s first summer school to train future AI and language technologists, continues to excel as India’s top flagship introductory course in LLMs. IIIT Hyderabad’s LTRC-incubated IASNLP 2026 presented a fresh direction for the next generation of computational linguists and AI researchers.   Dhwani, help me build a Dungeons and

IIIT-H alumna Dr. Garima Jindal’s off-the-beaten track PhD journey is a lovely lesson in faith and perseverance. She walks us through an unusual nine-year long PhD saga, that involved marriage and maternity break, eureka moments, a novel idea and a

Bhaskar Kakani’s “Lagaan”-inspired life story has all the highs and lows of his favourite Bollywood cricket movie. As a co-founder and CEO of one of India’s leading chip design services companies, he gives us the backstory on BITSILICA’s success and

IIIT Hyderabad’s Satish Kathirisetti is not your run of the mill PhD candidate. The itinerant mechanical engineer walks us through his remarkable three-decade career that founded three profitable MedTech start-ups, a successful telecom IPO and cutting edge mentorship at IIIT-H’s