Satish Kathirisetti – From Startups to St...
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
Souvik Ghosh Joins Forbes 30 Under 30, One Innovat...
This IIIT Hyderabad Masters student has recently been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 for Cognitii, his AI-powered startup operating at the intersection of education, healthcare, and assistive technology, which has built India's first AI and human infrastructure
Alumna Lavanya Bhallamudi on the IIIT Hyderabad Ne...
Lavanya Bhallamudi, a Principal S/W Engineering Manager at Microsoft looks back at the early days of IIIT-Hyderabad, that shaped vision, infused confidence and structured purpose while keeping her easy going attitude intact. An eye for problem solving, forged in the
Hong Kong Cinema and Clues in Code – Tanay’s S...
IIIT Hyderabad’s Sudha Tanay Doddi turned heads at BAFTSS with a bold, cross-disciplinary dive into the Hong Kong handover, mining local cinema for sharp computational insights. The Handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in July 1997,
Prof. Antony Thomas – Motion Planner Behind ...
From early studies in aeronautical engineering to current work in robot motion planning at IIIT Hyderabad’s Robotics Research Center, Prof. Antony Thomas traces his research path from IIT Madras, through universities in Israel and Italy, to touch down at Hyderabad.
Adventurer Aparajitha Allamraju on PhD work in NLP...
PhD scholar Aparajitha Allamraju’s adventurous lifestyle is something most of us wished we had the guts to emulate! Backpacking to Machu Pichu and Petra, a Masters in computer science from USC, a sweet role at Apple, Cupertino and finally sampling