Garima Jindal’s Doctoral Odyssey makes a grippin...
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
Semiconductor leader and IIIT-H alumnus Bhaskar Ka...
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
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,