A Covid War Room Story
A IIITH alumni rapid response team saves 1,000 lives in a month, at the peak of the pandemic. The passionate volunteer group is connecting critical Covid patients to vital medical services and financial aid, helping India fight back the 2nd
Post-doctoral Culture at IIIT Hyderabad
Researchers from IIITH’s Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) are working in diverse areas in basic and applied research in natural sciences. We spoke to Shampa Raghunathan, research scientist at CCNSB at IIITH about her research and the
Prof Ashwin Jayanti: Unusual Tale of the Philosoph...
It was during IIITH’s college fest that a guitar-toting existential professor suddenly shot up on to the campus radar. Prof. Ashwin Jayanti teaches a specially curated course called the Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology, that is pushing the realms
Lyrics to fine-tune Music emotion recognition
A sweet lyrical revolution is playing out at IIITH labs. The Cognitive Science laboratory worked on a Natural Language Processing-based Transformer model to identify emotions from the lyrics of a song, a hitherto underexplored area of study. We met with
Prof Anil Kumar Vuppala: A Figure of Speech
IIITH’s Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) has been exploring exciting possibilities in the emergent multi-lingual speech recognition domain. We caught up with Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala, a central figure in speech technology to hear it. “I am a recognition guy”,
Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula – The Robotici...
It was definitely a SLAM dunk for IIITH alumnus Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, the young Robotics Engineer from Kakinada, who was recently awarded the prestigious NVIDIA fellowship for 2020-21. Currently, on the final stretch to completing his PhD at Mila, Université