OKI! It’s better than good at RCTS with Nitesh G...
What started off as a mundane Wikipedia project for Nitesh Gill, snowballed into 500 straight days of content building and global recognition at the Wikimedian of the Year 2025 awards at Nairobi in August. The Program Officer’s personal achievement within
Die Hard, Game theory and the fascinating AI drive...
Manish Jain’s Ph.D in game-theoretic research on large-scale optimization in adversarial settings was first successfully deployed in LAX and used by air marshals at TSA, resulting in a slew of awards and commendations. The former startup founder, now at Google
Silver Atoms to Silver Linings: Nanoscopic adventu...
Prof. Tapan Sau’s specialization in experimental chemistry and nanotechnology, made him ideally suited to set up a research-cum-teaching Science Lab at IIIT Hyderabad’s Science Center in its initial days. A PhD from IIT Kharagpur with two post-doctoral fellowships in US
Secrets of Dance and Science at IIIT Hyderabad and...
Jayachandran Surendran’s life is the perfect instance of an engineer-dancer who did not let stereotypes limit him. The doctoral researcher talks about legendary dance gurus and phenomenal leaps of faith that shaped his life work in south Indian dance theory,
Understanding Pawan Kumar’s Optimization World
IIIT Hyderabad’s professor Dr. Pawan Kumar, heads the OPTImization and MAchine Learning (OPTIMAL) Research group at CSTAR (Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research) Lab. His key research focus is on numerical algorithms with applications in machine learning. We learn
Heart of a Doctor in Brain of a Coder — How Dr. ...
In a rare honor, Indian-born data scientist Dr. Naveena Yanamala earned the highest excellence award from a top-seeded US medical school for unconventional innovation in cardiology! Here’s the astonishing story of the go-getter from Kadapa, whose stint in IIIT Hyderabad