In an Imperfect Cloud, Who Controls Your Digits an...

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When crusader for free software, Sunil Adapa gets on his soapbox and talks about FreedomBox in a murky cloud where our private data is bartered for a few crumbs of free-of-cost proprietary services, whether for entertainment or convenience, you see

From The Big Bang Theory to the Hogwarts of Comput...

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Makarand Tapaswi is a story-teller. A youthful confluence of industry and academia, he brings the best of industry practice as Senior ML Scientist at Wadhwani AI to his role as Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad’s CVIT, working on AI projects

From English Literature to Computational Linguisti...

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“Alexa, how do I say, ‘Thank God it’s Friday’ in Tamil?” Computational Linguist Prof. Parameswari Krishnamurthy’s research at the IIITH-Language Technology Research Centre is developing a Tamil-Telugu machine translation app and is using Natural Language Processing and areas of linguistic

How Running Marathons and Atomic Habits Fuels Suji...

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Ethical AI, fitness training and chai pe charcha with research students is Sujit Gujar’s Ikigai, that which puts a spring in his step and sparks his joy. The Associate Professor and CA Technologies Faculty Chair at IIIT Hyderabad uses Game

Unraveling complex networks in a chaotic world ...

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Dr. Chittaranjan Hens’s work on network sciences at IIIT Hyderabad bridges applied mathematics and statistical physics, to capture the emerging behavior in epileptic brain dynamics and the spreading pattern of epidemics like Covid 19. We learn more.  Dr. Chittaranjan’s life

IIITH Prof. Bhaktee Dongaonkar’s Chronicle of St...

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Prof. Bhaktee Dongaonkar’s stories are riveting. Her research looks at the effects of stress on memory and learning, Depression and Ageing. The cognitive scientist is an interesting amalgam of a psychologist with a foundation in electronics engineering. “Over the last