Architect of Belonging: Sarat Chandra Chemudugunta...
Sarat Chandra Chemudugunta, co-founder of a niche nutraceutical company reveals an overarching desire to see IIIT-Hyderabad’s Alumni Association go live. Deconstructing the man behind the mission. If you enjoy those unlimited rotis at your IIIT-H Mess, you can thank Sarat
How IIIT-H alum Pramod Nair is reshaping India’s...
IIIT-H Alumni Achiever Award winner 2026 and Start-up founder Pramod Nair walks us through an adrenaline-packed career that includes four successful startups in EdTech, ecommerce, mobile, fintech and logistics with multiple exits across bootstrapped, seed-funded, accelerator-backed, and venture-funded companies, and
IIIT-H Alumnus Prof. Aquil Mirza Alchemizes Global...
Dr. Mohammed Aquil Mirza’s 2026 Teaching Excellence Award in Hong Kong is the latest in a string of global honours for the young Dean & Professor at Liaoning Technical University and Senior Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His
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
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