Category: Applied research

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,

The study presented at the prestigious CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems reveals how young Indians are navigating fitness technology by mixing apps with instinct, culture, and everyday improvisation. The fitness landscape in India has evolved over the

Accidents in high-risk industrial environments are an occupational hazard but what is disconcerting is that they often go unnoticed. A new wearable safety system developed by IIITH’s Centre for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology aims to change that. In sprawling

The selective national research fellowship is backing the development of a low-cost smart mattress by Prof Aftab Hussain that can detect falls, track sleep, and improve elderly care - offering a privacy-first alternative to cameras and wearables.  The sunset years

From flood relief to farming and the frontlines, Prof. Spandan Roy is rethinking how machines learn to act in the real world. “Even if you don’t know the system… can you still control it?” It’s not the kind of question