IIITH Prof’s Proposal of Contactless Sleep Monit...
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
Teaching Machines to Adapt: Inside a Drone Lab Whe...
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
Urbanization Alchemist Dr. Khaliq Parkar on Social...
Urbanization expert Dr. Khaliq Parkar, Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad’s Human Sciences Research Centre, makes a strong case for Urban Studies, offering the social perspective to help shape digitalization practices in governance, policies of digitization in Smart Cities including the
From Unorganized Traffic to Global Security: Two D...
The journey through academia is rarely a straight line; it is more like the "unorganized traffic" of a busy Indian junction - complex, mixed, and constantly evolving. For Prof. Praveen Paruchuri, the path over the last two decades has wound
IIIT Hyderabad’s ambitious Code for Good Tech ha...
Code for Good Tech (C4GT) has found the sweet spot linking India's vast talent pool of student developers and early-career professionals, with organizations building the next generation of Digital Public Goods (DPGs) and Tech-for-Good solutions. Think of that switchboard operator
IIIT-H Students Take Home Top Prize In ISEC Data S...
At the recently concluded Student Data Science Challenge (SDC) competition that was held on the sidelines of the Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2026 - organized under the ACM India umbrella - IIIT-H team Megalodon walked away with the