Discussing Societal Impact of AI
In December, IIIT-H hosted a one-day workshop on AI and its impact on society in developing nations. To say that the world as we know it is getting disrupted by recent advances in artificial intelligence is not untrue. Developing nations
IIIT-H Students Shine At World-Class NLP Conferenc...
As the largest academic centre of speech and language technology in South Asia, the Language Technology Research Centre at IIIT-H carries out pioneering work in the areas of natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech processing, information retrieval through four specialized
How AI is helping Crowd Control at Mega Melas
It’s a theme that has been rehashed to death by Bollywood: siblings separated at melas. While a happily-ever-after reunion happens in reel, massive, unorganized crowds, pandemonium and panic often leading to stampedes are real. Let’s look at how technology from
Tarnpreet Gill Wins Best Presentation Award At Geo...
One of the advantages of studying at premier tech institutes such as the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad lies in the immense scope it provides for interdisciplinarity. Masters student, Tarnpreet Singh Gill at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center should
The Method in Motion Films
Dr. Sushmita Banerji is the newest faculty addition at the Centre for Exact Humanities. With a Masters in Literature, and an MPhil in Literature-Film Adaptations, she went on to pursue a Phd in Film Studies. When she’s not raving about
Meet IIIT-H Student Sri Teja Allaparthi Who Thinks...
As a Masters student under Prof. Vikram Pudi, Sri Teja Allaparthi has been working on detection of misinformation in social media. But not many know that apart from developing a deep learning model that tags news articles in media based