Post-doctoral Culture at IIIT Hyderabad
Researchers from IIITH’s Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) are working in diverse areas in basic and applied research in natural sciences. We spoke to Shampa Raghunathan, research scientist at CCNSB at IIITH about her research and the
SPECs of Gold In the Dust
The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad believes in diversity and runs a special mode of admission to induct talented students from rural hinterlands. We trace the remarkable journeys of two such youngsters from its inaugural batch that will leave
Standing On The Shoulders Of Srinivasa Ramanujan
When 27-year-old Dual Degree student Sumit Kumar Jha quietly revealed the publication of not one but three single-author papers during the course of the tumultuous 2020, the research community sat up and noticed. We probed a bit to first learn
Living A Life Of Learning
Sai Prasad Gollapudi recently obtained his doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering, a process that he began in 2009. As a living example of the adage, ‘You’re never too old to learn’, the 52-year-old talks of his motivations behind going
IIITH Team Wins Prize At Smart India Hackathon 202...
Since 2017, a nationwide hackathon has enabled lakhs of students to pitch in and innovatively solve some everyday pressing problems faced by governments, industries, and NGOs with the help of technology. This year, a IIITH team of students built an
CVIT Researchers’ Submission in MOT 2020 Ranks N...
In June 2020, when two student researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) turned in their entry to the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) challenge, the submission gained them the first rank in the famously challenging problem. Here’s a