CVIT wins Best Paper at DAS 2018
Praveen Krishnan, Katrik Dutta and C. V. Jawahar won the Nakano best paper award for their paper Word spotting and recognition using deep embedding at DAS. This was the 13th edition of the IAPR International workshop focusing on system-level issues
New Parliament Student General Secretary & Sp...
The General Secretary and Speaker were elected internally, with nominations open from all batches. Each candidate had to answer multitude of questions from the current members of Parliament. The new General Secretary Yaswanth Naidu Singampalli secured 25 votes out of
Dr Shatrunjay Rawat
Dr Shatrunjay Rawat will be chairing the combined committee for curriculum for Polytechnic (Diploma) in Computer Science and IT. In this capacity Dr. Rawat will be visiting All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Headquarters in Delhi for meetings during the
Play Park wins at BITS Hyderabad Cultural Fest
Abhivyakti, the drama club of IIIT-H performed two plays Fasaad and Park in Natyashastram, the inter college dramatics competition (stage-play) at Pearl, BITS Hyderabad’s annual cultural festival on 25 March. Park, written by Manav Kaul, was the winner among 6
Felicity ’19 coordinators
Swarnim Shukla, Aashish Dondeti and Oishika Pradhan have been elected Felicity coordinators for Felicity 2019. This is the first time that a woman student (Oishika Pradhan) has been elected as a Felicity coordinator.
Dr Anoop Namboodiri
Anoop Namboodiri has won the Best Paper Award (Silver) for his work on Semi-Adversarial Networks: Convolutional Autoencoders for Imparting Privacy to Face Images at the 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2018), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.