Our B.Tech, Dual-Degree and MS students have achieved a lot in the sphere of research, academics and other areas in the last several years.  Some of them include:

Year 2010

• IIIT-H team “Mission Gaganyaan” has been ranked FIRST at the global aerospace competition CanSat-2010, which has seen participation from premier Universities from across the world, at Amarillo, Texas, USA. IIIT-H team is the only one from India and FIRST from ASIA to win this global completion. The IIIT-H team, very ably led by Prof. KS Rajan, comprised of nine UG students from the Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE).

• Sampark, the Indian languages machine translation system developed by a IIIT-H led consortium of 11 Indian institutions and with funding from the Government of India’s Department of IT (DIT), is slated for national launch at the end of July 2010. While the system in its current edition would provide automatic text translation in 6 Indian language pairs, the next version, to be released six months later, would add eight more Indian language pairs.
  

• Siva Reddy and Abhilash Inumella, dual degree students in their 5th year from Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC), won the top two ranks at the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) organized Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) contest, in the unsupervised category, at the international contest SemEval 2010. The two students will in July this year present their award winning work at ACL 2010, Sweden. ACL is the most prestigious rated top most in NLP conferences held annually. (April 2010).

• Five of the eight technical papers from around world that were accepted at the North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2010’s Student Research Workshop were from the LTRC, IIIT-H. Overall, nine papers from LTRC were accepted at NAACL 2010’s main conference and other workshops. (April 2010)

• SETU Software Systems, a IIIT-H incubated firm, set up by Dr. Prasad Pingali and Prof. Vasudeva Varma, to help enterprise customers improve information access capabilities, was adjudged the Best Product Startup, in the Enterprise category, by the IT & ITES Association of Andhra Pradesh (ITsAP), at the 18th Annual Software Products Showcase, Awards and Conference 2009. (March 2010) Check http://www.itsap.org/events_inner.php?id_inner=156&id=19

• The Best Student Paper Award at the third India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2010, Mysore was bagged by IIIT-H's Cloud Computing Group comprising of researchers from two of the institute's research labs - Search & Information Extraction Lab (SIEL) and Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL). (Feb 2010) Check http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~sigcse/isec2010/

• IIIT-H was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for finishing thirty-sixth among 103 finalists at the 34th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Harbin, China, in Feb 2010. ACM ICPC is one of the world’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contests and the 34th edition drew for its first stage tens of thousands of participants on 7,319 teams, representing 1,931 universities, in 82 countries, on six continents. (February 2010). Check http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCFinalResults2010

• IIIT-H’s Director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal, figures among the 50 most illustrious alumni of IIT-Kanpur, one of the country’s premier institutes of technology in the 50 years  of its existence (Jan 2010).

Year 2009

• IIIT-H, in its eleventh year in 2009, figured among top 7 technology schools in the country, in Dataquest-IDC's India’s Top Engineering Colleges Survey 2009.
  

• IIIT-H has been ranked among the Best 7 Universities in South Asia, in terms of “scholarly papers” on the Internet, by Cybermetric Lab, Spain’s largest public research institution. (Oct 2009) http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=S_Asia 

• The July 27 issue of India Today, India’s leading news weekly, named IIIT-H as one of the 25 Extraordinary Individuals and Institutions that have transformed education in India. (July 2009)

• IIIT-H has been recommended by the US based National Science Foundation (NSF) as one of the premier research institutions in India for US graduate students to take up research fellowships and short-term research programs. (June 2009)

• IIIT-H team was judged Number 1 globally in the Knowledge Based Population Track that was part of US Department of Commerce agency National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2009. (Oct 2009) Check http://www.nist.gov/tac/2009/index.html

• IIIT-H team is the only team from India to qualify for CanSat 2009, which is a NASA sponsored and American Astronautical Society organized international competition that requires participants to design, build, and launch a micro-satellite, and finished eighth out of the 14 teams at the world finals. (June 2009)

   

•  IIIT-H ranked #1 at http://www.spoj.pl - a highly popular programming site with over 10, 000 users from 120 countries.
• IIIT-H has been selected by IBM for the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) award, to set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) on cell and power multi-core architecture, in order to leverage on the institute’s early research in these areas.
• Ashish Mangalampalli, PhD student has won the award under Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Programme in April 2009.  He is among ten students selected world wide and the only student selected from India.
• Mr. Sai Krishna Pendyala, Undergraduate student got selected for Google Summer of Code 2008 and successfully finished a project on Distributed XWiki Search Engine.
• Ms. Sahiti Polishetty, undergraduate student of Computer Science and Engineering received Women in Engineering Award 2009 from Google India for consistently outstanding academic performance and leadership qualities.
• Mr. Vandavalli Srinivas Rao, Ms. Shruti Jain, Mr. Shashank Agrawal, Undergraduate students got selected for Google Summer of Code 2009.
• 3 MS students in VLSI stream won first prize in the National Level Intel Scholar Programme 2008 (in Graduate category) for a research proposal on Power Reduction in Off-chip Buses for Block Data in February 2009.
• 1 MS student of VLSI stream and 2 PhD students  stood First at Cadence Design Contest 2008 out of 120 premier engineering colleges participated in the contest from all over India.