Centers
Research Centers and Labs below are listed area-wise and grouped based on their research focus on technology domains. At times, technology centers foray into domains, and domain centers into technology. Development centers use in innovative ways or in unusual domains.
Technology
Communications (CRC)
Communications (CRC)
CRC was set up in 2003 with the goal of undertaking fundamental research in Signal Processing and Communication Engineering. The Center is well supported in infrastructure and research resources through the Institute as well as through various sponsoring agencies and some industries.
The current areas of research
Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing, Wavelets and Multirate Signal Processing, Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing, Signal Processing for Communications, Sensor-Array Signal Processing, Speech and Image Processing, Bio-Medical Signal Processing, Communication Theory, Modulation and Coding, MIMO Communication System, Wideband Communications, Communication Networks, Neural Network and Cybernetics, Optical Communication, RF Integrated Circuits (RFIC), Integrated Photonics, Design, Simulation and Fabrication of Integrated Components for Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks
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Data Engineering (CDE)
Data Engineering (CDE)
CDE conducts research, facilitates technology transfer, and builds systems in the broad area of data engineering.
Some focused research areas
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Database systems - Query Optimization, Transaction Processing, and Performance Modeling and Simulation
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Data Mining and Data Warehousing & Text and Web Mining
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Data Dissemination and Personalization
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Electronic Contracts and Workfow Management Systems
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Multi Agent Systems and Complex Systems Simulation
Current Projects
- Web-based Agriculture Dissemination Systems - MCIT
- Nurture Business Intelligence Area - Infosys
- Data/Information Capture, Dissemination, and Discovery Solution to Farmers in Remote Areas- Nokia
- Frequent-itemset-based classifcation - DST
The centre inculcates pleasure of doing research by involving students in activities such as: RoboCup Competitions, Data Mining Challenges, Deploying State of the Art Systems, Enhancing Open-Source Database Systems and Agriculture Games
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Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC)
Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC)
The LTRC addresses the complex problem of understanding and processing natural languages in both speech and text modes.
- LTRC conducts research on both basic and applied aspects of language technology.
- It is the largest academic centre of speech and language technology in India.
- LTRC carries out its work through four labs, which work in synergy with each other.
LTRC is also a lead participant in nation-wide mission-mode consortia projects to develop deployable technology in the areas of Indian Language Machine Translation, English to Indian Language Machine Translation, and Cross Language Information Access (search engines).
NLP-MT Lab
The NLP-MT lab does fundamental work on developing grammatical as well statistical models of language. Linguistic approaches are combined with machine learning leading to new theories and technology development. This has resulted in higher accuracy parts-of-speech taggers, chunkers, constraint-based parsers as well as broad coverage statistical parsers, and semantic analyzers for Indian languages on the one hand, and annotated data including dependency tree banks, discourse
banks, parallel corpora, etc. on the other.
Anusaaraka Lab
Anusaaraka lab is concerned with development of machine translation systems which in addition to the usual machine translation output also allows a user to understand the source language text in a pseudo target language. For example, a reader who knows Hindi (the target language) would be able to read the English source text, in a pseudo Hindi output after a small amount of training.
Search and Information Extraction Lab (SIEL)
The Lab focuses on solving research problems in the areas of Information Retrieval and Extraction
using NLP techniques.
SIEL is engaged in building technologies for personalized, customizable and highly relevant
information retrieval (IR), Information Extraction (IE) and Information Access (IA) systems. Current research includes summarization, cross language information access systems and building vertical search engines. Information Retrieval and Access in Indian languages is one of the major goals of the lab.
Speech lab
The long term goal of the speech group is to develop robust speech systems for applications such as speech translation, phonetic engine for Indian languages, speaker recognition for biometrics, and dialog systems in speech mode.
The research focus of the group is to address issues involved in processing speech for phonetic engine, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, speech enhancement, speech coding, information retrieval in speech mode, and multimodal biometrics. The group is also engaged in developing speech systems for Indian languages with emphasis on language modeling, prosody modeling and pronunciation modeling.
Achievements
LTRC has developed a natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) system for Indian Languages (Telugu & Hindi). The above engine has been integrated into a Reading Software for the Visually Impaired, and released by President of India in March 2003.
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Adjunct
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Robotics (RRC)
Robotics (RRC)
At RRC our focus has been on building robotic systems, making them autonomous through intelligent algorithms and having them perform complex tasks.
Autonomous navigation, rough terrain navigation and systems development have been some of the research themes.
Some of the robots built in house include the SPAWN, Microbot, Johnny-5-like walker and a 3-degrees-of-freedom snake.
The center also conducts robocamp every year where engineering students from across the country create and buiid innovative robots.
Researchers in our center have made original contributions in the areas of fast and active localization for single and multi robotic systems, tracking multiple people
and cooperative 3D terrain coverage.
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Security, Theory and Algorithms(C-STAR)
Security, Theory and Algorithms(C-STAR)
The goal of the centre is to do research in information security,theory and algorithms.It also participates in teaching in various programmes of the institute by offering various mandatory and elective courses in the areas of theoretical computer science and information security.
The centre runs its own M.Tech in CSIS(Computer Sicence & Information Security) with support from MCIT(Ministry of Communications & Information Technology) offers various programmes of the institute such as PhD / MS / Dual degree etc. with a specialization either in Theoretical computer Science or in Information Security.
Vision
The center aspires to be
- A resource center for conceptualizing through fundamental insights
- A knowledge center for effectively imparting the state-of-the-art in Theoretical computer Science and in Information Security
- An accessible medium for disseminating and sharing expertise towards scientifc and societal impact
Some Current Projects:
- Crypto Toolkit, Security in VoIP, Secure log fles, Acyclic Edge Coloring of Complete Graphs, Distributed Graph Coloring Algorithms, Geometric Algorithms and Data, Structures for Large Scale VLSI Layouts
Achievements
- Consultation provided to Govt. of A.P. in Social Security Identifcation Number (SSID) generation and in deploying security tools for AP State Wide Area Network (APSWAN) and AP Secretariat Campus Area Network (APSCAN)
- Designed crypto-systems for Central Research Lab of Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore (CRL/ BEL)
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Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL)
Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL)
Vision
To lead the software engineering research in India by addressing India-specifc issues in an industry-driven environment.
Objectives
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Focus on Software Engineering Research
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Research in Software Engineering issues in the context of Indian software industry
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Operate closely with the industry by establishing touch points
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To be a centre of excellence driven by the industry for the industry
Current research areas
- Innovative, non-conventional approaches to software engineering education, for academic and industry environments
- Software Architectures and Re-use
- Service Oriented Architecture and Software as a Service
- Cloud Computing
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Adjunct Faculty
Lecturer
Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
Visual Information Technology (CVIT)
CVIT focusses on basic and advanced research in image processing, computer vision and computer graphics.
Activities
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Document image processing especially searching in digitized books in Indian languages
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Biomedical and retinal image processing to aid doctors in diagnosis
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Biometrics based on palm prints, handwriting, and hand geometry
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Content-based annotation and search of large collections of images and videos
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Combining statistical and machine learning techniques with geometry of imaging for tracking, navigation, and new view synthesis
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Real-time rendering and streaming of large geometry including terrains
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Developing general purpose applications on the graphics processor units (GPUs) including graph algorithms, computer vision, and pattern recogntion.
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Center for VLSI and Embeded Systems Technology(CVEST)
Center for VLSI and Embeded Systems Technology(CVEST)
The Centre pursues research in areas of VLSI, Microelectronics and Embedded Systems. Our activities are focused on conceiving device architecture and exploring circuit confgurations techniques for embedded systems. We collaborate with industry to keep some of our research focus on real-world problems.
Some current research areas
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Low Power VLSI Design
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Design for Testability
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Self healing circuits
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Analog and mixed signal design
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Test and Verifcation of long scale VLSI designs
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Multicore (Processor) architecture for Embedded Systems
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ME, MS and MEM TRONICS
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Functional approach to micro electronics
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Compilers Laboratory (CL)
Various public domain compilers are installed and implemented to study the structure of the compilers, particularly the modules in the back-end of the compilers.
An Intel-funded laboratory on campus supports curricular and developmental work in multi-core processors and parallel programming.
Microsoft Funded Projects
- Major Milestones
- Rotor Based Curriculum Development project: MSIL has been studied. Front-ends for subsets of PASCAL and ‘C’ have been developed producing MSIL as IR.
- Phoenix compiler framework: Plug-ins and applications have been developed for the Phoenix platform. Many scalar optimization techniques have been implemented as.
- IR transformations have been studied for Trimaran, SUIF and MacSUIF.
- Current Projects
- Autotuner for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms on Windows CCS
- Extending the Phoenix Compiler to Schedule Code for Multicore Systems
- Automatic Conversion of OpenMP to MPI
- Efficient file management and Server Monitoring in Open AFS
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R Govindarajulu
Domains
Agriculture and Rural Development(ARD)
Agriculture and Rural Development(ARD)
The center is carrying out teaching, research and development with aim to build ICT-based systems and methodologies to accelerate Indian agriculture and rural development.
The faculty is involved in imparting knowledge regarding sustainable agricultural production systems and environmental issues so that students can carry out research in the area of societal development by extending developments in ICTs.
Since 2004, effort is going on, in collaboration with Media Lab Asia, to build an IT-based personalized and scalable agro-advisory system called e-Sagu with an aim to improve
farm productivity, proftability and sustainability by delivering quality personalized (farm-specifc) agro-expert advice in a timely manner to each farm at the farmer’s door-steps. So far, we have developed e-Sagu and operationalized it in 300 villages covering six districts for 50 agriculture crops besides fish and prawn.
Major Achievements
- CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Project Award 2005-06 (overall winner)
- Manthan Award 2007- India’s best e-Content Development
- Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008
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Centre for IT in Building Science (CBS)
Centre for IT in Building Science (CBS)
The center focuses on developing, applying and improving various IT tools for visualization; thermal, light and acoustic modeling; building.
The thrust areas include:
- energy efficient buildings,
- green buildings and computer-aided integrated building design.
The centre aims at developing and spreading the use of IT for the betterment of buildings in terms of product, processes and performances.
Research Areas
- Energy and comfort management
- Multimedia interfaces
- 3D visualization
- Augmented visualization
- Intelligent buildings
- Collaborative work and team competence
- Virtual buildings
- Knowledge management.
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Cognitive Science (CogSci)
Cognitive Science (CogSci)
Cognitive Science is the study of how we perceive, act in, reason about and form beliefs about our environment.
It is an interdisciplinary research area that involves philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology and artifcial intelligence.
Current Research Areas
- Web usability
- Cognitive modeling of aesthetics and its applications to layout and interface design
- Understanding and modeling pictorial and visual metaphors
- Modeling creativity and developing creativity assistance tools
- Developing cognition and communicative assistive tools for children with learning diffculties like dyslexia and autism
- Human-vehicle interaction
- Cognition and animations
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Computational Linguistics (CL)
Comuptational linguistics Lab is a part of Language Technology Research Center.Please visit Center's Homepage for more details.
Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB)
Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB)
Ever increasing computational power and recent advances in computer science, in felds of distributed computing, networking, and database management, have inspired the center to explore the application of these newer technologies and methods to understand the functioning of complex physical, chemical and biological systems.
Apart from projects dealing with development of algorithms and specalized databases, the center is
currently pursuing several computationally intensive projects.
Structural Bioinformatics
- DNA and RNA Architectures
- Nucleic acid - Protein complexes
- Molecular dynamics, Molecular docking and Molecular recognition in proteins and RNA using QM and MM
Bioinformatics
- Pattern recognition in biological sequences, viz., identifying repeats, GIs, etc., Comparative Genomics, Data Mining
- Developing specialized databases and tools
Molecular Structure and Dynamics
- Optical control of molecular dynamics – Noise enhanced responses
- Interaction energies and excitation energy transfer in nano-bio systems
- Ab initio QM calculations – Noncovalent interactions – Thermodynamic energies and properties
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Earthquake Engineering (EERC)
Earthquake Engineering (EERC)
We have witnessed several earthquakes in the last two decades causing enormous damage to life
and property. One main reason for casualities is collapse of buildings. The EERC at IIIT-H was established to address these issues.
Vision
To become a centre of excellence in research on Earthquake Engineering and related areas. We aim to give solutions for disaster management in general and for construction of safe building infrastructure in particular.
Major Areas of Focus
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Seismotectonic modeling of Indian plate
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Fault motion analysis & wave propogation
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Nonlinear analysis of structures
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Seismic evaluation of heritage structures
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Sustainable construction technologies
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Earthquake awareness and preparedness
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Post earthquake studies
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Education (CITE)
Education (CITE)
The center aim to accomplish this goal by creating IT-based tools for formal education and informal learning.
Focus Areas
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Creating tools for science and mathematics education
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Developing tools for special education
Vision
We aim to accomplish this goal by creating IT-based tools for formal education and informal learning.
Current Projects
- Virtual 3D Physics Lab
- 3D Version of Virtual Physics Lab
- Text Visualization Tool
- Understand text input and render animations
- Assist Physics teachers in content development
- Special Education
- Studying and modeling the cognitive processes of children with dyslexia, autism and language disorders
- Developing tools to aid their education and learning
- Develop assistive communication systems for children with communication impairments
- Ethnomathematics
- Developing tools to teach mathematics by using concepts and structures embodied in one’s own culture
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Exact Humanities (CEH)
Exact Humanities (CEH)
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The Center is primarily devoted to fundamental research in Humanities, and aims to conduct de-novo research in understanding human elements and human society.
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Such research would engage in inter-disciplinary inquiry spanning varied domains of human knowledge and imagination
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Looking beyond contemporary boundaries of knowledge, we seek to draw insights from the Indian analytical traditions as well as from modern theoretical activities.
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Further, our research environment is in close proximity with research research activities in computer science and ICT
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Construction, Evaluations and Critique of Fundamental Theories in Humanities.
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Advanced Study of Indian Analytical Traditions.
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Exploration on Values, Dispositions and Creativity.
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Develop Cultural Informatics and Civilisational Studies.
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Lecturer
Centre for Education Technology and Learning Science (CETLS)
Centre for Education Technology and Learning Science (CETLS)
Centre for Education Technology and Learning Science (CETLS) is a research centre at IIIT-H. The centre is actively involved in the research and development of Learning by Doing education methodology, content and faculty training programs for the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, 21st Century Gurukulam and MSIT programme.
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M Venkateswarlu(Head),Sandhya Kode(Chief Mentor)
Power Systems (PSRC)
Power Systems (PSRC)
PSRC was setup in IIIT-H, with the aim of undertaking research in the areas of IT applications to Power and Energy systems. Our vision at PSRC is to become center of excellence in research in Power and Energy systems with particular focus on IT Applications.
Major Projects
- Power Systems Load Forecastinng
- Tariff Watch: A Tool for Tariff Comparison for Power Utilities
- Dynamic State Estimation for Power Systems
- Thermal Modeling of Power Transformers
- Monitoring of Distribution Transformer (DT) using cellular communication technology
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Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI)
Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI)
At LSI, research is carried out mainly in three broad areas:
- Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) algorithms and system development including computational geometry, computer graphics
- Application of GIS techniques and RS data in a wide range of areas like agriculture, forestry, urban studies, etc
- Integrated simulation and modeling related to global environmental change.
The postgraduate and undergraduate students of this lab are working on a diverse set of issues and problems, of which some are - urbanization modeling of Hyderabad, a web-GIS platform for the environmental data (national level), spatio-temporal data structures, auto-detection of roads from high resolution satellite imagery, land cover/use change modeling, geo-visualization of natural phenomena.
The lab is unique in providing a right platform for both computer science students and students from other domain areas to interact and work on problems that need an interdisciplinary approach.
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Development Centers
Engineering Technology and Innovation Centre (ENTICE)
Engineering Technology and Innovation Centre (ENTICE)
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Established in December 2006, the center provides a place where inventors of all kinds — including those from rural areas — can bring their ideas and prototypes, work them to perfection, and make them available to the masses. We also envision channeling young students’ energy and enthusiasm towards innovation, and motivating them to come up with creative products and engineering solutions to problems related to energy savings and eco-friendly technology development.
The Center is open to receiving proposals from institutions, and also by individuals, who would like to develop technology for mass benefit.
The Center also provides advice on patenting and commercialization, as well as helping in establishing contacts with industry and communities to promote technology transfer.
Ongoing projects
- Energy-efficient laundry with water recycling system that can work with electricity or solar energy. High-speed handloom that can be operated by solar power or by human power through bicycle paddle.
- Wet and dry grinders.
- Room air-coolers based on water percolating technology
Future Projects
- Solar energy-based farming machines
- Personal transport vehicles
- Tree/Pole climbing robot
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Inventor
Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE)
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The center encourages creative, strategic and transformational thinking, with stress on ideas that are niche unique & differentiable and also on products that have direct social and industrial impact.
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Identify innovation & technology intervention opportunities
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Market impact & sustainability.
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Emerging technologies and local penetration.
The mandate
- Introducing Product development process
- Incubation space & support
- Transfer of technology from research labs
- Legal counseling
- Networking with industry
- Linking up young entrepreneurs with mentors
- Help with applying for funds from various government & semi-government agencies like DIT, DST & DSIR schemes.
Incubated companies
SETU Software Systems Pvt Ltd, is a start-up company working in the area of information access technologies for world's local languages. 'Setooz' pronounced as 'Say-th-uuz' is a local language search engine developed by SETU. Currently it can search web pages written in Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Greek, Estonian, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Farsi, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Serbian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Urdu. It is designed to automatically learn the nuances of a language based on the way users search on the website. The search engine can then use such learnings to perform a wide variety of tasks, such as recognizing a language text to understand the morphology of the language. This can improve the quality of search results in a local language.
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Open Software (COS)
Open Software (COS)
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The open-software development model (using collaborative versioning and issue tracking software) has resulted in high quality software all over the world.
- This model can be used profitably within the institute for all kinds of projects ranging from research
projects to large programming assignments.
Moreover, each research centre in the institute produces software both as final deliverables and also for its internal use in order to support its research.
- If packaged properly as open software these can be used by end-users and other research labs all over the world.
The centre motivates and supports students for contests such as the Google Summer of Code and ACM ICPC. It organizes seminars and workshops in association with the TWINCLING Society, Hyderabad to promote awareness in open software.
Current projects
AlgoCup, OSSIM, GPS Map
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Societal and Human Applications of Artifcial Intelligence (SAHAAI)
Societal and Human Applications of Artifcial Intelligence (SAHAAI)
This centre was created in January 2007 with the goal of promoting research for an innovative use of Artifcial Intelligence in the service of the society.
The centre is open to collaboration with other Indian and international research institutes, and plans to have an international visiting scholars program in addition to its permanent faculty, researchers, and
students.
Current Projects (In collaboration with cITe & CogSci)
- Studying and modeling the cognitive processes of children with dyslexia, autism and language disorders, and developing tools to aid their education and learning
- Developing assistive communication systems for children with communication impairments.
- Developing robotic systems for search-and-rescue applications.
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