Congratulations to Prof. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair on her appointment as a Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). She is currently serving as an Associate Associate Editor and will begin her 2-year term as Senior Associate Editor in January 2025. This invitation recognizes her dedicated service as Associate Editor for the past 4 years.
IIIT-Bangalore has been ranked 5th in India in the DataQuest Top 100 T-Schools Employability Index Survey 2024. This achievement highlights the collective efforts of our dedicated faculty, staff, placement cell, and all stakeholders. It is also a moment of pride to note that IIIT-B has secured 2nd place in the South Zone.
Congratulations to Vision Empower for its remarkable recognition at the 11th India CSR Summit with the Doing Good for Bharat Awards 2024 in New Delhi! Vision Empower, founded by our distinguished alumni Supriya Day and Vidhya Y, is making a significant impact on education and opportunities for the visually impaired. The initiative, incubated at our Innovation Centre, continues to inspire with its mission of inclusive empowerment.
This prestigious award was presented in the presence of Shri Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka.
World Mental Health Day was observed on October 10, 2024. On this day, the Union Health Ministry celebrated the success of the National Tele Mental Health Programme, Tele MANAS, which has completed two years and handled over 1.45 million calls. The Tele MANAS toll-free helpline, available at 14416 or 1-800-891-4416, offers multilingual support in 20 languages and has been instrumental in connecting individuals with mental health professionals.
At the commemoration event in New Delhi, Smt. Aradhana Patnaik, Additional Secretary of MoHFW and Managing Director of the National Health Mission (NHM, launched the Tele MANAS mobile app and video call facility.
IIIT-Bangalore is proud of its role in developing the Tele MANAS mobile app, which offers free and confidential 24/7 mental health support across India. Developed in-house with guidance from the Tele MANAS Apex Centre at NIMHANS, the app is available on the Google Play Store, with an iOS version coming soon. It includes features such as 24/7 support, an extensive knowledge base, and a user-friendly interface.
Video consultations represent a significant upgrade to the existing audio service, allowing mental health professionals to provide a more personalized experience. This service will initially launch in Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir, and Tamil Nadu, with plans for nationwide expansion.
Congratulations
The Indian patent granted for the recent invention titled “A SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGNS”
Patentee: International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore and Mayank Kabra (Alumnus)
Inventors:
Mayank Kabra (Alumnus)
Asmita Zjigyasu (i-MTech)
Saketh Gajawada (i-MTech)
Yathin Kumar (i-MTech)
Prof. Madhav Rao (HoD, ECE, IIIT-Bangalore)
Other Contributors:
Siddharth Kothari (i-MTech)
Sankalp Kothari (i-MTech)
Badam Sumanth (i-MTech)
Students from IIIT-B developed a tool to generate extremely compact and optimized pipelined micro-processors that support RISC-V ISA. These processors have been specifically designed to leverage RISCV’s customization features and open source compiler modification to deliver exceptionally small silicon area, low power and minimal code-footprint, thereby equipping developers with a 32-bit processor with a c-compiler. These processors are suitable for a wide range of constrained and deeply embedded applications such as mixed-signal embedded processing (e.g. signal processing, sensor-based applications), wireless communications ICs (e.g. Bluetooth, Zigbee, or GPS), and industrial microcontrollers. They can also be effectively deployed as a secondary controller processor in much larger and complex SoC designs (like subsystem for controllers).
Congratulations to Impulse, who bagged the 1st runners up title in Fusion 2k24 organised on October 26, 2024, by the Department of Management Studies at T. John College. In a contest full of excitement, where over 10 teams participated, Impulse enthralled the audience with their enthusiasm and amazing skill. The astounding creativity was brought in by Swaroop Kishen as the choreographer and the team did an impressive job.
Each of them brought forth their own zeal and hard work into the performance: Ullas G, Shiven Phogat, Akshaya Bysani, Nupur Patil, Harshita Bansal, Talla Likitha Reddy, Arismita Mukherjee, Parv Sharma, Mathew Joseph, Ayush Tiwari, Akshat Batra, Rishik Patha, Mopuri Abhiram and Kasam Likith. The elevated level of effort, choreography, and performance was apparent within the members and this pleased and amazed the judges and the audience.
Congratulations to Prof. Preeti Mudliar on receiving a $20,000 unrestricted gift from Google Research as part of its Artists and Machine Intelligence program!
Her proposal, titled “Machine Words, Synthetic Art: Practices and Tensions with AI Visual Art in India,” aims to explore the creative and ethical conversations around AI tools in visual art, assess the awareness and anxieties toward AI art in traditional artisan communities, and document public perceptions of AI-generated visual art. This research will also play a key role in shaping curriculum and course building around AI and the Arts.
Wishing her the best for a successful study with impactful outcomes. We can’t wait to see the amazing work that will come out of this!
The book DevOps, written by Prof. B. Thangaraju, IIIT-Bangalore, was officially released on October 23-24, 2024 by Prof. Debabrata Das, Director of IIIT-Bangalore, at the Open Source India Conference held at the NIMHANS Convention Center.
Congratulations to our PGP-DPDM students SREEJITH N, Vatsal, ROHAN CARLO, and Aditi R K for winning an Ideathon on the theme ‘Inclusive Campus for All.’ This event was organized by ASAP (Additional Skill Acquisition Program), an initiative of the Kerala government aimed at enhancing youth employability through skill development programs.
Campus for All – Building Inclusive Solutions: The team proposed a plan to improve the inclusivity and accessibility of the college campus for students with disabilities, ensuring equal opportunities for their academic success, social engagement, and independent living. The initiative aims to create practical, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions tailored to the diverse needs of differently-abled students. The team’s approach addresses three key dimensions: enhancing campus mobility for differently-abled individuals, integrating assistive technologies into classroom settings, and implementing awareness programs across the campus to foster understanding and support.
The India Mobile Congress (IMC), a premier event organized by the Department of Telecommunications and COAI, showcased advanced communication technologies from the IIIT-B COMET Foundation. Held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, from October 15-18, 2024, the IMC provided a platform for industry leaders, innovators, and researchers to explore the latest trends and advancements in the telecom sector.
The IIIT-B COMET Foundation was invited to set up a stall under the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Pavilion, where it proudly exhibited groundbreaking innovations in O-RAN base stations, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), and Private 5G networks.
Two startups supported by the IIIT-B COMET Foundation, Provaya Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Cablesmith, participated in the 5G/6G hackathon organized by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), winning First and Second prizes, respectively. Provaya Technologies Pvt. Ltd., the winner, received a prize of 2 lakh INR, while the first runner-up, Cablesmith, was awarded a cash prize of 1.5 lakh INR.
