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IIIT-Delhi has made its place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020, for our outstanding achievement in CSE discipline. We have been ranked 401-450 globally, 13 in domestic, 2nd in Delhi category.

We are happy to announce that IIIT-Delhi will be introducing a minor in Entrepreneurship in its BTech curriculum. This minor is aimed at instilling the entrepreneurial spirit in students and equip students with the

COVID 19 Reseach

1. Prof. Gajendra Raghava and his research group is working on coronavirus to facilitate the scientific community to fight against this deadly virus.

2. In the time of pandemic condition arising due to #COVID19 , great initiatives are being taken by Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi (Faculty at #IIITD ) and his team

3. Ahuja Lab and Sengupta lab from #IIITDelhi, explained the molecular basis of loss of smell (olfaction) phenotype in Covid-19 infected patients.

4. Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has received a grant from Accenture Labs University Collaboration and Grant committee. The grant will be utilised for a collaborative work between LCS2 Lab and Accenture Labs on ‘AI based social media mis-information detection, virality and claim analysis’ to combat #Covid19 misinformation.

Awards

1. Our students Sagnik Chatterjee (1st year Ph.D.), Tharrmashastha SAPV (1st year Ph.D.), Pravek Sharma (3rd year BTech), and Nakul Aggarwal (Research Assistant) has won second prize in 'IBMQ Teach Me Quantum Award'

2. Students Raghul P.K and Arjun won the ‘Social Innovation Awards 2.0’ in Kaizen 2020, conducted by NSS, IIT Delhi . The theme of the competition was "Innovate for the Elderly"

3. Swapeco, a startup by IIIT Delhi students has been declared as Winner in the "Early Stage Startups" category of the mBillionth Awards South Asia 2019-20, organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook.

4. Tweek Labs turns first startup to get seed funding from IIITD Innovation and Incubation Center for taking a leap forward in their entrepreneurial journey.

5. First year students Raghul P.K & Arjun designed the prototype of a smart stick for elderly, equipped with a gripping and grabbing at Design & Innovation Lab under Dept. of Human Centered Design - IIITD. The inventions was recognised by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

6.Dr. Gaurav Ahuja, Faculty in the Department of Computational Biology (CCB at IIITD) has received the Ramalingaswamy Re-entry Fellowship, 2019-2020

7. PhD Student, Gunjan Singh (Advisor Dr. V. Raghava Mutharaju) has been selected for the prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship for a period of 2 years, starting August 2020

8. Third year B.Tech. student Neha Bhairavi Prakriya, has been selected as a research intern at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and NTU Singapore.

9. Paper by Ph.D. candidate Shelly Vishwakarma stood third in the student paper competition in the International Radar Conference 2020

10. Students Angel Walia, Prakhar Goel, Varnika Kairon, and Mayank Jain become finalists for STUDENT GAME COMPETITION (Innovative Interfaces) at ACM CHI 2020 conference.

Publications

1. Paper by Dr. Sanat K. Biswas, IIIT Delhi and Ediz Cetin, Macquarie University, Australia; accepted for oral presentation at IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symposium 2020

2. Paper by Neha Jain, Navneet Anand Sah, Vivek Ashok Bohara and Anubha Gupta titled "Experimental Results for Energy Harvesting by exploiting inherent inadequacies of Sampling process for IoT application" is accepted in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Workshop, 2020

3. Dr. Gayatri Nair recently presented her paper at the Indian Association of Women's Studies Conference held in Delhi.

4. Dr. Gayatri Nair presented paper titled ' The Morals and the Economy of the Commons' at the (Un)Doing the Commons Conference, organised by the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University.

5. The paper titled "Energy Efficiency Enhancement in FD MIMO Relay System through Adaptive Antenna Allocation and Self-Energy Recycling", by Mohd Hamza, Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara, Prof. Anand Srivastava and Dr. Gourab Ghatak has been accepted for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

6. Researchers at #IIITDelhi have developed a dedicated resource for liver cancer that integrates scattered multiple formatted datasets and information regarding disease-specific biomarkers.

7. Paper titled- "Cancelable Multi-biometric Approach using Fuzzy Extractor and Novel Bit-wise Encryption" has been accepted for publication as a REGULAR paper in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (Impact factor > 6)

8. Article titled “Sounding the Battle Cry: Supreme Court on Women in the Army” authored by Dr. Smriti Singh (Faculty, Dept. of Social Sciences & Humanities) has been published in EPW (Economic and Political Weekly)

9. A paper by Yatin Sharma (M.Tech student), under the guidance of Dr. Gourab Ghatak (faculty) has been accepted in IEEE WoWMoM 2020 (Cork, Ireland, 15th to 18th June 2020)-A CORE A Conference.

10. Research paper titled "Input-conditioned crop yield distributions and insurance adoption: Conceptual framework and empirical evidence from smallholder farms in semi-arid Indian villages" selected for presentation at Annual Meetings of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)

11. Reserach paper titled "Diagnostic Circuit for Latent Fault Detection in SRAM Row Decoder" was presented by Dr. Anuj Grover (Faculty at IIITD) in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2020

12. Two papers by our faculty Dr. Sanat K Biswas and his research group have been accepted for presentation at XXXIII General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) of the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio Scientifique Internationale- URSI)

13. Paper by Sharan Pai, NIKHIL SACHDEVA, Prince Sachdeva, Rajiv Ratn SHAH for their ACL SRW got published in Aphasic Speech.

14. Paper "AICA: Artificial Intelligence Conversational Agent" by students Arpit Bhatia, Meghna Gupta, Abhishek Gupta, and Nishtha Singhal accepted to be presented in the Student Design Competition at ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

15. Paper by Laboratory for Computational Social Systems, IIIT-Delhi (LCS2) got accepted as a full paper in International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence 2020.

16. Dr. Payel C. Mukherjee has written a journal paper titled “A meeting that never happened: Unheard dialogues between Sri Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi”. which has been published in the Gandhi Marg Quarterly.

17. Paper by Payel C. Mukherjee,(Faculty at IIITD), titled “At Home with the Other: Exploring intercultural empathy through critical literacies” was presented in Annual Conference of South Asian Literary Association (SALA) 2020 conference.

18. Paper "Integrative Analysis and Machine Learning based Characterization of Single Circulating Tumor Cells" published in MPDI.

19. Research paper titled "Computer-aided designing of oncolytic viruses for overcoming translational challenges of cancer immunotherapy" has been published in the Drug Discovery Today Journal by Elsevier .

20. Paper titled “Expression based biomarkers and models to classify early and late-stage samples of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma” has been published in the PLOS ONE Journal.

21. A collaborative research conducted by researchers in Japan and IIITD have found the brain regions related to fine, sub-second tactile temporal resolution in humans The study has recently been published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

22. The study titled ‘ CancerEnD: A database of cancer associated enhancers’ has recently been published in the Genomics Journal by Elsevier .

23. Paper ‘(Coping with) Messiness in Ethnography - Methods, Ethics, and Participation in Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Non-Western World’, presented at the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (#ECSCW) at the University of Siegen, Germany.

24. Paper titled “Deep Exogenous and Endogenous Influence Combination for Social Chatter Intensity Prediction” has been accepted as a regular article in ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2020.

25. Poster titled, "Weakly Supervised Categoric Visual Question Generation" accepted at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Visual Question Answering and Dialog Workshop.

26. Dr. Sanat K. Biswas was invited by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society - AESS Navigation Systems Panel members to contribute on an article titled "State Estimation Methods: Overview and Application in Navigation".

27. Paper titles "GABA Concentration in the Left Ventral Premotor Cortex Associates With Sensory Hyper-Responsiveness in Autism Spectrum Disorders Without Intellectual Disability" Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience .

Talks Delivered by Faculty members

1. Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi presented our work on #WashKaro at #infodemicCOVID19 organized by World Health Organization (WHO) (WHO).

2. Prof. Anand Srivastava delivered a talk in MNIT Jaipur

Workshops/ Presentations/ Seminars

1. Poster presentations by Animation & Graphics students for Samadhanabhiyan NGO .

2. Archana Agnihotri, Director Samadhanabhiyan NGO conducted a workshop with the students .

3. Dr. Paro Mishra organised an International Conference on 'Reproduction, Demography and Cultural Anxieties in India and China in the 21st Century

4. The Library and Information Centre organised a workshop on The Art of Abstract Writing

5. The second edition of "Stories Unboxed" hosted the co-founder of Qlasses, Neha Chitkara Sharma, Alumna, IIIT-Delhi

6. Student Senate of #IIITD organized a webinar session by Dr. Anush Sankaran (Ph.D. Alumnus) on 6th May 2020.

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