July-Aug

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Awards And Recognitions

'Vendra,' a groundbreaking startup founded by our alumnus, Anish B. (Class of 2021) and his Co-founder Shan Mohta, launched at the Summer 2024 Y Combinator program.

Dr. Sambuddho, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi, has been appointed as a C3iHub Associate Fellow for the year 2024-25.

Depanshu Sani, PhD student advised by Dr. Saket Anand, has been awarded the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024!

Dr. Tarini Shankar Ghosh (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the reputed Nature Partner Journal NPJ-Biofilms and Microbiomes under the Nature Portfolio.

PhD student Jai Mangal (advisers: Dr. Sumit J Darak & Dr. Shobha Ram) has won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024

Prof. Ranjan Bose (Director, IIIT-Delhi) has been appointed as the part-time member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI)

PhD candidate Jai Mangal (advisers: Dr. Shobha Ram and Dr. Sumit J Darak) has been selected for the prestigious TCS Research Scholar Program

Two of our Master's students, Yatin Rajendra Phalak (L) and Junaid Fayaz Lone (R), who were the recipients of the Vehant Fellowship this year, have received PPO offers from Vehant Technologies (A+ category).

Publications

Paper titled "Jamming-Resilient Mirror Element Allocation Scheme for OIRS-aided UAV-based FSO Networks" by Priyanka Singh, Prof. Haythem A Bany Salameh, Prof. Vivek Ashok Bohara, Prof. Anand Srivastava, and Prof. Moussa Ayyash, PhD Ayyash has been accepted for publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.

Paper titled "Reconfigurable Radar Signal Processing Accelerator for Integrated Sensing and Communication System" by Aakanksha Tewari (PhD Student), Shragvi Sidharth Jha (BTech'23 alumni), Akanksha Sneh (PhD Student), Dr. Sumit J Darak, Dr. Shobha Ram is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (IEEE TAES).

Paper titled "Light-trapping by wave interference in intermediate-thickness silicon solar cells" by Sayak Bhattacharya (Dept. of ECE, IIITD) and Sajeev John (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto) has been accepted in the Optics Express Journal.

Paper titled "Reconfigurable Metasurface Reflectors Using Split-Ring Resonators with Co-Designed Biasing for Magnitude/Phase Control " by Mohamed Emara (PhD Carleton University), Debidas Kundu (Faculty IIITD), Keigan Macdonell (PhD Carleton University), Leandro Rufail (Postdoc Carleton University) & Shulabh Gupta (Faculty Carleton University) is accepted in the journal: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Paper, "Artificial Intelligence Driven Predictive Analysis of Acoustic and Linguistic Behaviours for ASD Identification," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence!

Paper titled "Enhancing Wireless Connectivity in Skip Zones via Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface" by Prof. Vivek Ashok Bohara, Dr. Debidas Kundu, Khagendra Joshi was successfully presented, followed by a live demonstration at ACM Compass 2024.

Paper by authors Abhijeet Mishra, Harshvardhan Singh, Aman Parnami, and Jainendra Shukla, Ph.D. acceptanced in 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).

Academic Events

Inaugural event of the IEEE-MTTS Student Branch Chapter

Seminar on "Herbicide-Resistant Weed Management with Robots: A Weed Ecological- Economic Model" by Prof. Madhu Khanna (Distinguished Professor in Environmental Economics at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign).

Workshop on 'The Microeconomics of Irrigation and Household Water Use'

Workshop on Unlocking the Potential of 6G

Electronics Design Carnival

Other Key Events

3rd Edition of the National Painting Workshop

Independence Day

SPIC MACAY - Virasat 2024- Flute Recital by the legendary Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Ji at Virasat IIIT Delhi.

SPIC MACAY - Virasat 2024- Qawwali performance by the renowned Nizami Sultan Ji Brothers

B.Tech. Induction 2024

SPIC MACAY - Virasat 2024

A plantation drive of around 2,000 trees and shrubs was held on 27th July 2024 on IIIT-Delhi campus under the "Ek Ped Maa ke Naam" Campaign which was launched by the Government of India on World Environment Day this year.

M.Tech. and Ph.D. Induction Program

Growing IIITD Community

Dr. Nikhil Gupta has joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi

Dr. Gautam Shroff has joined as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi.

Dr. Tanmoy Kundu has joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Dr. Pragma Kar has joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design

Dr. Sonal Keshwani has joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design

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