IIIT Symposium on Bhashini Technologies for the Visually Impaired

Date: November 28, 2025

Venue: Punjabi University, Patiala

In an era where digital access shapes opportunity, it is essential that technology empowers everyone — regardless of physical abilities. The one-day event, Symposium on Bhashini Technologies for Visually Impaired, embodies this vision. By bringing together researchers, technologists, educators, and social-impact organizations, the symposium explores how AI and language technologies can transform accessibility for visually impaired individuals in India.

Expanding Horizons: Snigdha at AIED 2025, Palermo

Published: August 2025

From July 22 to 26, 2025, Snigdha represented her institution at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025), hosted at the University of Palermo, Italy. Supported by a conference scholarship, she joined a global community of researchers, practitioners, and educators exploring this year’s theme —

IIIT Hyderabad PhD Scholars Selected for Esteemed TCS Fellowships

Amal Joseph and Akhila Matathammal, doctoral research scholars at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), have been selected for the TCS Ph.D. Fellowship under the Tata Consultancy Services Research Scholar Program. Meanwhile, Varghese Kuruvilla, a Master’s student mentored by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, has received the prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2025.

Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla Wins Second Prize at GyanSetu AI Innovation Challenge for Manuscript Decoding Project

New Delhi, September 13, 2025

Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla’s innovative project proposal on developing AI-based solutions to interpret and analyze historical manuscripts won the Second Prize at the prestigious GyanSetu AI Innovation Challenge, held during the Gyan Bharatam International Conference in Delhi on September 13.

Sahithi Kukkala Wins Student Runner-Up at ICDAR 2025

Sahithi Kukkala, a second-year Master’s student at the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), IIIT Hyderabad, supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and co-supervised by Dr. Mitesh Khapra, IIT Madras and Oikantik Nath, Ph.D scholar, IIT Madras received the Best Student Paper  Runner-Up Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on IndicDLP: A Foundational Dataset for Multi-Lingual and Multi-Domain Document Layout Parsing.

Best Student Paper at ICDAR 2025: The Story Behind TexTAR

At ICDAR 2025, Rohan Kumar, B.Tech alumnus, and Jyothi Swaroopa Jinka, M.S. student — both working under the mentorship of  Prof. Ravi Kiran at CVIT — earned top honors at this premier international conference in document analysis and recognition by winning the Best Student Paper Award for their research on TexTAR – Textual Attribute Recognition in Multi-domain and Multi-lingual Document Images, held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September.

We sat down with Rohan and Swaroopa to learn more about the journey behind the paper, the struggles, the teamwork, and what this recognition means for their future.