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.

Researchers from CVIT Wins the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2025

Nashville, Tennessee – June 11, 2025

A cutting-edge research paper titled "Pseudo-labelling meets Label Smoothing for Noisy Partial Label Learning" won the Best Paper Award at the 12th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC), a prestigious event held as part of the CVPR 2025 conference in Nashville.

Darshana Saravanan, a master's student at the Center for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), IIIT Hyderabad, whose paper, titled “Pseudo-labelling meets Label Smoothing for Noisy Partial Label Learning”, was co-authored with Dr. Naresh Manwani (ML Lab) and Dr. Vineet Gandhi (CVIT).

Special Education Symposium: Where AI Reads Lips and Tech Games Teach Math

A symposium curated by IIIT-Hyderabad brought together leading minds in special education and technology to explore how AI-driven tools and innovative tech solutions can address longstanding challenges in the education of children with disabilities. Hosted on June 12, 2025, by the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) and the Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society, the event marked a convergence of domain experts, policymakers, educators, therapists, NGOs, startups, and researchers.