STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

 

Our B.Tech, Dual-Degree and MS students have achieved a lot in the sphere of research, academics and other areas in the last several years.  Some of them include:

 

  • IIIT-H ranked #1 at http://www.spoj.pl - a highly popular programming site with over 10, 000 users from 120 countries.

 

  • IIIT-H has been selected by IBM for the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) award, to set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) on cell and power multi-core architecture, in order to leverage on the institute's early research in these areas.

 

  • Ashish Mangalampalli, PhD student has won the award under Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Programme in April 2009.  He is among ten students selected world wide and the only student selected from India.

 

  • Mr. Sai Krishna Pendyala, Undergraduate student got selected for Google Summer of Code 2008 and successfully finished a project on Distributed XWiki Search Engine.

 

  • Ms. Sahiti Polishetty, undergraduate student of Computer Science and Engineering received Women in Engineering Award 2009 from Google India for consistently outstanding academic performance and leadership qualities.

 

  • Mr. Vundavalli Srinivas Rao, Ms. Shruti Jain, Mr. Shashank Agrawal, Undergraduate students got selected for Google Summer of Code 2009

 

  • 3 MS students in VLSI stream won first prize in the National Level Intel Scholar Programme 2008 (in Graduate category) for a research proposal on Power Reduction in Off-chip Buses for Block Data in February 2009.

 

  • 1 MS student of VLSI stream and 2 PhD students stood First at Cadence Design Contest 2008 out of 120 premier engineering colleges participated in the contest from all over India.

 

  • IIIT-H Team qualified for the world finals of ACM-ICPC among 7,109 teams, representing from 1838 Universities from 88 Countries in April 2009.

 

  • Ajay Somani, B.Tech (CSE) final year student stood among the top 5 Indians on Topcoder which the world’s largest online programming Community in June 2009.

 

  • Rajat Goel, B.Tech (CSE), pre-final year student, and Ajay Somani, B.Tech (CSE), final year student, won the Insomnia Speed Round Coding Round, an International online programming contest conducted by IIT Roorkee in March 2009.

 

  • Ajay Somani, B.Tech (CSE), final year student, and Anshuman Singh, B.Tech (CSE) pre-final year student, won the Insomnia Thought Coding Round, an International online programming contest conducted by IIT Roorkee in March 2009.

 

  • IIIT-H team represented by three B.Tech (CSE) students (Ajay Somani (final year), Anshuman Singh (pre-final year), and Gaurav Agarwal (pre-final year)) was ranked top1 in India, and top 5 globally, in the International online programming contest, at Shaastra 2008, conducted by IIT, Madras in Annual Technical Festival Sept 2008.

 

  • IIIT-H team, comprising Ajay Somani (final year), Anshuman Singh (pre-final year), and Gaurav Agarwal (pre-final year) were also ranked number one at Bitwise 2009, an annual international online programming contest conducted by IIT Kharagpur, Feb 2009.