The news on SurviveCovid-19 Game from the Research in Intelligent Software & Human Analytics (RISHA) Lab, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Tirupati has been published in The Hindu, NDTV and Indian Express articles.

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Dr. Subrahmanyam Gorthi from the Department of Electrical Engineering was chosen as the person of the week of National Digital Library of India (NDLI).

AiR - Pollution Visualizer, an Android application developed by IIT Tirupati is featured in The Indian Express, Times of India, Deccan Chronicle and ETV. The app uses Augmented Reality to visualize air pollutants and is available on Google Play Store.
The app is an initiative of Research in Intelligent Software & Human Analytics (RISHA) Lab, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Tirupati and is developed by Noble Saji Mathews, mentored by Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda in collaboration with Prof. Suresh Jain, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Mobility analysis to track COVID19 developed by IIT Tirupati is featured in Indian express (National), Twitter.
The initiative is by Dr. Kalidas Yeturu, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Tirupati.

Inauguration of Center For Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Sciences & Technologies (CAMOST) Joint Initiative OF IIT TIRUPATI & IISER TIRUPATI on August 14^th 2020.

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IIT Tirupati has been selected as the Host Institute to set up a Technology Incubation Hub in the technology vertical "Positioning and Precision Technologies" under the National Mission on Inter-disciplinary Cyber Physical Systems with a funding of about Rs. 100 crores led by Dr. Roshan Srivastava, Dr. Arijit Sharma, Dr. Ramakrishna Gorthi, Dr. Panchatcharam Mariappan, Dr. Ravi Iyer, Dr. Hiran Vedam and many others.

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CENTER FOR ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, & OPTICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES (CAMOST)
A joint research initiative of IIT & IISER Tirupati, Inauguration Program - 14^thAugust 2020 16:00 – 18:00 IST

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• CAMOST Inauguration Program

News on Portable Optical Cavity Sterilization Unit (POCSU) developed by IIT Tirupati (IITT) and IISER Tirupati has been published in:

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• DD News
• Twitter

3D Web game (Android Version):
Developed by Noble Mathews, Department of Chemical Engineering, B.Tech, 1^st Year, Mentor: Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda, Research in Intelligent Software & Human Analytics (RISHA) Lab, Dept. of CSE.
https://covidbuster.itch.io/covid19buster

Mario-style 2D web game (Android Version)
Developed by Dheeraj Vagavolu, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech, 3rd Year, Mentor: Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda, Research in Intelligent Software & Human Analytics (RISHA) Lab, Dept. of CSE.
https://survivecovid-19.itch.io/game2020

Misinformation detection for the fight against fake/misinformation on COVID-19. https://stop-corona-iittp.herokuapp.com/ - An initiative by our student Noble Mathews and mentor Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda, Research in Intelligent Software & Human Analytics (RISHA) Lab, Dept. of CSE.

IIT Tirupati Physical Training Instructor Mr. Vasudev Rao secured 2 Gold Medals in 400 ms and High Jump in the 26^th Inter IIT Staff Sports meet 2019 at IIT Kharagpur

IIT Tirupati Library has been awarded "Aspiring Young Academic Library - (Government)" at the Wiley Library Awards 2019 held at New Delhi on 16^th December 2019.

IIT Tirupati has been ranked sixth amongst the cleanest Higher Educational Institutions in Country in the category of Residential Universities - AICTE and was awarded on 3^rd December 2019 at Prajnan (Auditorium), AICTE, New Delhi.

• Bala Suraj Pedasingu, B.Tech (2015-19) has been awarded "Innovative B.Tech Student Projects Award" by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), with an award prize of Rs 10,000/- in cash and an award certificate, for his thesis work on ALTO: Adversarial Learning for Tracking Objects.
• Five third year students, Gowtham (EE17B013), Ketan Vibhandik (EE17B033), Nandhakumar (CS17B021), Karthik Chandra (CS17B026) and Dheeraj (CS17B028) has backed 2nd runner up prize in AI Hackathon 2019, conducted by NVIDIA, C-DAC and ATOS, competing 350+ teams, and received a cash prize of Rs.50000 and 5 Jetson Nano (GPU) Development Kits.

2 undergraduate research submissions under the guidance of Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda have been accepted to the 27^th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, CORE ranked A* conference, Tallinn, Estonia.

• On the Use of Lambda Expressions in 760 open source Python projects Authors: Shubham Sangle and Sandeep Muvva; Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda
• Are existing code smells relevant in web games? - An Empirical Study Authors: Vaishali Khanve; Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sridhar Chimalakonda

IIT Tirupati Director Prof. Satyanarayana and NVIDIA Labs, Bangalore Managing Director, Shri Vishal Dhupar have signed an MoU on 17^th July 2019 to enhance the collaborations between two organization in AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Accelerator development research and to jointly develop the state of the art computing facilities at IIT Tirupati.

IIT Tirupati (IITT) signed an MoU with Toshiba R&D India, on 8^th July 2019 chiefly to promote interaction between the two institutes in the mutually beneficial areas of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics to enhance research and development interests between the two organizations. The principal areas of collaboration will include development of novel mathematical models and machine learning algorithms for studies on static and time series data arising in a multi sensor environment and other areas of mutual interest at IITT or at Toshiba R&D India. The MoU aims to promote academic and educational collaboration, and exchange of students, academic and research staff between the two institutions.

IIT Tirupati Transit Campus project is the First Prize winner of HUDCO Design Awards 2018 under the category Green Buildings.

HUDCO Design Awards 2018

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati and Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) Bangalore, signed an MoU on 22nd January 2019 to work together in mutual areas of interest. The major focus of this collaboration is in the area of Additive manufacturing, Nano finishing, MEMS device development, Ultra precision machining, and AI techniques for Vision based systems.

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Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati and CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani signed an MoU on 12^th Nov 2018 to establish a program of exchange and collaboration on areas of mutual interest. The major thrust areas of research are Cyber-Physical systems, Smart Sensors, Microwave Devices with focus on Flexible and non-Si Electronics, Optoelectronics, Smart Infrastructure, Energy, Internet of Things (IoT). The modes of cooperation will include:

• Exchange of faculty and students for the purpose of research and teaching
• Development and implementation of cooperative research projects, professional development programs and capacity-building efforts
• The dissemination of findings through scholarly publications, white papers, and in the media.

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Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati and the CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai signed a MoU to establish a program of exchange and collaboration on matters of mutual research interest.
The major thrust area of research is Health Monitoring, Assessment and Extension of Life of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Structural Systems. The modes of cooperation will include:

• Joint supervision of Ph.D/M.S students from the two Institutes
• Exchange of faculty and students and mutual access to relevant research laboratories, facilities and personnel
• The development and implementation of cooperative research projects, professional development programs, and capacity-building efforts
• The dissemination of findings through scholarly publication, white papers, and in the media.

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IIT Tirupati is pleased to announce that 100% of the students from the 3rd year batch have been placed for 2018 summer internships.
Few of the companies which offered internships are :

• Aecom
• Afcons Infrastructure
• Alstom
• Amara Raja Group of Industries
• Ashok Leyland
• Cushman & Wakefield
• Danieli
• Genpact
• JSW
• L&T
• Lekha Wireless
• STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
• Tarah Technologies
• Tata Consultancy Services- Research and Development
• Visteon

4 teams from IIT Tirupati in the final round of Smart India Hackathon 2018 (Hardware).

IIT Tirupati entered into Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. (SECI) for the Roof Top Solar System in the transit campus.

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The following students from IIT Tirupati have been selected by the Government of India as part of a 200 member Indian Youth Delegation to China from 9^th June to 16^th June, 2017:
1. Ipshita Panda (2^nd Year, Electrical Engineering)
2. Sonali Srivastava (2^nd Year, Civil Engineering)
3. Vimal (2^nd Year, Computer Science Engineering)

The following 2^nd Year Mechanical Engineering students were selected for internship (6 Weeks) at Texas A&M University, USA for this summer session:

• Tapan Ganatma Nakkina
• Saurabh Agarwal
• Rushikesh Kure
• Pranjal Shukla
• Harshit Chawla

Team Beginner's Luck Strikes (Gowtham Senthil, Aravindh Rajiv, Nandhakumar K, Abishekh P, Koushik KS, Rishitha Reddy) of second year students has got First prize of Rs. 1 Lakh excluding tax and a Shield for the problem statement "App Based Solution for Digitization of Valuation of Mobile Assets".
https://bit.ly/2SOf57m
Teams NightHawks (V Dheeraj, Rohan Alexander Jacob, P Deeksha, Karthik Chandra, Nikhil Doye, Abhijit Pal), OnebyZero (Vaishali Khanve, Shubham Sangle, Ayush Garg, Rohith Sudheer, Vishal Misra, Rahul Gupta), InnovationHunters (Aliasgar Musani, Shashwat Pathak, Shraddha Sahoo, Aparna Vadlamani, Manish Kumar Srivastava, Tejasva Motsara) stood in the 2^nd place in their respective problem statements.

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Dr. A. Gowri, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been invited to serve as a Member of the Editorial Board of the "Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research" , a Taylor and Francis Journal.

Kerala Flood Conference 2020 was focusing on major issues related to water management under extreme climate variations. The Water Resources Department of Kerala puts forth the conference on Flood management in Kerala Scenario as a platform for practitioners, policy makers, engineers, natural and social scientists, disaster managers and researchers to come together to exchange ideas and experiences. The conference was committed to provide an interactive platform for brainstorming and sharing new concepts or methods for improving flood risk management practice in order to better cope with uncertainties.

Student Poster Competition

• First Prize: Asmita Naitam (Ph.D. Scholar) and Hitesh Bugata (M.Tech in EWRE)
  Title: Role of Downscaling in Flood Risk Management
• Second Prize: Jency Maria Sojan (M.Tech in EWRE) and Poonam Wagh (M.Tech in EWRE)
  Title: A Conceptual Framework for Integrated Urban Flood Monitoring and Modelling