IIIT Hyderabad

IIIT Hyderabad’s Satish Kathirisetti is not your run-of-the-mill PhD candidate. The itinerant mechanical engineer walks us through his remarkable three-decade career that founded three profitable MedTech start-ups, a successful telecom IPO and cutting-edge mentorship at IIIT-H’s start-up incubator.

Satish Kathirisetti - From Startups to Stress Signatures - IIIT Hyderabad’s Satish Kathirisetti is not your run of the mill PhD candidate. The itinerant mechanical engineer walks us through his remarkable three-decade career that founded three profitable MedTech start-ups, a successful telecom IPO and cutting edge mentorship at IIIT-H’s start-up incubat...

PhD Positions Available in: Prosody-Aware Spoken Language Technologies & Unified Speech-Text Modeling

Are you passionate about understanding the intricacies of human speech naturalness and leveraging them to develop spoken-language technologies? Our research group is seeking highly motivated PhD candidates who are eager to address high-impact research problems and contribute to speech technologies using cutting-edge AI.

What we do:
Our group focuses on modeling the core acoustic signatures that characterize speech naturalness and integrating them into unified speech and text models. We have a strong publication record in leading venues, including:
Conferences: ICASSP, Interspeech, EMNLP
Journals: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing; JASA; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; Speech Communication; Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Join Us:
If you are looking for an inspiring and high-impact research environment, we encourage you to apply. Positions are available immediately, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

If there’s one term that’s all over the place - from product roadmaps, to boardroom conversations, to coding tools and even predictions about the future, it has to be ‘Agentic AI’. With IIIT-H’s TechForward series approaching its second anniversary, the institute hosted a roundtable to take a closer look at the ‘Agentic AI’ theme that has consistently drawn attention across several editions and to summarize where the broader AI conversation needs to be.

Cautious Optimism Drives The Tone of Agentic AI Conversations - If there’s one term that’s all over the place – from product roadmaps, to boardroom conversations, to coding tools and even predictions about the future, it has to be ‘Agentic AI’. With IIITH’s TechForward series approaching its second anniversary, the institute hosted a roundtable to ta...

What does it take to turn research into products, startups, and lasting societal impact?

In Roots and Wings, Ashok Jhunjhunwala shares his remarkable journey of building indigenous technologies and nurturing an innovation ecosystem at IIT Madras. In this thoughtful review, Prof. Rajeev Sangal explores the book’s lessons on leadership, purpose, entrepreneurship, and nation-building.

Roots and Wings: The Story of Building India’s Technology Future - In this thoughtful review, Prof. Rajeev Sangal reflects on Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala’s Roots and Wings — a compelling account of how research at IIT Madras evolved into technologies, startups, and institutions that shaped India’s innovation landscape. More than a biography, the book offers lesso...

IIIT Hyderabad Masters student Souvik Ghosh has recently been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 for Cognitii, his AI-powered startup operating at the intersection of education, healthcare, and assistive technology, which has built India's first AI and human infrastructure layer for special education.

Souvik Ghosh Joins Forbes 30 Under 30, One Innovation at a Time - This IIIT Hyderabad Masters student has recently been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 for Cognitii, his AI-powered startup operating at the intersection of education, healthcare, and assistive technology, which has built India’s first AI and human infrastructure layer for special education. ...

🎓 Upgrade your skills. Pursue research. Innovate for the future.

IIIT Hyderabad’s Industry Sponsored Part-Time MS by Research programme is designed for working technology professionals who want to pursue advanced research while continuing their careers.

With a focus on emerging technologies, industry-relevant projects, and mentorship from IIITH faculty, the programme enables professionals to build deeper expertise and contribute to technology innovation.

Eligibility: Science/Engineering graduates with at least 1 year of IT industry experience.

📌 Applications close on 30 June 2026

Apply here:
https://outreach.iiit.ac.in/industryms/

Professor Ashok Kumar Das spends his days thinking about invisible threats most people have never heard of - quantum attacks, compromised networks and vulnerable digital infrastructures. But behind this complex and cutting-edge cybersecurity research is a quieter story: one of a village-school student from West Bengal whose fascination with Mathematics led him to the frontlines of India’s post-quantum future.

The Quantum Guardian: Inside Prof. Ashok Kumar Das’s Mission To Secure The World Against The Quantum Age - Professor Ashok Kumar Das spends his days thinking about invisible threats most people have never heard of – quantum attacks, compromised networks and vulnerable digital infrastructures. But behind this complex and cutting-edge cybersecurity research is a quieter story: one of a village-school stu...

🚀 Advance your AI journey at the 10th Summer School on AI 2026 hosted by CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad!
🗓️ July 5–10, 2026
🧠 Expert talks, hands-on sessions & networking with the top tech community.

👇 Apply Now! Spaces are filling up!!
🔗 cvit.iiit.ac.in/summerschool2026/register-offline-mode.php

🌐 More Details:
cvit.iiit.ac.in/summerschool2026/

Can AI understand the complexity of an Indian thali? Researchers at IIIT Hyderabad are showing that it can.

A team from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) is developing AI-powered tools that can analyse Indian meals, estimate nutritional value, and even map the rich diversity of food cultures across the country. Their work tackles challenges unique to Indian cuisine, where dishes are often mixed, layered, and highly varied. Beyond nutrition tracking, the research aims to create an AI-powered food map of India, capturing regional culinary differences and preserving food knowledge for future generations.

A fascinating example of how AI can be applied to solve uniquely Indian problems while advancing research at the intersection of technology, health, and culture.

Read more: https://www.thehindu.com/food/features/ai-powered-food-map-of-india-by-a-team-at-iiit-in-hyderabad/article71056440.ece

Can India become a global AI leader by following its own path rather than replicating others?

In this article, Prof. Rajeev Sangal argues that India's strength lies not in imitating the West or competing in the race for massive foundation models, but in applying AI to solve real-world challenges in agriculture, healthcare, education, governance, and sustainability. A compelling perspective on how India can lead through innovation rooted in local needs and global relevance.

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India Must Lead Through Application, Not Imitation - BW Education Prof Rajeev Sangal, former Director, IIT (BHU) Varanasi and the first regular Director, IIIT Hyderabad, has been one of the key architects of India's language AI ecosystem. As the designer of Mission Bhashini and Founding Chairman of its Mission Executive Committee, he has closely witnessed the oppo...