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MS/PhD Research Translation Fellowships

A record of Fellows, Batch-wise Sanction Letters & Final Reports, Publications, and Patents emerging from the Annual Research Translation Fellowship program under NMICPS, Govt. of India.

Fellowships — Batch-wise

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S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
61 Kartik Gharde – Prof. Aftab Hussain MS Deployment of Wi-SUN based Smart Utility Systems for IoT Connectivity in Rural Areas Through Unlicensed Frequency Spectrum Aug 2026 – July 2027
62 Ashutosh Sahay – Prof. Anshu Sarje MS Smart, Portable system for heavy metal detection in water Aug 2026 – July 2027
63 Rohan Karmakar – Prof. Kavita Vemuri MS Multimodal Gait Analysis for Classification of Movement Disorders and Prognostic Evaluation on/off Dopa & Pre and Post-Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Aug 2026 – July 2027
64 Kunal Soma – Prof. Sachin Chaudhari MS AI & IoT-based Portable Pan Evaporimeter Aug 2026 – July 2027
65 Kavish Kapoor – Prof. Pawan Kumar MS Ambiguous medical image segmentation Tool Aug 2026 – July 2027
66 Alan Nelson – Prof. Abhishek Srivastava PhD RESPIRE: A Portable Go/No-Go Device for Point of Care Early Detection of Respiratory Diseases Aug 2026 – July 2027
67 Priyanka Dasari – Prof. Parameswari Krishnamurthy PhD Synthetic Generation of Healthcare Dialogue Corpora for Indian Languages to Enable Domain-Adapted Dialogue Machine Translation Aug 2026 – July 2027
68 Kallind Soni – Prof. Vasudeva Varma PhD Conversational Cognitive Companions for Third Age Learning Aug 2026 – July 2027
69 Meenakshi Sirigiraju – Prof. Chiranjeevi Yarra PhD ConVerse: An Adaptive Personalized Learning Framework Using Multimodal Q&A from Curriculum Content. Aug 2026 – July 2027
70 Ruqaiyya Safdar Baramatiwala – Prof. Aftab M. Hussain PhD Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic Flexible Actuator based Pump for Biomedical Applications Aug 2026 – July 2027
S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
54 Pragya Khanna – Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala MS A Novel Framework for Stuttering Event Detection and Classification Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
55 Gaurav Bhole – Prof. Nita Parekh MS Development of a Standardized Mammogram Benchmark Dataset and Deep Learning Techniques for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
56 Asritha Arroju – Prof. Sachin Chaudhari MS IoT-Based Multimodal Monitoring System for Construction-Related Pollution Analysis Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
57 Aditya Ranjan Padhi – Prof. Santosh Nannuru MS Adapting tracking algorithms for handwriting using accelerometer data Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
58 Ruqaiyya Safdar Baramatiwala – Prof. Aftab M. Hussain PhD Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic Flexible Actuator based Pump for Biomedical Applications Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
59 Aaheli Chakrabarty – Prof. Nita Parekh PhD Mutational Profiling of Indian Breast Cancer Samples Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
60 Vedula Bhaskara Hanuma – Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) PhD Systematic Framework for Detecting and Measuring AI Implicit Bias Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
39 Shreyash Gujar – Prof. Sachin Chaudhari MS IoT-Based Monitoring of Construction and Traffic-Related Pollution in Indian Cities. Aug 2024 – July 2025
40 Naveen Kumar Gajingam – Prof. Aftab M. Hussain MS A Low Cost and Portable Velostat-based Sensing System for Traffic Monitoring Aug 2024 – July 2025
41 Siddhartha Dhara – Prof. Pawan Kumar MS Diffusion Models for Cell Tracking, Segmentation, and Predictive Modeling Aug 2024 – July 2025
42 Shikhar Saxena – Prof. Tejas Bodas MS Constrained Gradient Descent: Controlling the Descent Direction by Penalizing the Gradient Norm Aug 2024 – July 2025
43 Anjali Singh – Prof. Anshu Sarje MS Development of flexible microheater and Material Characterization for microdevice fabrication Aug 2024 – July 2025
44 N Mahen – Prof. Kishore Kothapalli MS Counting the Number of Motifs in Dynamic Graphs in Parallel Aug 2024 – July 2025
45 Pritha Ghosh – Prof. Vishnu Sreekumar MS The Experience vs. Memory of Emotion Aug 2024 – July 2025
46 Kudtarkar Sarang Atmaram – Prof. Zia Abbas MS A Unified ML-Driven Leakage Power Estimation Framework for Digital ICs Subjected to PVT (Process, Voltage, and Temperature) Variations Aug 2024 – July 2025
47 Narahari N. Moudhgalya – Prof. Abhishek Srivastava MS Design of Low Phase Noise 24 GHz Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) for Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Frequency Synthesizer Aug 2024 – July 2025
48 Furqan Ahmed Shaik – Prof. Girish Varma PhD Safe Segmentation in Adverse Weather: Optimization and Competition Aug 2024 – July 2025
49 Ayushi Agrawal – Prof. Kavita Vemuri PhD Investigation of the Behavioural, Clinical, and Neural Networks Associated with Empathy/Cognitive Control Biased by Social Perceptions of Rape Victims Aug 2024 – July 2025
50 Laksh Nanwani – Prof. K. Madhava Krishna PhD Navigation of Mobile Robots in Crowded Environments / Dynamic Aug 2024 – July 2025
51 Om Kathalkar – Prof. Sachin Chaudhari MS Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) Estimation using a Multiple Camera Setup for the Indian Traffic Scenarios Aug 2024 – July 2025
52 Aadya Ranjan – Prof. Rajakrishnan Rajkumar PhD Enhancing Linguistic Resources for Scientific Hypothesis Testing and Engineering Applications in Spoken Hindi Aug 2024 – July 2025
53 Debjani Mallick – Prof. Ashok Kumar Das PhD Blockchain-Enabled Public Key-Based Encrypted Search on IoT-Enabled Private Data and Big Data Analytics on Retrieved Data Aug 2024 – July 2025
S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
27 Debjani Mallick – Prof. Ashok Kumar Das PhD Blockchain-Enabled Public Key-Based Encrypted Search on IoTEnabled Private Data and Big Data Analytics on Retrieved Data Aug 2023-July 2024
28 Om Kathalkar – Prof.Sachin Chaudhari MS Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) Estimation using a Multiple Camera Setup for the Indian Traffic Scenarios Aug 2023-July 2024
29 M HOZAIFA KHAN – Prof. Ravi Kiran MS Benchmarking AI via Cooperative Games and Multimodal Agents: Pictionary as a Case Study Aug 2023-July 2024
30 Parvathi Priyanka Kommagouni – Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala MS A novel approach to distinguishing typical and atypical stutter patterns Aug 2023-July 2024
31 Hrishi Narayanan – Prof Nita Parekh (advisor) and Prof Prasad Krishnan (Co-advisor) MS Information Theoretic Approaches to DNA Sequencing and DNA Data Storage Aug 2023-July 2024
32 Debashis Barik – Prof Nita Parekh MS Integrated miRNA and mRNA expression profiling of breast cancer subtypes Aug 2023-July 2024
33 Sasanka GRS – Prof.Santosh Nannuru MS Analyzing naturalistic stimuli fMRI to learn brain empathy networks. Aug 2023-July 2024
34 Aadya Ranjan – Prof. Rajakrishnan Rajkumar PhD Enhancing Linguistic Resources for Scientific Hypothesis Testing and Engineering Applications in Spoken Hindi Aug 2023-July 2024
35 Pranjal Mahajan – Prof. Abhishek Srivastava MS Radar-based Non-contact HR/BR measurement system Aug 2023-July 2024
36 Sirigiraju Meenakshi – Prof. Chiranjeevi Yara PhD Label Unaware Speech Intelligibility Detection and Diagnosis under Spontaneous Speech Aug 2023-July 2024
37 Nouduru Venkata Raghavendra – Prof.Zia Abbas MS Accurate PVT aware estimations across different technology nodes and device types using Meta Learning and Domain Adaptation Aug 2023-July 2024
38 Sandeep Nagar – Prof. Girish Varma PhD Designing Fast and Invertible Convolution Layers for Normalizing Flows Aug 2023-July 2024
S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
21 Ihita G – Dr. Sachin MS Securing IoT-enabled Smart Cities AUG 2022-JULY 2023
22 Anis Fatema – Dr. Aftab PhD Smart Chair: Analysis of Sitting Postures using Artificial Intelligence-based Flexible Pressure Sensor Array AUG 2022-JULY 2023
23 Shishir Maurya – Prof. Vishal Garg MS Disaggregated load profile data in Hyderabad households. Aug 2022-July 2023
Extension (Sep 2023-Feb 2024)
24 Shreyas Jaiswal – Prof. Santosh Nannuru MS Learning source motion trajectories from sensor array data. AUG 2022-JULY 2023
25 Sudeepini Darapu – Prof. Santosh Nannuru PhD Data-driven graph-based inference methods for pandemic. AUG 2022-JULY 2023
26 Mishra Neel Ashok – Dr. Pawan MS Qualitative Data Augmentation using Scalable Diffusion Models AUG 2022-Mar2023
S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
11 Balvarun Pedapudi – Prof. Kishore Kothapalli MS Efficient K-mer counting using GPUs AUG 2021-JULY 2022
12 Jayadev Naram – Dr. Pawan Kumar MS Optimization models & solvers for recommendation with additional feedback or constraints for high dimensional tensor data AUG 2021-JULY 2022
13 Prasha Srivastava – Dr. Zia Abbas MS Design and tuning of cardiac pacemaker through machine learning and generative adversarial networks AUG 2021-JULY 2022
14 Sravya Vardhani S – Dr. Ravi Kiran S MS Wisdom of binned crowds AUG 2021-JULY 2022
15 Souradeep Deb – Dr. Sachin Chaudhari MS A GIS-based analysis of particulate matter (PM) OF different indian regions obtained from mobile IoT node AUG 2021-Mar 2022
16 Sara Spanddhana – Dr. Sachin Chaudhari MS Machine learning based calibration of low-cost gas sensors for air pollution monitoring AUG 2021-JULY 2022
Extension (Aug 2022-July 2023)
17 Suba S – Dr. Nita Parekh PHD Database construction and analysis chest x-ray and CT-scan images on COVID-19 AUG 2021-MAR 2022
18 Mirishkar Sai Ganesh – Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala PHD Speech Based Healthcare information systems in telugu language AUG 2021-JULY 2022
Extension (Aug 2022-July 2023)
19 Nayan Anand – Prof. Chiranjeevi Yarra MS Automatic spoken data validation for human-computer interaction (HCI) under indian context AUG 2021-JULY 2022
Extension (Aug 2022-July 2023)Extension (Oct 2023-Mar 2024)
20 K. Dharani Tejaswini – Prof. Vishal Garg PHD A databank for residential energy utilization in india AUG 2021-JULY 2022
Extension (Aug 2022-July 2023)Extension (Sep 2023-Feb 2024)
S.No. Student & Supervisor Degree Project Title Fellowship Period
1 Ayyappa Swamy – K. Madhava Krishna MS 3D Skyline Reconstruction for UAV Navigation JAN 2021-DEC 2021
Extension (Jan 2022-Apr 2022)
2 Purva Sharma – Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala PHD Development of resources and clinical tools for the assesment of speech disorders from speech JAN 2021-DEC 2021
Extension (Jan 2022-Dec 2022)
3 Pawan kumar y – Prof. Raghu Reddy & Prof. Syed Azeemuddin MS VREye Research Project JAN 2021-DEC 2021
4 Annesha Mazumder – Dr. Prabhakar, Dr. Tapan & Dr. Syed Azeemuddin PHD Detection of Biomolecules using Portable Radio Frequency Based Sensing Platforms JAN 2021-DEC 2021
5 Ishan Patwardhan – Dr. Sachin Chaudhari MS Air pollution monitoring using vehicular nodes in the city of hyderabad JAN 2021-DEC 2021
6 Supreeth s Karan – Kavita Vemuri & Avinash Sharma MS Spine Kinematics JAN 2021-DEC 2021
7 Piyush Singh – Dr. Vinod PK & Prof. C V Jawahar MS Deep learning framework for cancer classification and survival prediction using image-omics JAN 2021-DEC 2021
Extension (Jan 2022-Dec 2022)
8 Anushkha Tiwari – Dr. Aftab M Hussain MS Fetal and maternal health monitoring employing Fetal phonocardiography(FPCG) and Electromyography(EMG) technique JAN 2021-DEC 2021
9 Arpit Sahni – Dr. Abhishek Srivastava MS RESPIRE: A reliable and fast wireless pneumonia detector with litmus test capability for paedlatric care JAN 2021-DEC 2021
10 Arpita Dash – S. Bapi Raju MS Characterization of development and ageing of the brain JAN 2021-DEC 2021

Publications — Year-wise

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Asritha Arroju, Bhumika Sahu, Sachin Chaudhari, and Kavita Vemuri · IEEE FiCloud 2026
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Aditya Ranjan Padhi; Dr. Santosh Nannuru · IEEE FiCloud 2026
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Parth Maradia, Ayushi Agrawal, Srija Krishna Bhupathiraju, Kavita Vemuri · Cognitive Science 2025
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Asritha Arroju, Shreyash Gujar, Sachin Chaudhari, Kavita Vemuri · FiCloud 2025
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Pragya Khanna, Priyanka Kommagouni, Vamshiraghusimha Narasinga, Anil Kumar Vuppala · AACL-IJCNLP 2025
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Gaurav Bhole, Suba S, Nita Parekh · ICCABS 2025
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Hrishi Narayanan, Prasad Krishnan, Nita Parekh · IEEE ISIT 2024
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Nouduru Venkata Raghavendra, Deepthi Amuru, Zia Abbas · ISCAS 2024
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Uma Sankararao Varri, Debjani Mallick, Ashok Kumar Das, M. Shamim Hossain, Youngho Park, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues
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Furqan Ahmed Shaik, Sandeep Nagar, Aiswarya Maturi, Harshit Kumar Sankhla, Dibyendu Ghosh, Anshuman Majumdar, Srikanth Vidapanakal, Kunal Chaudhary, Sunny Manchanda, Girish Varma · ICPR 2024, Kolkata
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Om Rajendra Kathalkar, Nitin Nilesh, Sachin Chaudhari, Anoop Namboodiri · ICVGIP ’24
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Shreyash Narendra Gujar, Hitesh Pamireddy, Naga Saiteja Maradani, Sara Spanddhana, Sachin Chaudhari, K. S. Rajan · ICEPP 2024
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Naveen Kumar Gajingam, Sourav Karmakar, Aftab M Hussain · IEEE Sensor Letters
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Shreyas Jaiswal, Ruchi Pandey, Santhosh Nannuru · IEEE 2023
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Shishir Maurya, Ganesh Cgs, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur · ACM Buildsys 2023
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Rishika Agarwal, Madhur Garg, Dharani Tejaswini, Vishal Garg, Priyanka Srivastava, Jyotirmay Mathur, Rajat Gupta
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Madhan Kumar K, Jyotirmay Mathur, Srinivas Valluri, Dharani Tejaswini · EI.A 2023
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Spanddhana Sara, Andrew Rebeiro-Hargrave, Shreyash Gujar, Om Kathalkar, Samu Varjonen, Sachin Chaudhari, Sasu Tarkoma · Env Sys 2023
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Spanddhana Sara, Andrew Rebeiro-Hargrave, Ayu Parmar, Pak Lun Fung, Ishan Patwardhan, Samu Varjonen, C Rajashekhar Reddy, Sachin Chaudhari, Sasu Tarkoma · IEEE Access
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Ganesh S Mirishkhar, Vishnu Vidhyadhara Raju V, Meher Dinesh Naroju, Sudhamay Maity, Prakash Yalla, Anil Kumar Vuppala
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Anis Fatema, Ivin Kuriakose, Rohan Gupta, Aftab M Hussain · IEEE
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Anis Fatema, Saurabh B Mishra, Mohee Datta, Aftab M Hussain · IEEE
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Shishir Maurya, Ganesh CGS, K. Prabhakar Rao, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur · IJACR
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Jewel Benny, Pranjal Mahajan, Srayan Sankar Chatterjee, Mohd Wajid, Abhishek Srivastava
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Aadya Ranjan, Sidharth Ranjan, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar · SAFAL
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Shishir Maurya, Ganesh CGS, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur · ACM Buildsys
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Jayadev Naram, Tanmay Kumar Sinha, Pawan Kumar · OPT Workshop, NeurIPS 2021
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Shravya Shivapuja, Mansi Pradeep Khamkar, Divij Bajaj, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla · ACM Multimedia (MM ’21)
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Pavan Ramapragada, Dharani Tejaswini K, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur, Rajat Gupta · EI.A 2022, Vejle, Denmark
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Dharani Tejaswini K, Pavan Ramapragada, Sraavani Gundepudi, Kandukuri Prabhakara Rao, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur, Rajat Gupta · EI.A 2022, Vejle, Denmark
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G.V. Ihita, Vybhav K. Acharya, Likhith Kanigolla, S. Chaudhari, Thierry Monteil · COMSNETS 2023
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Ashish Menon, Piyush Singh, C.V. Jawahar, P.K. Vinod · ACPR 2021
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Anis Fatema, Shirley Chauhan, Mohee Datta, Aftab M Hussain · IEEE FLEPS
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Annesha Mazumder, Syed Azeemuddin, Prabhakar Bhimlapuram, Tapan K Sau · IEEE
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Ayyappa Swamy Thatavarthy, Tanu Sharma, Harshit Sankhla, Mukul Khanna, Madhava Krishna · VISIGRAPP
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Ayyappa Swamy Thatavarthy, Tanu Sharma, Madhava Krishna · Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV)
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Purva Barche, Krishna Gurgubelli, Anil Kumar Vuppala · APSIPA ASC 2021, Tokyo
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Pawankumar Gururaj Yendigeri, Sai Anirudh Karre, Raghav Mittal, Raghu Reddy, Syed Azeemuddin · IEEE VLSID & ES
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Pawankumar Gururaj Yendigeri, Raghav Mittal, Sai Anirudh Karre, Raghu Reddy, Syed Azeemuddin · IEEE VR + 3DUI
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Raghav Mittal, Sai Anirudh Karre, Pawankumar Gururaj Yendigeri, Raghu Reddy · ACM ISE
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Ishan Patwardhan, Spanddhana Sara, Sachin Chaudhari · FiCloud 2021

Patents — Year-wise

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System for Determining Air Quality Index (AQI) in Urban Environments

Filed25/07/2025
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Participants4
Registration No.202541073518

Air Quality Monitoring System for Identifying Critical Pollution Zones Using Real-Time Data from Mobile Sensors

Filed30/10/2024
End Date08/11/2024
Participants4
Registration No.202443083011

System and Method for Generating Traffic-Related Air Quality Image Datasets

Filed05/06/2024
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Participants4
Registration No.202441043706

System and Method for Detecting Posture of User at Smart Chair Using Machine Learning Model

Filed23/05/2023
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Participants2
Registration No.202341035778

Portable Air Quality and Traffic Monitoring Device

Filed28/01/2022
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Registration No.202241004682

iHub-Data · IIIT Hyderabad

R&D Showcase
Meet the Fellows

Researchers presenting their work at the annual showcase. Click a year to expand.

Aaheli Chakrabarty

Aaheli Chakrabarty

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Aditya Ranjan Padhi

Aditya Ranjan Padhi

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Asritha Arroju

Asritha Arroju

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Gaurav Bhole

Gaurav Bhole

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Pragya Khanna

Pragya Khanna

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Ruqaiyya Safdar Baramatiwala

Ruqaiyya Safdar Baramatiwala

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Vedula Bhaskara Hanuma

Vedula Bhaskara Hanuma

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Aadya Ranjan

Aadya Ranjan

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Laksh Nanwani

Laksh Nanwani

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Narahari N. Moudhgalya

Narahari N. Moudhgalya

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Naveen Kumar Gajingam

Naveen Kumar Gajingam

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Sarang Kudtarkar

Sarang Kudtarkar

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Shikhar Saxena

Shikhar Saxena

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Shreyash Gujar

Shreyash Gujar

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