HYDERABAD,  March 5:Hyderabad’s annual R&D showcase will be  conducted on Saturday 6 March in an entirely virtual format.
The event  is a great opportunity for the general public to interact with faculty  and students and understand their work in more tangible forms through  demos, prototypes and presentations in keeping with the institute’s  endeavour to promote applied research that benefits society.

Currently  in its 20th edition, the event has grown from strength year-on-year and  attracts more than 3,000 visitors from research, academia, media and  industry. This year’s virtual research expo will feature IIITH’s 22  research centres, 300+ research demos and an inaugural keynote by Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor, IIT Madras.

This year’s showcase will also present research from IIITH’s Kohli  Centre of Intelligent Systems (KCIS), the recently launched Smart City  Research Centre set up in collaboration with MEITY (Government of India),  Smart City Mission and Government of Telangana, as well as Applied  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Centre (INAI) that has been  working on applying AI to population scale problems in the Indian  context, combining research and translation in collaboration with Intel  and Govt of Telangana.

Commenting on R&D Showcase 2021, Prof P J Narayanan, Director,  IIITH said, “While we will miss the in-person interaction with visitors  from other educational institutions and industry, students have  enthusiastically adapted to the new virtual format and are excited to  showcase their research and the positive impact of technology on society  to an even larger borderless audience.”The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad  (IIIT-H) is an autonomous research university founded in 1998 that  focuses on the core areas of Information Technology, such as Computer  Science, Electronics and Communications, and their applications in other  domains through inter-disciplinary research with great social impact.  Some of its research domains include Visual Information Technologies,  Human Language Technologies, Data Engineering, VLSI and Embedded  Systems, Computer Architecture, Wireless Communications, Algorithms and  Information Security, Robotics, Building Science, Earthquake  Engineering, Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics, IT in  Agriculture and e-Governance.(UNI)