IIIT Naya Raipur Placement 2020: Two students get direct PhD admission at University in USA

Two BTech students of IIIT Naya Raipur have got direct PhD admission in Computer Science at the prestigious South Carolina University, USA. Both students are from the 2016 batch and will be graduating this July.

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee International Institute of Information Technology Naya Raipur (IIIT-NR) this year's placement achieved new heights with two of its BTech final year students securing direct PhD admission in Computer Science at the prestigious South Carolina University, USA. Both students are from the 2016 batch and will be graduating this July.

The six-month major projects of both the students - Vedant Khandelwal and Vishal Pallagani - revolved around people's behaviour through twitter in Covid-19. The projects use advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to understand human behaviour.

Both the students at IIIT-Naya Raipur, under Professor Venkanna U worked on a project titled “Deep Learning Integrated Solar Powered Device for Automatic Plant Disease Prediction for Internet-of-Agro-Things (IoAT)”. In their work, they had proposed novel automation of irrigation with an integrated health maintenance system for the crops.

Talking to the students about the project they are working on currently they said: “We are currently working on analyzing the online conversations to track the social and mental health issues surfacing during the coronavirus pandemic. We are performing this analysis on more than 800 million social media posts since the beginning of March and more than 700,000 news articles about the Covid-19 pandemic.''

''We are also working on various other research projects such as identifying the relations between cannabis and depression, developing a question answering system for the medical domain, understanding radicalization, and suicidal instincts in social media posts. But these are all the projects we are currently working on, it is not guaranteed that we will continue to work on the same once we start our PhD. because we will be exploring more venues where we wish to research and might start working on that.”, students added.

Students in their batch have already been placed in one of the best IT companies such as Deloitte USI, Utopia Labs, Carl Zeiss, TCS Digital, TCS Ninja, Ericsson, Examly, Algotech,