Ten research projects from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) have got the Advanced Research Grant (ARG).
ARG of Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) is one of India’s most competitive funding programs for high-impact scientific research.
The projects were selected from around 15,700 proposals submitted across India. It highlights the institute’s strong research ecosystem and growing influence in emerging technologies.
These projects span artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, speech technology, climate science, healthcare, and accessibility technologies.
List of Projects that Received Funding
| No. | Project Title | Principal Investigator (PI) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quantum LDPC Codes and Topological Codes for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation | Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani |
| 2 | Learned Estimation of Action Plausibility (LEAP) | Dr. Girish Varma (PI) and Dr. Antony Thomas (Co-PI) |
| 3 | Controlling Prosody for Typical Spoken Language Technological Systems | Dr. Chiranjeevi Yarra (PI), Dr. Parameswari Krishnamurthy, and Dr. Rajakrishnan (Co-PIs) |
| 4 | Blind Identification of Channel Codes: Fundamental Limits, Algorithms and Analysis | Dr. Arti Yardi (PI), and Dr. Prasad Krishnan (Co-PI) |
| 5 | Classical Control of Untrusted Quantum Devices | Dr. Atul Singh Arora (PI), Dr. Uttam Singh (Co-PI), and Venkata Koppula (Co-PI) |
| 6 | Domain-Agnostic to Domain-Aware: Adapting Indian Language ASR for Practical Applications | Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppula |
| 7 | IndiG Multimodal: Advancing Multimodal Machine Learning for Indian Languages | Dr. Vineet Gandhi |
| 8 | Towards a Deeper Understanding of Diurnal Precipitation over India by Harnessing Models, Observations and Artificial Intelligence Techniques | Dr. Shruti Upadhyaya (PI), Dr. Kuldeep Kurte (Co-PI) |
| 9 | Modern AI/ML-Integrated Physics-Based Protocols for Discovering Selective EphA2 and RTK Inhibitors | Dr. Deva Priyakumar (PI) and Dr. Vinod PK’s (Co-PI) |
| 10 | AI for Understanding Sign Languages | Dr. CV Jawahar (Co-PI) and Dr. Ashutosh Modi’s (PI, IIT Kanpur) |