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Proud of our alumnus Kunvar Thaman (Class of 2022, Pilani) 🎓 His solo-authored paper — Reward Hacking Benchmark has been accepted at ICML 2026, Seoul. Evaluating AI "shortcut-taking" across 13 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google & DeepSeek. Reportedly the first solo-authored

⏳ Deadline: May 3 🔗 Apply now: 3dvss.github.io #3DVSS #ComputerVision #DeepLearning #3DVision #SummerSchool #BITSPilani

Who should apply? ✅ 3rd / 4th year UG students ✅ MS & PhD scholars ✅ Faculty members ✅ Industry professionals Selection is based on application review. Apply early — seats fill fast!

🧵 Big news for 3D vision folks! BITS Pilani Goa + IIIT Hyderabad are hosting the 5th 3D Vision Summer School (3DVSS) — a week-long hands-on deep dive into 3D Computer Vision. Deadline: May 3 | Seats limited 👇

Join a virtual talk by Prof. Milind Tambe (Harvard & Google Research) on “Generative AI for Global Social Impact.” 🗓 Feb 20 | 7:30 PM IST 💻 Virtual Open to faculty, researchers & students. 🔗 meet.google.com/wui-gytu-aho

As per the Ministry Directives Appcair team won't be available in the Hall 6, Booth 6.9 on 19th Feb 2026 for India AI Summit, 2026. Request you to plan to meet us on 20th Feb, 2026. Thank you for your continued support. #IndiaAISummit2026 #IndiaAIExpo

🚀 Big milestone for India’s AI ecosystem! Bharat1.AI plans to build the world’s first Humanity-Centric AI City in Bengaluru. Proud to see BITS Pilani as a foundational knowledge partner, helping shape ethical, human-aligned AI. #AI #Innovation #BITS #Bengaluru

✨ Glimpse of Day 1! Ideas. Collaboration. Innovation. Have a project or looking to partner or support new initiatives? Let’s connect.

🚀 APPCAIR is heading to the India AI Impact Summit 2026! Join us at Hall 6, Booth 6.9 to dive into groundbreaking AI research and real-world applications. 16-20 Feb 2026 | Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi See you there! 🤝 #IndiaAI #APPCAIR

📢 Another #ACL2025 paper from #APPCAIR! 📘 DPO Kernels: A Semantically-Aware, Kernel-Enhanced & Divergence-Rich Paradigm for Direct Preference Optimization

🚨 New paper from #APPCAIR accepted at #ACL2025! 📘 YinYang-Align: A benchmark for multi-objective preference-based text-to-image alignment. 🎓 Authors: Amitava Das, Yaswanth Narsupalli, Gurpreet Singh, Vinija Jain, Vasu Sharma, Suranjana Trivedy, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth

🚨 PhD Opportunity! Apply for the Wipro WIN Research Fellowship @BITS Pilani (Goa campus) 📍Topic: Physics-Informed Digital Twins for Urban Water 💰 ₹37K/mo + HRA | 💡 AI + ML + Real-world impact 🔗Email: snehanshus@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in santonus@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

🎉 Congrats to Prof. Siddharth Gupta (CSIS, BITS Goa) on receiving the 🇮🇳 PM Early Career Research Grant by ANRF! #BITSianResearch #PMECRG #GraphTheory

🎉 Congrats to Prof. Harikrishnan N B (CSIS, BITS Goa) for receiving the 🇮🇳 PM’s Early Career Research Grant by ANRF! #ExplainableAI #PMECRG #HealthcareAI #BITSianResearch #BITSGoa

🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 Prof. Snehanshu Saha will be speaking at the 2025 Symposium on AI & Pharmaceutical Medicine (AIPM-India)! 🧠💊 📅 10-12 Sept, 2025 | 📍 IIT Madras Don't miss out on this groundbreaking event! #AIPMIndia2025 #AIinPharma #IITM #PharmaceuticalMedicine

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Sougata Sen & team from @BITSPilaniGoa + Prof. Thad Starner (@GeorgiaTech) for winning a DST-NSF grant! 📚 Project: GameSignAI 🎮 AI games to teach Deaf children ISL & ASL 💡 Empowering inclusive education through tech! #AIforGood #BITSGoa

🎉 Congrats to Profs. Snehanshu Saha, Aditya Challa & Sravan Danda (@BITSGoa) for securing a consultancy grant from MAMTA–Health Institute for Mother & Child, New Delhi! 📊 AI + Data for tackling malnutrition in vulnerable groups. #AIforGood #HealthTech #BITSianImpact #BITSGoa

🚀 Excited to share that Arnab K. Paul’s research paper “UnifyFL: Enabling Decentralized Cross-Silo Federated Learning” has been accepted to #Middleware2025 — one of the top conferences in distributed systems! 🌍🔐