Centre for Exact Humanities

Objective

The Center aims to conduct de-novo and conceptually rigorous research in Humanities. The Center is primarily devoted to fundamental research in Humanities.
The Center seeks to nurture research in trans-disciplinary confluence between Humanities and Computer Science.
Looking beyond contemporary boundaries of knowledge, the Center in particular seeks to draw insights from the Indian analytical traditions and cultural practices.

Three broad Confluence streams –
(1) Ontological Engineering: Philosophy/Indic Analytic Traditions/History of Ideas
(2) Cultural Informatics: Arts/Culture/Aesthetics/History/Geography/Literature
(3) Development Engineering: Economics/Law/Polity/Values/Education

Niche Research Areas

THEORY – Construction, Evaluations and Critique of Fundamental Theories in Humanities: Conducting basic research in exact reasoning regarding mind, meaning, action, values, manners, aesthetics, media and morals. Initial focus is on formal ontology of Humanities.

ANALYTIC TRADITIONS –– Advanced Study of Indian Analytic Traditions: Conducting basic research in darśana-s like Nyāya, Mīmāmsa, Sāmkhya, Bauddha etc. and prayōjana sāstra-s including vyākaraņa, itihāsa, nāţya, alamkāra & samgīta. Emphasis would be on the study of formalisms.

SOCIETY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – – Explorations on Values, Dispositions, Creativity and Development: Explore definitiveness and exactitude in human being, human conduct, human relations and resulting society and civilization. Initial focus is to provide research support to ongoing value education initiatives at IIIT-H and the country. In addition to this, studying the vast scope of technology and society interaction is also a focus area.

ART, CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY – Develop Cultural Informatics and Digital Humanities: Incredible cultural diversity is a unique Indian phenomenon that makes India an opportune cradle of Humanities. Plowing culture with ICT opens Pandora box for upcoming culture industry.

Teaching Programmes (associated with Center for Exact Humanities)

Under-graduate Programmes

1. B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
2. B.Tech in CS and MS by Research in Exact Humanities

Post-graduate Programmes

1. Ph.D in Exact Humanities
2. B.Tech in CS and MS by Research in Exact Humanities

Major Funded Projects

1. Visiting Scholars Programme at Centre for Computational Approach to Indian Analytic Traditions (2008-2011) (Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan)
2. Sahapedia Society, New Delhi: Tata Group (CMC), IIIT-H and SAHA have come together and registered a Society “Sahapedia” with a aim to build a comprehensive online encyclopedia of Indian Culture, Arts and Heritage.
3. Socionity: Web with Community Sourcing of Local Content (2011-2013) (Department of Information Technology (DIT))

Achievements

Others

1. Prof. Nand Kishore Acharya was conferred the Subramaniam Bharati Award 2011. The award, presented by the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, a national level institution under the Government of India’s (GoI’s) Ministry of Human Resources Department (MHRD), recognizes contributions to Hindi literature. The award consists of one-lac rupee cash and a citation by the President of India. (Oct 2011)

Faculty

1. Nandkishore Acharya
2. P R K Rao
3. Rajeev Sangal
4. Navjyoti Singh (Head)

Lecturers/Research Lecturers

1. Naini Arora
2. Banatanwi Dasmahapatra
3. Sharmistha Kar
4. Sunil Manohar Lohar
5. Devansh Mittal
6. Sonal Nimbkar
7. Harsh Satya
8. Rajesh Kumar Tavva
9. Pranav Kumar Vasishta

Research Scientists/Engineers

1. Sonal Mobar Roy

Adjunct Faculty

1. Baba Prasad
2. Tejinder Walia

Past Adjunct Faculty

1. Vinish Gupta
2. BN Patnaik
3. Kaiser Gibson Rebecca

Students

1. Prakani Ch
2. Rajesh Kumar TV
3. Avinash Jha
4. Sonal Nimbkar
5. Ashin Samvara
6. Harsh Satya
7. Sreenivasa Guttal
8. Devansh Mittal
9. Pranav Kumar Vasishta
10. Banatanwi Dasmahapatra
11. Debkamal Ganguly
12. Pooja Kaul
13. Naini Arora
14. Sharmistha Kar
15. Sunil Manohar Lohar
16. Lakshmi Valsalakumari
17. Sri Kalyan BVS
18. Akshay Minocha
19. Bharat Munshi
20. Spandana Otra
21. Pravin Patil
22. Shikhar Pradeep Raje
23. Biddala Sandeep Reddy
24. Taradheesh Bali
25. Arpita Chandra
26. Sahiti Chedalavada
27. Jyoti Jha
28. Sindhu Kiranmayi
29. Radha Manisha
30. Arpit Merchant Drumil
31. Shivani Poddar
32. Pushyami Rachapudi
33. Toshant Sharma
34. Vibhav Prateek Srivastava
35. Neha Ummareddy
36. Abrar Ahmed
37. Vikram Ahuja
38. Sravya Gurram
39. S Achyuth Narayan
40. Devansh Shah
41. Arijit Srivastava
42. Priyanka Suresh
43. Manas Tewari
44. Vrushank Vyas