The students of B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering – Sri Harsha Vardhan Chikkala, Triyek Reddy Tumma and Lohith Venkata Simhachalam Paila – won the Best Paper Award for their impactful work in plant disease detection, presented at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Intelligent Network Computing (ICDSINC 2025), held in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, from December 09-11, 2025. Their paper titled “Hybrid Deep Learning Pipeline with CNN-Based Feature Embeddings and Dimensionality Reduction for Plant Disease Detection” was submitted to the IDP Project category.
Congratulations to the student authors and their faculty mentor Dr Naga Sravanthi Puppala, Assistant Professor-Ad hoc, Department of Computer Science and Engineering for this achievement that reflects the academic depth and research-driven thinking put forth by the university’s academic ecosystem.