Hyderabad International Institute of Information Technology

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Established	1998
Type	Deemed University, Education and Research, Private
Director	Rajeev Sangal
Academic staff	47 (regular)
Undergraduates	850
Postgraduates	370
Location	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Campus	Urban, 62 Acres
Mascot	Banyan Tree

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad is an autonomous university in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1998 with seed support from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. It was envisioned by Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of the State of Andhra Pradesh from 1995–2004, to put Hyderabad on the World IT map, through the creation of a prominent IT research university. It emphasizes research from the undergraduate level, which makes it different from the other leading engineering institutes in India like the IITs. Prof. Raj Reddy, the only Indian to get the Turing Award, is the chairman of the board of governors.

The major goal is to impart a uniquely broad and interdisciplinary IT education of high academic quality. This is done through a diverse curriculum of IT courses, interdisciplinary IT research projects, interaction with industry, preparation in entrepreneurship and personality development courses.

History

IIIT Hyderabad was set up in 1998 as a not-for-profit public private partnership (NPPP) and is the first IIIT to be set up (under this model) in India. The Government of Andhra Pradesh lent support to the institute by grant of land and buildings. A Governing Council consisting of eminent people from academia, industry and government presides over the governance of the institution. Dr. Rajeev Sangal, former Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, has played an instrumental part in setting up of the institute. He is current director of the institute.

IIIT-H is organized as research centres and labs, instead of the conventional departments, to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and a seamless flow of knowledge within the Institute. It is the only such institute of higher learning to follow such a model in India. Faculty assigned to the centers and labs conduct research, as well as academic programs, which are owned by the Institute, and not by individual research centers.

Centers

The institute is not divided into departments but instead research centers, namely:

Language Technologies Research Center
Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technologies
Data Engineering
Center for Visual Information Technology
Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research
Communications, Speech and Signal Processing Lab
Robotics Research Lab
Cognitive Science Lab
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Lab for Spatial Informatics
Center for Computation and Natural Science and Biology
Center for Exact Humanities

Location

The institute is in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, which is about 10km from the old city and the central railway station. It is close to HITEC City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centers. The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, in Shamshabad is close by from the campus.

Governing Council Members

Raj Reddy,University Professor of Computer Science & Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA
Rajeev Sangal (Ex-officio), Director, IIIT-H
Kamalakar Karlapalem (Ex-officio), Dean (Academic), IIIT-H
P J Narayanan (Ex-officio), Dean (R&D), IIIT-H
Narendra Ahuja, Director (International), IIIT-H, Donald Biggar Willet Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois
C.R. Biswal, IAS, Principal Secretary to Govt, Higher Education Dept, Secrectrait, Hyderabad
M Gopi Krishna, IPS (Ex-officio), Special Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh, Information Technology & Communications Department, Hyderabad
C Srini Raju, Managing Director, Peepul Capital Advisors P Ltd., Hyderabad
S Ramadorai, Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai
K C Reddy, Chairman, Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE), Hyderabad
D.N Reddy, Vice - Chancellor, JNTU, Kukatpally, Hyderabad
Som Mittal (Ex-officio), President, NASSCOM, New Delhi
N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Division of Information Science, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
U B Desai, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Research Areas

The research areas of the institute are:

Language Technologies
Speech Technologies
Information Extraction
Computer Vision & Image Processing
Data Engineering
Cognitive Sciences
Information Security, Theory & Algorithms
Robotics
Signal Processing & Communications
Building Sciences
Power Systems
Agriculture & Rural Development
Software Engineering
Computational Natural Sciences
Bioinformatics
Exact Humanities
Earthquake Engineering
VLSI & Embedded Systems
Spatial Informatics
Compilers
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Academic programs

The institute is a centre of learning for both under graduate and post graduate courses. The course pattern lays stress on research at both graduate and under graduate levels. The Curriculum and the academic programmes are altered and maintained to suit the upcoming and present changes in the Industry.

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Dual Degree Programs

The Dual Degree Programmes are as follows :-
1) B.Tech and MS (Master of Science) by Research in Computer Science and Engineering.
2) B.Tech and MS (Master of Science) by Research in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
3) B.Tech in Computer Science and Masters in Computational Natural Science.
4) B.Tech in Computer Science and Masters in Computational Linguistics.
5) B.Tech in Computer Science and MS by Research in Exact Humanities.

Post Graduate Programs

The postgraduate programmes offered here are as follows :-
1) M.Tech Computer Science Engineering (CSE).
2) M.Tech Computer Science & Information Security (CSIS).
3) M.Tech Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE).
4) M.Tech Bioinformatics.
5) M.Tech Computational Linguistics (CL).
6) Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT)

There are also programmes in computational linguistics like M.Phil (Master of Philosophy), MSc in computational natural sciences and Post BSc.

PhD

PhD courses provided here are as follows :-

PhD in Computer Science Engineering (CSE).
PhD in Computational Natural Sciences (CNS).
PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE).
PhD in Computational Linguistics (CL).
PhD in Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE).
PhD in Bio-informatics.
PhD IT in Power Systems.
PhD in Spatial Informatics.
PhD in Cognitive Science.
PhD in Exact Humanities.

Also courses including Post graduate diploma in Applied Agriculture and Information Technology(PGDAAIT), and in computational linguistics are provided.

Admissions

Under Graduate and Dual Degree

Admissions were taken solely through AIEEE i.e. CCB (Central Counseling board) counseling until the year 2009. From the academic batch 2010 (known as UG2k10) the institute revised the admission procedure and decided on independent selection students though still considering the merit achievements of AIEEE. The institute also selects students based on interviews and Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY).

Post Graduation

Admissions are on the basis of Post-graduate Entrance Exam (PGEE) conducted by IIIT-H.
Admissions to the MSIT programme run at this institute are based on a test conducted every year from April to May.

Curriculum

IIIT Curriculum can be said to be one of the best out of the engineering colleges in India. Students have the independence of choosing the subjects they want to study from the second year onwards. Eminent members of the industry are regularly invited to teach at the institute. The classroom for many courses is a mix of under graduate students, post graduate students and working professionals registered for the course. Students in under graduate programs are required to study limited number of cross departmental subjects, which they can choose from a large selection. Thus improving their knowledge beyond the regular curriculum. Students in third year onwards are encouraged to work in one of the research labs, thus making them work aware, and thus helping them choose their future field of work.

Campus

The Institute is situated on a campus of 62 acres (250,000 m²). There are 4 buildings that house the corporate schools and research centers. In addition to this, the academic building has the lecture halls, tutorial rooms, computer and electronics labs and offices of the administration and faculty. The buildings are named after the mountain ranges, Nilgiri, Vindhya and Himalaya (still underconstruction).

All students are provided hostel rooms. Few students have to share rooms (double occupancy) whereas most of the students have single occupancy. The Institute has a Guest House with four air conditioned suites. Two hostels for men and one for women have a total of about 1200 rooms. There is an optical fiber network connecting all buildings on campus including the hostels.

The Institute has well-equipped air-conditioned computer laboratories allocated batch-wise to students. The labs are equipped with modern hardware and software. The PC to students ratio is about 1:2. All computers are part of an intranet (1 Gbit/s Backbone). The Institute has high bandwidth (60 Mbit/s) Internet connectivity round the clock. Research students have 24 hours access to the computer facilities. The students administer their own computer systems. The research centers and corporate schools provide specialized equipment for research and development.

It is one of the most computer adataptive institutions in India. All the notices and information are sent over the campus email. From couriers to mess registration everthing is notified via specific portals(internal sites).

Selected areas of the institute like Few parts of Boys' Hostel, Nilgiri and Library Building are connected by WiFi. IIIT maintains its own proxy server.

Conferences

PAKDD 2010
IJCAI 2007, the premier international conference on Artificial Intelligence (an A+ grade conference)
FSTTCS 2005
ICDE RIDE 2003 (Multi-Lingual Information Management)

Workshops

Robocamp is a national level robotics workshop conducted by IIIT-H Robotics Club (IRC) every year in summers since 2008. In 2011 one of the most successful workshops was organised by the second year students of IRC. 2010, 2009 and 2008
Tech Ease a national workshop for students and professionals on innovation, design and user experience has been organised in 2009,2010 and 2011.
R & D Showcase - The research and project exhibition showcasing the research work and projects carried out in the institute.
ExOR ,Excitement of Research, is meant to excite deep interest in research, and encourage students to take up research both in academics and in career.

Ranking

IIIT Hyderabad is consistently ranked in the top 10 of most national rankings among engineering colleges. It ranks right after the Old IITs and is usually in the top five in the category of placements. The July 27, 2009 issue of India Today, India's leading news magazine, in the section titled "The Game Changers", named IIIT-H as one of the 25 Extraordinary Individuals and Institutions that have transformed education in India.

IIIT Hyderabad was ranked among the Best 6 Universities in South Asia, in terms of "scholarly papers" on the Internet, by Cybermetric Lab, Spain's largest public research institution in 2009.

IIIT Hyderabad was ranked overall 7th in 2008 and 5th in 2010 among the top technology schools in India Dataquest Magazine

Placement 2010 Top 3 in campus placements, among all technology schools in the country, by Dataquest -IDC T-School Survey in 2010.

Placement 2009 Top 2, among all technology schools in India, as per Mint-Cfore carried out Best Engineering Colleges’ Survey 2009, with an average compensation of Rs.6.1 lac, despite IIIT-H being the last among all engineering colleges in the country to open placement season

Placement 2008 Top 2, among all technology schools in India, as per Outlook-Synovate Survey; average compensation: Rs.7.2 lac per year, which is second highest in India, after IIT-Kharagpur’s

Placement 2007 Top 5, in India, among all categories of engineering colleges, as per Dataquest-IDC’s Best Engineering Colleges’ Survey

Student Life

With total students of about 1400, IIIT-H witnesses an active student life. Importance is given to all kinds of activities like cultural and sports. There are cultural and athletic activities throughout the year in which good participation is seen. Apart from these there are various clubs which are active like Movie Discussion Club, Dramatics Club, Photography Club and Music Club.

The students are divided into four Houses upon their intake in the college. The houses are: Agni, Aakash, Prithvi and Vayu. All the cultural and sport competitions are based around the house system where the houses battle it out for the top position.

Felicity

Each year IIIT holds its annual cultural and technical festival Felicity , in the month of February. Since its inception, Felicity has gone from strength to strength and is now one of the most eagerly awaited college festivals in Hyderabad. Felicity attracts students from all major engineering and degree colleges across the country.

Renowned music bands like Strings, Parikrama, Motherjane , Indian Ocean, Ganesh & Kumaresh, Euphoria, Demonic Resurrection, Bombay Vikings, Sledge have performed at Felicity over the past few years.

Solo performances by Mohit Chauhan of Masakali Fame and Kumar Vishwas, a popular comic poet (hasya-kavi), were huge hits in the recent years.

Dr I V Subba Rao, Chief Electoral Officer of Andhra Pradesh gave the inaugural address at Felicity 2010, while noted Telugu film director Sekhar Kammula, delivered the commencement address.

Jayaprakash Narayan, founder of the Lok Satta Party, gave an inaugural address at Felicity 2009.

Sports

There are various sports activities which are performed everyday. Sports also is alloted a compulsory credit and students must compulsorily take part in Physical Training for one semester to achieve this credit.

The students are encouraged to engage in various co-curricular and extra curricular activities for their all round development. IIIT has a basic gymnasium and provides ample facilities for major sports such as Cricket, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Throwball, Table-tennis, Badminton and Athletics. Inter-house sporting competitions are held every year where the four houses, namely Aakash, Agni, Prithvi and Vayu vie for the honors. Other than the house based competitions, inter-batch competitions have also been organised to improve the interaction among the various years.

Students Parliament

The student representatives of each batch constitute the student parliament of IIIT, the student parliament is given powers by the administration to form laws regarding student life in IIIT. The constitution of the college has been drafted by the students parliament. It acts as a governing body for the students. Student issues are addressed to the administration through the parliament. It acts as an intermediary between students and the administration.

The students parliament was dissolved in 2009 owing to inactivity. It has been resurrected in 2011, in a new form with representatives being elected from each batch.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011