International Institute of Information Technology

Established 1998
Type Deemed University, Education and Research, Private
Director Dr. Rajeev Sangal
Academic staff 47 (regular)
Undergraduates 670
Postgraduates 370
Location Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Campus Urban, 62 Acres
Mascot Banyan Tree

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad [अंतरराष्ट्रीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान हैदराबाद] is a prominent Research University (autonomous institute) started 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.
Contents
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* 1 Centers
* 2 Location
* 3 Governing Council Members
* 4 Research Areas
* 5 Academic programs
o 5.1 Under Graduate Programs
o 5.2 Dual Degree Programs
o 5.3 Post Graduate Programs
o 5.4 PhD
o 5.5 Admissions
+ 5.5.1 Under Graduate and Dual Degree
+ 5.5.2 Post Graduation
* 6 Campus
* 7 Conferences
* 8 Workshops
* 9 Ranking
* 10 Curriculum
* 11 Students Parliament
* 12 Felicity
* 13 Sports
* 14 See also
* 15 External links

[edit] Centers

* Language Technologies
* Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technologies
* Data Engineering
* Visual Information Technology
* Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research
* Communications
* Robotics research Lab
* Cognitive science lab

[edit] Location

The institute is in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. 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.
[edit] Governing Council Members

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

[edit] 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
* IT for Education

[edit] 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.
[edit] Under Graduate Programs

The Undergraduate programmes offered here are as follows :-
1) B.tech (Bachelor of Technology) in Computer Sciences (CSE).
2) B.Tech in Electronics and Communications (ECE).
3) B.Tech Honors in the above fields - A programme offered at the end of second year to allow research oriented students to focus on the research orientation of their academic field.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] PhD

1) PhD courses provided here are as follows :-

2) PhD Computer Science Engineering (CSE).

3) PhD Computational Natural Sciences (CNS).
4) PhD Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE).
5) PhD Computational Linguistics (CL).
6) PhD Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE).
7) PhD Bio-informatics.
8) PhD IT in Power Systems.
9) PhD Spatial Informatics.
10) PhD Cognitive Science.
11) PhD Exact Humanities.
Also courses including Post graduate diploma in Applied Agriculture and Information Technology(PGDAAIT), and in computational linguistics are provided.
[edit] Admissions
[edit] 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.
[edit] Post Graduation

Admissions are on the basis of Post-graduate Entrance Exam (PGEE) conducted by IIIT-H.
Admissions to the MSIT programme [1] run at this institute are based on a test conducted every year from April to May.
[edit] 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.

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 (8 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.

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.
[edit] Conferences

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

[edit] Workshops

1. Robocamp [2] 2010, 2009 and 2008
2. R & D showcase - The research and project exhibition showcasing the research work and projects carried out in the institute.

[edit] 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.

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[3]

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

Placement details - http://iiit.net/placements/placement2010/
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Felicity

Each year IIIT holds its annual cultural and technical festival Felicity [4], 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. ent was a major new addition to the Felicity 2010.

Renowned music bands like Strings[5], Parikrama[6], Motherjane [7], 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 comedian, 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.