International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

IIIT Hyderabad
Type Deemed university
Established 1998
Affiliation UGC, NAAC, NBA, AIU, AICTE
Dean Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy (Academics) Prof. Vasudeva Varma (R&D)
Director P. J. Narayanan
Academic staff
 80
Administrative staff
 69
Students 1522
Undergraduates 959
Postgraduates 337
94
Location Hyderabad, Telangana, India
17°26′44″N 78°20′59″E / 17.4456°N 78.3497°E / 17.4456; 78.3497Coordinates: 17°26′44″N 78°20′59″E / 17.4456°N 78.3497°E / 17.4456; 78.3497
Campus Urban, 66 Acres
Mascot Banyan Tree
Website https://www.iiit.ac.in
Data gathered from: https://www.iiit.ac.in/naac-report/

The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad) is an information technology research university based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was the first autonomous private institute of its kind to be established in 1998. IIIT Hyderabad is one of the top Computer Science institutes of the country.[1] It emphasizes research from the undergraduate level. It has been a consistent performer from India in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC); it has been sending teams to ICPC World Finals since last 7 consecutive years and finished at #18 in 2012.[2]

The institute runs Computer Science courses and research projects and is focused on research. It gives the students interaction with industry, preparation in entrepreneurship and personality development courses. IIIT Hyderabad is the mentor institute to Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City.[3]

History

IIIT Hyderabad was set up in 1998. As Special Officer for International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, Mr Ajay Prakash Sawhney was responsible for shaping the conceptual model, setting up the Institute in 1998 and catalyzing its emergence as a per-eminent institute in IT Education & Research. The State Government lent support to the institute by grant of land and buildings. A Governing Council consisting of people from academia, industry and government presides over the governance of the institution. Rajeev Sangal, former Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, designed the syllabus. He was the director of the institute till 10 April 2013. P. J. Narayanan, the former Dean R&D and current President of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM India) is the current Director.

Raj Reddy, the only Indian to win the Turing Award, is chairman of the board of governors. Vint Cerf, popularly known as the father of the Internet also a Turing Awardee joined the Board of Governors in February, 2015 to guide in IIIT Hyderabad's long term vision and research.[4]

Location

The institute is in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, which is about 20 km from the old city and the central railway station. It is close to Knowledge centre HITEC City, which houses Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, IBM, Facebook, Qualcomm Motorola, Capgemini and Infosys.

Administration

Governing Council members

Academics

IIIT Hyderabad offers undergraduate, postgraduate and dual degree programmes. Undergraduate programmes award either Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) or B.Tech (Honors) in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Civil Engineering, while postgraduate programmes award either Master of Technology (M.Tech), Master of Science (MS) or Master of Philosophy (M.Phil). Dual degree programmes award B.Tech/MS. The dual degrees offer MS in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computational Natural Science, Building sciences [MS in specialized courses of civil], Computational Linguistics and Exact Humanities along with a B.Tech in Computer Science. PhD degrees and post graduate diplomas are also given. IIIT Hyderabad also offers MSIT program in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, USA.[5] The institute lays a great importance on "Human Values" and professional ethics.

Admissions

Admissions for undergraduate and dual degrees were taken through JEE Main i.e. CCB (Central Counseling Board) counseling until the year 2009.

From the academic batch 2010, the institute revised the admission procedure and decided on independent selection students though still considering the merit achievements of JEE Main. The institute also selects students based on interviews and Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) and NTSE.

Admissions for postgraduate studies are on the basis of the Postgraduate Entrance Exam (PGEE) conducted by IIIT Hyderabad.
Admissions to the MSIT programme run at this institute are based on a test conducted every year from April to May.

Ranking

College rankings
General – India
Careers360[6] 75
Engineering – India
NIRF[7] 75
India Today[8] 14
Outlook India[9] 11

IIIT Hyderabad BIT was ranked 75 in India by Careers360's in 2017, 11th among private universities.[6] Among engineering colleges, it ranked 14th by India Today in 2017,[8] 11th by Outlook India in 2017[9] and 75 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2017.[7]

Centers

The institute is divided into research centers:

Combined Research Center

Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) was established in 2015, with funding from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to act as an umbrella organization and to strengthen the existing research, facilitate new activities in areas related to the current research at the institute and give a fillip to the research, training and entrepreneurship in the broad area of Intelligent Systems.

Technology

Domains

Development Centers

Campus

The area of the institute campus is 66 acres (approx. 267,000 m²). There are four 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.

All students are provided hostel rooms. First-year and second-year students, who have enrolled in a Bachelor's or Dual-Degree program, are required to share rooms (double occupancy) whereas from the third-year onwards, the students have single occupancy.[10] 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 air-conditioned computer laboratories, allocated batch-wise to students. 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 (100 Mbit/s) Internet connectivity round the clock. Students undertaking research can access computational facilities 24/7. All the notices and information are sent over the campus email. From couriers to mess registration, everything is notified via specific portals(internal sites). Some areas of the institute, like a few parts of the Boys' Hostel, Nilgiri and Library are connected by Wi-Fi.

Recently IIIT-H has been announced to host T-Hub,[11] which will be India’s biggest incubation center in collaboration with Indian School of Business and Nalsar University of Law. Its aim is to provide a supportive environment, along with financial and mentorship support to new startups in the region.

Conferences

Some of the top international conferences in the fields related to Computer Science have been held in IIIT Hyderabad

Workshops

Student life

With about 1500 students, IIIT Hyderabad has cultural and athletic activities throughout the year. There are clubs like Literary Club, 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 the institute holds its annual cultural and technical festival Felicity, in February. Felicity is one of the most eagerly awaited college festivals in Hyderabad. Felicity attracts students from all major engineering and degree colleges across the country.

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.

There have been solo performances by Mohit Chauhan of Masakali Fame and Kumar Vishwas, a comic poet (hasya-kavi).

Sports

Sports are allotted two compulsory credits and students must take part in Physical Training for two semester to achieve these four credits.

IIIT Hyderabad has a gymnasium and facilities for sports such as cricket, football, basketball, volleyball, throwball, table-tennis, badminton and athletics. Inter-house sporting competitions are held every year with four houses, Aakash, Agni, Prithvi and Vayu. Other than the house-based competitions, there are inter-batch competitions.

Students' Parliament

The student representatives of each batch constitute the student parliament of IIIT Hyderabad, which forms laws regarding student life. The constitution of the college was drafted by the students parliament. It is the governing body for the students. Student issues are addressed to the administration through the parliament.

Ping

Students run a monthly newsletter called PING. Content has mostly been restricted to creative writing, though the need for a change in editorial policy has been realized recently. In 2015, PING went through a long overdue design makeover and shifted primarily to an online magazine

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/iiith-students-get-15-crore-package/article6677071.ece
  2. ↑ Best Ever Performance by an Indian College at the World's Toughest Programming Contest ACM ICPC | IIIT Hyderabad. Iiit.ac.in. Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
  3. ↑ IIIT Sri City
  4. ↑ "Governing Council". IIIT Hyderabad. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Welcome to MSIT Program". www.msitprogram.net. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  6. 1 2 "Top Universities in India 2017". Careers360. 2017.
  7. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2017 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2017.
  8. 1 2 "India's Best Colleges 2017: Engineering". India Today. 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Top 100 Engineering Colleges In 2017". Outlook India. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Citation Needed
  11. ↑ http://startuphyderabad.com/indias-biggest-launch-pad-start-ups-hyderabad-t-hub
  12. ↑ Students develop low-cost smoke detector. Ibnlive.in.com (2011-06-12). Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
  13. ↑ "Creative skills come to the fore". The Hindu. 12 June 2011.
  14. ↑ The Hindu : Telangana / Hyderabad News : Skills to the fore at IIIT Hyderabad R&D showcase Archived 5 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine.. Webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
  15. ↑ "Skills to the fore at IIIT Hyderabad R&D showcase". The Hindu. 28 February 2011.
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