International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is an autonomous university founded in 1998. It was set up as a not-for-profit public private partnership (N-PPP) 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.

IIIT-H was set up as a research university focused on the core areas of Information Technology, such as Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and their applications in other domains. The institute evolved strong research programmes in a host of areas, with computation or IT providing the connecting thread, and with an emphasis on the development of technology and applications, which can be transferred for use to industry and society. This required carrying out basic research that can be used to solve real life problems. As a result, a synergistic relationship has come to exist at the Institute between basic and applied research. Faculty carries out a number of academic industrial projects, and a few companies have been incubated based on the research done at the Institute.

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) was established in the year 1998 as a nonprofit public private partnership institution. It is the first IIIT to be set up under this model in India. The IIIT-H is an Autonomous University approved by the MHRD, UGC.

The IIIT-H is spread over in 66 acres of land, sited on the Old Bombay Highway in Gachibowli Town in Hyderabad, the district of AP. The campus is situated in the heart of the city near Gachibowli stadium and 16 km from the Nampally Railway Station.

The institute is conducting the following engineering courses:

Under Graduate Courses

B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) – 4 years

1.      Computer Science & Engineering

2.      Electronics & Communication Engineering

Post Graduate Courses

M.Tech (Master of Technology) – 2 years

1.      Computer Science and Engineering

2.      Computer Science and Information Security

3.      VLSI and Computer Engineering

4.      Computer Aided Structural Engineering

5.      Bioinformatics

6.      Computational Linguistics

Doctoral Degree Courses

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

1.      Computer Science and Engineering

2.      Electronics and Communication Engineering

3.      Computational Natural Sciences

4.      Bioinformatics

5.      Computational Linguistics

6.      Civil Engineering

7.      IT in Building Science

8.      Spatial Informatics

9.      Cognitive Science

10.  Exact Humanities

IIIT Hyderabad is structured around research centers and labs as opposed to schools and departments. Each research center focuses on a broad problem area and brings together experts possibly with varied background to conduct research and development on specific aspects of that problem area, constantly pushing the science to the next level.

The current Research Centers and Laboratories are listed below based on their research focus on technologies and domains. There are also domain centers which make use of technologies in typically unusual domains in innovative ways.