Hyderabad: The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), an autonomous research university celebrates its 25th anniversary, and announces the appointment of new chairman, Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala. Founding Chairman Prof Raj Reddy has been a major part of its journey since its inception in 1998. IIIT Hyderabad, founded to foster research and innovation and with teaching and learning, has emerged as a knowledge hub, propelling it into a league of leading international institutes of repute.
As IIIT Hyderabad celebrates its silver jubilee of transformative education and groundbreaking research, it also begins a new chapter with the appointment of a new chairman, Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala who has a proven track record of visionary leadership and a deep passion for education and is poised to lead IIIT Hyderabad to new heights of excellence. Prof Raj Reddy, who made significant contributions was felicitated for decades of service as the Founding Chairman of the institute.
According to Prof. P J Narayanan, Director – IIIT-H, 20 PPP IIITs are formed in the “IIIT Hyderabad Model” across the country now. It is a great model for the country to fly high. It is a self-supporting model and not government-supported. IIIT Hyderabad has been the guiding model and potent force behind several state and national institutions like T-Hub, Centre of Innovation & Entrepreneurship(CIE), 21st Century Gurukulams, RGUKT, National Institute of Smart Governance(NISG) and others, he said.
In Data-Driven Research Rankings, IIIT Hyderabad is ranked 1st in India, 30th in Asia and 102 in the world, he added
Our current focus areas are Signal Processing and Communications, Data Sciences and analytics, Language Technologies, Robotics, Security, Theory and Algorithms, Smart Cities, Cognitive Science, Computational Social Sciences etc. and others, he said.
He highlighted many research projects such as iRASTE, a Road Safety Project in Nagpur and Telangana; India Driving Dataset, Bodhyaan Platform, Biometric-Build deduplication and matching engines for UIDAI, Speech-to-Speech translation mission, bhAShiNi and Live annotation of players in a cricket match with Star Sports and others.
We have 6000 strong alumni, we touched 6000 professionals through our Executive Education Courses. Several of our alumni are faculty at IITs, ETH and INRIA he said. 800 plus alumni worked in Microsoft, 900 in Google and 900 in Amazon. Several have become IAS and IPS officers, Prof P. J. Narayana informed.
