The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (अंतरराष्ट्रीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान हैदराबाद, IIIT, Hyderabad,IIIT-H) is an autonomous university in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1998, and has now emerged as one of the most prestigious institutes of the country. It emphasizes research from the undergraduate level, which makes it different from the other leading engineering institutes in India like the IITs. It has been a consistent performer from India in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and finished at #18 last year. Raj Reddy, the only Indian to win the Turing Award, is the chairman of the board of governors.
The institute runs IT courses and IT research projects and is heavily focused on research related to computation. It gives the students interaction with industry, preparation in entrepreneurship and personality development courses.
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. It was envisioned by Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of the State of Andhra Pradesh from 1995 to 2004. The government of Andhra Pradesh 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. Dr. Rajeev Sangal, former Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, has played an instrumental part in setting up of the institute. He was the director of the institute till April 10 2013. Dr P J Narayan, the former Dean R&D and current President of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM India) is the current Director.
IIIT-H is as research centres and labs, instead of the conventional departments, to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and the 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.
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