International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (अंतरराष्ट्रीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान हैदराबाद, IIIT, Hyderabad, IIITH) is an autonomous university in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
. It was established 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.
IIIT-H is organized as research centres and labs, instead of the conventional departments, to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and a seamless 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.
(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. The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, in Shamshabad is close by from the campus.
The Curriculum and the academic programmes are altered and maintained to suit the upcoming and present changes in the Industry.
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.
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.
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.
Also courses including Post graduate diploma in Applied Agriculture and Information Technology(PGDAAIT), and in computational linguistics are provided.
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. The institute also selects students based on interviews and Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana
(KVPY).
Admissions to the MSIT programme http://msitprogram.net/ run at this institute are based on a test conducted every year from April to May.
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 (60 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.
It is one of the most computer adataptive institutions in India. All the notices and information are sent over the campus email. From couriers to mess registration everthing is notified via specific portals(internal sites).
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.
The July 27, 2009 issue of India Today, India's leading news magazine, in the section titled "The Game Changers", named IIIT-H as one of the 25 Extraordinary Individuals and Institutions that have transformed education in India.
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 Magazinehttp://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2008/108060901.asp
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
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.
http://felicity.iiit.ac.in/, 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.
Renowned music bands like Stringshttp://www.stringsonline.net/, Parikrama
http://www.parikrama.com/, Motherjane
http://www.motherjaneindia.com/, 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 comic poet (hasya-kavi), 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.
The students are encouraged to engage in various co-curricular and extra curricular activities for their all round development. IIIT has a basic gymnasium and provides ample facilities for major sports such as Cricket, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Throwball, Table-tennis, Badminton and Athletics. Inter-house sporting competitions are held every year where the four houses, namely Aakash, Agni, Prithvi and Vayu vie for the honors. Other than the house based competitions, inter-batch competitions have also been organised to improve the interaction among the various years.
The students parliament was dissolved in 2009 owing to inactivity. It has been resurrected in 2011, in a new form with representatives being elected from each batch.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It was established in 1998 with seed support from the Government of Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
. It was envisioned by Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister
Chief Minister
A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
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
Indian Institutes of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology are a group of autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education. The IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as “institutions of national importance”, and lays down their powers, duties,...
. Prof. Raj Reddy
Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy , a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU...
, the only Indian to get the Turing Award
Turing Award
The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
, 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.
History
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. 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. Dr. Rajeev Sangal, former Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, has played an instrumental part in setting up of the institute. He is current director of the institute.IIIT-H is organized as research centres and labs, instead of the conventional departments, to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and a seamless 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.
Centers
The institute is not divided into departments but instead research centers, namely:- Language Technologies Research Center
- Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technologies
- Data Engineering
- Center for Visual Information Technology
- Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research
- Communications, Speech and Signal Processing Lab
- Robotics Research Lab
- Cognitive Science Lab
- Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Lab for Spatial Informatics
- Center for Computation and Natural Science and Biology
- Center for Exact Humanities
Location
The institute is in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, which is about 10km from the old city and the central railway station. It is close to HITEC CityHITEC City
HITEC City stands for Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City, a major technology township which is at the center of the information technology industry in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India....
(a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
, Motorola
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
, Infosys
Infosys
Infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China,...
and GE Capital
GE Capital
GE Capital is the financial services unit of General Electric, one of five major units. Its various divisions include GE Capital Aviation Services, GE Capital Real Estate, GE Energy Financial Services and GE Money....
) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centers. The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, in Shamshabad is close by from the campus.
Governing Council Members
- Raj ReddyRaj ReddyDabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy , a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU...
,University Professor of Computer Science & Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA - Rajeev Sangal (Ex-officio), Director, IIIT-H
- Kamalakar Karlapalem (Ex-officio), Dean (Academic), IIIT-H
- P J Narayanan (Ex-officio), Dean (R&D), IIIT-H
- 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
- M Gopi Krishna, IPS (Ex-officio), Special Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh, Information Technology & Communications Department, Hyderabad
- C Srini Raju, Managing Director, Peepul Capital Advisors P Ltd., Hyderabad
- S Ramadorai, Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai
- K C Reddy, Chairman, Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE), Hyderabad
- D.N Reddy, Vice - Chancellor, JNTU, Kukatpally, Hyderabad
- Som MittalSom MittalSom Mittal is the current president of NASSCOM. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad, Mittal has rich corporate experience in industries ranging from manufacturing through automobiles to IT. He has worked at such organizations as Larsen & Toubro, Escorts, SRF, Wipro and Compaq and now in...
(Ex-officio), President, NASSCOMNASSCOMThe National Association of Software and Services Companies of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas....
, New Delhi - N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Division of Information Science, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
- U B Desai, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
PhD
PhD courses provided here are as follows :-- PhD in Computer Science Engineering (CSE).
- PhD in Computational Natural Sciences (CNS).
- PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE).
- PhD in Computational Linguistics (CL).
- PhD in Computer Aided Structural Engineering (CASE).
- PhD in Bio-informatics.
- PhD IT in Power Systems.
- PhD in Spatial Informatics.
- PhD in Cognitive Science.
- PhD in Exact Humanities.
Also courses including Post graduate diploma in Applied Agriculture and Information Technology(PGDAAIT), and in computational linguistics are provided.
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. The institute also selects students based on interviews and Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana
The Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana is an ongoing program started by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to encourage students of Basic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to take up research careers in these areas...
(KVPY).
Post Graduation
Admissions are on the basis of Post-graduate Entrance Exam (PGEE) conducted by IIIT-H.Admissions to the MSIT programme http://msitprogram.net/ run at this institute are based on a test conducted every year from April to May.
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.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. The buildings are named after the mountain ranges, Nilgiri, Vindhya and Himalaya (still underconstruction).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 (60 Mbit/s) Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
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.
It is one of the most computer adataptive institutions in India. All the notices and information are sent over the campus email. From couriers to mess registration everthing is notified via specific portals(internal sites).
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.
Conferences
- PAKDD 2010
- IJCAI 2007, the premier international conference on Artificial IntelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
(an A+ grade conference) - FSTTCS 2005
- ICDE RIDE 2003 (Multi-Lingual Information Management)
Workshops
- Robocamp is a national level robotics workshop conducted by IIIT-H Robotics Club (IRC) every year in summers since 2008. In 2011 one of the most successful workshops was organised by the second year students of IRC. 2010, 2009 and 2008
- Tech Ease a national workshop for students and professionals on innovation, design and user experience has been organised in 2009,2010 and 2011.
- R & D Showcase - The research and project exhibition showcasing the research work and projects carried out in the institute.
- ExORExcitement of Research, is meant to excite deep interest in research, and encourage students to take up research both in academics and in career.
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.The July 27, 2009 issue of India Today, India's leading news magazine, in the section titled "The Game Changers", named IIIT-H as one of the 25 Extraordinary Individuals and Institutions that have transformed education in India.
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 Magazinehttp://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2008/108060901.asp
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
Student Life
With total students of about 1400, IIIT-H witnesses an active student life. Importance is given to all kinds of activities like cultural and sports. There are cultural and athletic activities throughout the year in which good participation is seen. Apart from these there are various clubs which are active like 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 IIIT holds its annual cultural and technical festival FelicityFelicity Festival
Felicity is the annual cultural and technical festival of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad . It is held in February for three days at IIIT-H in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.-History:...
http://felicity.iiit.ac.in/, 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.
Renowned music bands like Stringshttp://www.stringsonline.net/, Parikrama
Parikrama
For meaning of word see Parikrama .Parikrama is a Rock and Roll band from Delhi, India. They have several live performances and original numbers to their name. The band was officially formed on June 17, 1991 in Delhi...
http://www.parikrama.com/, Motherjane
Motherjane
Motherjane is an Indian rock band from Kochi, India, formed in 1996. The band consists of Suraj Mani , John Thomas , Clyde Rozario , Deepu Sasidharan and Santosh Chandran . They have released a total of two studio albums, and three singles...
http://www.motherjaneindia.com/, Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
, Ganesh & Kumaresh, Euphoria, Demonic Resurrection
Demonic Resurrection
Demonic Resurrection is a melodic blackened death metal band from Mumbai, India formed in the year 2000. Demonic Resurrection's current line-up consists of Sahil "The Demonstealer" Makhija on vocals and rhythm guitars, Daniel Rego on lead guitars, Husain Bandukwala on bass, Virendra "Viru" Kaith on...
, Bombay Vikings, Sledge have performed at Felicity over the past few years.
Solo performances by Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan is an Indian pop and playback singer, most known for his romantic ballads. He started his career singing Indian pop songs with the band Silk Route, which released two albums, Boondein and Pehchan. The song "Dooba Dooba" became a rave in the Indipop music scene. However, the band...
of Masakali Fame and Kumar Vishwas, a popular comic poet (hasya-kavi), 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
Jayaprakash Narayan (Lok Satta)
Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan , widely known as JP, is a noted Indian politician, social reformer, TV commentator and columnist. He is the President of Lok Satta Party and currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kukatpally constituency in Andhra Pradesh.http://www.loksatta.org/cms/index.php?...
, founder of the Lok Satta Party, gave an inaugural address at Felicity 2009.
Sports
There are various sports activities which are performed everyday. Sports also is alloted a compulsory credit and students must compulsorily take part in Physical Training for one semester to achieve this credit.The students are encouraged to engage in various co-curricular and extra curricular activities for their all round development. IIIT has a basic gymnasium and provides ample facilities for major sports such as Cricket, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Throwball, Table-tennis, Badminton and Athletics. Inter-house sporting competitions are held every year where the four houses, namely Aakash, Agni, Prithvi and Vayu vie for the honors. Other than the house based competitions, inter-batch competitions have also been organised to improve the interaction among the various years.
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.The students parliament was dissolved in 2009 owing to inactivity. It has been resurrected in 2011, in a new form with representatives being elected from each batch.