Srikanta Bedathur to head a Max Planck Partner Group at IIIT-DelhiApril 3, 2012The nomination of Srikanta Bedathur, Assistant Professor at IIIT-Delhi, to head the Max Planck Partner Group with Prof. Gerhard Weikum of Max Planck Institute of Informatics, has been accepted jointly by the Max Planck Society of Germany and the Department of Science and Technology, India. He will establish and head the group that will work on various facets of mining and searching over large-scale graphs such as the social networks, knowledge-graphs and Linked Open Data (LOD) graphs. |
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BTech(IT) program name changed to BTech(CSE)February 27, 2012The Academic Senate (which includes faculty members from IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Bangalore) and the Board of Governors of IIIT-Delhi has approved that the name of the current BTech program be changed from BTech in Information Technology (IT) to BTech in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) with immediate effect. Inputs from various stakeholders, including current students, were taken before making this change. The core mandate of IIIT-Delhi is to take forward the state of the art in IT through education and research. So far the primary foci were the computing and the software aspects of IT. The institute is now starting a B.Tech. program in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) to focus also on the communication and the hardware aspects of IT. With the introduction of this separate B.Tech. program, it is necessary to rename B.Tech. in IT to B.Tech. in CSE. The curriculum of the current B.Tech. program is already well aligned to a Computer Science and Engineering program, as all the core computing courses of a typical CSE program are included in the core of current program, and overall computing courses are more than that of a typical CSE program. There is no change in the curriculum and focus of the program, and this change is only a change in name. A scanned copy of the office order for affecting this change is available here. |
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IIIT-Delhi shines at IIITM-Gwalior Sports FestJanuary 28, 2012IIIT-Delhi's Sports Team participated for the second time this year in Twaran 2012 - IIITM Gwalior's sports festival. College teams from all over the country participated and the IIIT-Delhi team stood 3rd in the in the medals tally with 2 golds and 2 silvers. Medals were won in the following sports:
Sushant Mehta, Megha Gupta and Aakarsh Malhotra were also adjudged Most Valued Player in Lawn Tennis, Basketball and Football respectively. |
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Atmel offers hardware units to setup Atmel Microcontroller Unit LabJanuary 10, 2012IIIT-Delhi received 75 microcontroller hardware units from Atmel Corporation worth $6420 as part of Atmel University Program to setup Atmel Microcontroller Unit Lab at IIIT Delhi. These units will be used for teaching in Embedded systems course as well as for research in both Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Group as well as Emerging Architecture and System Design Group. The units received are as follows: (Photo © 2011 Atmel Corporation) |
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ECE program to be launched in Aug 2012December 9, 2011ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering) program to be launched in 2012Information Technology is a broad area resting on Computing and Communication technologies and is nurtured by two major disciplines.
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) IIIT-Delhi's mission is to become a globally respected institution for research and education in Information Technology and allied areas. It started with programs in CSE, and is about to launch its ECE programs in academic program 2012. The institute currently has one adjunct professor and five regular faculty members with EE/ECE background and is looking to hire several more to support its education and research programs in ECE. There will be a recruitment drive in early 2012 to be held in USA specifically held to recruit ECE/EE faculties (details are here). Prof. Sumit Roy of University of Washington has been appointed as External Consulting Chairman for building strong research groups in various areas of ECE. Updated 20th April, 2012: IIIT-Delhi is launching ECE programs at all levels, as B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. from academic year 2012. The M.Tech. program will have a specialization in VLSI and Embedded Systems. Curriculum and other details of these programs will be soon available on the website. Admissions to these programs will be conducted in the next few months and details about them will be available on the admission webpages.
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IIIT-Delhi featured in HT EducationNovember 16, 2011IIIT-Delhi was featured in Hindustan Times Education as a youthful and close-knit institute with a "Delhi connection". The article, primarily as a guide for prospective students, mentions the programmes, infrastructure and student life in IIIT-Delhi. |
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IIIT-Delhi's BTech program rated next only to IIT Delhi's in NCRNovember 1, 2011An article in the Hindustan Times Education by a highly respected academic rates IIIT-Delhi's BTech program next only to that of IIT Delhi in CS/IT in Delhi region. Read the entire article here:
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"The Week" ranked IIIT-Delhi 3rd best engineering college in DelhiJune 5, 2011Right at the onset of summer, around May-June, comes the admission season in India. With so many engineering colleges all over this country, it is indeed a challenge to find the best ones among them. The Week ran a cover story in their issue of 5th June, 2011 on the top engineering colleges in India. A ranking of these colleges was published based on a survey done by THE WEEK-Hansa Research. IIIT-Delhi was ranked as the 9th best engineering college in the Northern India zone and 3rd best in Delhi. Among all the colleges all over India, IIIT-Delhi was ranked at 34.
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IIIT-Delhi helps MCI in assessment of medical colleges in IndiaMarch 20, 2011As reported by the Times of India,
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IIIT-D organizes its first Research Showcase – RS’11March 12, 2011Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi has organized its first Research Showcase – RS’11. The two day event showcased prominent research projects at the institute – many of which were featured in leading conferences or are live working systems. Through RS’11, IIIT-Delhi gave to the outside world a snapshot of the work that has been going on in full frenzy by its students and researchers throughout the year. A total of 34 projects were put on display - 13 in the Research Project category, and 21 in the Course Project category. The projects spanned a diverse range of topics – some attacked real world problems while others explored new concepts, conjoint in their passion for technology and ingenious ideas. The event was attended by researchers from IBM TJ Watson Research Center, IBM India Research Labs, TCS Innovation Labs, DRDO, NIC, IIT Delhi, ABB Corporate Research. Student and faculty from college/universities from NCR like DU, IP, DCE, NSIT etc have also attended the event and appreciated IIIT-D's research. The event ended with the announcement of best projects from Mr. Kiran Karnik who is Chairman of Board of Governors at IIIT-Delhi. First Prize: Android based Distributed Chat and File Sharing Application (Amar Yadav, Naman Jain, Nikhil Shekhawat) Second Prize: Game Therotic Model for Secret Sharing (Varun Gandhi) People's Choice Award: Delhi Transit (Aman Gupta, Ashish Gupta, Gaurav, Gaurav Saluja) |
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Biometric group to work on massive parallelism of GPUs for Biometric applicationsMarch 8, 2011Samarth Bharadwaj (2nd year PhD Student), Mayank Vatsa and Richa Singh have received NVIDIA's academic partnership support. Through this support, NVIDIA© will provide a Telsa© GPU and associated software to the Image Analysis Lab. They will work on harnessing massive parallelism of GPUs for Biometric applications in very large scale identity projects. |
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Indo-US Workshop on Efficient Teaching at College/University LevelFebruary 12, 2011This 3 day Indo-US workshop was held here at IIIT-Delhi on Friday 10th, 11th and 12th with the primary objective of creating awareness in improving teaching and learning methods in university/college level. The Indian educational system needs a revamping to keep up with the growing educational crisis.This workshop disseminated some of the best teaching practices that help students indulge in innovative learning, gathered from around the world. This event was jointly organized with University of Buffalo and sponsored by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. The workshop observed some of the eminent philosophistsand educationists, including Dr. Jason of University of Buffalo, Dr. Lucinda of State University of New York and many others, converging and putting forth their thoughts into one. The 3-days covered a variety of topics including the effectiveness of lecture hours, the importance of course design, the necessity of having good assessment mechanisms and a lot more. There were two exclusive panel discussions that focussed on specific topics like MTech Certificate Program and initiation of new teaching centres in India. In a session conducted for students, the various hurdles that students face in their learning activities were addressed. The second day of the workshop had a cultural event in the evening followed by a banquet dinner. In the third day all the interested delegates were taken for an all-Delhi tour. This workshop clubbed the two sides of the coin of teaching and learning and also brought together different ideologies of teaching from around the globe. Linda from Clemson University said “India will be friendly to these new methods of teaching …” and this workshop stood as an example for it.
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Kaleidoscope (vol 2, issue 1) publishedJanuary 31, 2011Kaleidoscope is the biannual newsletter of IIIT-Delhi ACM chapter. The first issue of 2011 was published on 31st January. You can read it here or pickup a hardcopy in the library. The editorial board would love to have your feedback via editorialboard@iiitd.ac.in. |
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DISHA goes beta on DIMTS websiteDecember 29, 2010It started as a competition between two teams of undergraduate students trying to make the same software to help the people of Delhi with their commute using public transportation - DTC buses and Delhi Metro. The two teams combined their effort together to produce a prototype system that immediately caught the attention of both our honorable Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit as well as the organization Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System (DIMTS) Limited. With more accurate and updated route information for DTC buses provided by DIMTS and further technology changes, the team of undergraduates put together a robust system that is now available for beta release by DIMTS on their website - http://www.dimts.in/. The journey planning system rightly named Disha (meaning "direction") is the first such online system that integrates both the route information from multiple DTC routes as well as up to date information about the Delhi Metro together to provide the most optimal route across any destination in the city. Key undergraduate members involved in the project are Aman Gupta, Ashish Gupta, Gaurav and Gaurav Saluja with help from Aman Sahni, Pratyush Tripathi, Rohit Kishore, Siddhartha Srivastava and Stuti Ajmani (all third year students). All through the guidance was provided by Kuldeep Yadav and the faculty members namely Pankaj Jalote, Vinayak Naik, Pushpendra Singh and Amarjeet Singh. |
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Keynote speech by Pankaj Jalote in SRDS 2010November 3, 2010Pankaj Jalote gave a keynote in the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), held in New Delhi. His keynote speech was entitled "Crowd Researching: Engaging Practitioners in Software Reliability Research". |
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Ministry of Surface Transport projectJuly 20, 2010IIIT-Delhi is a major contributor in the Nandan Nilekani Committee, set by Ministry of Surface Transport, for recommending standards and framework for implementation of Electronic Toll Collection in India. Prof. Pankaj Jalote from IIIT-Delhi was a key member of this committee which finalized the technology to be adopted for vehicles, framework for toll collection, and framework for implementation. The report was accepted by the Minister on July 2, 2010. Final report |
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Amarjeet interviewed by Radio AustraliaJuly 5, 2010Radio Australia interviewed Amarjeet Singh on mobile health collaboration projects of IIIT-D with the Sana Group, MIT. Interview |
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Foundation laid for the permanent campus of IIIT-Delhi at OkhlaJuly 1, 2010Hon CM of Delhi, Ms. Shelia Dikshit, lays the foundation of Permanent Campus of IIIT-Delhi at Okhla. Construction of the Permanent Campus has already started in Okhla, where the Institute has been allotted 25 Acres of land in the GB Pant Polytechnic compound. The Phase I of the Campus will come up in the next 15 months at a cost of appx. Rs 80 crore, and will have a total area of appx 30000 sqm containing an R&D block, an academic block, boys and girls hostels, a student activity center with food court and other facilities, and a faculty residence block. The campus will employ many energy and water saving features. |
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