Research Centers
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.
Multidisciplinary
Technology
Innovation Hub
IHub-Data is one of the Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) that is established at IIIT Hyderabad as part of the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). The hub focusses on putting together large-scale datasets as well as develop solutions based on that data through Applied.
Kohli Center on
Intelligent Systems
(KCIS)
Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) was established at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad) in 2015 with funding from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to give a fillip to research, teaching and entrepreneurship in the broad Intelligent Systems area.
Applied Artificial
Intelligence (AI)
Research Centre(INAI)
INAI is an initiative to apply AI to population scale problems in the Indian context, combining research and translation. This collaborative effort, championed by Intel and catalyzed by the Government of Telangana, is anchored at IIIT Hyderabad and brings multiple relevant institutions together to work on important problems in the society.
Technology
Signal Processing and
Communications
Research Center (SPCRC)
SPCRC was set up in 2003 with the goal of undertaking fundamental research in signal processing and communication engineering. Research, at theoretical and applied levels, is conducted in this center. Funding sources have included MCIT, DST, GE Global Research, Bangalore etc.
Robotics
Research Center
(RRC)
The IIIT-H Robotics Research Lab works on research problems and innovative projects that extend the state-of-the-art in robotics. The center has worked in multiple domains of robotics involving Multi-robotic systems, Mobile robot navigation and planning, Mechanism design of All Terrain Vehicles and Robot Vision.
Center for Security,
Theory and Algorithms
(CSTAR)
The goal of the center is to do research in information security, theory and algorithms. It also participates in teaching various programmes of the Institute by offering various mandatory and elective courses in the areas of theoretical computer science and information security.
Center for Visual
Information Technology
(CVIT)
CVIT focuses on basic and advanced research in image processing, computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. This center deals with the generation, processing, and understanding of primarily visual data as well as with the techniques and tools required doing so efficiently.
Centre for Quantum
Science and Technology
The Centre for Quantum Science and Technology at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad carries out advanced research on the role of quantum science in computation, information processing, quantum thermodynamics, and on the foundations of physics.
Domains
Center for IT
in Building Science
(CBS)
Building Science is a field of study that focuses
on the technical performance of buildings, building materials, and building
systems. This broad discipline includes elements of construction technology,
material science, architecture, meteorology, sustainable building, automation and
controls, and heat and mass transport physics. At IIIT Hyderabad, the Center for
IT in Building Science (CBS) focuses on effectively using Information Technology
(IT) for sustainable buildings.
Center for Computational
Natural Sciences and
Bioinformatics (CCNSB)
Ever increasing computational power and recent advances in computer science, in fields of distributed computing, networking and database management, have inspired the center to explore the application of these newer technologies and methods to understand the functioning of complex physical, chemical and biological systems.
Human Sciences
Research Group
(HSRG)
The Human Sciences Research Group in IIIT Hyderabad is a unique attempt to bring together the social sciences and computer sciences. We believe that understanding the nature of transformations brought to the fore by digital technologies requires the two disciplines to speak to each other.
Development Centers
Human
Values Cell
Today’s technical education, in its widely prevalent form, is not able to adequately empower students to think independently. Consequently, being driven by peer pressure, it is leading to a blind race for jobs that are intellectually and mentally unfulfilling, and wealth that breeds chaos in family and in society.