Full Name of IIIT Hyderabad

Can you tell me what the full name of IIIT Hyderabad is? Also tell me about the names of its Governing Council Members and contact address of the Institute?

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The full name of IIIT Hyderabad is International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. It is an Information technology Research University based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India established in 1997.

It has been ranked 3 in the list of top technical schools in India in 2012 and 2013 by Dataquest. It was ranked #20 by the India Today Best Engineering colleges 2012, 14 by Outlook India Top Engineering Colleges of 2012.

In rankings limited to private institutes it was ranked second by Mint Top 50 Private Engineering Colleges of 2009. In 2011 and 2012, it was ranked first in Telangana, by Careers360, a magazine of the Outlook group. Deccan Chronicle ranked it 2nd in their 2012 survey of Top Engineering Colleges in South India.

Governing Council Members
• Raj Reddy, Turing Award laureate and Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
• Vint Cerf, Turing Award laureate and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
• R. Chandrashekhar, IAS (Retd) (ex officio), President, NASSCOM, New Delhi
• C. Srini Raju, Managing Director, Peepul Capital Advisors P Ltd.
• S. Ramadorai, Vice Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai
• Dr. Pawan Kumar Goenka, President, Automotive Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
• Prof. Narendra Ahuja, Director (International), IIIT Hyderabad, Donald Biggar Willet Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois, USA
• Prof. U. B. Desai, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
• Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIT, (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
• Shri Vikas Raj, (ex officio), IAS, Secretary, Higher Education Department, Government of Telangana
• Shri Harpreet Singh, (ex officio), IAS, Secretary, ITE & C Department, Government of Telangana
• Prof. Rameshwar Rao, Vice - Chancellor, JNTU, Kukatpally, Hyderabad
• Prof. P. J. Narayanan, Director, IIIT Hyderabad
• Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy (ex officio), Dean (Academics), IIIT Hyderabad
• Prof. Vasudeva Varma (ex officio), Dean (Research), IIIT Hyderabad

Centers
The institute is divided into research centers:
• Language Technologies Research Center
• Speech and Vision Laboratory
• Signal Processing & Communications
• Search and Information Extraction Lab
• Centre for Visual Information Technology and Image Processing
• Centre for Data Engineering
• Cognitive Science Lab
• Center for Security, Theory & Algorithmic Research
• Robotics Research Lab
• Centre for IT in Building Science
• Power Systems Research Center
• Software Engineering Research Lab
• Centre for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics
• Agriculture & Rural Development
• Centre for Exact Humanities
• Earthquake Engineering Research Center
• Centre for VLSI and Embedded System Technologies
• Computer Architecture
• Compilers
• Parallel/Concurrent Programming
• Lab for Spatial Informatics
• Center for IT in Education

Contact Detail:
IIIT Hyderabad
Gachibowli, Hyderabad,
Telangana 500032, India
+91 40 6653 1000