Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Overview

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is a public technical and research university situated in Sangareddy District, Telangana, India. It was established in 2008 as one of the eight Indian Institutes of Technology. It is one of the top-ten universities in India and likewise, a consistent top-ranking university nationally and internationally in the field of Engineering.

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Key Statistics

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad has three faculties with 17 departments across faculties. It offers 13 undergraduate degree programs, 23 master's degree programs, and 15 doctorate degree programs. These academic units include the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Design, and Management.

The university has more than 2,600 students with over 1,100 undergraduate students and about 1,500 postgraduate students. About 68% of the postgraduate students are Ph.D. students. It houses more than 220 academic staff.

The other Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad key statistics include the academic and non-academic facilities and amenities like an academic complex, 10 hostels, 60 academic laboratories, dining facilities, central library, lecture halls, and sports facilities. The university library has access to more than three million collections of scholarly outputs with around 63,100 journals and subscriptions to over 150 peer-reviewed journals.

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Research

IITH is one of the universities at the forefront of research and development in the country and worldwide. It has established over 27 national collaborations and 63 international partnerships with academic institutions, ministries, and industries to around 10 countries worldwide.

The university’s top three research fields are physics, materials science, and computer science. Its researchers have published in prestigious journals like Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, and Physical Review Letters. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad’s researchers had been invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences like the Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, The Internet of Things, and Global Communications Conference.

The most cited research publication of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad is Deb’s (2011) article, entitled “Multi-objective optimisation using evolutionary algorithms: An introduction," published in the Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Product Design and Manufacturing. This scholarly output received a total of 19,371 citations.

The second most cited scholarly output is Chopra et al.’s (1983) article on "Transparent conductors—A status review." This journal article was published in the Thin Solid Films. A total of 3,637 articles, books, and other publications cited this research output.

The third most cited publication from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad is Abbott et al. (2003). This scholarly output is on "GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence," published in the Physical Review Letters. It has generated a total of 3,259 citations.

The university has 12 key research areas. Some of these include 5G and next-generation communication technologies, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, bio-inspired processes and systems, and climate change.

It also has eight centers and incubators like the Center for Healthcare and Entrepreneurship, Design Innovation Center, and Fabless Chip Design Incubator. Likewise, IITH has 50 research laboratories.