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International Institute of Information

Technology - Bangalore

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Logo

“Jnanam Uttamam”

“Knowledge is Supreme”

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Mission

“To build on the track record set by India in general and Bangalore in particular, to enable India to play a key role in the global IT scenario through a World-Class Institute with a focus on Education & Research , Entrepreneurship and Innovation”

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Deemed University

• Initiated by the Government of Karnataka in 1998, Started a PG Diploma Programme (IT) in 1999

• Status as “de novo deemed university” awarded by the UGC, Government of India in February 2005

– M.Tech, Integrated M.Tech, MS and PhD Programmes

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What is IIIT-B all about?• Graduate school focused on ALL Aspects of IT• Focus on

Research & Education Think Tank Incubation

• Broad-based Masters Programme • Sponsored Masters Programme• Integrated M.Tech • Research Centers• MS and PhD Programmes• Executive Development Programs such as

Analytics Essentials

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Management – IIIT-B’s Strength

• Governing body headed by Mr. Kris Gopalkrishnan

• Support of Governments, both State and Federal

• Mix of Industry, Academia (Both National and International)

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Academic Senate

• Membership:

All regular faculty

2 eminent Academicians from abroad

2 eminent head of R&D or Technology Development from Industry.

Faculty

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Faculty (Cont.)

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Faculty• All faculty members have PhD from leading Indian

or foreign university• Faculty members teach and do research covering

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Faculty Profile

• Right mix of Academic Veterans and young PhDs – 35 Full time, 16 Adjunct, 3 Visiting

• Active Industry participation as Adjunct Faculty

• Faculty across Various Specializations• Communication Engineering.• Software Engineering.• VLSI, Embedded Systems, RTOS• Computer Engineering.• Computer Science.• Information Systems• Geographical Information Systems• Economic and Social Impacts of IT

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Programmes Conducted in Campus

• Integrated M.Tech ( iM.Tech)

• M. Tech

• MS by Research

• Ph.D.

• Sponsored M. Tech

• MSc. Digital Society (New Course)• Analytics Essentials (For Profess ionals – Weekends Only )

M.Tech. Programme• M.Tech. is a 2-year programme in IT• IIITB has graduated more than 1500 M.Tech. students till

now• One of the highest M.Tech. graduates per year in IT & ESDM• Alumni working in leading places in industry and academia

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Sponsored M. Tech Programme funded by Samsung.- 3 Year Course- 2nd Batch In Progress.

Integrated M.Tech.

• Integrated-M.Tech is a 5-year dual degree programme in IT started in 2012

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MSc. (Digital Society)• 1st of its kind, interdisciplinary Masters Programme for Digital

Society in India.

• This is specifically designed for a heterogeneous student group to learn about and address various challenges of the digital society, including:

- Developing, deploying and managing large-scale digital systems;- Designing interfaces for diverse populations;- Socio-historical aspects of the “digital”;- Policy issues in the contemporary digital society;- Quantitative and qualitative research methods, tools, and techniques, to examine user

needs and outcomes, and to evaluate the impact of ICTs;- Technologies such as cloud or mobile platforms, data analytics, social media, human-

computer interaction, and spatial-information systems; and - Domain-specific understanding of the technological-society interface, including issues

pertaining to education, governance, gender, identity, poverty and public health.

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Research Programmes• Two research programmes started in 2005: PhD

and MS by Research• 7 PhD students and 18 MS students have

graduated so far• Currently: 41 PhD students and 29 MS students

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Campus Facilities• Main Academic Block

(120,000 Sq. Ft)– Networking, UPS, Data

Center, Library, Class Rooms, Conference Rooms, Faculty Offices, Stores, Labs, Auditorium, Pantry

• Dormitories (120,000 Sq. Ft)

– 325 Individual rooms,– 24 twin sharing rooms– 4 Suites for visiting Scholars

• Food Court– Catered Cuisine

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Campus Facilities

• New Hostel Block (2,40,000 Sq. Ft )– 600 Rooms housing only

students. – Single & Twin-sharing rooms.– Badminton Courts, Gym,

Volleyball Court, Basketball Court

About Student Hostels• Stay Facility: WH - 180, MH - 209• First-aid room – MH2 (Ground Floor), Health

insurance coverage. • 24x7 security• Anti-ragging guidelines, No Tobacco campus• Student Committee, Food Committee, Wing

Representatives• Facilities – Room cleaning, Drinking RO Water,

Solar Hot Water Facility, Internet, Common Room, Play areas and Gym facility

• Food Court• Basketball & Volleyball Court• Futsol/Mini Cricket Ground (Grass)

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Computing Infrastructure

• Internet Bandwidth

- 20 MBPS 1:1(Premium) from Helios (TATA Teleservices)

- 20 MBPS 1:1 From Helios ( Vodafone)

- 1 GBPS Shared from BSNL (NKN)

• Full Data Center Capability –– HP DL360PG8 32G 2P matrix CMS

(Includes 20+ servers)– Private cloud infrastructure

• Number of Laptops > Number of Users– 50 Laptops (for faculty, staff).– 150 Desktops for classroom, labs, staff

and Faculty. HP DL360PG8 32G 2P matrix

Computing Infrastructure• Completely Wired and Wireless campus from HP

• 10 Gigabit LAN Network

• Complete solution From HP 1. Wired Network 2. Wireless Network 3. Network Solution

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Computing Infrastructure• Any Where Any Place Computing

• All Computing Platforms supported– Campus License for Complete Microsoft

Products.

– Windows 2003 Enterprise Ed; RedHat 5.0 and 6.0; Microsoft Exchange(Mail Server); Apache Web Server; MS SQL, Visual Studio, Xilinx, Wind-river, VSIM.

– System and Application Software

MATLAB, Simulink, Communication System Toolbox, Computer Vision System Toolbox, Control system Toolbox, DSP System Toolbox, Data Acquisition Toolbox, Image processing Toolbox, Instrument Control Toolbox, Signal processing, SimMechanics, Simscape, Wavelet Toolbox, Lego Mindstrom-NXT 2.1, Multil Sim.

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Research Activities

• Both Academic and Industry Sponsored Applied Research

• Domain specific ‘Center’ based approach – Banking and Financial Services - CBIT– Communication Engineering – CTEL– Software Engineering – CSEE– Automotive IT – CAIT– Industrial Informatics – CIIT– Spatial Information Sciences – CSIS– IT and Public Policy - CITAPP

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Funded Projects• Government of

Karnataka – CEEMS Lab, – Kanaja, – ESDM Center, – Center for Online

Educational Content for Schools

• Government of India – DST, – TIFAC, – DG Shipping,– UDAAN Project,– DietY, – OAES

• Industry-Sponsored– Infosys Foundation– Microsoft– Nokia Research– Intel, Thinksoft, – EMC

• International Research collaborations– Lund University (Sweden)– Wallenberg Foundation

(TFDI), – National Science

Foundation, USA – University of Aberdeen,

University of Amsterdam

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Significant Research Focus• IIIT-B has strong research groups developed in the past

five years – Next generation network (Research funding from HP

on IMS, Cognitive Radio creating a new IEEE International Conference (IMSAA) and hosting it for 3 years in a row, 15 M Tech Thesis, 1 PhD, more than 35 International Publications) Prof. Das, Prof. Jyotsna, Prof. Prasanna

– Web 2.0, Web IR (brought WWW 2011 Conference to India after 4 years of effort, 12 M Tech thesis, 3 PhD’s to be submitted in 2009-10, more than 20 publications (Prof. Srinath, Prof. Chandrashekar, Prof. Ramani); IEEE ICGSE conference; Technology for Education conference

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Significant Research Focus– IT & Society (Research funding from Ministry of IT, Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation, Canadian, UK and Euro funding agencies, part of the most prestigious conference ACM / IEEE ICTD 2006, 2007, 2008; 2007 conference hosted in Bangalore, 4 M Tech theses, 1 PhD student, 15 publications) Prof. Balaji, Prof. Sadagopan, Prof. Rajagopalan

– Technology in Education (Research funding from Ministry of IT, international agencies, IEEE International Conference in Bangalore (July 2009), part of OCW Consortium, co-working with MIT, 3 M Tech Theses, 2 PhD students, 4 Teacher training programs), Prof. Ramani, Prof. Chandrashekar, Prof. Rao, Prof. Prabhu

– Global software engineering (IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering right in IIIT-B (Aug 2007), new M Tech course on Software Architecture under development, 1 Patent on Supply Chain, 12 M Tech Theses, 2 PhD students) Prof. Dinesha, Prof. Chandrashekar, Prof. Prasanna

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Publications - Last Six Years• Journals and International Conferences: more

than 130 in the last six years and more than 320 since 1999.

• Books: 10

• Books Chapters: 5

• Books Edited: 7

• Patents: 3 granted, 8 PCT filed

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Theses - Last five years

– Ph. D: 5

– MS by Research: 6

– M. Tech Research Thesis: 42

– M. Tech Project Reports: 660

Placement - 100% as of 2015ABB   Accenture Adobe  Alcatel

LucentAkamai 

American Express 

Aruba networks

Bangalore Labs  BirlaSoft Broadcom 

Cisco Compaq Cognizant  Coca-Cola  Citigroup 

Daimler Chrysler

D-Link Deutsche Bank eBay EMC 

Flipkart Fiber Link GE GE Healthcare GM 

Goldman Sachs 

GXS HCL Honeywell  HP

HSBC  Huawei IBM  iGate  Infinite

Infosys Intel JustEat Kodak LG Soft

Microsoft Microsoft Research 

Mindtree Motorola  National Instruments

 Nokia Nvidia Oracle P & G Qualcomm

Ramco SAP Samsung Siemens  Satyam

Schneider  Texas Instruments  

TCS Yahoo Zomato

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Scopus Analysis • There are 279 papers of our faculty indexed by Scopus in

the last nine years.

• Among the IIITs, the best performance in terms of p-index values (an index based on number of papers published and citations), (6.55) is shown by IIIT-Bangalore,

• (As reported in “Ranking of Indian engineering and technological institutes for their research performance during 1999–2008” Gangan Prathap and B. M. Gupta, Current Science, Vol 97 no. 310th August 2009)

• NAAC Accredited ‘A’ under Deemed Universities.

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International Collaboration • International collaborative partners within the

area of ICT– Student Exchange Programme (Interns) Examples:

Freie University of Berlin, University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) and Malmo (Sweden), Singapore, Brazil, French Reunion Island, Fulbright Scholars

– Collaborative Research Project Examples: With European Union (Insight, India mentor, Ingeneus)

– UKIERI – Leverhulme Trust, UK – ICT and development – HP labs France: Communication and Networking

Scholarships @ IIIT-B• Available for all Ph.D. and M.S. by research students.

• Available to approximately 15-20% of the M.Tech. student population.

• Available for approximately 25% of iM.Tech student population.

• Selection based on student accomplishments in academic as well as other areas and interviews.

• Special need based scholarships.

• Scholarship grants for individual students across courses which includes both tuition and living expenditure are:– M. Tech (2 years): Rs. 6 Lakhs– Integrated M. Tech (5 years): Rs. 15 lakhs– Ph. D (4 year): Rs. 15 lakhs 33

Companies Who Sponsored Scholarships @

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Outreach at IIIT-B• IIIT-B has a strong connect with the IT

industry across areas such as– Joint research & consultancy– Visiting faculty– Internship and Full time placement– Alumni program– Executive education for IT professionals– Scholarships– Advisory Board– Corporate Social Responsibility initiative – Mentoring start-up companies

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IIITB Innovation Center

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A Living-Lab that readies you for your product journey—trains you on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership Skills; offers co-creation and commercialization opportunities

An Accelerator that helps you realize your entrepreneurial ambitions, convert your idea to a proof-of-concept, acquire your referenceable customer, secure your next round of funding.

An Incubator that helps you establish your business through Seed Funding, Mentoring and Infrastructural

Support over an extended period of time.

I-MACX Accelerator

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I-MACX (Internet of Things to Mobility Apps for Community Excellence) has been recently launched with the aim of catalyzing startups focused on software solutions that are of relevance to the community - be it social or civic organizations. Being primarily a product accelerator, during the 100 days, the program focuses on:

a) Customer Research and Product Definition (During the 1st Month)

b) Product Design and Development (2nd Month)

c) Product Marketing and Sales (3rd Month)

I-MACX Accelerator (1st Batch)

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1. Tradedoot - Marketplace for agriculture / EXIM pricing / other information

2. EasyM2M - An enterprise grade wearable device for identifying "man down" and other such emergency scenarios

3. OnlineRTI - A facilitator for filing and receiving replies under the RTI act

4. AbSimpl - A chromecast-like device and associated software that facilitates consumption of education / healthcare video content on TVs

5. QueryHome - A platform that enables interaction between both citizens / customers and employees with the enterprise / government

6. Clytics - An Energy-analytics firm that aims to offer a "personalized recommendation" on your electricity consumption (more on the lines of a personalized telephone bill - with detailed breakup and recommendations)

7. MyPhotoBiography - A mobile app that helps Doctors / Nurses track the progress of pregnancy and child growth

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I-INC (Incubator)

• Incubated 12 companies

• Eight are in the market.

• Six more in the seed stage

• Currently supporting 6 companies in areas as diverse as Healthcare, Education, Social Media, Analytics, ESDM.

• Healthy interaction with faculty and students.

• Incubatees – RIT Solutions, V R Med Informatics, Kenapps, Kollabia, RedMed, Chipmonk.

Incubation Space

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Incubated Companies

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Social Impact• Incubated

– Tutor Vista (2005) - 1,000+ jobs / Rs 150 Crores annual revenue [Sold to Pearson for 1000 Crores]

– Backend Bangalore (2004) - 100 jobs / Rs 10 Crores annual revenue

– QSO Technologies (2006) – 100 jobs / Rs 20 Crores annual revenue

– TLL (2007) – 20 jobs / Rs 5 Crores revenue

• Incubating 6 companies currently.

• Closely working with NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network) and IIMA (Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad) in entrepreneurial education

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Think Tank

– Banking Technology Report (2006, 2009) – CMD / ED / GMs of all public sector, private sector banks use this report for benchmarking; endorsed by Managing Director of State Bank of India

– E-Governance Report – widely cited by Indian and International Policy makers (2006)

– Developing Kannada portal and participating in Karnataka Knowledge Commission

– Knowledge Partner to Government of India on E-Governance

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Social Impact• STP (2006, 2009, 2015)

– Created new model of empowering students of disadvantaged sections of the society; placed 84 of the 89 students (unemployed engineering graduates) in IBM, HP, Infosys, Wipro..

– Economist, Times UK carried positive reports– CII is taking it up across other segments (beyond IT)– AP, Rajasthan, Orissa, Delhi States are rolling out STP in their States

Facilities Provided by IIIT-B for Free

Stipend – Rs. 7,000 /month

Food & Refreshments

Laptop and Development Tools

Learning, Practice & Assessment Resources

Internet

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Social Impact• Udaan 2013

– Skill Development Programme for the residents of J & K. A Post Graduate Diploma in Software Development was conducted for Engineering Graduates from Jammu and Kashmir. This programme was sponsored by Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. 13 courses were taught to 25 students over a period of 9 months from March 2013 to December 2013. The programme was carried with the financial support of National Skill Development Corporation, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India, and Infosys limited, India.

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Social Impact• Myanmaar Students – 2014

– 30 Students from Myanmar trained in Post Graduate Diploma in Software Development (PGDSD) as part of the bilateral co-operation between the Government of India and Government of Myanmar.

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