IIITD: An Introduction

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D) (इंद्रप्रस्थ सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, दिल्ली ) is an autonomous university in Delhi, India. It is a State University founded by the  act of Delhi Government (The IIIT Delhi Act, 2007) in 2008 with seed support from the Government of NCT of Delhi.

Within the two years of its operation it has been  recognized by the AICTE as "Institute of National Importance" along with other IITs and IIMs.


IIIT-D aims to be a research-oriented university with focus on technological research at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Its twin aims are:

• To carry out advanced research and development in information and software technologies, and in leveraging IT in specific domain areas.
• To train and educate, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, engineers of outstanding ability who can become innovators and leaders.

To encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in specified IT-related domains it will organize itself as a conglomerate of R&D centers, some of which would be in partnership with different companies and global organizations and educational institutions. All of these centers will be engaged in teaching and thesis guidance and along with various laboratories will be the hub of activity, with active contribution from faculty and students — BTech, MTech and PhD.

IIIT Delhi aims to have focused research groups in some areas of IT and some domain areas. The number and nature of research areas will evolve as more faculty and research staff joins. Current areas of research are:

• Image Analysis and Biometrics
• Information Management and Data Analytics
• Mobile and Ubiquitous computing
• Security and Privacy
• Software Engineering
• Theory