IIIT Hyderabad

17/08/2026

From IIIT Hyderabad to global classrooms and innovation ecosystems, alumnus Prof. Aquil Mirza has built an inspiring journey spanning AI, robotics, healthcare and academic leadership. His recent 2026 Teaching Excellence Award in Hong Kong adds to a growing list of international recognitions.

Read his journey and the role IIIT Hyderabad played in shaping it:

Dr. Mohammed Aquil Mirza’s 2026 Teaching Excellence Award in Hong Kong is the latest in a string of global honours for the young Dean & Professor at Liaoning Technical University and Senior Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His career reflects a rare blend of teaching excellence, r...

15/08/2026

14/08/2026

Internship Opportunity | Software Engineering

IIIT Hyderabad invites applications for a 6-month Software Internship with the Smart City Living Lab@IIITH

Work with faculty and research teams on exciting IoT projects spanning pollution, energy, water, streetlights and smart classrooms, while gaining hands-on experience in full-stack development, APIs, databases, UI and AI/ML.

📅 Application deadline: 22 August 2026

🔗 Apply: https://forms.gle/1LdVbmFU2GYBokjy8

12/08/2026

The former ecologist-in-training Prof. Rajorshi Ray explains why the platform economy is about way more than just food delivery and ride-hailing apps, and how a new book he has co-authored offers a way in.

10/08/2026

From Panini’s ancient grammar to the frontiers of AI, language continues to inspire discovery. At IIIT Hyderabad, that legacy lives on through its mentoring of India’s Panini Linguistics Olympiad team, which has returned from Romania with Gold and multiple honours at the International Linguistics Olympiad.

From Panini’s ancient grammar to the frontiers of AI, language continues to inspire discovery. At IIIT Hyderabad, that legacy lives on through its mentoring of India’s Panini Linguistics Olympiad team, which has returned from Romania with Gold and multiple honours at the International Linguistic...

07/08/2026

For decades, physicists have explained thermal behaviour in quantum systems using ideas such as randomness and chaos. New research from IIIT Hyderabad points to a different possibility - that symmetry by itself may be enough to make temperature emerge.

For decades, physicists have explained thermal behaviour in quantum systems using ideas such as randomness and chaos. New research from IIIT Hyderabad points to a different possibility – that symmetry by itself may be enough to make temperature emerge. Dr. Uttam Singh, Assistant Professor at the C...

06/08/2026

A select group of talented undergraduate students from India and across Asia spent their summer at IIIT Hyderabad, pursuing frontier research under leading faculty as part of the Amgen Scholars Program hosted in India for the first time. https://blogs.iiit.ac.in/amgen-scholars-program/

04/08/2026

Twenty-five years ago, CVIT at IIIT Hyderabad was founded with a vision to push the frontiers of computer vision and AI. Today, it is one of India's premier research centres, driving globally recognized innovations and nurturing an exceptional alumni community that is shaping academia, industry, and startups around the world.

As we launch Silver CVIT to celebrate this 25-year milestone, we are delighted to kick off the celebrations with a keynote by Andrew Zisserman, one of the world's foremost computer vision researchers.

Keynote: Learning to Understand Meaningful Gestures
📅 8 August 2026 (Saturday)
🕙 10:00 AM
📍 KRB Auditorium, IIIT Hyderabad

Join us as we celebrate 25 years of excellence in computer vision research and explore the future of AI with one of the pioneers who helped shape the field.

03/08/2026

What began, twenty years ago, as India’s first summer school to train future AI and language technologists, continues to excel as India’s top flagship introductory course in LLMs. IIIT Hyderabad’s LTRC-incubated IASNLP 2026 presented a fresh direction for the next generation of computational linguists and AI researchers.

What began, twenty years ago, as India’s first summer school to train future AI and language technologists, continues to excel as India’s top flagship introductory course in LLMs. IIIT Hyderabad’s LTRC-incubated IASNLP 2026 presented a fresh direction for the next generation of co...

29/07/2026

IIIT-H alumna Dr. Garima Jindal’s off-the-beaten track PhD journey is a lovely lesson in faith and perseverance. She walks us through an unusual nine-year long PhD saga, that involved marriage and maternity break, eureka moments, a novel idea and a last-minute topic change that would translate into an international publication and patent.

IIIT-H alumna Dr. Garima Jindal’s off-the-beaten track PhD journey is a lovely lesson in faith and perseverance. She walks us through an unusual nine-year long PhD saga, that involved marriage and maternity break, eureka moments, a novel idea and a last-minute topic change that would translate int...