RESEARCH HOME

The academic activity at IIIT is woven around its research. The institute combines high-quality Post-graduate programmes with vibrant undergraduate programmes. The institute is organized as area-specific Research Centres. This provides tremendous synergy and healthy cross-fertilization to the Institute’s research.

Research-led UG curriculum

Our unique UG curriculum is designed to foster research at a very early stage. The key enabling factors for this are

    1. Subject taught early, breadth waits

    2. Emphasis on skills and project work

    3. Honours programme to specialize on an area

    4. Project credits in lieu of courses

    5. Dual-degree to jump deep into an area

    6. Large number of electives

A document on the considerations underlying our UG curriculum can be found here <<UG Curriculum>>

High-quality Research Programmes

The MS by Research and PhD are our research programmes. The PhD is a conventional doctoral programme with different stages including reputed coursework, the research background requirement, breadth qualifiers, depth qualifiers, thesis proposal and defense. The MS programme has minimal coursework and substantial thesis.

Research Programmes << “Fields of Study”>>

Research Exchange Programme

Some of IIIT’s research students spend past of their time with partner research groups around the world as part of the Research Exchange Programme. The further groups are in places like…

-          Carnegie Mellon University

-          University of Illinois, Chicago

-          Microsoft Resaerch, Redmond

-     University of Pennsylvania