With an inaugural Foundation Day Distinguished lecture by Dr Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Founder of the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI)
HYDERABAD, India, Sept. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) enters the 25th 12 months since its founding in 1998, the institute launched its silver jubilee celebrations with a Distinguished Lecture sequence that featured an inaugural session by Dr Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Founder of the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) who spoke on “Institution Building – Some Lessons and Reflections.”
Dr Rao recommended IIITH for being a real public institute, and for making analysis and innovation part of its DNA, which helped the institute attain the place it’s in the present day. Quoting Albert Einstein he mentioned, “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. He went on to share LVPEI’s success story and the way they turned a 3,000+ staff in the present day touching 35 million individuals, handled over 5 million youngsters, they turned world’s greatest corneal transplant centre, and India’s main eye analysis institute. He drew parallels between IIITH and LVPEI’s inspiration, innovation and concentrate on being socially acutely aware of their work.
Dr Rao additionally launched IIITH’s commemorative silver jubilee emblem, designed by Pratyay Kedar Suvarnapathaki, a 3rd 12 months pupil from the Dual Degree Program in Computer Science and Engineering.
IIITH’s Silver Jubilee celebrations will likely be unfold over 18 months, and can consist of assorted occasions, interactive actions, fundraisers, contests and many others., aimed toward bringing collectively alumni, school, college students, employees and different members of the IIITH fraternity, whereas specializing in analysis that issues – graduating competent, inventive and caring college students making important contributions to society.
From simply 50 college students within the first batch to round 1900 college students in 28 applications, the institute is now extensively ranked because the No 1 institute in AI (laptop imaginative and prescient, machine studying and information mining, and Natural Language Processing) in India, and Asia’s 2nd finest institute for robotics. The institute has grown to incorporate 29 analysis centres, a expertise innovation hub for Data Banks, Data Services and Data Analytics (TIH-Data), and an Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (INAI) in collaboration with Intel. IIITH’s Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems, arrange in 2015 with a funding from the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) continues to be a number one heart on Intelligent methods bringing collectively sharpest minds of India to take analysis from lab to land for sustainable social impacts. IIITH’s alumni is almost 5000 sturdy now and are making a significant impression in several establishments, in several roles, and throughout completely different geographies.
Commenting on this necessary milestone of 25 years, Prof P J Narayanan, Director, IIITH mentioned, “Silver Jubilee marks the maturating of an academic institution, embarking on a journey along an independent and confident path of its own. The institute has built strong foundations for academic excellence through the efforts of its students, faculty, staff, and alumni. However, tough challenges lie ahead if we have to rise to be among the top global institutions. Silver Jubilee is an opportunity to connect ever more strongly with all stakeholders: students, parents, alumni, industry, government, well-wishers, and the society at large. The institute has planned celebrations over the next 18 months with activities and events that capture the spirit of connecting with the society more.”
Prof Raj Reddy, Chairman, IIITH Governing Council addressed the gathering remotely from the US and reminisced on the founding of the institute and the varied individuals who helped set it up. He additionally congratulated the institute for its extraordinarily distinctive achievement of being ranked among the many prime 10 expertise establishments within the nation in a brief span of simply 25 years.
Updating the viewers on the institute’s silver jubilee plans, Mr Vipul Kedia, alumnus and vice-chair of the silver jubilee committee shared {that a} sequence of occasions have been deliberate for the following 18 months – conferences, distinguished lectures, cultural occasions, social initiatives; alumni meets and engagements, alumni led conferences, social gatherings and sporting occasions; promotion of IIITH’s distinctive mannequin that may encourage and be a task mannequin to different establishments, and fund elevating efforts to scale up the institute’s infrastructure and different services.
About IIIT-Hyderabad:
The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) is an autonomous analysis college based in 1998 that focuses on the core areas of Information Technology, similar to Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and their purposes in different domains by inter-disciplinary analysis that has a larger social impression. Some of its analysis domains embody Visual Information Technologies, Human Language Technologies, Data Engineering, VLSI and Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, Wireless Communications, Algorithms and Information Security, Robotics, Building Science, Earthquake Engineering, Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics, Education Technologies, Power Systems, IT in Agriculture and e-Governance.
Website: www.iiit.ac.in
