Research

IIIT is undertaking research in several areas related to broad-based, India-centric applications. This research is aided and funded by industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems. The aim is to develop basic information technology applications which can be implemented on a large scale.

A typical application under development is AI-based machine translation from one Indian language to another. Other research fields are:

Biochips
Fiber-optic communications
Database system for water, sanitation, health and agriculture development
Fuzzy systems for legal informatics (commercial, education, governmental, administrative)
Natural Language Processing
Nanotechnology
Neurocomputing and neuro-fuzzy systems
Quantum computing
Robotics
Speech recognition and visual perception

Research labs under development:
Advanced computing (parallel and distributed)
Multimedia
Digital signal and image processing
Artificial intelligence and robotics
Nanotechnology
Digital communications
Computer-aided design
Neuro-computing
Fuzzy systems

Indo-Russian Center for Biotechnology

IRCB is a joint Indo-Russian venture that conducts and coordinates research and various other collaborative activities in the emerging field of biotechnology, with a special emphasis on bio-informatics.

Gyan Vani

Gyan Vani is an FM channel broadcast from the IIIT campus. Educational radio programmes and interactive on-air sessions are the main features.

Kundalini

The Kundalini (Knowledge, Understanding, Acquisition of Languages, Inferencing and Interpretation) project aims to enhance the role of information technology in Indian languages, especially Sanskrit, through specialized software development.

Universal Digital Library (UDL)

UDL is an ambitious project that aims to digitize general-interest documents and make them available in a digital, language independent format. This project involves planetary scanner technology developed by Carnegie-Mellon University, USA.