Swati Gupta

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi was created as a State University by an act of Delhi Government, empowering it to do research and development and grant degrees.\\The mission of IIIT-Delhi is to be a global centre of excellence in Information Technology education, training and research. 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 new product creators.\\It aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in specified domain areas of IT. Towards this end it plans to organize itself as a conglomerate of R&D Centers, some of which would be in partnership with different companies and global organizations. All centers will also be engaged in teaching and thesis guidance. These centers, with various labs, will be the hub of activity, with active contribution from faculty and students—BTech, MTech and PhD.