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CIE: Changing the city’s innovation DNA

CIE@IIITH is now a space for people who wanted to explore their ideas alongside their day jobs. The quality of technology emerging from IIITH is high because the institute has invested in building strong research labs over a long period of time. This depth of research gives credibility and validation to both faculty members and founders working with us. In many cases, founders already have a basic solution or technical prototype. Our role is to help them refine that technology, strengthen it, and make it robust enough to address real product-market fit challenges. Software-based research is generally easier to translate into products because it is more agile and easier to iterate on. Hardware, especially research-led hardware, is much harder. Research is not always conducted with immediate societal or market needs in mind. Often, it is about pushing the boundaries of technology. While this leads to beautiful research outcomes, it does not always translate into market-ready products. Hardware research is particularly challenging because it is less flexible and harder to integrate quickly into existing solution frameworks.

Prof. Ramesh Loganathan keynote speaker at Career Clarity Conclave & Expo – 2026

Resonance Colleges, Hyderabad, organized the Career Clarity Conclave & Expo – 2026, a focused career-guidance and awareness initiative for students and parents on career options after Class 12, today at the JNTU Auditorium, Hyderabad. The day-long conclave featured 5 structured expert sessions with interactive student–parent Q&A. Ramesh Loganathan (Dean, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad) message to the students was “Choose Computer Science based on aptitude and fundamentals—strong problem-solving will always stay relevant.” The conclave brought together leading voices from premier institutions and industry to provide practical guidance on career pathways, course selection, competitive exam direction, admissions awareness, and emerging opportunities across Engineering, Medicine, Science, Technology, and allied domains. Each session included one keynote speaker and two panel members, enabling students to gain multi-perspective clarity and real-world insights.

IIITH hosted Urban AI Forum as official pre-summit event of India AI Impact Summit 2026

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad hosted the Urban AI Forum: Rethinking Cities by Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, an official pre-summit event of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, in partnership with Bordeaux Métropole, NASSCOM and iSPIRT on 29 January. The forum on campus brought together policymakers, academics, industry leaders and civil society representatives to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of cities. The Urban AI Forum served as a platform for dialogue on how AI-driven technologies can enhance urban governance, sustainability, inclusivity and democratic participation. The event aimed to move the conversation beyond conventional smart city narratives towards a deeper understanding of Urban AI as a critical enabler of data-driven, citizen-centric urban transformation. The programme featured two panel discussions and a thematic presentation highlighting global and local perspectives on AI-enabled urban development.

IIITH’s platform for mapping news and urban livability

A multilingual, spatially mapped news aggregation engine developed at IIITH is evolving into a powerful tool to track governance and the quality of urban life across the country, with Hyderabad as its first live testbed. In the world of e-governance, pictures often speak louder than reports. Maps, charts and visual dashboards help administrators see patterns such as distribution of government initiatives, where crimes are rising, which districts face repeated civic issues, and how different regions compare in real time – all that would otherwise remain buried in spreadsheets. By turning complex data into intuitive visual form, pictorial and spatial representations have become a cornerstone of modern, data-driven governance. It is this belief – good governance begins with good visualisation – that lies at the heart of a new research platform being developed at IIITH. The project began as a spatial mapping of a news aggregation engine: a system designed to collect news from multiple newspapers, translate it across Indian languages, and plot every report on a map to show where issues were emerging across the state.

Prof. P J Narayanan Joins PM Modi’s AI Roundtable on Ethical and Scalable AI

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with CEOs and Experts working in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), at his residence at Lok Kalyan Marg on 29 January. Prime Minister highlighted that India has a unique proposition of scale, diversity and democracy, due to which the world trusts India’s digital infrastructure. In line with his vision of ‘AI for All’, the Prime Minister stated that we need to create an impact with our technology as well as inspire the world. He also urged the CEOs and experts to make India a fertile destination for all global AI efforts. The high-level roundtable saw participation from CEOs of companies working in AI including Wipro, TCS, HCL Tech, Zoho Corporation, LTI Mindtree, Jio Platforms Ltd, AdaniConnex, Nxtra Data and Netweb Technologies along with experts from International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw and Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Shri Jitin Prasada also participated in the interaction.

Prof. Sandeep K Shukla shares his expectations from education budget 2026

As India prepares for the Union Budget 2026-27, education leaders across schools, universities, research institutions, and the skilling ecosystem are calling for a decisive shift – from incremental funding to outcome-driven investment. With the government’s long-term vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 in focus, stakeholders argue that education must be treated not merely as social expenditure, but as strategic national capacity-building. From improving school learning outcomes and implementing NEP 2020 in full, to building innovation-led universities, accelerating translational research, fostering entrepreneurship, and making digital education more affordable. Prof. Sandeep K Shukla, Director, IIIT Hyderabad says geopolitical uncertainty makes indigenous capability-building unavoidable. “Without strong investment in higher education and R&D, India cannot build semiconductors, secure operating systems or advanced manufacturing,” he says, adding that faculty development must move beyond token programs to sustained, outcome-oriented training.