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IIIT-H launches JA Chowdary Faculty Chair on its Foundation Day Celebrations

A new faculty chair backed by technology ecosystem veteran J.A. Chowdary will strengthen research and innovation in emerging technologies at IIIT Hyderabad as the institute enters its 30th year. The JA Chowdary Faculty Chair, established with support from Chowdary, founder of ISF and Junicorn 100K, will have a dedicated corpus. The initiative was announced at the institute’s 29th Foundation Day celebrations on Wednesday, held around the theme “Navigating the Future of AI & Technology.” Cyient Founder Chairman and Board Member and former Nasscom chairman B.V.R. Mohan Reddy was the chief guest and keynote speaker. He stressed the need for stronger academia-industry links to develop talent, drive innovation and translate research into real-world impact. The institute also presented its 2026 Alumni Achiever Awards to CEO of Character.ai Karandeep Anand; founder and CTO of LoadShare Networks Pramod Nair; and principal scientist at ServiceNow and assistant professor at McGill University Siva Reddy Goli.

Foundation Day 2026

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Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) under Two-Cover Bid System for supply of GPU Server

Notice Inviting Tender(NIT) under Two-CoverBid SystemFor supply of GPU Server            International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad   Tender No.: IIIT-H/Purchase/2026/16 Date: 31st August 2026, Sealed quote should reach the address below on or before 19th September 2026@ 12:00 PM. Document Link: GPU Server   DirectorIIIT HyderabadProfessor CR Rao Rd, Gachibowli, Hyderabad,Telangana – […]

Engineering The Energy Transition | IIIT Hyderabad’s Roadmap for Al, Research and Innovation

India’s energy transition is becoming increasingly technology-driven, requiring smarter grids, advanced computing, data-led decision-making and skilled professionals. As the country expands renewable energy. green hydrogen and grid automation, stronger links between technology, research and education will be essential. In this conversation, Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Professor & Director, IIIT Hyderabad, speaks with Nandini Jha of Elets News Network about leveraging Al, computing and research to address India’s energy challenges, from smarter grids and predictive maintenance to green hydrogen and digital SCADA. IIIT Hyderabad’s strengths in machine learning time-series forecasting, signal processing and lot map directly onto this load and renewable-generation forecasting. Our Smart City Living Lab already treats the campus as an instrumented testbed for energy, water and air quality data, which gives students real sensor streams rather than synthetic datasets.

FUN, FUTURE,AND LINGUISTICS

IIIT Hyderabad’s Linguistics
professor Parameswari
Krishnamurthy says that
what constantly excites her
most about the discipline is
that “it’s both creative and logical”. It’s like
mathematics and literature
marrying each other when
on a normal day, people
regard them as two sides of
a coin that do not see eye to
eye. “We use language
everyday and you
unconsciously know that
there are certain facts about
the language which you
don’t know why but you still
use it”, she describes. This year, IIIT
Hyderabad-backed Indian
team won multiple medals
at the International
Linguistics Olympiad
conducted in Romania.
Krishnamurthy, who was
part of it and led the team, explained how these patterns
and problems are truly like
puzzles. In a linguistic
olympiad, it is just full puzzle
mode. Unlike science
olympiads with its theorems,
Krishnamurthy says “there is
some reality” here because
real language data is given to
you with which you try to
gure out patterns. In fact, Krishnamurthy
says that it is like machine
learning where the machine
gets a small amount of data
and it learns the pattern.

Foundation Day 2026 (2 September 2026)

The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is hosting its 29th Foundation Day Celebrations with a special focus on “Navigating the Future of AI & Technology”. The Chief Guest of the occasion is BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder Chairman & Board Member, Cyient; Former Chairman, Nasscom.

The program includes a plenary panel discussion titled “Deepening Industry-Academia Collaboration”, bringing together prominent tech leaders: Sirisha Voruganti, CEO & MD, Lloyds Technology Centre India; Mohit Dhingra, CEO & President, CIBC India; and Ramesh Kaza, EVP & Country Head, LPL GCC.

Additionally, the event will celebrate notable former students through the Alumni Awards. Honourees include

Karandeep Anand, B.Tech Hons CSE 1999–2003, CEO of Character.ai

Pramod Nair, B.Tech Hons CSE 2004–2008, Founder & CTO of LoadShare Networks and

Siva Reddy, DD CSE 2005–2010, Principal Scientist at ServiceNow and Assistant Professor at McGill University, Mila.

Event Details:
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Venue: H-105, IIIT-H

AI-generated text found on over 1/3rd of new web pages

The Impact of Al-Generated Text on the Internet, by researchers from Imperial College London, the Internet Archive and Stanford University, found that by mid-2025, roughly 35 per cent of newly published websites were classified as Al-generated or Al-assisted, up from zero before ChatG-P’T’s launch in late 2022.
PJ Narayanan, the former Director of the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H), felt that the dominance of AI-generated content on the Internet is a major concern, and these percent-ages will steadily rise as Al tools improve and gain wider adoption. “While humans can only cre-ate content at a fixed, limited pace, individuals and com-panies utilising powerful AI systems can generate data at an exceptionally high rate, practically without limits,” he said. Citing the Pew study, he said, “One direct con-sequence will be on future Al systems, as their training data will contain far more AI-generated material, poten-tially degrading their quality over time. More subtly, people interacting with online content may uncon-sciously alter their writing styles to mimic AI,” he said.

Academic integrity in the ChatGPT era: When the answer is no longer the evidence

Indian universities are redesigning assessments to evaluate student reasoning and accountability. Traditional take-home assignments are being replaced by vivas and in-person examinations. Some institutions integrate AI, grading students on how they direct and verify machine outputs. In Section 3 of AI Campus File, we discovered AI use is becoming a key aspect of academic integrity. The focus is now on demonstrating ownership of thinking rather than just the final answer. Some institutions are tightening the assessment environment through vivas, controlled examinations and AI restrictions. At IIIT Hyderabad, the institution is taking a policy-development route. A faculty committee is working on a responsible-AI policy, with the proposed distinction centred on AI-assisted components versus intellectual responsibility for integration, architecture, validation and explanation. The policy was still awaiting broader faculty and Academic Council deliberation in the supplied response.