International Institute of Information Technology (IIITH), Hyderabad

International Achievements (Multi-year)

• CanSat is a NASA sponsored and American Astronautical Society organized annual international competition. The contest allows student teams, from colleges and Universities around the world, to design, fabricate, and launch an aerospace system (CanSat). IIIT-H has been has been the only team from India to qualify for World Finals, each time, since 2009.

2011

• Read IIIT-H internal announcement (PDF, HTML)
• Check Cansat website for final rankings.
• World Third, at Finals, at Abilene, Texas, USA, June 10-12

2010

• World First, at the Finals at Amarillo, Texas, USA, June 13
• Only team from Asia to qualify for World Finals
• 2009
  • World 8th at World Finals. (June 2009)
  • First ever team from India to qualify for CanSat.
  • Check Cansat website for final rankings.

• Text Analysis Conference (TAC)

  Document Understanding Conferences (DUC)

  US Department of Commerce’ agency National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) holds Text Analysis Conference (TAC) every year. TAC was called Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) till 2008. In 2009, TAC attracted from across the world around 40 leading research teams including the University of Columbia, Stanford, Microsoft Research, IBM Research Labs, University of Edinburgh, and National University of Singapore (NUS). Below are the results of IIIT-H’s participation at TAC/ DUC.

  2009
  World No.1 in Knowledge Based Population Track (TAC). 

  2008
  World No.1 in Squishy Question Answering Task (TAC). 

  2007
  World No.1 in Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization Tasks (DUC).

  2006
  World No. 1 in Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization Tasks (DUC).

• ACM ICPC

  It is the world’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest. The 2012 edition drew for its first stage over 30,000 participants on more than 7,000 teams, representing around 2,200 universities, in over 85 countries. Results of IIIT-H’s participation over the past four years.

  2012 (36th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Warsaw, Poland)

  2011 (35th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Orlando, Florida, USA)

  2010 (34th Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Harbin, China)

  2009 (33rd Annual ACM ICPC World Finals, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Only Indian college to qualify for World Finals, for fourth time in a row.
  • World 18th position.
  • Best performance by an Indian team in ICPC history (co-shared with IIT Delhi).
  • Top Indian team
  • World 42nd position.
  • Only Indian college with two teams qualified for World Finals
  • Awarded Certificate of Achievement
  • Top Indian team.
  • World 36th position.
  • Awarded Certificate of Achievement
  • Top Indian team
  • World 54th position.
  • Received Honorable Mention

Google India Women in Engineering Awards

The Awards –called Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship from 2012 – are meant to recognize and reward deserving women students in Computer Science and related majors, and inspire them to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. Given annually, the award is based on excellence in academics, passion for technology, demonstrated leadership, and originality of thought

2011
Lydia Manikonda, a dual degree student (CSE).
2010 – Two students 
Chhaya Methani, dual degree (CSE).
Kirti Garg, PhD (CSE)
2009
Sahiti Polishetty, B Tech (CSE).

• ?RoboCup-IIIT-H’s Team Kshitji was the only team from India to have qualified for the finals of the RoboCup events, each year, for five years, since the inception of the international contest in 2004. Awarded Best New Agent Award at the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM), 2006.

National Achievements (Multi-year)

• SPOJ – Every month since April 2009

Number #1 globally at the Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ), a highly popular programming site, with over 30, 000 users from 120 countries, since April 2009.
For rankings, click www.spoj.pl/ranks/institutions/

• Codechef – Every month since Jan 2010

At least five of the top 20 winners at the Codechef’s national-level monthly programming contests, since Jan 2008, have been IIIT-H students. 

Dataquest’s all-India ranks of IIIT-H. Ranks cover the IITs too.

• 2012 - Top 3 overall and #1 on placements
• 2011 - Top 5 overall and #1 on placements
• 2010 - Top 5 overall and top 3 on placements
• 2009 - Top 7 overall and top 5 on placements
• 2008 - Top 7 overall and top 3 on placements
• 2007 - Top 9 overall and top 5 on placements
• 2006 - Top 10 overall

India Today magazine rankings of IIIT-H. Ranks cover the IITs too.

• 2012 - Top 20 over all
• 2011 - Top 14 over all
• 2010 - Top 16 over all
• 2009 - Top 16 over all
• 2008 - Top 13 over all
• 2007 - Top 16 over all

Outlook Magazine rankings of IIIT-H. Ranks cover the IITs too.

• 2012 - Top 14 over all
• 2011 - Top 16 over all
• 2010 - Top 11 over all
• 2009 - Top 25 over all