International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH, pronounced Triple-Eye-T), formerly Indian Institute of Information Technology, is a higher-education institute deemed-to-be-university, founded as a not-for-profit public private partnership (N-PPP), located in Telangana, India. It is the first IIIT in India under this model. IIITH is a residential institute spread over 66 acres right in the center of the Gachibowli IT hub. The institute has 101 faculty, 1896 students and 115 administrative and supporting staff. History IIIT Hyderabad was set up in 1998 under the public private partnership model by Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of Andhra Pradesh and NASSCOM, with the state government supplying a grant of land and buildings. As special officer for IIIT Hyderabad and Secretary of IT for the state government, Ajay Prakash Sawhney was responsible for shaping the conceptual model and overseeing initial development of the institute. Rajeev Sangal, former director of Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi designed the syllabus and served as the first director of the institute until 10 April 2013. The institution was founded under the name Indian Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad as a foundation for the 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology under same model, which was later renamed to International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad in 2001 when it attained a status of Deemed University. Campus Government of Andhra Pradesh allotted 66 acres of land to IIIT Hyderabad in 1998 located on the main Gachibowli road, also known as the old Bombay highway. The institute is surrounded by many academic and research institutions like the University of Hyderabad (UOH), Indian School of Business (ISB), Indian Immunological and Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Development Banking (JNIDB), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and many more. It also lies in proximity to the bustling HiTech City Center and Lingampally railway station. The institute has 30 research centers. In addition to this, the academic buildings have lecture halls, workspaces, teaching labs, computer and electronics labs and also offices of the administration and faculty. Building complexes are named after the mountain ranges Nilgiri, Vindhya and Himalaya. IIITH also houses Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS), a state-of-the-art research center, established in 2015 with funding from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) foundation to give a fillip to research, teaching and entrepreneurship in the broad area of intelligent systems. The campus also has incubators, research centers, library, auditorium and an amphitheater which hosts multiple cultural events and