ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 ALWAYS INNOVATING INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD Board of Governors | 3 Director’s Message | 4 Placement | 10 TEQIP at IITH | 11 GIAN Courses @ IIT Hyderabad | 12 Incubators from IITH | 12 Republic Day Celebrations | 13 International Women’s Day Celebrations | 14 Biomedical Engineering | 15 Biotechnology | 22 Chemical Engineering | 28 Chemistry | 39 Civil Engineering | 47 Computer Science & Engineering | 62 CONTENTS Design | 71 Electrical Engineering | 76 Liberal Arts | 91 Materials Science & Metallurgical Engineering | 99 Mathematics | 107 Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | 111 Physics | 123 Open Day | 136 Elan | 141 Sports 2018-19 | 142 International Day of Yoga | 142 BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIRMAN MEMBER Mr BVR Mohan Reddy Prof Vinod Krishan Executive Chairman Senior Professor & Dean Cyient Limited Indian Institute of Astrophysics MEMBER MEMBER Dr Prema Prof M Lakshmi Ramachandran Kantam Director Department of Chemical Nutrition Foundation of Engineering India Institute of Chemical Technology MEMBER MEMBER Dr Subhbir Singh Sandhu, Dr B Janardhan Reddy, IAS IAS Principal Secretary Additional Secretary Department of Education Ministry of Human Resource Government of Telangana Development SENATE NOMINEE EX-OFFICIO Prof Anjan Kumar Giri Prof UB Desai HoD, Physics Department Director Indian Institute of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Technology Hyderabad SENATE NOMINEE SECRETARY Prof Ch. Subrahmanyam Mr N Jayaram Dean (Academics) Registrar Indian Institute of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Technology Hyderabad ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 / 3 THE NEXT DECADE OF IIT HYDERABAD ITH entered its next decade in July 2018. The first year of the new decade was as exciting or even more so than any of the previous years. As always, IITH has been at the forefront of academics. Top JEE (advanced) and GATE ranking students are opting for IITH. In the academic year starting in August 2019 IITH is starting several new programs: B.Tech. in AI, Minor in AI, B.Des. in the Design Department, M.Tech. in Climate Change and several other initiatives. Our faculty student ratio is best among all IITs – 1:13. We have a very strong PG program. The rough ratio among Ph.D. students, Masters students and Undergraduate students is 30:25:45. Overall IITH offers 10 B.Tech programs, 16 M.Tech programs, 3 M.Sc. programs, MA Program, M.Des program and PhD programs in all branches of engineering, science, liberal arts and design. IITH has implemented a very novel academic program, referred to as, Fractal Academics – the key idea is to atomize courses, provide breadth and depth, emphasize courses in liberal arts as well as creative arts, emphasize project work, and create an interactive learning ambience. IITH is the first institute to start an M.Tech. program in Data Science for working 4 / ALWAYS INNOVATING "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – t. S. ELLIOT professionals; this is a completely a video- Center. This year IITH will start a new Center based course. IITH also has All Course of Excellence in AI. Fourteen companies have M.Tech. Program in almost all engineering been incubated, three are already making a departments. profit, two have received funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, four have By Aug 2019, IITH will have nearly 2750 received funding from BIRAC-DBT, and three students with more than 20% women companies employ more than 40 people. students, and 205 full time faculty members. The center for health care entrepreneurship, IITH’s sanctioned research funding will be to funded by two IIT Bombay alumni, is a the tune of Rs.350 crs. from nearly 350 plus feather in the cap for the entrepreneurial sponsored projects. Our overall citation is efforts taken by IITH. 24,492 and we have an H-Index of 50. IITH has been consistently ranked in top Our Japan collaboration is in full swing with 10 engineering institutions in the National Japanese faculty visiting us and IITH faculty Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). visiting leading Japanese university on a Furthermore, it has achieved 196 and 100 regular basis. There are several active R&D position in QS Asia pacific and QS BRICS projects having Japanese collaboration. ranking respectively. IITH also features at There is a strong student exchange 600 position in Times Higher Education program with Japan. All the infrastructure World University ranking. IITH also features development with Japanese collaboration at 10th position in the first edition of ARIIA has started, and soon IITH will be among the ranking for publically funded institutes. best campuses in the country and possibly the world. IITH is creating a unique holistic educational ecosystem that offers interactive learning, IITH has MOUs with at least 50 universities a highly, flexible academic structure, globally, most of them in Japan, USA, cutting edge research, strong industry Australia, Canada, Europe and Taiwan. collaboration, and entrepreneurship. It is IITH has three technology incubators – iTIC, providing an environment wherein students Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship and and faculty are not afraid to translate their Fabless Chip Design Incubator. Moreover, dreams to realities. there are 6 research centers – most notable being Nano-technology, Teaching and Prof UB Desai Learning Center, and Design Innovations ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 / 5 FACULTY STATISTICS s on 31 March 2019, IITH is having 197 faculty members on its roll. 12% of the total Afaculty are women. 35% of the faculty members obtained their PhD from universities abroad and 50% possess post doctoral research experience from leading universities abroad. 172 129 Gender-wise All Faculty with PhD Distribution 68 of Faculty 25 Foreign PhD Indian PhD Faculty with Faculty with Post-Doctoral Faculty with Post-Doctoral Experience in Post-Doctoral Experience in Abroad Experience India 100 4 28 21 20 17 17 16 15 15 14 12 8 8 6 MAE CSE CE ChE CY BT BM DS DS BM BT BM BT ChE CY CE CSE DS EE LA MSME MA MAE PH CY ChE CE CSE MAE Department-Wise Faculty Strength 6 / IITALWAYS HYDERABAD INNOVATING ACADEMICS TOTAL NUMBER OF B.TECH STUDENTS ADMITTED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR 350 Department-wise Distribution of 300 288* 290 B.Tech students (18-19) 250 242 60 52 52 52 208 203 50 196 200 200 40 35 28 30 26 139 150 19 123 20 15 111 112 11 10 100 0 CE ChE CSE EE EP ES MAC MAE MSME 50 0 08-09 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 * Two students transferred from other IITs TOTAL NUMBER OF M.TECH STUDENTS ADMITTED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR Department-wise 300 Distribution of 269 M.Tech students (18-19) 251 250 90 223 82 211 80 194 200 70 177 61 160 60 150 50 43 40 32 100 30 20 78 20 11 11 52 10 9 50 32 0 BM BT ChE CE* CSE# EE* MAE*MSME 0 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 *Including all Courses of M.Tech #Including EMDS candidates TOTAL NUMBER OF M.SC STUDENTS ADMITTED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR 70 63 61 59 60 Department-wise Distribution of 49 50 48 M.Sc students (18-19) 41 40 35 36 31 30 30 25 20 18 20 20 15 14 10 10 5 7 0 CY MA PH 0 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 / 7 ...ACADEMICS TOTAL NUMBER OF M.PHIL STUDENTS ADMITTED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR 8 7 7 7 6 6 6 5 5 Total number of 4 4 4 M.Phil students (18-19) 3 6 2 1 0 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 TOTAL NUMBER OF M.DES STUDENTS ADMITTED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR 16 15 14 14 13 12 12 10 10 Total number of 8 M.Des students (18-19) 6 12 4 2 0 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 TOTAL NUMBER OF PHD STUDENTS ADMITTED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR 200 180 172 Department-wise 169 159 Distribution of 160 153 PhD students (18-19) 140 132 134 120 30 29 100 25 21 21 83 20 20 80 15 65 15 60 10 9 9 8 7 6 5 5 40 5 4 22 0 20 9 BM BT ChE CE CSE CY DS EE LA MA ME MSME PH 0 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 8 / ALWAYS INNOVATING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT he vibrant research culture in IITH is evident from the large number of publications and the sponsored projects. In the financial year 2018-19 IITH had secured more than 100 Tsponsored projects from national funding agencies and private companies. The trend in the number and quantum of sponsored projects in IITH over the past is shown in the charts below. Research Projects 160 12000 10257 140 137 10000 120 104 8000 100 98 80 6000 5834 66 4780 4455 60 No of Projects of No 4591 4000 40 2751 40 32 34 28 2166 1622 Projects Cost (Amount in Rs Lakhs) in Rs (Amount Cost Projects 2000 1087 20 12 1 8 233 50 0 0 2008-09 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 2008-09 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 YEARS YEARS NO OF SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDING FROM APPROVED IN EACH FINANCIAL YEAR SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS Consultancy Projects 80 450 422 70 68 400 350 60 318 300 50 250 40 37 37 207 200 190 177 170 No of Projects of No 30 31 150 113 20 20 18 17 100 65 10 6 Lakhs) Rs In (Amount Cost Projects 50 2 2 5 2 0 0 2009-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 2009-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 YEARS YEARS NO OF CONSULTANCY PROJECTS FUNDING FROM CONSULTANCY PROJECTS APPROVED IN EACH FINANCIAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 / 9 PLACEMENT REPORT FY 2018-19 lacements at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad for the academic year 2018-19 have yielded 261 offers for 418 registered students.