Power Systems Research Center

About Power System Research Centre (PSRC):

Power and energy sector is vital for a country's sustained development. Hence it is important to have an efficient, reliable and an advanced power system. As the Information Technology expands its horizons, power engineering, like other traditional branches of engineering, is finding new tools and methods to solve its problems. In view of this, the Power Systems Research Center (PSRC) was setup in IIIT-Hyderabad, with an aim of undertaking research in the areas of IT applications to Power and Energy systems. This group in IIIT-Hyderabad consists of group of 4 faculty members and around 6 research students.

About IIIT, Hyderabad:

The International institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (also IIIT-Hyderabad, IIIT-H) is an autonomous, self-supporting institution started in 1998 with seed support from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. IIIT is a research university, at its core. A major goal of IIIT is to impart a uniquely broad and interdisciplinary IT education of the highest academic quality. This is achieved through an integrated curriculum that consists of a highly diverse set of IT courses, interdisciplinary IT research projects, day-to-day interaction with industry, preparation in entrepreneurship and personality development courses.

The institute lays emphasis on research at the undergraduate level. This is probably what makes it different from the other leading engineering institutes in India like the IITs. The institute has highly focused research centers in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision/Computer Graphics, VLSI and Communication, Databases, Robotics, Information Retrieval and Algorithms. The Speech Processing lab in the institute is one of only three of its kind present in India. Under the leadership of its director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal, the institute takes pride in being one of the foremost research hubs in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Raj Reddy, a researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the only Indian to get an ACM Turing Award, is the chairman of the IIIT Board of Governors.

Located in Hyderabad, the Institute combines the freedom of an academic institution with the strength of the corporate sector. It enjoys the locational advantage of being close to the HITEC City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centres.

The institute is situated on a campus of 62 acres (250,000 m²). It is fully residential in nature and hence is a self contained unit. There are 4 buildings that house the corporate schools and research centers. In addition to this, the academic building has the lecture halls, tutorial rooms, computer and electronics labs and offices of the administration and faculty.

All students are provided with individual hostel rooms. The institute has a Guest house with four air conditioned suites. Two hostels for men and one for women have a total of about 1200 rooms. There is an optical fiber network connecting all buildings on campus including the hostels.

The institute has well-equipped air-conditioned computer laboratories which are allocated batch-wise to students. The labs are equipped with modern hardware and software. The PC to students ratio is about 1:2. All computers are part of an intranet (1 Gbit/s Backbone). The institute has high bandwidth (8 Mbit/s) Internet connectivity round the clock. Research students have 24 hours access to the computer facilities. The students administer their own computer systems. The research centres and corporate schools provide specialised equipment for research and development.

The entire campus boasts of wireless connectivity. Using 802.11g technology and multiple access points the entire campus is being converted into one giant hotspot.

IIIT Hyderabad organised and co-sponsored IJCAI-07, the biggest international conference on Artificial Intelligence. It was held from 6th - 12th January, 2007.

IIIT Hyderabad was ranked 9th among the top T-schools in India, in a recent survey by the DataQuest Magazine.