IIIT Kalyani

About IIIT Kalyani

IIIT Kalyani is committed to becoming a Center of Excellence in IT education and research, preparing students to meet the industry’s evolving demands with innovation and expertise. The institute actively fosters an entrepreneurial ecosystem, driving new technological solutions and intellectual property development within the State.

Established through a Not-for-Profit Public-Private Partnership (N-PPP), IIIT Kalyani is funded by the Government of India (Ministry of Education), the Government of West Bengal, and industry partners in a 50:35:15 ratio. The West Bengal government has also contributed 50 acres of land for its permanent campus. Current industry partners include Coal India Ltd. and the Rolta Foundation.

About IIIT Kalyani

Director's Message

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It is my pleasure to be associated with the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani as its Director. Before taking up this assignment, I have been a Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and also Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the institute. From my undergraduate studies till PhD I have been in the Computer Science and Engineering specialization. In this background, I joining IIIT Kalyani give the opportunity to explore both the software and hardware challenges of Information...

Prof. Santanu Chattopadhyay
Director, IIIT Kalyani

Achievements

  • Madhuchhanda Dasgupta has been awarded project funding under the Women Scientists Scheme-A (WOS-A) from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
  • Sourabh Biswas received the Best Paper Award in 5 th Intl. Conf. IEEE PKIA-24, Bangalore.
  • Sreeparna Ganguly won the Best Presentation Award for in IEEE CIS Workshop on Women in Artificial Intelligence 2024, organized by IIT Indore.
  • Ayushman Bhatt secured AIR 64 in GATE 2024. Arindom Mondal and Rahul Dewangan secured AIR 665 and 1023 in GATE 2025, respectively.
  • Team Coding Pirates (Mohit Kumar Shaw, Aditya Arya, Ankit Kumar Soni, Aman Kumar and Tanishka Jain) secured 4 th rank in the Cyber Hackathon 2025, Govt. of Bihar.
  • Team Mecha Wafers (Subradeep Mondol, Satadru Haldar, Soumyadeep Kundu and Soumyajit Pradhan) selected among the top ideas at IDEAPOOL during TechBiz 2024, organized by RISE Foundation IISER in collaboration with IKP PRIME and IISER Kolkata.
  • Abhik Maji (2025 batch) was a finalist in Flipkart Grid 6.0 and secured a Pre- Placement Offer (PPO) for his outstanding performance.
  • Three teams from the 2026 batch were selected as finalists for the Smart India Hackathon – 2 teams under Software and 1 team under Hardware category.
  • Sahil Kumar secured 2 BRONZE medals in Swimming at the Inter-IIIT Sports Meet 2025.
  • Pranjali Sirari secured 2 GOLD and 1 SILVER medal in Swimming at the Inter-IIIT Sports Meet 2025.