The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi was created as a State University by an act of Delhi Government (The IIIT Delhi Act, 2007) empowering it to do research and development and grant degrees.

The mission of IIIT Delhi is to be a global centre of excellence in Information Technology education, training and research. Its twin aims are:

* To carry out advanced research and development in information and software technologies, and in leveraging IT in specific domain areas.
* To train and educate, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, engineers of outstanding ability who can become innovators and new product creators.

It aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in specified domain areas of IT. Towards this end it plans to organize itself as a conglomerate of R&D Centers, some of which would be in partnership with different companies and global organizations. All centers will also be engaged in teaching and thesis guidance. These centers, with various labs, will be the hub of activity, with active contribution from faculty and students—BTech, MTech and PhD. These details are retrieved from www.iiitd.ac.in

Research
Research will get a lot of focus and attention at IIIT Delhi
IIIT Delhi aims to have focused research groups in some areas of IT and some domain areas. The number and nature of research areas will evolve as more faculty and research staff joins. Current areas of research are:

* Biometrics
* Data mining and management
* Mobile and Ubiquitous computing
* Software Engineering
Brief information about each group and its activities are given below.