Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, was established in 2001 with a vision to help build a knowledge-led society founded on intellectual competitiveness for global leadership.
DA-IICT Society is the parent body registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 and the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950. An act of the Gujarat Legislature provided for establishing the DA-IICT and conferred on it the status of a university in 2003. It was subsequently included in the list of universities maintained by the University Grants Commission under Section 2(f) and became a member of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) in 2009. The Institute is managed by a Board of Governors, Academic Council and Finance Committee with visionaries and leaders from the industry and academia as its members.
As a pioneering ICT centric institution established in 2000, DAIICT has played an invaluable role in developing a distinctive undergraduate programme in India. In accordance with its broad and dynamic understanding of ICT as an evolving discipline, its foundational undergraduate courses offer students a deep understanding of the fundamentals of CS, ECE and IT along with a solid grounding in mathematics and science. In accordance with its vision of a holistic education for engineers, its pedagogic intent is multi-disciplinary and integrates inputs from the Humanities and Social Sciences into its Core Curriculum in order to give students a contextual and critical understanding of technology and its applications in society thus making them “Engineers with Social Responsibility”.
Aerial View of Campus
Main Gate
Center Lake
Nature of University: State Private University
Type of University: Unitary
Establishment Date of the University: 06-08-2001
NAAC “A” grade in 2017
NIRF ranking – 134 rank in 2022
GSIRF – Five star ranked in 2022
Recipient of Center of Excellence Award by Government of Gujarat
DA-IICT Gandhinagar offers a diverse program portfolio as under. (2022-23)
Salient features of DA-IICT
DA-IICT offers four undergraduate and six post-graduate programs and a doctoral program in the areas of ICT and allied disciplines, Mathematics and Computational Science, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Cutting-edge curriculum designed to prepare students to meet the demands of the fast – changing field of information and Communication Technology.
Best in class faculty with doctorate from prominent institutions across the world and exceptional research credentials.
Close collaborations with industry, teaching and research institutions in India and abroad for faculty exchange, joint research, and guidance of masters, doctoral and post-doctoral scholars.
Holistic development of students through classroom learning combined with practical projects and industry engagement making them industry ready.
All permanent staff, faculty and their family members are covered for Cashless hospitalization for Rs.10,00,000/- including Covid-19.
Health Centre Facilities: Two visiting doctors visit the center every day at fixed hours on all working days for the students, faculty & staff members. Panel of medical specialists is also available. Institute has a stress management center.
Also, each year DA-IICT covers all the admitted students under GMC of Rs. 1,50,000/- per student and GPA of 1,00,000/- per student.
Institution Implements e-governance covering areas of operation in Administration, Finance and Accounts, Student Admission and Support; and Examination.
Dedicated Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and conducts internal and external financial audits regularly.
Research, Innovations and Extension
DAIICT has a vibrant research culture. Our faculty have earned PhDs from IITs or reputed Institutes outside India, and many have won national/international awards/recognitions.
Our research in multidisciplinary areas has resulted in publications in reputed journals, conferences, sponsored projects, consultancy and patents.
Different Research groups work in multi-disciplinary research areas by setting up their research labs.
More than 11 crores of projects are currently running, with 39 ongoing sponsored projects. This has resulted in recruiting quite a good number of JRFs/SRFs working on various projects.
Our consultancy works with different industries have generated about one crore in funds.
The Institute has set up research facilities to support quality research. DAIICT Faculty are encouraged to do research by offering seed grants to support their novel ideas and inculcate research culture among the UG and PG students.
To encourage the establishment of startups, DAIICT has set up the DAIICT centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (DCEI), which has resulted in several incubates.
To ensure ethics in research, we have an ethics committee. We also have plagiarism software, as well as we offer a course in research methodology.
PhD students who graduated from DAIICT are well placed and serve in reputed organisations such as Samsung, Amazon, IBM, Sony, NIT, IIIT etc. Many of them have pursued post-doctoral at reputed universities outside India.
DAIICT has signed several MOUs with various research organisations, which has resulted in the offering of a joint MTech program with IIT Jammu. The M.Sc. (Agriculture Analytics) is Jointly offered by DA-IICT, Anand Agriculture University and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS, Dehradun) with the active participation of Industries.
In addition to academic research, our faculty and students are actively involved in conducting various extension activities such as blood donation camps, Yoga day, Youth-runs and sessions for the improvement of the underprivileged in rural areas.
Promotion of Research:
DAIICT is committed towards developing and maintaining the high standards in both research and teaching. Our faculty and students contribute to research in the field of ICT and various allied areas. DAIICT provides a conducive environment that fosters interdisciplinary research in cutting edge areas. Quite a good number of Govt. sponsored projects and consultancy works are undertaken by the faculty.
Close to 80 PhD students have graduated so far and are well placed with few of them pursuing/pursued post-doctoral studies.
DAIICT has been awarded the Best University in Innovation by GoG. Number of research groups, research labs, faculty with high research credentials, subscription to conference articles/journals from reputed publishers have contributed to our quality research.
The Institute has a research promotion committee (RPC) headed by senior faculty. The faculty at DAIICT contributes to sponsored research as well as carryout consultancy works in different areas.
Our research contribution has grown over the last few years. In this respect, DAIICT has a good number of research labs, including the DAIICT Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (DCEI), thus encouraging the establishment of startups.
Research activities are greatly encouraged by providing seed funding, Cumulative Professional Development Allowance (CPDA) and financial assistance to students for attending national/international conferences. Joint thesis guidance and publication collaboration with leading institutes such as IIT Jammu has encouraged us to conduct better quality research.
DAIICT Faculty are encouraged to do research by offering seed grants to support their novel ideas and inculcate research culture among the UG and PG students.
Extension Activities:
More than 120 extension and outreach programs conducted and 1400+ students have participated for the activities. (from 2017-18 onwards)
Various kinds of extension activities were conducted during the past five years by the university. Students and faculty members on the campus carried out these activities. Our community service student group Sambhav is active in organizing various activities for the social cause.
Few of these activities include:
Blood donation camp,
Old age home visit,
Orphanage visit,
Vigyan Shala visit,
Swachhata Hi Seva,
Distribution of the reading/writing materials to school
Cloth collection and distribution etc.
The B.Tech curriculum at DA-IICT includes rural internship (RI-One of the best practices of DA-IICT) as a compulsory component. Each group of Students carry out 4 weeks of internship by and spending time with the villagers.
The best part of our RI is that when the students graduate, they describe rural internship as one of the best experiences that they had at DA-IICT.
Students work in various types of NGOs; some work on education, some are into bringing awareness, some fight for the rights of some groups, some are committed to health, some work for solid waste management and environment.
A group of students who had gone to Uttarakhand took up the task of solid waste management on themselves. They not only segregated the garbage with their own hands but even designed a system that can be followed for garbage collection. Another group of students who were working with primary school children developed an app on mobile to teach them alphabets. The experiment was very successful.
Many students develop close ties with the NGOs and the villages they worked for. Some students keep in touch with the families in villages and visit them again, long after their internship. The whole experience of living together as a group with just basic amenities, and doing some work that could be useful to the local population, leaves a deep impression on their minds.
Research & Development
@ DAIICT
Total number of workshops/seminars - 25 (from 2017-18 onwards)
Total Number of Patents published / awarded to the Faculty - 11 (from 2017-18 onwards)
Number of research papers in the Journals notified on UGC website - 323 (from 2017-18 onwards)
Total number of books and chapters in edited volumes/books published and papers in national/ international conference proceedings - 617 (from 2017-18 onwards)
Revenue generated from consultancy and corporate training during the last five years (INR in Lakhs). - 91.15 (from 2017-18 onwards)
Total Grants for research projects sponsored by the government agencies is Rs. 1181 Lakhs. (from 2017-18 onwards)
Total number of awards and recognition received for extension activities – 17 (from 2017-18 onwards)
Number of functional MoUs with institutions/ industries in India and abroad for internship, on-the-job training, project work, student / faculty exchange and collaborative research - 40 (as on 30 April 2023)
More than 1.16 crore (from 2017-18 onwards) has been allocated by the institution to its faculties as a SEED money to support quality research.
130+ teachers provided with financial support to attend conferences/workshops and towards membership fee of professional bodies year wise during the last five years
50+ professional development/ administrative training Programmes organized by the institution for teaching and non-teaching staff year-wise during the last five years.
Sponsored Projects @ DA-IICT
Satellite Network Simulator with ULPC and ACM Features
PI: Prof. Bhaskar Choudhury,
Co-PI:Prof. Yash Vasavada
Duration – 2020 to present
Total sanctioned budget: Rs. 14,18,000
Funding Agency: ISRO and Department of Space
Status – Ongoing
Design and Simulation of Beamforming Algorithms and Baseband Technologies for SATCOM On the Move (SOTM) Networks
PI: Prof. Yash Vasavada,
Co-PI: Prof. Rajib Lochan Das;
Duration: February 2019 to July 2022;
Funding Agency: ISRO and Department of Space;
Grant Amount: Rs. 29,20,000
Design and Simulation of Physical Layer and MAC Layer Functionalities of Future Mobile Satellite Systems
PI: Prof. Rajib Lochan Das,
Co-PI: Prof. Yash Vasavada;
Duration: July 2019 to July 2022;
Funding Agency: ISRO and Department of Space;
Grant Amount: Rs. 27,46,000
System Engineering for Ground Based Beam Former
PI: Prof. Yash Vasavada;
Co-PI: Prof. Abhishek Jindal;
Duration: December 2019 to July 2022;
Funding Agency: ISRO and Department of Space;
Grant Amount: Rs. 38,06,000 lakhs
Adaptive Beam Forming for Mitigation of Interference and Jamming at the Ground Terminal of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
PI: Prof. Yash Vasavada;
Duration: February 2020 to Present;
Funding Agency: ISRO and Department of Space;
Grand Amount: Rs. 15,98,000 Lakhs
KAVACH-Futuristic Flexible electronics based Communication system for Monitoring soldier's condition during warfare
PI: Prof. Rutu Parekh
Date of Commencement – 31.3.2022
Total sanctioned budget: Rs. 16,90,000
Duration: 2 Years
Funding Agency: GUJCOST, GOVT OF GUJARAT
Status – Ongoing
Miniaturization and calibration of an IoT enabled ultra-low power consuming heart monitoring of patient with cardiovascular diseases for resource constrained regions
PI: Prof. Biswajit Mishra
Date of Commencement – 31.3.2022
Total sanctioned budget: Rs. 26,85,000
Duration: 2 Years
Funding Agency: GUJCOST, GOVT OF GUJARAT
Status – Ongoing
Prototyping Dog Jacket for Real Time Rescue Operation inspired by Robotics Technology
PI: Prof. Tapas Kumar Maiti
Date of Commencement – 31.3.2022
Total sanctioned budget: Rs. 19,83,200
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: GUJCOST, GOVT OF GUJARAT
Status - Ongoing
Implementation Techniques of Discrete and Continuous Time Quantum Random Walks and their Applications
PI : Prof. Jaideep Mulherkar
Co-PI: Prof. Gautam Datta
Date of Commencement – 15.3.2022
Total sanctioned budget: Rs. 23,11,595
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Status - Ongoing
Discourse Integrated Dravidian Language to Dravidian Language Machine Translation (DL-DiscoMT) under National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
PI: Prof. Prasenjit Majumder
Date of Commencement – 02.3.2022
Total sanctioned budget: Rs. 42,17,000
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Status - Ongoing
An Empirical Analysis on Deriving Test Cases from Natural Language Text using MBT Approach
PI : Prof. Saurabh Tiwari
Commencement of Project – 24.2.2022
Budget: Rs. 20,78,000
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: Govt of India, SAC-ISRO
Status – Ongoing
Indian Language to Indian Language Translation – National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
PI: Prof. Prasenjit Majumder
Commencement of Project – 15.2.2022
Budget: Rs. 1,48,61,000
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Status – Ongoing
Speech Technologies in Indian Languages – National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
PI: Prof. Hemant Patil
Commencement of Project – 18.2.2022
Budget: Rs. 8,52,6000
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: Govt of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Status – Ongoing
IoT Enabled, Self Calibrating and Self-Healing Sensor System for In-situ Agriculture Applications
PI: Prof. Vinay Srinivas Palaparthy
Commencement of Project – 12.1.2022
Budget: Rs. 2,81,056
Duration: 4 Years
Funding Agency: Technology Innovation Hub (TIH), IIT Bombay
Status - Ongoing
Computational Invenstigations of Instability drivern transport in low temperature magnetized plasma discharges using massively parallel 2D-3v PIC-MCC simulations
PI: Prof. Bhaskar Chaudhary
Date of Commencement – 23.3.21
Total sanctioned budget: 26.95 lakh
Duration: 2 Years
Funding Agency: GOI, NSM (National Supercomputer Mission)
Status - Ongoing
Development of an integrated surveillance system for suspicious behaviour analysis
PI from DA-IICT: Prof. Manish Khare
PI from MNNIT Allahabad: Prof. Dushyant Kumar Singh
PI from University of Allahabad: Prof. Ashish Khare
Commencement of Project – 01.10.2021
Budget: 19.32 Lakh
Duration: 3 Years
Funding Agency: DST SERB
Status – Ongoing
Dynamical Sampling and Representation of Frames via lterated Operator Systems
PI: Prof. Nabinkumar Sahu
Date of Commencement – 31.12.20
Total sanctioned budget – 16.16 lakh
Duration – 3 Years
Fudning Agency: GOI, DST,SERB
Status – ongoing
IoT Enabled, 2-D Nanomaterial Leaf Wetness Microsensor On Flexible Substrate for Integrated Plant Disease Management
PI - Prof Vinay Shrinivas Palaparthy
Commencement of Project – 04.1.2020
Budget – 18.13 lakh
Duration – 3 Years
Status – ongoing
Design of a Novel and Ultra-Low power All Digital Front Acquisition with Configurable Time of Digital converter and Integrated Application Specific Processor for Detection of Mycrocardial Infarctions
PI - Prof Biswajit Mishra
Commencement of Project – 27.1.2020
Budget – 21.74 lakh
Duration – 3 Years
Status – ongoing
Speech to Speech Machine Translation (SSMT) Pilot System
PI - Prof Prasenjit Majumder
Commencement of Project – 29.5.20
Budget – 13.65 lakh
Duration – 1 Year
Status – ongoing
IoT Enabled, smart Micro Sensor for Integrated Plant Disease Management
PI - Prof Vinay Shrinivas Palaparthy
Commencement of Project – 13.8.2020
Budget – 36.11 lakh
Duration – 3 Years
Status – ongoing
Development of geo-magnetism based Indo navigation system
PI - Prof PS Kalyan Sasidhar
Commencement of Project – 27.10.2020
Budget – 27.41 lakh
Duration – 2 Years
Status – ongoing
Institution has the following facilities to support research and development of e-content
Media laboratory/Studios
Business Lab
Research/Statistical Databases
Audio visual centre
Lecture Capturing System(LCS)
Mixing equipments and softwares for editing
Research Labs at DA-IICT are as follows:
HPC Data Science Lab
Speech Lab
IR Lab
Smart City Lab
Low Power VLSI Lab
Sensor Lab
IOT Sensor Lab
RF Lab
Multimedia Design Lab (MMD)
Robotics & Autonomous Systems Lab
R.C Preview Room
Student Support
More than 3800 students have been benefited by scholarships and free ships provided by the institution, Government and non-government bodies, industries, individuals, philanthropists during the last five years.
Institute has disbursed Rs.4,29,09,500 to UG students, including NRI, and PG students (MSc-IT, MSc in DS) as scholarships (merit, merit cum means) (from 2017-18 onwards).
Institute has disbursed on average Rs.12,72,89,942 in last five years towards Teaching Assistant, and PhD scholars as TAship.
3000+ students have been benefited by career counseling and guidance for competitive examinations as offered by the Institution during the last five years.
More than 130 students have qualifying in state/ national/ international level examinations (eg: IIT/JAM/ NET/ SLET/ GATE/ GMAT/CAT/GRE/ TOEFL/ Civil Services/ State government examinations, etc.) during the last five years.
More than 150 students go for higher education during the last five years.
130+ awards/medals won by students for outstanding performance in sports / cultural activities at inter-university/state/national/international events during the last five years.
65+ sports and cultural events/competitions organized by the institution during the last five years.
Alumni contribution during the last five years is more than 60 lakhs.
Infrastructure and Learning Resources
The Institute has equipped all lecture theatres and classrooms with adequate ICT infrastructure, including desktop PCs, cameras, overhead projectors, and digital writing pads to deliver lectures efficiently.
The Institute has set up an in-house data centre providing IT services such as email, web hosting, software license management, and campus management.
An institute-wide Google suite enterprise and Webex were made available with several licenses immediately to support a seamless online teaching environment for faculty and students.
The server farm provides ample storage space to store teaching videos for access to students anytime and anywhere.
Workspaces in designated laboratories are provided to all undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students are provided with workspace in their common labs.
There is a dedicated, sponsored research lab space exclusively for doctoral students.
Another critical infrastructure component is the resource centre (library) which provides many facilities for a conducive learning environment. The centre boasts a vast collection of technical, humanities, fiction, and nonfiction books. The centre also includes subscriptions to various e-journals, e-books, ShodhSindhu, and Shodhganga.
The Institute actively supports and encourages students to participate in sports and extracurricular activities. There are three indoor badminton courts and two outdoor volleyball and basketball courts.
The physical infrastructure of the institute includes a new boys' hostel, an efficient solid waste management system, a solar power plant, sensor-based water supply systems, and water treatment plants. The food court is a critical part of on-campus life and recently received a five-star FSSAI rating.
100% automation of entire division & implementation of Examination Management System using different modules like Question Paper Upload System (QPUS), Depository of Question Papers or Question Banks (DQP/QB), Examination Schedule Generator (ESG), Google Classroom and on the OPEP (Online Proctored Exam Platform)
Learning Resources
Resource Center (Library)
The Resource Centre (Institute’s Library, RC) offers a wide range of e-resources which are extended 24x7 services via remote access facilities to all stakeholders. RC is housed in its wi-fi enabled two buildings with a rich and diverse collection of e-books, e-journals, databases and audio visual material in ICT, social science and humanities. This collection can be searched by a web-enabled online catalog. (https://www.daiict.ac.in/ resource-centre) The students can also browse and access the various electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books and databases using the dedicated terminals in the reading zones. RC offers language learning as well. RC has resource sharing in collaboration with Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) and National Digital Library of India (NDLI).
The RC has a rich and diverse collection of about 33000+ books, 20000+ e-books, 14974 e-journals, 100 print journals, 10 databases, 800 theses and 4000 audio visual material in the ICT, social science and humanities.
The library has acquired subscriptions of a variety of e-journals such as IEEE Xplore, ACM Nature Online, ScienceDirect, Springer and so on. A wide collection of e-books including collections from MIT, Wiley, and Springer ebooks are also available. Th e resource center also has subscription to e-courses such as IEEE ComSoc tutorials, IEEE eLearning Edge Computing, Udemy Online Courses. Access to online electures from DAIICT guest lectures NPTEL, and SWAYAM is also available for students.
ICT tools available for the academic purpose: 1280 computers/laptops
Software Licenses:
Google suite enterprise for education (90 licenses), GSuite for education (10000 users) to ensure all video and lecture material pertinent for a course, to be available to students 24/7 access from anywhere. The institute acquired licenses for Webex (100 host license for faculty and 6000 student licenses) to accommodate online teaching for large classes of 360 students. The institute also has number of licenses for a wide variety of academic software, that include MATLAB (2000), Netsim (2000), Xilinx(25), Cadence(25), Mentor Graphics (25), Grammarly (500) and Turnitin (2000).
DA-IICT Center for Entrepreneurship and Incubation (DCEI)
The DCEI is currently supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to nurture and develop business ideas based on the latest and emerging technology. It has received following grants:
A grant of Rs. 150.0 lakhs under the scheme ‘Expansion of Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE)’ from MeitY.
A grant of Rs. 15.0 lakhs from the Industries Commissionerate.
First installment of Rs. 10.0 lakhs out of a total sanctioned grant of Rs. 100.0 lakhs for five years under SSIP.
Student Body Government (SBG)
The Student Body Government DAIICT is a self-governing and democratic organisation for monitoring and regulating student activities. The student members of the following nine Committees together with the members of different clubs form the Student Body Government.
Academic Committee,
Cultural Committee,
Hostel Management Committee,
Sports Committee,
Annual Festival Committee,
Cafeteria Management Committee,
Student Placement Cell,
Tech Support committee.
DAIICT Committees
The institute is administered effectively through strong leadership, and mission-driven teamwork.
The primary objectives of the administration are continuous improvement, and provide quality well-rounded education at UG and PG levels. Important institutional bodies are i) Board of Governors, ii) Academic Council, iii) Finance Committee, and iv) IQAC.
DA-IICT Committees:
Undergraduate Committee,
Rural Internship Committee,
Postgraduate Committee,
Timetable Committee,
Campus Learning Management System (CLMS) Committee,
Placement and Internship Committee,
CEP Committee,
Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC),
Gender Cell Committee,
International Students Office,
UG/PG Project/Thesis Award Committee,
Web Committee,
Annual Report Committee.
Placement Statistics
(AY: 2022-23)
480+ total offers from the 160+ companies
45.02 LPA of Average Top 50 students
36.52 LPA of Average Top 100 students
31.33 LPA of Average Top 150 students
30+ PPOs
82 LPA – Highest CTC
1.15 LPM – Mean Stipend
17 LPA – Average CTC
2 LPM – Highest Stipend
12 LPA – Median CTC
DA-IICT Placement Team
Prominent Recruiters @ DA-IICT
Details of Infrastructure
Students Enrolled in the University During the Current Academic Year
UG – 1508
PG – 535
Ph.D – 48
Teaching and Non-Teaching staff @ DA-IICT
Professor - 19
Associate Professor - 19
Assistant Professor - 37
Visiting Professor - 04
Non-Teaching Staff – 49
Technical Staff – 18
DA-IICTians @ news
Past Events @ DA-IICT
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