Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, commonly known as IIT Guwahati or IITG, is a public technical university in Amingaon, North Guwahati, in the state of Assam, India, established in 1994 by an act of the Parliament of India as the sixth Indian Institute of Technology.印度理工学院古瓦哈蒂校区（简称 IIT Guwahati 或 IITG）是位于印度阿萨姆邦北古瓦哈蒂阿明冈的一所公立技术大学，1994 年由印度议会法案设立，是第六所印度理工学院。

It is designated an Institute of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Act 1961 and occupies about 700 acres on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River, some 20 kilometres from central Guwahati.该校依 1961 年《理工学院法》被定为国家级重要学院，占地约 700 英亩，位于布拉马普特拉河北岸，距古瓦哈蒂市中心约 20 公里。

It is placed 349th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and 1284th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, is not ranked in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is not included in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with 34,435 works and 1,545,094 citations recorded on OpenAlex.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 349，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1284，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，其在 OpenAlex 上记录有 34435 项成果与 1545094 次引用。

History

• The institute's creation arose from the Assam Accord of 1985, signed between the All Assam Students Union and the Government of India, which resolved the six-year Assam Movement and committed the central government to improving education in the state.该校的创设源自 1985 年全阿萨姆学生会与印度政府签署的阿萨姆协议，该协议结束了长达六年的阿萨姆运动，并促使中央政府承诺改善该邦的教育。

• Following the Accord, Education Consultants India Limited was tasked with preparing a project report, which was completed in 1989 under the oversight of C. R. Malhotra, a former director of IIT Kanpur.协议签署后，印度教育咨询有限公司受托编制项目报告，报告于 1989 年在印度理工学院坎普尔校区前校长 C. R. Malhotra 的督导下完成。

• A site was initially selected at Misa in Nagaon district, and a society named "IIT Nagaon, Assam Society" was formed under the existing legal provisions.校址最初选定在纳冈县的米萨，并按既有法律规定成立了名为印度理工学院纳冈阿萨姆学会的机构。

• Because of difficulties at the Misa site a subsequent committee selected the present location in North Guwahati, and a new body, the "IIT Guwahati Assam Society", was constituted.由于米萨选址存在困难，随后的委员会选定了现今的北古瓦哈蒂校址，并另行组建了印度理工学院古瓦哈蒂阿萨姆学会。

• In 1992 the then Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao declared during a visit to Assam that classes should begin that year, though this proved impracticable.1992 年，时任总理纳拉辛哈·拉奥在访问阿萨姆时宣布当年应当开课，但这一时间表最终证明难以实现。

• The director selection process did not begin until 1993, delaying the start of teaching beyond the timetable the Prime Minister had announced.校长遴选程序直到 1993 年才启动，使教学的开端晚于总理宣布的时间表。

• IIT Guwahati was formally established in 1994 through an amendment to the Institutes of Technology Act, becoming India's sixth Indian Institute of Technology.印度理工学院古瓦哈蒂校区于 1994 年经《理工学院法》修正案正式设立，成为印度第六所印度理工学院。

• Prof. Dhirendra Nath Buragohain, a civil engineering faculty member of IIT Bombay, joined as project director in February 1994 and became the founding director in July 1994.曾任印度理工学院孟买校区土木工程教师的 Dhirendra Nath Buragohain 教授于 1994 年 2 月出任项目主任，1994 年 7 月成为创校校长。

• Academic programmes commenced in 1995 with the first batch of Bachelor of Technology students admitted through the Joint Entrance Examination.学术课程于 1995 年启动，首批技术学士学生通过联合入学考试录取。

• The first Master of Technology students were admitted in 1998 through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.首批技术硕士学生于 1998 年通过工程研究生能力测试录取。

• After Buragohain's retirement in 2003, Prof. Gautam Barua, a computer scientist who had been with the institute since 1995, became director and served two terms from 2003 to 2013.2003 年 Buragohain 退休后，自 1995 年起在该校任教的计算机科学家 Gautam Barua 教授出任校长，并于 2003 至 2013 年连任两届。

• He was succeeded in September 2013 by Prof. Gautam Biswas, a mechanical engineer from IIT Kanpur who had directed the CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute at Durgapur, who served until June 2019.2013 年 9 月，来自印度理工学院坎普尔校区、曾任杜尔加布尔中央机械工程研究所所长的机械工程师 Gautam Biswas 教授接任，任职至 2019 年 6 月。

• Prof. T. G. Sitharam, a geotechnical engineer from the Indian Institute of Science, took charge as director in July 2019 and served until 2022.来自印度科学研究所的岩土工程师 T. G. Sitharam 教授于 2019 年 7 月出任校长，任职至 2022 年。

• During Sitharam's tenure five new academic schools and five multidisciplinary centres were established, expanding the institute's academic range.在 Sitharam 任内，该校新设五个学术学院与五个跨学科中心，拓展了其学科范围。

• Between 2020 and 2021 those five schools were created, addressing agro and rural technology, business, data science and artificial intelligence, energy sciences, and health science and technology.2020 至 2021 年间这五个学院相继成立，分别面向农业与农村技术、商学、数据科学与人工智能、能源科学以及健康科学与技术。

• In December 2022 Sitharam was appointed chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education, the national technical-education regulator.2022 年 12 月，Sitharam 被任命为全印技术教育委员会主席，该机构是全国技术教育的监管者。

• Prof. Devendra Jalihal, previously of IIT Madras, assumed the directorship in May 2024.此前任职于印度理工学院马德拉斯校区的 Devendra Jalihal 教授于 2024 年 5 月接任校长。

• In 2021 the founding director Buragohain received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya.2021 年，创校校长 Buragohain 获梅加拉亚国立技术学院颁授荣誉文学博士学位。

• In 2023 the former director Gautam Biswas received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award for his research in computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer.2023 年，前校长 Gautam Biswas 因在计算流体力学与传热学方面的研究获颁美国机械工程师学会传热纪念奖。

• As of August 2024 the institute had 8,533 students on its rolls, of whom 24.5 percent were women, and a faculty of 456, of whom 12.1 percent were women.截至 2024 年 8 月，该校在校学生 8533 人，其中女性占 24.5%，教师 456 人，其中女性占 12.1%。

• IIT Guwahati is one of the twenty-three Indian Institutes of Technology, a network of autonomous public technical universities established across India.印度理工学院古瓦哈蒂校区是二十三所印度理工学院之一，这一网络是遍布印度的自治公立技术大学群体。

• Its foundation answered a commitment to extend national technical education into India's north-eastern region, which had long lacked such an institution.它的建立落实了把国立技术教育扩展到印度东北部地区的承诺，该地区此前长期缺乏此类院校。

Academics

• Official descriptions of IIT Guwahati list eleven departments, seven interdisciplinary academic centres and five schools covering engineering, science, healthcare, management and the humanities.该校官方介绍列出十一个系、七个跨学科学术中心与五个学院，覆盖工程、科学、医疗、管理与人文领域。

• A 2026 placement brochure described eleven departments, nine academic centres and five schools, with around 8,600 students enrolled in numerous undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.一份 2026 年的就业手册称该校设有十一个系、九个学术中心与五个学院，在众多本科与研究生项目中约有 8600 名学生。

• Its teaching is organised into departments including Biosciences and Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.其教学按系组织，包括生物科学与生物工程、化学工程、化学、土木工程与计算机科学与工程等。

• Further departments cover Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Design, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.其他系还包括数据科学与人工智能、设计、电子与电气工程、人文与社会科学、数学、机械工程与物理学。

• The departments offer programmes at the B.Tech., B.Des., B.Sc., M.Tech., M.Des., M.A., M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels.各系提供技术学士、设计学士、理学士、技术硕士、设计硕士、文学硕士、理学硕士与博士层次的课程。

• Undergraduate engineering admissions are conducted through JEE Advanced, while admissions to the undergraduate design programme have been conducted through UCEED since 2016.本科工程类招生通过进阶联合入学考试进行，而本科设计专业的招生自 2016 年起通过 UCEED 进行。

• Postgraduate admissions are conducted through IIT-JAM, GATE and CEED depending on the programme, while doctoral and MA admissions are through entrance examinations and interviews.研究生招生依项目不同通过 IIT-JAM、GATE 与 CEED 进行，博士与文学硕士招生则通过入学考试与面试。

• Five academic schools were established between 2020 and 2021: the School of Agro and Rural Technology, the School of Business and the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.2020 至 2021 年间成立五个学术学院，包括农业与农村技术学院、商学院与梅塔家族数据科学与人工智能学院。

• The remaining schools are the School of Energy Sciences and Engineering and the School of Health Science and Technology, rounding out the newer academic structure.其余学院为能源科学与工程学院与健康科学与技术学院，共同构成较新的学术架构。

• IIT Guwahati hosts Param Ishan, a supercomputer deployed in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.该校部署了 Param Ishan 超级计算机，由它与先进计算发展中心合作建成。

• Upon installation Param Ishan was described as the fastest supercomputer in the north-eastern, eastern and southern regions of India.安装之时，Param Ishan 被称为印度东北部、东部与南部地区最快的超级计算机。

• The institute partnered with NTPC Limited to design and develop a plant for capturing carbon dioxide from power plants, led by Prof. Bishnupada Mandal of the Department of Chemical Engineering.该校与印度国家火电公司合作设计并开发一套从电厂捕集二氧化碳的装置，由化学工程系的 Bishnupada Mandal 教授牵头。

• All IITs follow a common organisational structure with the President of India as visitor, and each IIT is governed by a board of governors that appoints the director as chief academic and executive officer.各印度理工学院遵循共同的组织架构，由印度总统担任视察人，每校由校务委员会治理，该委员会任命校长为首席学术与行政负责人。

• The current chairman of IIT Guwahati's board of governors is Rajiv I. Modi, chairman and managing director of Cadila Pharmaceuticals.该校校务委员会现任主席为 Rajiv I. Modi，他是 Cadila 制药公司的董事长兼总经理。

• Research at the institute spans engineering, the basic sciences, design and the humanities, supported by its departments, centres and schools.该校的研究横跨工程、基础科学、设计与人文领域，由各系、中心与学院提供支撑。

• Its 456 faculty members and its departments and schools carry out research across engineering, science, design and the humanities.该校 456 名教师与各系、学院在工程、科学、设计与人文领域开展研究。

• The institute's schools and centres support interdisciplinary work in areas such as artificial intelligence, energy sciences and agro and rural technology.该校的学院与中心支持人工智能、能源科学以及农业与农村技术等领域的跨学科工作。

Campus

• The campus occupies approximately 700 acres, or 2.8 square kilometres, on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River, abutting the town of Amingaon in North Guwahati.校园占地约 700 英亩，即 2.8 平方公里，位于布拉马普特拉河北岸，紧邻北古瓦哈蒂的阿明冈镇。

• The campus has the Brahmaputra on one side and hills on the others, giving it a riverside and hilly setting.校园一侧临布拉马普特拉河，其余各面为丘陵，形成依山傍水的地貌。

• IIT Guwahati is a fully residential campus, with students and much of the faculty living on site.该校为完全寄宿制校园，学生与大部分教师均住在校内。

• Its hostels are named after rivers and tributaries of north-eastern India, including Manas, Dihing, Kapili, Siang, Kameng and Barak.其宿舍以印度东北部的河流与支流命名，包括马纳斯、迪欣、卡皮利、西亚恩、卡门与巴拉克。

• Further hostels carry the names Subansiri, Umiam, Brahmaputra, Dhansiri, Lohit, Disang and Gaurang, tying campus life to the region's rivers.其他宿舍则名为苏班西里、乌米亚姆、布拉马普特拉、丹西里、洛希特、迪桑与高朗，把校园生活与该地区的河流联系起来。

• The campus lies about 20 kilometres from central Guwahati, on the north bank of the river across from the city.校园距古瓦哈蒂市中心约 20 公里，位于与该市隔河相望的北岸。

• Its riverside and hilly surroundings give the institute a secluded setting distinct from the dense city centre.其临河与丘陵的环境使该校拥有一处与稠密市中心截然不同的幽静场所。

• The Param Ishan supercomputer and the institute's research facilities are housed on this campus, supporting computational research across its departments.Param Ishan 超级计算机与该校的研究设施设于校园内，为各系的计算机研究提供支持。

• Hostel names such as Manas, Dihing and Kapili tie the residential campus to the rivers of Assam and the wider north-east.马纳斯、迪欣与卡皮利等宿舍名称，把寄宿校园与阿萨姆及更广阔东北地区的河流联系在一起。

• The campus's riverside setting on the Brahmaputra places it among the more scenic university grounds in India.校园位于布拉马普特拉河畔的环境，使其跻身印度风景较为优美的大学校园之列。

Reputation

• IIT Guwahati is ranked 349th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked 344th globally in the QS World University Rankings 2025.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 349，此前在 2025 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 344。

• In the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2024 it was ranked ninth overall among Indian universities and seventh among engineering institutions.在 2024 年印度国家机构排名框架中，它在全国高校中综合排名第九，在工程学院校中排名第七。

• It is not ranked in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is not included in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it stands 1284th, and according to OpenAlex it has produced 34,435 works attracting 1,545,094 citations.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中该校位列第 1284，据 OpenAlex 统计其已产出 34435 项成果、累计被引用 1545094 次。

• As an Institute of National Importance and the sixth Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Guwahati belongs to India's most prestigious group of technical institutions.作为国家级重要学院与第六所印度理工学院，该校属于印度最具声望的技术院校群体。

• Its Param Ishan supercomputer was described upon installation as the fastest in the north-eastern, eastern and southern regions of India.其 Param Ishan 超级计算机在安装时被称为印度东北部、东部与南部地区最快的机器。

• The institute's partnership with NTPC Limited on carbon-dioxide capture from power plants illustrates its applied research role in India's energy sector.该校与印度国家火电公司在电厂二氧化碳捕集方面的合作，体现了其在印度能源领域的应用研究作用。

• Its establishment fulfilled a commitment of the 1985 Assam Accord to bring a national technical institution to the state of Assam.该校的建立落实了 1985 年阿萨姆协议中为阿萨姆邦带来一所国立技术院校的承诺。

• Its placement record and research output sustain its reputation as one of the leading technical institutes in north-eastern India.其就业表现与研究产出维持着它作为印度东北部领先技术院校之一的声誉。

• Its NIRF 2024 standing, seventh among engineering institutions and ninth overall, confirms its position in national assessments.其在 2024 年 NIRF 排名中工程学院校第七、综合第九的成绩，印证了它在国家评估中的地位。

• As one of the newer and smaller Indian Institutes of Technology, it nonetheless competes in the same national examinations and rankings as the older institutes.作为较新且规模较小的印度理工学院之一，它仍在同样的全国考试与排名中与老牌院校同场竞争。

Student life

• The institute has no widely published Latin or English motto, and its identity rests on its riverside campus and its student-run festivals.该校没有广为流传的拉丁文或英文校训，其形象主要依托临河校园与由学生自主举办的节庆活动。

• Alcheringa, the annual cultural festival, was first held in 1996 and has grown into one of the largest student festivals in north-eastern India.年度文化节 Alcheringa 于 1996 年首次举办，如今已发展成为印度东北部规模最大的学生节庆之一。

• Techniche, the annual techno-management festival, is held each September and hosts Technothlon, a national-level examination for school students.年度技术管理节 Techniche 每年九月举行，并承办面向中学生的全国性考试 Technothlon。

• The same techno-management festival also stages the Guwahati Half Marathon, linking students with the wider city.同一技术管理节还举办古瓦哈蒂半程马拉松，把学生与更广泛的城市联系起来。

• Spirit is the institute's sports festival, while Udgam is its entrepreneurship summit and Prayatna its socio-welfare festival.Spirit 是该校的体育节，Udgam 是其创业峰会，Prayatna 则是其社会福利节。

• Because the campus is fully residential, hostels named after the region's rivers form the centre of student daily life.由于校园完全寄宿，以当地河流命名的宿舍成为学生日常生活的中心。

• As of August 2024 the student body numbered 8,533, with women making up 24.5 percent of students and 12.1 percent of the faculty.截至 2024 年 8 月，该校学生总数为 8533 人，女性占学生的 24.5%、占教师的 12.1%。

• Students organise the institute's festivals themselves, giving campus life a strongly self-governed character.学生自行筹办学校各类节庆，使校园生活具有鲜明的自治色彩。

• As a technical institute in Assam, IIT Guwahati works alongside regional universities such as Gauhati University, Cotton University and Tezpur University.作为阿萨姆邦的技术院校，该校与高哈蒂大学、棉花大学及特兹普尔大学等同区域大学并肩合作。

• The institute's festivals, from Alcheringa to Techniche and Prayatna, are organised and run entirely by the students themselves.从 Alcheringa 到 Techniche 与 Prayatna，该校的节庆全部由学生自行组织与运作。

Notable people

• Dhirendra Nath Buragohain, the founding director from 1994 to 2003, was a civil engineering professor from IIT Bombay who established the institute.创校校长 Dhirendra Nath Buragohain 于 1994 至 2003 年在任，是来自印度理工学院孟买校区的土木工程教授，亲手创立了该校。

• Buragohain was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of the Government of India from 1998 to 2002 and received an honorary doctorate from NIT Meghalaya.Buragohain 曾于 1998 至 2002 年任印度政府内阁科学咨询委员会成员，并获梅加拉亚国立技术学院荣誉博士学位。

• C. R. Malhotra, a former director of IIT Kanpur, oversaw the 1989 project report that prepared the ground for the institute's creation.印度理工学院坎普尔校区前校长 C. R. Malhotra 负责了 1989 年的项目报告，为该校的创设奠定基础。

• P. V. Narasimha Rao, then Prime Minister of India, declared in 1992 during a visit to Assam that classes should begin that year.时任印度总理纳拉辛哈·拉奥于 1992 年访问阿萨姆时宣布当年应当开课。

• Gautam Barua, a computer scientist with the institute since 1995, served as director for two terms, from 2003 to 2013.自 1995 年起在该校任教的计算机科学家 Gautam Barua 于 2003 至 2013 年连任两届校长。

• Gautam Biswas, director from 2013 to 2019, was recognised for computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer with the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in 2023.2013 至 2019 年任校长的 Gautam Biswas 因计算流体力学与传热学研究于 2023 年获颁美国机械工程师学会传热纪念奖。

• Biswas also received an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2021.Biswas 还于 2021 年获塞萨洛尼基亚里士多德大学颁授荣誉博士学位。

• T. G. Sitharam, director from 2019 to 2022, later served as chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education from December 2022.2019 至 2022 年任校长的 T. G. Sitharam 自 2022 年 12 月起出任全印技术教育委员会主席。

• Devendra Jalihal, previously of IIT Madras, became director in May 2024, and Rajiv I. Modi chairs the board of governors.此前任职于印度理工学院马德拉斯校区的 Devendra Jalihal 于 2024 年 5 月出任校长，Rajiv I. Modi 则担任校务委员会主席。

• Vivek Ramachandran, an electronics and communication engineering graduate, discovered the Caffe Latte attack on WEP wireless networks and founded SquareX.电子与通信工程毕业生 Vivek Ramachandran 发现了针对 WEP 无线网络的 Caffe Latte 攻击，并创办了 SquareX。

• Prabhat Gupta, a computer science graduate, co-founded the online holiday marketplace TravelTriangle in 2011 with Sankalp Agarwal and Sanchit Garg.计算机科学毕业生 Prabhat Gupta 于 2011 年与 Sankalp Agarwal、Sanchit Garg 共同创办了在线度假市场 TravelTriangle。

• Bishnupada Mandal of the Department of Chemical Engineering led the institute's carbon-dioxide capture project with NTPC Limited.化学工程系的 Bishnupada Mandal 牵头了该校与印度国家火电公司的二氧化碳捕集项目。