Centre for Digital Technologies in Healthcare opens in Hyderabad
March 20, 2025 | Thursday | News
Houses AI research groups in the institute with 50 faculty and 500 researchers
Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) marked F C Kohli’s birth anniversary on 19 March, and celebrated FC Kohli, the father of Indian IT and Founder of TCS’s 101 birth anniversary and the fifth edition of FC Kohli Talks.
The Kohli Day celebration included an annual Kohli Day Lecture by Dr D. Nageshwar Reddy, Chairman AIG Hospitals, who inaugurated the Centre for Digital Technologies in Healthcare (CDiTH).
Prof PJ. Narayanan, Director of IIIT Hyderabad while giving a brief on the new centre said it is a translation lab established to apply modern digital technologies to enhance the efficacy and economy of healthcare delivery for real-world impact in India and the world by effectively bridging academic research and clinical practice.
The Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems (KCIS), named after F.C. Kohli, houses all the AI research groups in the institute with 50 faculty and 500 researchers, which constitute one of the largest research groups in the country. Ranging from language technologies, computer vision, robotics, cognitive sciences and advanced machine learning, with applications in several domains including mobility and healthcare, the centre has AIG Hospital as a principal partner.
