The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur has announced a new undergraduate B Tech programme in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science for the upcoming academic session of 2020-21. The programme will include theoretical and practical course in computer science, mathematics, AI, machine learning, data science, etc.

Students will be offered specialisation in areas such as visual computing, socio-digital realities, language technologies, robotics, and the AI of Things. Additionally, students will be presented with the option to pursue MBA (tech) in the fifth year as a dual-degree option in the School of Management and Entrepreneurship, declared IIT in an official release.

Prof Santanu Chaudhury, Director, IIT-Jodhpur, said: “Under the broad umbrella of IIT Jodhpur’s unique proposition of AI for everything, students belonging to the academic programmes in AI, Data and Computational Sciences will be part of scientific innovations for solving local and global engineering and social problems in close collaboration with industry. Students will be part of the institute’s initiatives for ensuring better life and livelihood for all with AI as the enabling force. IIT-Jodhpur would like AI and Data Science students to explore transdisciplinary research agenda fostering collaborative opportunities across all the departments of IIT Jodhpur and partner organisations.”

IIT-Jodhpur already possesses one AI Supercomputer (A-100) from NVIDIA besides DGX-2. Additionally, it has virtual reality and augmented reality lab which was established by Samsung. The institute says that it is also a technology innovation hub in the areas of Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality with the support of Department of Science and Technology at the tune of Rs 115 crore.

Parallelly, IIT-Delhi has announced that they will be setting up the ‘School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI)’ by 2021 and will start accepting PhD admissions then. As an advanced plan, ScAI also plans on offering postgraduate level degree courses.