Summary
The flagship educational programme will be offered by IIT Delhi’s School of Artificial Intelligence
Students will be expected to work on relevant AI problems faced by corporates
The School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will soon offer a postgraduate programme in Machine Intelligence & Data Science (MINDS).
All students with an undergraduate degree in science or engineering will be eligible for the MINDS programme.
A flagship educational programme for the school, MINDS is expected to begin in July 2022. The course is awaiting approval from the institute’s Senate.
MINDS will be the second degree offered by ScAI, after a PhD programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI) started earlier.
“Academic institutions must work closely with all stakeholders, including industry, non-profit and governmental organisations. The MTech programme in MINDS will energise academia-industry collaboration in AI,” said IIT Delhi director V. Ramgopal Rao.
The MINDS curriculum will include graduate-level courses in core AI technologies such as Deep Learning and Data Mining, application-oriented courses like Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, AI for healthcare, and also fundamental courses on Mathematics underlying modern AI technologies.
The MTech in MINDS is planned as an industry-sponsored programme. The students will be expected to work on industry-relevant AI problems. They will be co-advised by an IIT Delhi professor and a researcher from the sponsoring company.
ScAI currently lists around 40 faculty members, including adjunct faculty members from industry research centres like Microsoft Research, Google AI and IBM Research.
The school’s founding head and professor Mausam said, “Our PhD programme has garnered a lot of interest in its first year. We had a 90 per cent success rate in PhD students joining ScAI last semester, which is exceptional for a young academic unit like ours, as students generally prefer more established academic programmes. But they chose us, suggesting that we have put together a really strong faculty team in AI.”
The School of Artificial Intelligence was established last year with the aim of strengthening education, research and applications of AI. It encourages multidisciplinary collaborations between AI and domain experts so that fundamental research impacting real applications could be pursued. The school is making rapid strides since its inception in synergising AI activities across the institute and in new faculty recruitments.
Last updated on 30 Oct 2021
