IIT KGP to boost Artificial Intelligence research supported by Capillary Technologies

IIT KGP, the first IIT, is setting up a first of its kind Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Research. This covers education, training, research, projects, incubation and entrepreneurship in AI and related domains.

The Center will be seed funded by Capillary Technologies Limited, for an amount Rs. 5.64 crore for setting up computing infrastructure, hardware simulation platforms, software and designing the coursework.

“IIT KGP has developed a deep expertise in the overall area of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Sciences and its applications in several critical domains over a long period of time, among others. It is time that we lead this initiative in AI to fulfil the need of AI technologies in the 21^st century” said Prof. P P Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur.

IIT KGP would start the Center with teaching and learning and knowledge dissemination program. Faculty from the Institute, Capillary specialist and deep-learning industry experts would work together to prepare the curricula. The Well-planned curriculum will include short-term credit courses and the certificate program for internal and external students and industrial training programs. The Institute has already taken an initiative to create infrastructural facilities and programs for the Center.

Capillary Technologies has been a major motivator towards setting up this Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Research at IIT KGP. The company was incubated at IIT KGP and has worked towards becoming an industry leader in the domain of cloud-based Customer Engagement, e-Commerce platforms and related services. It has already supported such activities in IIT KGP through funded projects for developing AI applications in the retail sector, manpower training modules, internships, recruitment and enabling industry as well as government engagement.

Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar, Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering along with the departments of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering and Electrical Engineering would be driving initiative at IIT Kharagpur. From Capillary Subrat Panda, Head of AI Technology and Pravanjan Choudhury, CTO would be leading the initiative.