Department of AI, IIT Hyderabad

The Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at IIT-Hyderabad was established in 2019 to offer academic programs and mould students with a holistic understanding of the theory and practice of Artificial Intelligence, as well as to create a complete ecosystem for both academic practice and research in AI. The mission of the department is to enable and facilitate students to become leaders in the AI industry and academia nationally and internationally; as well as to meet the pressing demands of the country in the various subareas and applications of AI. While AI has historically remained a topic studied inside departments such as Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, the creation of this new department at IIT-Hyderabad allows us to bring together AI knowledge from multiple perspectives: Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering (topics such as signal processing and control theory), Mechanical Engineering (topics such as robotics), Mathematics, Biomedical Eng...