Department of Artificial Intelligence

Name

Department of Artificial Intelligence

Legal name

Department of Artificial Intelligence

Website

https://ai.iitkgp.ac.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education and AI Research

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Computer Training (61142)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Learning Platforms for Students (EDAFANAE)

Keywords

• Artificial intelligence education
• Machine learning research
• Computer vision research
• Natural language processing
• Climate informatics

Headquarters

HQ city

Kharagpur, West Bengal

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Academic Tuition and Fees: Revenue from student tuition fees for B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD programs administered through IIT Kharagpur's centralized system.
2. Sponsored Research Projects: Government and industry-funded research projects from organizations including AI4ICPS, SRIC IIT Kharagpur, DST, Microsoft India, and WBNUJS providing project-based funding.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT Kharagpur delivers higher education and research programs in artificial intelligence, including B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D., IDDP, Microspecialization, and Minor programs. It also conducts sponsored research projects in climate informatics, computer vision, knowledge graphs, signal processing, and reinforcement learning through four research groups (ESM-AI, PSALM, SPAI, and Graph Data Processing and Learning), supported by GPU/CPU computing infrastructure.

Product overview

The Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT Kharagpur offers a comprehensive educational portfolio spanning undergraduate (B.Tech in AI), postgraduate (M.Tech in AI), and doctoral (Ph.D. in AI) programs, along with interdisciplinary dual degree programs, micro-specializations, and minor programs. The department also houses four active research groups: ESM-AI (Earth System Modeling with AI), PSALM (Predictive Stochastic Adaptive Learning Machines), SPAI (Signal Processing and AI), and Graph Data Processing and Learning. Research spans areas including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, knowledge graphs, reinforcement learning, and autonomous systems, with infrastructure including GPU servers, NAS storage, and specialized computation labs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence Four-year undergraduate program offering comprehensive education in Artificial Intelligence covering theoretical, software, systems, and application aspects with a balance between fundamental and application-oriented subjects, including AI for healthcare, education, agriculture, and robotics.
• M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence Two-year postgraduate program with four core theory courses and three core lab courses, providing strong foundations in AI and data science, a wide variety of specialized electives, and a year-long research project.
• Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence Doctoral program accepting applications in several categories including regular with institute assistantship, individual fellowships (CSIR/UGC/DBT/ICMR/INSPIRE), sponsored, and working professionals, with over 40 students currently enrolled and support from scholarships such as PMRF, TCS Research Scholarship, Google PhD Fellowship, and Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.
• Interdisciplinary Dual Degree Program (IDDP) in AI, ML and Applications

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability13 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Tech MahindracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry collaboration with Tech Mahindra for research and student projects in the SPAI (Signal Processing and AI) group, supporting AI research in computer vision, agriculture, health, and finance.
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic collaboration with UIUC for joint research and student exchanges, particularly in the SPAI group's interdisciplinary AI research areas.
• Harvard Medical SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic partnership with Harvard Medical School for collaborative AI research in health-related applications, part of SPAI group's interdisciplinary collaborations.
• AI4ICPS (IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I Hub Foundation)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration through multiple projects including SAFAR (Safe and Accessible Future with AI on Roads), IQuaP (Intelligent Quadrupeds for Police), and development of Large Language Model Augmented Interpretable Medical Search System.
• SRIC (Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy), IIT KharagpurmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternal IIT Kharagpur research funding for projects on safe and robust learning for dynamical systems, Saliency Aware Quality Assessment and Compression of Visual Data, and Visual Data Compression Using Quality Guided Generative AI.
• Department of Science and Technology (DST)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment funding for AI-based mapping and prediction of Groundwater Salinization under Climate Change in Israel and India, and Towards Interpretable Information Systems Leveraging Efficiency with Interpretability.
• Microsoft India (R&D) Private LimitedminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration on Identifying the Differences between the Large Language Model and Human-Generated Texts to Facilitate Responsible AI.
• The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative project on Search Engine for Legislative Indian Legal Documents.
• Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment research funding for Visual Data Compression Using Quality Guided Generative AI project.
• NasscomminorGTM or Marketing PartnerInteraction with faculty members in September 2024 for potential collaboration discussions.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• MIT CSAIL: Global benchmark for university-based AI research; comparable in core AI research scope (vision, NLP, robotics, ML theory) but at vastly larger scale and global brand recognition.
• Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science: Top global CS school with the first dedicated AI undergraduate program in the US; comparable in offering AI degrees and conducting foundational AI research across multiple sub-fields.
• Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL): Leading global AI research lab with strong graduate programs and industry ties; comparable in mission and research breadth but operates at much larger scale and global reach.

Direct peers

• Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras: Top-ranked Indian academic CS/AI program that competes for the same fellowship-backed PhD pool and industry partnerships as IIT Kharagpur's AI department.
• Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay: Peer IIT CS/AI department with strong AI/ML research groups and graduate programs; competes for the same national pool of B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD applicants as IIT Kharagpur's AI department.
• School of AI, IIT Hyderabad: Dedicated AI school at another IIT with a similar verticalized structure, B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD programs, and industry-sponsored AI research labs.
• Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Delhi: Another premier IIT CS department with significant AI/ML faculty strength; directly comparable in mission, research output, and applicant competition.
• Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur: Sister IIT CS department with comparable AI research areas, graduate program structure, and government-sponsored project portfolio.
• Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI, IIT Madras: Interdisciplinary AI research centre at IIT Madras with industry partnerships, sponsored projects, and graduate research programs in data science and AI.
• Department of Computer Science, IIT Roorkee: IIT CS department with overlapping AI curriculum, faculty research areas, and central government DST-funded projects, competing for similar graduate applicants.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

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