Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI @ IIT Madras: RBCDSAI has established itself as one of the most productive AI labs in the country now, as measured by publications in top AI conferences. It aims to leverage data science to give insights to make actionable, reliable and impactful decisions for adoption in engineering, finance and healthcare domains. Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence @ IIT Kharagpur: CAI at IIT Kharagpur has been set up in April 2018 in recognition of the increasing importance of the role of Artificial Intelligence. It leverages more than three decades of research and contribution of IIT Kharagpur in fundamental and applied AI. The Centre has been seed-funded by a grant from Capillary Technologies.

NanoSniff has partnered with Vehant Technologies, a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning- based physical security, surveillance and traffic monitoring and junction enforcement solutions. Union Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal'Nishank' has launched NanoSniffer, a Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector (ETD) developed by NanoSniff Technologies, an IIT Bombay incubated startup. NanoSniffer has been marketed by Vehant Technologies, a company that was incubated at IIT Delhi as a startup in 2005. A 100 per cent'Made in India' product in terms of research, development & manufacturing, the core technology of NanoSniffer is protected by patents in the US and Europe. Given the constant threats, which our nation faces due to geo-political realities, explosives and contraband detection has become a norm at high security locations like airports, railways and metro stations, hotels, malls and other public places.

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, has seen good response to its fund raising initiatives in the current academic year, with Rs26.16 crore contributed by alumni currently residing in the US. Sharad Saraf, chairman, Technocraft Group and Sudarshan Saraf, co-chairman of Technocraft Group, have given Rs15 crore to build a'Technocraft Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence' at IIT Bombay. The donors believe that the future of technology is with the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it is necessary to expose students to AI through a dedicated AI Center, according to IIT Bombay. A campaign spearheaded by IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation in the US received good response, the institute said. "This year IIT Bombay alumni in USA have contributed to $3.6 million (Rs26.16 IIT Bombay had initiated annual fund-raising drive, 'Cherish IIT Bombay' for donors all over India and the world. It has been raising funds for various causes for the benefit of its students and faculty. According to IIT Bombay, the campaign that stands out this year is the IT hardware campaign. "As IIT Bombay moved to online classes in response to the pandemic, many of our students couldn't access the online classes as they couldn't afford the investment in IT hardware at their respective homes.

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Techfest is the annual science and technology festival of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.[1] It also refers to the independent body of students who organize this event along with many other social initiatives and outreach programs around the year. Techfest is known for hosting a variety of events that include competitions, exhibitions, lectures as well as workshops. Started in 1998 with the aim of providing a platform for the Indian student community to develop and showcase their technical prowess, it has now grown into Asia's Largest Science and Technology Festival[2] with a footfall of 1.75 lakhs in its latest edition.[3][4][5] The activities culminate in a grand three-day event in the campus of IIT Bombay which attracts people from all over the World, including students, academia, corporates and the general public.[6] The very first edition of Techfest was in 1998. The underlying spirit of Techfest was "to promote technology and scientific thinking and innovation" a motto that has been followed by every Techfest since. Techfest '98 also set the broad outlines of Techfest in the form of competitions, lectures, workshops, and exhibitions which went on to become a standard feature at every Techfest. Entrepreneurship also made an appearance in the 1999 and 2000 editions. Technoholix--Techfest in the Dark, showcasing technological entertainment at the end of each day as well as the hub of on the spot activities, made their debut during these years. Techfest 2001-2002 saw the incorporation of IIT Bombay's department oriented events like Yantriki, Chemsplash and Last Straw. Students from G H Raisoni College of Engineering got the Engineering Excellence Award for best design.

Forums play an important role in providing a platform for community interaction. The introduction of irrelevant content or spam by individuals for commercial and social gains tends to degrade the professional experience presented to the forum users. Automated moderation of the relevancy of posted content is desired. Machine learning is used for text classification and finds applications in spam email detection, fraudulent transaction detection etc. The balance of classes in training data is essential in the case of classification algorithms to make the learning efficient and accurate. However, in the case of forums, the spam content is sparse compared to the relevant content giving rise to a bias towards the latter while training. A model trained on such biased data will fail to classify a spam sample. An approach based on Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique(SMOTE) is presented in this paper to tackle imbalanced training data. It involves synthetically creating new minority class samples from the existing ones until balance in data is achieved. The enhanced data is then passed through various classifiers for which the performance is recorded. The results were analyzed on the data of forums of Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay over standard performance metrics and revealed that models trained after Synthetic Minority oversampling outperform the ones trained on imbalanced data by substantial margins. An empirical comparison of the results obtained by both SMOTE and without SMOTE for various supervised classification algorithms have been presented in this paper. Synthetic oversampling proves to be a critical technique for achieving uniform class distribution which in turn yields commendable results in text classification. The presented approach can be further extended to content categorization on educational websites thus helping to improve the overall digital learning experience.

Much of his work is directed toward understanding interactions and learning from them. Ravindran is also a co-organiser of several noted data science and AI-focused conferences, seminars and workshops in India. Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri is the founding head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit at ISI, Calcutta.

MUMBAI: Accenture has entered into a joint research collaboration with IIT Bombay and IIT Patna focused on the different application aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The research, focused on IT services and social good, will look at augmenting software engineers with powerful Artificial Intelligence insights and recommendation for improved productivity. The focus areas of the program includes research in natural language processing, machine learning, neural network, virtual agents, deep learning and other areas of artificial intelligence. It will include software analytics - building, testing, managing and modernization of applications, solving real life social issues such as malnutrition, human trafficking, climate, etc. through prediction and recommendation models, using Artificial Intelligence. "One of the major areas that the research will focus on is natural language processing," said Pushpak Bhattacharyya, director, IIT Patna.