Hyderabad: IIT-Hyderabad will be introducing a full-time BTech programme in artificial intelligence in the 2019-20 academic year. Selections to the course, which has an intake of about 20 students, is through the JEE-Advanced.
IIT-Hyderabad is already offering an MTech course in artificial intelligence and machine Learning. At the undergraduate level, IIT-Hyderabad is reportedly the third institution to offer the BTech in AI in the world, after Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
“The basic aim is to create a complete ecosystem for artificial intelligence academics and research,” said IIT-H director Prof U.B. Desai. He said this included the BTech, MTech and minor programmes in AI. “Research and development would be strongly entwined with academics,” Prof. Desai said.
With a view to providing a holistic view to students, the course would comprise algorithms from the computer science department, signal processing from electrical engineering, robotics from mechanical engineering and mathematical foundation. The course would also focus on healthcare, agriculture, smart mobility applications as well.
