IIT Bombay and IBM team up to accelerate AI research in India
Mumbai, September 12, 2018: IIT Bombay and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the
university will join the AI Horizons Network as part of a multi-year
collaboration to advance AI research.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay
– one of the preeminent research institutions in the world, with a long history
of leadership in data mining and information retrieval systems. By joining the
AI Horizons Network, IIT Bombay will pair its world-class faculty and top
graduate students with leading AI scientists from IBM Research – India to
advance and accelerate the application of AI, machine learning, natural
language processing and related technologies to business and industry.
Teams will investigate new techniques for knowledge
representation across documents, graphs, charts, and other forms of multi-media
content. This area of research will be critical in helping to develop new AI
applications in key industries such as financial services, retail and
healthcare, which rely heavily on rich, multi-modal content. The collaboration
will also work to advance the field of training and building domain-specific AI
agents (chatbots), which are designed to aid humans in complex decision making
such as making trading and investment choices in financial services. Additionally,
work is planned to explore new, domain-neutral training approaches which could
enable faster, more efficient training of AI systems.
"Over its 20-year history, IBM
Research - India has been at the forefront of research advances in technologies
like AI and blockchain. We have always had strong collaborations with the
leading academic institutions in India,” said Arvind Krishna, senior vice
president, Hybrid Cloud and director, IBM Research. “Through this collaboration
with IIT Bombay, we aim to accelerate the pace of innovation for AI in India,
working hand-in-hand with some of the top scientists and research scholars in
the country."
Speaking on the relevance of collaboration Prof. Devang Khakhar,
Director, IIT Bombay said “This partnership will enable IIT Bombay faculty
to work in collaboration with researchers around the world on the frontiers of
Artificial Intelligence focusing on industrially relevant problems and will
provide access to large data sets. We look forward to fruitful collaboration, which
will make a significant impact on the field.”
With this collaboration, IIT Bombay becomes the first
institution outside North America to join the IBM AI Horizons Network. Globally, eight leading universities –
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Renesselaer
Polytechnic Institute, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, Universite de Montreal,
University of Maryland at Baltimore County, UC San Diego and University of
Massachusetts at Amherst - are working with IBM, in key areas designed to accelerate the development of AI technologies, such
as deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and others, as
well as their application to big societal challenges, ranging from aiding the
understanding of disease, education and cybersecurity.
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