IIT-Bombay, Amazon collaborate for AI-ML initiatives

This collaboration between IIT Bombay and Amazon will fund research projects, PhD fellowships, and community events, such as research symposia.

The collaboration will promote artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) Monday joined hands with e-Commerce company Amazon for creation of the AI-ML initiative. This collaboration will fund research projects, PhD fellowships, and community events, such as research symposia.

This initiative will be hosted by the IIT Bombay Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and will promote artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within speech, language and multimodal AI domains.

“We at IIT Bombay are committed to our mission of translating knowledge and research into revolutionary technologies,” said Subhasis Chaudhuri, director at IIT Bombay. “Our top research minds have always attracted the attention of companies interested in scientific study. With industry collaborators like Amazon who have a deep sense of technology and global reach, we hope to be able to expedite the deployment of technologies/products in the field of AI-ML.”

This is not the first time the two organisations have collaborated. Amazon and IIT Bombay have existing ties, including through the Amazon Research Awards programme. The most recent award was granted in 2022 to Preethi Jyothi, associate professor of computer science and engineering at IIT-Bombay, who was recognized for her work on fairness in speech recognition.