New Delhi: IIIT Bangalore is all set to introduce multidisciplinary degree programmes. The announcement has been made in its 22nd annual convocation by Prof. Debabrata Das, Director, IIIT-Bangalore.
The convocation ceremony of IIIT Bangalore witnessed about 294 graduate students. They were from various academic courses such as Doctor of Philosophy (10), Master of Science by Research (23), Integrated Master of Technology CSE (46), Integrated Master of Technology ECE (19), Master of Technology CSE (157), Master of Technology ECE (20), and Master of Science Digital Society (19).
The institute is also planning to introduce online postgraduate-level degree programmes soon. The online PG programmes of IIIT Bangalore will be launched in collaboration with other complementary institutions in line with the NEP 2020.
IIIT-Bangalore also announced setting up a ‘Data Lake’ with funding from the state government. It will be setting up a specialised centre named ‘Centre for Technology Research and Innovations for Digital Governance (CTRI-DG)’.
The centre will be funded by the Centre for E-Governance (CeG), GoK. IIIT Bangalore’s CTRI-DG will work in collaboration with the Centre of E-Governance (CeG) and Centre for Smart Governance (CSG) of the Government of Karnataka.
Recently, the institute set up a section 8 company, COMET Foundation to run a Technology Innovation Hub (TIH). It is focused on indigenous 5G/6G wireless standards. Additionally, IIIT Bangalore’s Machine Intelligence and Robotics (MINRO) will be launching 'MINRO-Jnanasarani'.
It is a YouTube-based outreach channel where it will host a series of videos explaining the concepts of AI, Machine Learning, Data Science and related technologies in Kannada for the benefit of the students and the citizens.
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