IIIT-Naya Raipur Announces Integrated B.Tech Program In Data Science And Artificial Intelligence

With the growing demand and applicability of Data Science, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur (IIT-NR), a state university established aa joint venture between the Government of Chhattisgarh and NTPC Ltd. in Naya Raipur, Chattisgarh, India has  Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India has launched India’s first integrated B.Tech program in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence from the academic year 2019-20.  

IIT-NR has also launched an M.Tech program also in Data Science &Artificial Intelligence from the coming Academic Year (2019-2020). With this IIIT-NR will be amongst the first institutes in India to offer both B.Tech and M.Tech programs in this fast emerging, futuristic technologies.

The new integrated programs in Data Science & AI are designed to produce students with a strong foundation of both theory and practice of disruptive technologies like Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, the skills that are in great demand in corporate today. The worldwide market for data analytics has been anticipated to display a CAGR of 30.08 percent between 2017– 2023 to outperform a valuation of $77.64 billion. Web crawlers and in-house Data Scientists are needed today in almost every industry, for purposes like the collection of data from internal and publicly available data sources. 

Data analytics can be utilized to build income, respond to rising patterns, improve operational proficiency and streamline marketing to make an upper hand. The service sectors where Artificial Intelligence will make a lot of difference are healthcare, finance, aviation, manufacturing, and logistics. India’s services sector has a significant potential opportunity to cater to the demand for data cleaning and human-augmented AI.

Dr. Pradeep K. Sinha, VC & Director, IIIT Naya Raipur, said “The fast-paced growth of data and the amount of knowledge that is being drawn out of this data has created many new and exciting opportunities for students having deep knowledge of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The scope of our new B. Tech. program in DSAI shall include methods and algorithms involved in collecting, curating, managing, analyzing, and transforming data into information, which in turn enables the creation of knowledge and decision-making in a variety of application domains,”.