February 12, 2026, Mumbai: IIT Bombay and Columbia College, USA signed and exchanged an MoU within the presence of Hon. Minister of Training Shri. Dharmendra Pradhan to ascertain a Heart of AI for Production.
The serve as held at Bharat Mandapam, Delhi used to be additionally graced by means of Hon. Minister of State for Training Dr. Sukanta Majumdar in addition to Secretary, Upper Training Dr. Vineet Joshi and Secretary, College Training & Literacy Mr. Sanjay Kumar and Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Data Era (MeitY) Mr. S. Krishnan.
Main the delegations from IIT Bombay and Columbia College have been IIT Bombay Director Prof. Shireesh Kedare and Columbia College Senior Vice Provost Prof. Soulaymane Kachani. Leaders of this initiative, Prof. Vishal Misra, Vice Dean for Computing and AI at Columbia Engineering and Prof. Mani Bhushan, Division of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, have been additionally provide.
The Ministry of Training has initiated 4 other AI facilities to this point. This “Columbia–IIT Bombay Heart of AI for Production” is a joint analysis and translation Heart geared toward development powerful, scalable and human-centric AI techniques for real-world production. Many business companions are within the means of becoming a member of this Heart.
Commenting at the construction, Prof. Shireesh Kedare, Director, IIT Bombay, stated “The Columbia–IIT Bombay Heart of AI for Production is an important step in strengthening India’s production ecosystem via complicated, human-centric AI. Via development open and interoperable business AI infrastructure, this initiative will reinforce business modernization, empower MSMEs, nurture startups, and broaden future-ready skill. This partnership displays our dedication to country development — positioning India as an international chief in AI-driven production innovation.”
This new Heart will deal with all spaces of producing together with semiconductors, robotics, business production, procedure industries together with prescribed drugs, meals processing, refining and petrochemical, development and infrastructure construction in addition to shipping and logistics.
Leveraging complementary strengths of Columbia College and IIT Bombay in quite a lot of domain names akin to foundational AI, optimization, production and procedure engineering, this Heart will broaden end-to-end, interoperable business AI infrastructure – that addresses shop-floor realities akin to legacy apparatus, noisy information, real-time constraints and multilingual workforces.
Via shut engagement with business companions, the Heart will ship implemented analysis, custom designed answers, skill construction and startup translation, whilst liberating foundational datasets, fashions and interfaces as public items to reinforce India’s various production ecosystem, together with MSMEs.
ABOUT IIT BOMBAY
The Indian Institute of Era Bombay, arrange in 1958 as the second one IIT, is recognised international as a pace-setter within the box of science and engineering training and analysis. The Institute used to be granted the standing of ‘Establishment of Eminence’ by means of the Ministry of Training (the then Ministry of Human Sources Construction) on July 9, 2018. IIT Bombay is reputed for the standard of its college, state of the art analysis, business family members, and the exceptional calibre of scholars graduating from its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The Institute has 17 educational departments, 35 different educational entities (Centres/ Programmes/ Instructional amenities/ Hubs/ Externally funded centres and Labs), and 3 faculties. Over the past six a long time, greater than 75,000 engineers and scientists have graduated from the Institute. It’s served by means of 756 college contributors, with 121 girls college, and about 150 visiting and part-time college, thought to be no longer handiest among the most efficient inside the nation but in addition extremely recognised on the planet for achievements within the box of training and analysis. On June 19, 2025, IIT Bombay used to be ranked second in India and 129th on the planet within the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) International College Ratings for 2026. On March 12, 2025, IIT Bombay used to be ranked twenty eighth in Engineering and Era within the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) International College Ratings by means of Matter for 2025.
