IIT Indore - Indian Institute of Technology (Indore)

Overview

Indian Institute of Technology Indore located in Madhya Pradesh, known as IIT Indore or IITI, is an institute of national importance established by the Government of India in 2009. It is one of the eight new IITs, started by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India), Government of India. The institution started functioning from 2009-10 in a temporary campus at Institute of Engineering and Technology of Devi Ahilyabai University under mentorship of IIT Bombay. Shri Arjun Singh, the Union HRD minister, laid the foundation of the permanent campus, spread over an area of around 501.42-acre (2.1 km2), on 17th February 2009 at Simrol, a location on Khandwa Road about 25 km from the city of Indore.

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Vision

To inculcate and promote an academic community with independence of thought and free expression of research ideas.
To provide a balance of continuously updated knowledge with extensive hands on training on sophisticated facilities.
To engage with industry and external partners for curricula design.

Adjunct faculty and distinguished international visiting faculty to form important components of institute is teaching and research profile.

Research

The research group under Dr. Aruna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, in collaboration with ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research (IISR), Indore develops the scalable machine learning algorithm for handling huge genome data. For that, the Soybean genome data is collected from ICAR-IISR, Indore. In 2016, a research lab equipped with Apache Spark clusters setup to handle huge genomics data. Recently, she got access of super-computing infrastructure (PARAM SHAKTI from IIT Kharagpur and PARAM SIDHI from CDAC) for processing huge genomics data at exascale level. This collaboration will result in the development of new computational tools for genome analysis, identify unique and new genes to improve crop production with higher yields, drought resistance, disease resistance and improved crop quality in India. The innovative NGS analysis technologies will help by significantly reducing the time and cost for developing better varieties of crops.

Alumni

• Tejendra Dixit - Affiliation: IIITD&M Kancheepuram
  Research interests: Photodetection, Optical Memory, Quantum Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, 2D Semiconductors.
• Prateek Bhojane - Affiliation: University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
  Research interests: Materials Science, Electrochemistry, Batteries and Supercapacitors, Crystallography.