About

The Ministry of Education (MoE) invites proposals through the online portal https://iitjammu.ac.in/aicpmu from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (having an NIRF ranking within the top 100 in the Overall category for the year 2023) for selection of 15 consortiums with an initial funding of INR 2 crores each. Each of these lead HEIs, the top educational institutions, will function as the hub, which will be provided an opportunity to present a Proof of Concept (POC) to set up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any of the three sectors - (1) Agriculture, (2) Health and (3) Sustainable Cities.

Thrust Areas (Sectors)
  1. Agriculture
  2. Health
  3. Sustainable Cities

Expectations from the project AI CoE

  1. Special purpose vehicle for setting up three state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence in the thrust areas. 
  2. Capacity building for solving bigger problems at scale relevant to our country in Agriculture, Healthcare and for Sustainable Cities. 
  3. Proof of Concept (POC) driven proposals leading to stepping stones for independent and self-sustainable centers creating a positive impact on the lives of our citizens.

Apex Committee

  1. Secretary (Higher Education), MoE, Chairman Apex Committee
  2. Dr. Sridhar Vembu, Founder and CEO, Zoho Corporation, Co-Chairman Apex Committee
  3. Shri Abhinav Shashank, Founder and CEO, Innovaccer
  4. Shri Srikanth Nadhamuni, CEO, Khosla Labs
  5. Shri Shashank Kumar, Founder and CEO, DeHaat
  6. Dr. Praveen Pankajakshan, Head, Cropin AI Labs
  7. Dr. Shankar Venugopal, Vice President, Mahindra and Mahindra
  8. Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda, Founder, Indihood
  9. Dr. Sriram Rajamani, MD, Microsoft Research India
  10. Dr. Manish Gupta, Director, Google Research India
  11. Shri Rajan Anandan, MD, PeakXV Partners and Surge
  12. Dr. Rohini Srivathsa, CTO, Microsoft India and South Asia
  13. Prof Manoj Singh Gaur, Director, IIT Jammu (CPMU)
  14. Joint Secretary (TE), Department of Higher Education, MoE

CPMU

  1. Prof Manoj Singh Gaur, Director, IIT Jammu
  2. Prof. Vijay Laxmi
  3. Dr. Sarada Prasad Gochhayat
  4. Abhishek Gupta, Junior Technical Superintendent

Contact

  1. Email - aicpmu@iitjammu.ac.in
  2. Phone - 8899900605
    (Monday to Friday (office hours))