IIT Roorkee joins hand with Deloitte on capacity building programme to achieve high level of AI proficiency

The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), today announced a strategic collaboration with Deloitte. Under this partnership, Deloitte will offer fellowships and a work-study programme for IIT Roorkee students to work on AI and Advanced Analytics.

Celebrating the 175th year of its foundation, Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), today announced a strategic collaboration with Deloitte, a leader in AI, to deliver rigorous, immersive programmes in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) that are designed to build's the next generation workforce.

This partnership aims to revolutionise the industry-academia relationship and that will help in bridging the talent gap and nurture future leaders with a high level of AI proficiency. Under this partnership, Deloitte will offer fellowships and a work-study programme for IIT Roorkee students to work on AI and Advanced Analytics.

This collaboration will play a pivotal role in providing technical manpower and know-how to students on new-age tools and create a roadmap for the future of AI.

IIT Roorkee's collaboration with Deloitte is in sync with the Digital India mission of the Government of India, which aims at boosting the AI-enabled technologies in every sector including governance, banking, education and health, etc.

The collaboration will focus on a prioritised set of initiatives in the AI space by way of design and deliver AI and machine learning certification courses to educate Deloitte employees.

This partnership will also promote AI fluency for aspiring students and the Indian community at large with online learning courses, thus enabling digital empowerment of citizens and talent pools.

While highlighting the importance of the collaboration with Deloitte, Professor Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee, said,