Artificial intelligence and data science are emerging branches of engineering and technology influencing industry, academics, and research. The objective of this course is to train skilled AI and data science professionals. AI and data science are not confined to a specific industry, and they will have the liberty to work in the areas of their interest. The main areas where data science and artificial intelligence professionals are in demand are medicine, space, robotics, automation, marketing, information management, military activities, and many more.

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to any human-like intelligence exhibited by a computer, robot, or other machine. In popular usage, artificial intelligence refers to the ability of a computer or machine to mimic the capabilities of the human mind. Artificial intelligence has grown to be very popular in today’s world. As technologies such as AI continue to grow, they will have a great impact on our quality of life.

Data is now the most valuable resource in the world. Data science (DS) is an emerging field of science that has multiple aspects—for one, it studies and examines a huge amount of data; for another, its branches extend into almost every field. Data science is founded on statistics, mathematics, and programming language. Artificial intelligence encapsulates the concepts of all three fields and acts as the brain of data science. Data science uses techniques, procedures, algorithms, rules, and tools from all three of these components and works as a unified mechanism to solve the complex problems that arise in the world around us.

The Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AI-DS) undergraduate engineering course was started by the institute in July 2021 with an intake capacity of 60 seats, and it has now increased to 180 seats as of July 2024.