Research

Ten domains. One interconnected mission.

Our research is organized into ten major divisions that share methods, datasets, and scholars. Each pillar pursues foundational questions and the systems that translate them into the world.

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Foundations of learning systems

Machine Learning

Theoretical and empirical research on optimization, generalization, and the principles that govern how machines learn from data at scale.

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Learning theoryOptimizationStatistical inferenceProbabilistic models
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Architectures at the frontier

Deep Learning

Designing, scaling and understanding neural networks — from attention mechanisms to billion-parameter foundation models trained on heterogeneous corpora.

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Transformer scalingTraining dynamicsMixture of expertsEfficient pretraining
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DOMAIN · 03
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Perception that understands the world

Computer Vision

Vision-language understanding, 3D scene reasoning and medical image analysis for autonomous systems and clinical applications.

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Vision-language models3D understandingMedical imagingVideo reasoning
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DOMAIN · 04
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Language for a billion voices

Natural Language Processing

Multilingual NLP with a deep focus on low-resource Indian languages — building models that speak, read and reason in 22+ tongues.

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Multilingual LLMsSpeech & translationLow-resource learningCultural alignment
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DOMAIN · 05
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Models that imagine

Generative AI

Diffusion, autoregressive and multi-modal generative systems aligned with human intent — from text and images to molecules and code.

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Diffusion modelsMulti-modal generationAlignment & RLHFControllable synthesis
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DOMAIN · 06
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Intelligence at the bedside

Healthcare AI

Clinical decision support, diagnostic imaging and predictive medicine — built and validated with AIIMS and three partner hospitals.

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Diagnostic imagingClinical predictionGenomicsHospital deployments
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DOMAIN · 07
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Trust through transparency

Explainable AI

Methods for interpreting, auditing and certifying machine decisions in high-stakes settings — law, medicine, and public policy.

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Attribution methodsMechanistic interpretabilityModel auditingCounterfactual reasoning
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DOMAIN · 08
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Where graphs meet neurons

Knowledge Systems

Neuro-symbolic reasoning over knowledge graphs — structured knowledge as a substrate for verifiable, multi-hop AI reasoning.

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Knowledge graphsNeuro-symbolic AIOntology learningGraph neural networks
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DOMAIN · 09
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Intelligence everywhere

Edge AI

Sparse, quantized and distilled models for constrained hardware — from microcontrollers to mobile NPUs operating at sub-millisecond latency.

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Model compressionOn-device inferenceHardware co-designFederated learning
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Embodied intelligence

Robotics

Vision-language-action policies, perception-action loops and human-robot collaboration for mobile manipulation in unstructured environments.

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ManipulationSim-to-realHuman-robot interactionEmbodied agents
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Open datasets

12+

Curated, documented datasets released under permissive licenses for the global research community.

Open-source releases

24+

Production-grade libraries, training pipelines and pretrained model weights on our public repository.

Funded by

DST · MEITY · industry

Government of India research missions and industry consortia with combined funding of ₹8.4 Cr+.