After the recent announcement on their plans to double the number of seats for its Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree (IDDD) program on Data Science, IIT-Madras is in news again. This time for its plans to establish an AI startup.

This comes after a team of researchers at the institutes led by Vishal Nandigana, assistant professor, Fluid Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Madras developed the AI and Deep Learning algorithms.

Called ‘AISoft’, it aims to address engineering problems in various fields such as thermal management, semiconductors, automobile, aerospace and electronics cooling applications. According to researchers, AISoft has been tested to solve thermal management problems. “We found it to be nearly million-fold faster compared to existing solutions currently used in the field," one of the researchers was quoted as saying. 

Currently, most researchers use CNN or C-GAN to solve engineering problems and this new development will open up new avenues of research in the field. 

This AI algorithm offer advantages such as it works on any generalised rectilinear and curvilinear input geometry and saves computational time which remains a crucial challenge in the current settings. Researchers used a data-driven AI and a deep learning model to arrive at solutions for engineering problems after training the AI with data sets.  

With their plans to establish an AI startup, researchers are hopeful that these algorithms will solve a lot of pressing problems for industries and can also be used for educational purposes.

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