IIT Roorkee has transferred its Aerogel Thermal Wraps technology — a lightweight, high-performance insulation material developed by Prof. Kaushik Pal and Gunjan Sharma — to Indobell Insulations Limited, with potential applications spanning aerospace, automotive, energy, and construction.
Dr BVS Madhavi pursued MBBS and an IIT Madras degree simultaneously rather than choosing between medicine and engineering, and is now applying AI to advance cancer research, blending clinical and technical expertise.
A mother and son duo completed their respective programmes at IIT Madras together, in a shared journey through the institute's Data Science offerings that highlights the growing popularity of lifelong and family learning at IIT-M.
IITM Pravartak has launched a five-month live online Executive Programme in AI-Driven Healthcare Transformation, aimed at helping healthcare professionals evaluate and apply AI (including generative and agentic AI) across clinical, operational, and patient-care settings.
Punjab is promoting IIT Ropar's Annam.AI initiative, which is deploying 100 AI-powered weather stations across the state to give farmers hyperlocal weather data — showcased at the IIT Ropar Smart Agri Summit 2026.
A startup incubated at IIT Guwahati engaged around 2,000 students in activities at the Inter IIT Tech Meet, part of the institute's push to showcase student entrepreneurship on a national stage.
A team led by Monica Gupta at IIT Jodhpur is developing "molecular solar thermal fuel" materials that respond to visible light, capturing and chemically storing solar energy so it can be released as heat on demand — an alternative approach to conventional photovoltaic panels.
Researchers led by Professor Debabrata Maiti at IIT Bombay have developed a novel, efficient way to convert simple straight-chain carbon compounds into complex ring-shaped molecules used in medicinal chemistry — a breakthrough published in Nature that could simplify and speed up drug discovery.
BITS Pilani topped the Avendus Wealth–Hurun India U30 List 2026 with 11 alumni among India's youngest entrepreneurs, with IIT Delhi close behind — reflecting both institutes' strong alumni presence across deeptech, fintech, and other emerging sectors.
IIT Kharagpur has signed an agreement to help establish an AI innovation hub in Tripura, described as a first-of-its-kind partnership aimed at boosting the state's push into artificial intelligence.
