Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) Bangalore is a premier research and educational institute in India. It is highly coveted for its many PG courses. Until now, IISc offered only one programme at the UG level – BSc – Research. Recently a new UG programme – B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing was announced.
‘In the past couple of decades, a new kind of applied mathematics, dealing with generation, storage, distribution, and utilization of information, has had a tremendous impact on our lives. These tasks require a high level of computational, mathematical, and data analytic skills. These skills form the core of emerging disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Quantum Computing, Computational Biology etc.
Training in these areas is available in courses that are at best scattered and not cohesively organized in traditional B. Tech. programs. Interested students at the undergraduate level must contend with a lack of resources, guidance, and direction. Exposure to these drivers of future technologies is often left to chance. It would thus be of immense value to nurture such skills among undergraduate students through a dedicated course. Individuals trained thus will make a significant impact in both academia and industry’, reads the programme page on the official IISc website.
Admission to the programme will be through JEE Advanced.
The core of the program spread over four semesters includes six courses each in Mathematics and Computing areas apart from courses in the sciences, humanities, and other engineering disciplines. Students can then choose softcore credits from a large pool of courses in Mathematics and Computing areas apart from many exciting electives from across the institute. To help students navigate through the large number of available courses and guide them towards specialization, study tracks have been designed in Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computational Science, Theoretical Computer Science, Quantum Computing, Signal Processing, Computational Biology and Mathematical Finance. Students can opt for Research/Industry projects in their fourth year. Students can obtain a M.Tech. degree by taking an additional year of course and project credits