Timken Lab for AI Education and Research in EECS@IISc

The Timken company is a global industrial leader with a growing portfolio of engineered bearings and power transmission product brands. With more than a century of knowledge and innovation, the company continuously improves the reliability and  efficiency of global industries to move the world forward.

Timken works with NASA on mission oriented projects such as the Mars exploration. Timken partners with renewable energy companies to power some of the world’s largest wind turbines. Timken helps engineers improve global transportation, including drilling the world’s longest rail tunnel.

The Division of EECS launched the first ever M.Tech. Programme in Artificial Intelligence in August 2019 with a batch of 36 students selected from all over India through a competitive selection process joining the Programme. The programme is run jointly by four departments: CSA, ECE, EE, and ESE. Timken has provided a generous CSR grant with which a computational Lab for an AI Lab for M.Tech. students is being created in the Division of EECS (Department of ESE).  The lab is equipped with a powerful GPU based supermicro server, a DGX workstation from NVIDIA, and several other computational workstations. The computational platform has  proved to be  a critical  computational resource for the M.Tech. students for their course work and project work.