Research at IIT Bombay 2026

IIT Bombay consistently ranks #3 in NIRF Engineering 2024 and is among India's premier research institutions. Research spans every major engineering and applied science discipline. The institute hosts the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) — one of India's most prolific university incubators — alongside the Centre for Climate Studies, Centre for Aerospace Systems Design, Centre for Distance Education, Centre for Formal Design, Centre for Research in Nanotechnology, Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Industrial Design Centre, Bharti Centre for Communication, Wadhwani Foundation Centre and many discipline-specific centres. The institute files 200+ patents annually with publications in Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions and ACM. Major funding from DST, AICTE, MeitY, DBT, ISRO, DRDO, BARC, Ministry of Power and international agencies. Industry partnerships span Robert Bosch, Texas Instruments, Tata Group, Reliance, Saint-Gobain, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA and many deep-tech startups. International collaborations span MIT, Stanford, CMU, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, Oxford, Tokyo Tech and the Max Planck Society.

Research & Industry Partnerships — IIT Bombay