Research at IIT Delhi 2026

IIT Delhi is consistently ranked among the top 5 in NIRF (2024 rank: 2 in Engineering). Research spans every major engineering and applied science discipline. The institute hosts the IIT Delhi Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, Centre for Polymer Science and Engineering, Centre for Energy Studies, Centre for Industrial Tribology, Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, the Sonipat-based Indo-Korean Research Institute 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 several international agencies. Industry partnerships span Bharti Airtel, Robert Bosch, Texas Instruments, Tata Group, Reliance, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA and many deep-tech startups. International collaborations span MIT, Stanford, CMU, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, Oxford, Tokyo Tech, Max Planck Society and several Korean and German universities.

Research & Industry Partnerships — IIT Delhi