Research at IIT Kanpur 2026

IIT Kanpur consistently ranks among the top 5 in NIRF Engineering. Research spans every major engineering and applied science discipline. The institute hosts the IITK Innovation and Incubation Centre, Centre for Mechatronics, Centre for Lasers and Photonics, Samtel Centre for Display Technologies, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Bharti School of Bioengineering and Telemedicine, Centre for Cognitive Sciences and many discipline-specific centres. The institute files 100+ patents annually with publications in Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions, ACM and top Springer/Elsevier venues. Major funding from DST, AICTE, MeitY, DBT, ISRO, DRDO, BARC and several international agencies. Industry partnerships span Robert Bosch, Texas Instruments, Tata Group, Reliance, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, Eicher, Samsung, Samtel and many deep-tech startups. International collaborations span MIT, Stanford, CMU, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, Oxford, Tokyo Tech, Max Planck Society and several global universities.

Research & Industry Partnerships — IIT Kanpur