Research at IIT Madras 2026

IIT Madras is among India's premier research institutions, ranked #1 in NIRF 2024 (overall) for several consecutive years. Research spans every major engineering and applied science discipline. The institute hosts the IIT Madras Research Park (the largest university research park in India), the IIT Madras Pravartak Foundation for Cyber-Physical Systems, the Centre of Excellence in Renewable Energy, Centre for Battery Engineering, Centre for High-Performance Computing, Centre for Innovation in Climate Technology, Centre for Computational Brain Research and many discipline-specific research centres. The institute files 100+ patents annually with publication output in Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions, ACM and top Springer/Elsevier venues. Major funding from DST, AICTE, MeitY, DBT, ISRO, DRDO, BARC, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Steel and several international funding agencies. Industry partnerships span Boeing, Airbus, 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 and Max Planck Society.

Research & Industry Partnerships — IIT Madras