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IIT Bombay, SUNY Old Westbury ink partnership
The agreement includes plans for joint degree programs and faculty exchanges.
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Malvika Choudhary - Fri, 26, Jun 2026
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Shireesh Kedare and Timothy E. Sams in the presence of Consul General Binaya S. Pradhan / oldwestbury.edu
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) and SUNY Old Westbury entered into a partnership to expand engineering education and research, with an initial focus on artificial intelligence.
The collaboration was announced June 26 during a virtual meeting between IIT Bombay director Shireesh Kedare and SUNY Old Westbury president Timothy E. Sams.
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The meeting was attended by India's Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Higher Education Secretary Vineet Joshi, and India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
The two institutions formalized the partnership through a letter of intent signed by Kedare and Sams in the presence of Consul General of India in New York, Binaya S. Pradhan.
Under the agreement, IIT Bombay and SUNY Old Westbury will work toward developing new undergraduate, graduate, and research programs in science and engineering at the New York university's Long Island campus, with an initial emphasis on emerging fields such as artificial intelligence.
The partnership will also include faculty and researcher exchanges, joint research projects, and the development of conferences and symposia as both institutions work toward establishing new degree programs.
"IIT Bombay is excited to work with SUNY Old Westbury, whose leadership is committed to quality education and is forward looking in its outlook," Kedare said. "Considering that our strengths are complementary, we believe that our partnership has the ability to scale great heights."
Sams said the collaboration would advance teaching, innovation, and excellence in disciplines such as physics and engineering while establishing a strong IIT Bombay presence on the SUNY Old Westbury campus.
"We are excited to establish a direct partnership that advances teaching, innovation and excellence in disciplines like physics and engineering with a goal of creating a robust IIT Bombay presence on our campus so that together we can prepare the next generation of leaders who will fuel success across our region, state, nation and world," he said.
Welcoming the partnership, Ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra said it would strengthen academic and technological collaboration between the two institutions while fostering deeper partnerships in research, innovation, and higher education.
Higher Education Secretary Vineet Joshi described the collaboration as "a new and proud chapter" in the India-US partnership in higher education and research and called it one of the most consequential initiatives in the sector.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the partnership would create "win-win opportunities" for students and academicians in both India and the United States while helping develop cutting-edge technologies in frontier science.
He urged both institutions to work toward developing future-ready talent and technologies that contribute to the global good.
Kedare and Sams also thanked the Government of India, the Embassy of India in the United States, the Consulate General of India in New York, and Consul General Binaya S. Pradhan for supporting the collaboration.
Founded in 1958, IIT Bombay is India's second Indian Institute of Technology and is recognized globally for its science and engineering education and research. The institute was designated an Institution of Eminence by India's Ministry of Education in 2018.
It has 81 academic divisions, more than 760 faculty members, and has graduated over 75,000 engineers and scientists during the past six decades.
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