This document analyzes research trends in artificial intelligence in India by comparing Indian research results to worldwide research. It finds that while the quality of individual Indian researchers is high, overall research participation and output in India is lower than major countries and does not match worldwide growth trends. There is a large gap between university and industry research involvement in India. The document concludes that to advance AI research in India, industry-academia collaboration needs to increase and research efforts need to be scaled up aggressively.

1. Research trend of AI in India
Research trend of AI in India
By Neel Shah
Jacob Minz,
Malaikannan Sankarasubbu,
Anirban Santara
Guided By:

2. ● We are tracking top conferences where Google Brain
Team publishes like NIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL.
● The main aim of this data analysis is to identify the
highest quality ongoing research in AI domain in
Indian Universities and Industry. It gives us the basic
answer about research realms and its trends in India.
● To understand it more deeply, we compare Indian
research results with world's research results.

3. Technical details
Programming language :
Python 3.6+ with jupyter notebook.
Dataset details:
SCOPUS journal 1387 selected papers from 2001 to 2016 and arxiv 24700+
papers from 1992 to 2016.

4. Participation of University and
Industry in India.
85.58% By university
14.42% By Industry
Very large gap between University
and Industry research ratio.
From total research, only ~15% of
research is in collaboration with
Industry and University.

5. Participation of different Industry in
research.
Microsoft Top with 34.5%
Only TCS(core Indian) survive in
top 10 with 13%
Lack of interest of Indian companies
in fundamental AI research.

6. Participation of Universities in
research.
IISc - Banglore top with 7.58%.
The hub of CS research IIT-
Kharagpur secured 7th place
with 2.86% only.
It’s quite shocking for country which
has more than 35,000 colleges and
400 Universities, because only 15
universities do almost 43% of total
research.

7. Trend in India and
World
First graph shows 15 year research trend
in India. And it has zig-zag pattern.
While second graph shows constant
growth in some areas in the last six
year in Arxiv. Specially exponential
growth in Computer vision.
Indian research is not matching the
world’s trend.

8. Top researcher of India between 2001 to 2016

9. Top researcher in the world.
The average citation of top
researcher in world and Indian
researcher is almost same.
It shows the quality of Indian
research is among top in world.

10. Publication By top 5 countries and India in top 5 journals

11. Total number of publications by top 5 countries and india from
2001 to 2016

12. Conclusion
Indian AI researchers are among the best in the world.
Research in AI needs to be aggressively scaled up.
More Industry-Academia, inter and intra University collaboration is needed.

13. References:
1) https://neelshah18.github.io/Scopus-analysis.html
2)https://research.googleblog.com/2017/01/the-google-brain-team-looking-
back-on.html
3)http://rstv.nic.in/pm-modi-addresses-indian-science-congress-
tirupati.html?sf52381424=1
4)https://arxiv.org/