Centres of Excellence

Most institutions talk about AI. At KLS GIT, students, researchers, and founders actually build it — on infrastructure that very few academic institutions in India can offer.

The Centre of Excellence for AI & Machine Learning is powered by the Nvidia H200 GPU, delivering 32 petaflops of AI compute performance. This is not a cloud credit arrangement or a shared remote cluster. It is dedicated, in-house GPU infrastructure, available on campus, accessible to students from their first year, to research scholars running complex model training, and to startups within the GRID ecosystem who need serious compute to build serious technology.

The centre exists because AI at the frontier is a hardware problem as much as it is a software one. A student building a computer vision system, a researcher training a large language model, or a deep tech founder developing an AI-powered defence application — all of them need access to the kind of compute that the H200 provides. At GRID, that access is not a privilege reserved for a few. It is available to anyone doing work that deserves it.

India's electric vehicle transition is one of the most consequential engineering challenges of this decade — and the EV-COC puts our students at the centre of it.

This is a full-stack EV research facility covering cell-level testing, battery pack manufacturing, thermal management, motor and power electronics evaluation, BMS algorithm development, and complete vehicle performance testing on an eddy current dynamometer.

Built in collaboration with Decibels Lab, the facility is designed to simulate real industry conditions — not academic approximations. Individuals leave with hands-on experience in the systems that the EV industry is actively hiring for.

This centre operates at the frontier of materials science, where engineering meets chemistry, physics, and biology at the scale of nanometres. It exists to promote both foundational and applied research in nanotechnology, with active projects spanning water treatment, semiconductor nanotechnology, electrochemical sensors, and nanomaterial-based manufacturing applications.

The centre has attracted VGST and KSCST government funding, hosted expert talks from international researchers including from the University of Missouri, and enabled a student exchange program with the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan. An active Nano Club drives outreach across the student community.

Advanced composite materials are at the core of aerospace, automotive, defence, and construction innovation — and this centre gives students direct access to the tools and processes that make them.

The lab is equipped for the synthesis, testing, and characterisation of composite materials, including a programmable muffle furnace operating up to 1400°C, a wear testing tribometer, an impact testing machine, an inverted metallurgical microscope, and an injection moulding machine.

Beyond equipment, the centre is positioned as a hub for industry partnership, helping companies develop new composite-based products and improve existing manufacturing processes, while preparing students for one of the fastest-growing fields in advanced manufacturing.

The VLCI CoE exists to close the gap between what manufacturing students learn and what industry actually needs from them. Established through an MoU with the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Belagavi Foundry Cluster, with support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the centre trains both students and industry professionals in value and lean manufacturing practices.

It functions as a nodal training centre, offering Certified Teacher Training and Certified Demonstrators programmes to faculty and industry personnel. Seven KLS GIT faculty members have completed VLCI certification from IIM Bangalore.

The centre directly serves Belagavi's industrial manufacturing ecosystem, reinforcing GIT's role as the backbone of the region's industrial competitiveness.