Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence—Wadhwani AI—is an applied AI institute that brings artificial intelligence technology to solve social challenges for low-and middle-income citizens. They build and deploy AI solutions in partnership with local governments and civil society organizations to improve large-scale public programs.

Wadhwani AI
Formation2018 (2018)
FoundersRomesh Wadhwani, Sunil Wadhwani
PurposeArtificial intelligence for Social Impact
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
India
CEO
Shekar Sivasubramanian
Websitehttps://www.wadhwaniai.org/

The organization is multidisciplinary, consisting of AI/ML scientists, software engineers, user researchers and designers, domain experts, and solutions managers for problem-solving using AI. At present, it is working on over 15 AI solutions in the agriculture and healthcare domains, in collaboration with partner organizations at the national and state levels in India.[1]

The institute was founded by Romesh Wadhwani and Sunil Wadhwani,[2] and inaugurated in 2018 by Shri Narendra Modi, the 14th Prime Minister of India.[3]

AI for Social Impact

Wadhwani AI’s award-winning AI-powered early pest warning and advisory system equips smallholder cotton farmers with instant advisories, in multiple languages, to enable them to combat infestation using basic Android smartphones. This AI solution aims to address the catastrophic impact of pest attacks on farmer livelihoods in some of the highest cotton-producing states in India.[4]

Wadhwani AI is the official AI partner of the Government of India’s Central Tuberculosis Division (CTD), developing and deploying AI/ML solutions to help the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP) eradicate TB from India by 2025.[5] The institute assists the National Health Authority in leveraging AI/ML technologies to strengthen the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) and Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) initiatives.[6] It also works closely with the e-Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and several state governments.[7]

Awards
  • Winner of the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019.[8]
  • Winner of the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award in 2021.[9]
  • Winner of the H&M Foundation Global Change Award in 2022.[10]

References
  1. AI, Wadhwani. "AI for Social Impact". Wadhwani AI. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. "A New Initiative in India to Help Shape AI for the Benefit of Everyone". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  3. "Make Artificial Intelligence in India, Make Artificial Intelligence Work for India: PM Modi". www.narendramodi.in. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  4. "AI to aid cotton ryots in 2,800 villages". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 4 April 2021. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 August 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. "India to use Artificial Intelligence in TB care, sets deadline to end disease by 2025". Hindustan Times. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  6. "Using Data Science and AI to Combat COVID" (PDF).
  7. AI, Wadhwani. "Partners". Wadhwani AI. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  8. Hebbar, Prajakta (9 May 2019). "Wadhwani Institute Wins $2 Million From Google For Breakthrough Use Of AI In Pest Mgmt". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  9. Visram, Talib (4 May 2021). "This AI-powered tech calculates a baby's weight just from a video". Fast Company. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  10. Jones, John Russel (6 April 2022). "H&M FOUNDATION AWARDS FIVE INNOVATIONS A TOTAL €1 MILLION GRANT FOR EFFORTS TO MAKE THE FASHION INDUSTRY PLANET POSITIVE". MR Magazine. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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