KL Deemed University partners with HCL to launch agentic AI campus for students

KL Deemed to be University has partnered with HCL Group to create an agentic artificial intelligence campus powered by HCL AI labs, designed to enable students to move beyond merely using AI tools toward creating autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents. The initiative will embed artificial intelligence across degree programmes, curricula, laboratories, projects and learning activities.

Vision for Student Empowerment

KLU Chancellor Er. Koneru Satyanarayana explained the rationale behind the collaboration, stating, "Through this collaboration, we aim to empower students to progress from using AI tools to designing intelligent agents, developing deployable solutions and building meaningful products for real-world challenges".

Hands-On Training and Practical Applications

Srinath, Dean - Student Skilling and Progression, outlined the technical competencies students will acquire, including hands-on exposure to prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, multimodal applications, intelligent chatbots, AI co-pilots, enterprise assistants, intelligent search, workflow automation and AI-enabled decision-support systems. The programme will also encourage promising teams to convert prototypes into market-ready products and startup ventures.

Preparing for Emerging Career Pathways

The campus is intended to prepare students for a range of emerging roles in the AI sector, including AI Engineer, Agentic AI Developer, Generative AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Application Developer, AI Automation Engineer and AI Product Engineer.

Source: The Hindu