Electronics & ICT Academy Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) Academy was setup at IIT Guwahati under the scheme of “Financial Assistance for setting up Electronics and ICT Academies" as an initiative by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), On 26 March, 2015 the project started at IIT Guwahati and the Academy was inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi on 19 January, 2016. The objective of the Academy was aimed to provide specialized training to the faculties of the Engineering colleges in the emerging areas of electronics & ICT; and training large number of faculties from Arts, Commerce & Science colleges, Polytechnics, etc in the areas of utilisation of IT tools and techniques for application in their respective domain of knowledge/learning/teaching/enhancing productivity, etc by developing state-of-the-art facilities. In the past 7 years the Academy has successfully conducted 400+ Programme through conventional classroom teaching and NKN/virtual classroom mode in different Institute/University of North Eastern States in particular and few in other states of India. Till date the Academy has successful trained 20000+ participants. The Academy has also signed MoU with Institutes/Universities for hosting the programmes and for conducting hands-on session the Academy collaborated with Industries as Training/Industry Partners. As part of their mandate for self-sustainability, the Academy is also offering online Advance Certification Course in the area of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Full Stack, UI/UX and VLSI Design and trained 2000+ graduates and working professionals. The Academy has also delivered training to 140+ Assam Police and Indian Navy official on cybercrime concepts and Data Science.