IIIT-Delhi’s ‘Ratatouille’ reimagines science of cooking

What happens when artificial intelligence meets the art of cooking?

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

At IIIT-Delhi, professor Ganesh Bagler has been exploring that intersection for more than a decade, giving birth to what he calls ‘computational gastronomy’ ~ a pioneering field that uses data science and Al to decode and recreate the science of taste.

"It all started as a curiosity-driven classroom exercise when I was teaching at IIT Jodhpur," Bagler recalled in an interview with PTI.

“We were studying patterns in global cuisines ~ Indian, Italian, Mexican ~ and I realised that no one really looked at food through the lens of data and computation. That's how the journey began, around 10 years ago.”