Infosys and Columbia University launch enterprise AI research center in New York

Infosys, a business consulting and technology services company, announced a strategic collaboration with Columbia University on October 1, 2026, focused on developing and applying artificial intelligence technologies. The arrangement includes a research center, the Infosys Topaz - Columbia University Enterprise AI Center, which is led by Columbia Engineering. The announcement gave no financial terms.

According to the company's release, the center is located at the Infosys office at One World Trade Center in New York City and is intended to help Infosys customers deploy generative and agentic AI responsibly at enterprise scale. The program will run workshops, co-innovation sessions and joint research with clients from different industries. Work is organized around three research themes: AI-first experiences and business processes, responsible and sustainable AI, and AI for marketing. The second theme covers regulatory, ethical, cybersecurity and energy-consumption questions.

The center's founding director is the director of Columbia's Data Science Institute, who is also a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia Engineering. Infosys said the center is meant to draw senior executives, research and development leaders, students and technology practitioners. The company presented the agreement as part of its record of working with academic institutions and tied it to Infosys Topaz, its set of AI services, solutions and platforms. Infosys reported having more than 325,000 employees.