hyderabad the pandemic may have slowed down the global economy but it hasnt slowed down emerging technologies and their demand if anything covid19 has pressed the fastforward button for engineering students all set to graduate and looking for a jobcompanies that reached the iits and other top engineering colleges in the country for campus placements amid the pandemic increasingly asked for students who could tackle data science machine learning internet of things iot artificial intelligence ai deep learning blockchain and design thinkingemerging technologies are growing at a fast pace and so do human resources requirements in these fields this year placements for students with a profile in emerging technology have been better than last year said pradeep kumar yemula facultyincharge office of career services at iit hyderabad iit hwith the phase 2 recruitment process still going on the training and placement officers at top institutes said that the final job offer numbers are expected to grow furthersome institutes in fact have already crossed last years figures when it comes to offers in emerging technologies while 21 job offers in emerging technologies were made to students of iit guwahati during the year 201920 this year students have already received 23 offers18 in data sciences three in ml and two in ai the average salary in emerging tech has increased from rs 2229 lakh last year to rs 2418 lakh this yearin 202021 more than any previous year physical location played less of a role as connectivity increased significantly emerging technologies showed growth and we expect this trend to continue in future said abhishek kumar head centre for career development iit guwahatic s shankar ram advisor training placement iit madras said phase 1 placement at iit madras went on well with good participation from companies in the aimldata science sector we expect this trend of active participation from companies in this sector to continue in the next few yearswith placements going digital institutes like birla institute of technology and science pilani hyderabad campus even hired expert trainers from the industry to help students to gear up for digital mode interviews and interactions the institute said that due to covid19 they saw a demand in cloud computing space network security bandwidth consulting was the new favourite among engineering students said prabhudatta mohanty from the placement unit of the institute