Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology is a premier research institute in the North-Eastern region of India. Established in 1979, this institute is currently under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Computational Materials Science group is the only theoretical group working in the field of materials science in IASST.
Currently the group has six active research scholars with a well-equipped laboratory facility in the SAIC building of the institute.