CHENNAI: Taking basic and applied research to next level, IIT Madras plans to set up a research centre to focus on data sciences and artificial intelligence.
It has entered a memorandum of understanding with Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions to set up Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The Centre will receive funds up to Rs 4 crore per year, for five years.
The centre will undertake research in deep learning, reinforcement learning, network analytics, interpretable machine learning.
Vijay Ratnaparkhe, managing director of Robert Bosch said, “It will set a precedent in the way big-data is used to improve our problem-solving capability in the industry. At the same time, the collaboration will result in shared outcomes for the benefit of society.”
Bhaskar Ramamurthi, director, IIT Madras, said,“ We have been nurturing its interdisciplinary data sciences and artificial intelligence research group for more than three years now.”
“There are basic issues in the way we collect and share data; these need to be solved in a collective and open-sourced manner. To address this issue, the centre is setting out on an ambitious task of creating a portal of curated, India specific data sets that are easy to access and interpret through a set of open tools and interfaces,” IIT Madras said in a release.
