Mindtree partners with IISc for artificial intelligence research

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Bengaluru-based Mindtree has created an endowment focused on artificial intelligence research (AI) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to facilitate teaching and research in data science and natural
language processing.

Called the "Mindtree Associate Professor Chair on Artificial Intelligence," the endowment fund is designed to attract both technical scholars and domain experts conducting groundbreaking research on AI.

This endowment will introduce the institute’s students to solving modern business problems using AI and machine learning to develop high‐impact solutions.

The inaugural Mindtree Associate Professor Chair has been awarded to Professor Vijay Natarajan, an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation at IISc.

Natarajan has an experience of 12 years and works in the areas of scientific visualization, computational topology, and computational geometry.

His research is likely to impact next‐generation data processing, analysis and visualization technology.

“Artificial Intelligence, considered the cornerstone of future technologies, needs an ideal ground for further research and development in India...Our collaboration with IISc will help create opportunities to strengthen research in AI and provide our clients an avenue to interact with some of the best minds working in this segment,” said Rostow Ravanan, CEO and Managing Director of Mindtree.

The company had earlier said it has invested $1.5 million at Stanford University to create a faculty position, as part of its efforts to be future ready, as clients are taking to skills like artificial intelligence, cognitive intelligence and quantum computing.

“This association with Mindtree has substantially bolstered IISc’s capabilities in some of the most important domains that hold the key to the future of technology,” said  Anurag Kumar, Director, IISc.