Bennett University begins AI research project with tie-ups
NEW DELHI: Bennett University launched an artificial intelligence (AI) initiative in association with 50 zonal partners to set up research groups across the country.
The project was inaugurated by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman Anil Sahsrabudhe at the Bennett University campus on Tuesday.
The zonal partners will be doubled to 100 with AICTE support.
Each zonal partner will work in the area of deep learning to create useful products and innovations. Each will act as a hub for 10 more institutions, thus adding up to a total of 1,000. “We understand the challenges and the opportunities in enabling professionals, students and institutions to do cutting-edge research,” said Deepak Garg, director of the initiative and head of computer science engineering at Bennett University.
Bennett University is committed to a new era of quality education and research in the country, said the vice chancellor RS Shevgaonkar.
“Skilling, research and entrepreneurship in this initiative is central to the philosophy of our working,” he said. “Bennett invites all likeminded people who wish to see India leading in AI technologies to join the initiative.” The programme is backed by the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Newton-Bhabha Fund.
Bennett University, in partnership with researchers from University College, London and the UK’s Brunel University, has been granted funding by the Royal Academy of Engineering for the project on “making deep learning and artificial intelligence skills mainstream in India to fulfill trilateral needs of entrepreneurship, industry academia partnership and application-inspired engineering research,” ET reported last month.
The Newton-Bhabha Fund programmes have strengthened existing research and innovation partnerships and developed new relationships with policy makers, government agencies, research organisations, higher education institutions, companies and enterprises of the UK and India.
The project under the industry academia partnership programme will encourage large-scale adoption and training in AI, machine learning and deep-learning technologies in engineering institutions in India.
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