Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 30 (UNI) UST Global, a leading digital transformation solutions company, on Friday announced that it has partnered with Indian Institute of Palakkad (IIT Palakkad), an autonomous public institution of national importance for higher education in engineering and technology under MHRD, located at Palakkad in Kerala.
The partnership will allow joint Research and Development in cutting-edge technologies like AI/ML and Brain-Machine Interface, internship and job placement for the students.
For the joint R&D, the students will work at UST Global’s Infinity LabsTM for 3-6 months across it’s locations in India.
Infinity LabsTM are UST Global’s in-house innovation center that builds digital innovation capabilities to solve business problems of its Fortune 500 Customers across cutting-edge technologies like AI/ML, Blockchain, AR/VR, IoT, Design Thinking, and Enterprise Computing.
Commenting on the MoU, Alexander Varghese, Chief Administrative Officer and Country Head, UST Global, said, “At UST Global, we are focused on building an Innovation ecosystem with deep partnerships with the academia and start-ups, to solve business problems of our Fortune 500 customers. We are happy to offer a platform to B.Tech students for joint R&D on new-age technologies."
Dr. Vinod A Prasad, Dean of Industry Collaboration & Sponsored Research, IIT-PKD, said the first batch of IIT-PKD students selected for UST Global’s internship programme could work on various interdisciplinary research areas related to Industrial Robotics & Automation.
"The internship experience will help them prepare well for taking up more challenging industry problems in their future career. We hope that the collaboration of IIT-PKD with UST Global will go long way bringing fruitful research outcomes that will benefit the society," he added.
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