An event was organized by Intel® at IIT Kharagpur on the 22
nd and 23
rd of September, 2008. The main focus of this event was to accelerate the advancement of research in Intel® strategic technology areas and update IIT Kharagpur faculty and students on new technologies. Prominent personalities like Vivekananda Vedula, Ajay Bakre, and Biswadeep Chatterjee from Intel® Technologies India Pvt. Limited. Prof. Pallab Dasgupta, Prof. Ajit Pal and Prof. Anupam Basu from IIT Kharagpur participated in this event. Also present were members from Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy.
This occasion established a long term relationship between Intel and IIT Kharagpur. During the strategic meeting on possible collaboration of IIT Kharagpur and Intel, India, IIT Kharagpur proposed signing of an MOU with Intel for collaborations on sponsored projects, student scholarships and internships. The possible research areas are:
Around 40 Ph.D students attended this two day session and actively participated in discussions with Intel Technologists. The PhD students shared their thoughts and research studies on the areas mentioned above. On day one Prof. Pallab Dasgupta briefly discussed the key strengths of IIT Kharagpur and opined that they are open to collaborate with Intel for various research projects. Then Mr. Satish Narule (Product Manager, Higher Education) from Intel, provided a brief overview on the Intel Higher Education programs in India with emphasis on research programs, and Intel's commitment on building a conducive academia research ecosystem.
Thereafter, Intel® technologist took over the session and presented their work in various domains. First technologist was Vivekananda Vedula who gave a presentation on Silicon Validation. He listed some of the challenge areas and possible area of collaborations. It was followed by a presentation by Prof. Pallab Dasgupta from Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory who presented their teams' work on Validation.
There was also a presentation on sensing and monitoring non-communicable disease by Dr. Satish Rath from Intel and Dr. Sudipta Mukhopadhyay from Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. Both presented their work in the field of Medical Electronics. During the discussions, Dr. Mukhopadhyay showcased some of the bio-medical sensing (such as noninvasiveglucosemonitoring)projects and discussed about the challenges they were facing.
The event was highly interactive and a great success and it provided a platform to the faculty and students of IIT Kharagpur to expand and improve their knowledge in terms of new technologies. This event also helped in gathering research proposals from faculties working on Intel centric research areas.
