CSIO & C-DAC pool in Synergy towards Atmanirbhar Bharat
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Vinay Kumar Sharma
Chandigarh
CSIO is a premier R&D organization
engaged in undertaking research, design and development of intelligent
scientific & industrial instruments in the area of Agrimonies, Medical
Devices, Optics, Photonics, Public Safety, Computational Instrumentation,
Calibration and Certification. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing,
Mohali (C-DAC, Mohali) is a Scientific Society of the Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, with a primary mandate
to promote high end R&D and is engaged in the area of Cyber Security, Artificial
Intelligence, Robotics, IOT, Health Care, Agri Electronics and Automation. Both
CSIO and C-DAC, Mohali are working with potentially complementary
methodologies. Both the Institutes have agreed today, the 12th day of January
2021 to enter into a scientific collaborative understanding for Sharing of
expertise, domain knowledge and available facilities in selected and advanced
thrust areas of Agriculture and Health sector, especially related to
Technologies and solutions involved in the area. This will lead to cooperation
among working groups on research problems related to scientific instrumentation
and systems for above mentioned areas and technologies It will also promote
interaction among the scientists and research scholars of both the
organizations by exchange visits and/or organizing brainstorming sessions to
identify and pursue research programs in emerging thrust areas. In the memory
of Dr. R. S. Khandpur, the Founder Director of CDAC, Mohali and former head of
Medical Instruments Division CSIO, it is proposed to organize joint “Khandpur
memorial lecture” to be conducted annually by C-DAC, Mohali and CSIO
alternatively by a committee named “Khandpur Memorial Committee” of scientists
from C-DAC, Mohali and CSIO for this purpose. The MOU was signed by Prof. S
Anantha Ramakrishna, Director CSIO, on behalf of Central Scientific Instruments Organization and Dr. P K Khosla, Executive Director C-DAC, on behalf of Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing, Mohali. I
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