Anna University K B Chandrasekhar Research Centre
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The Anna University-K. B. Chandrashekar Research centre (AU-KBC) is a multi disciplinary research centre located in the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT). The centre was founded by Mr. K. B. Chandrashekar, MIT alumnus, successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and also the co-founder of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. The AU-KBC Research Centre is a first of its kind public-private research centre in India. Its goal to generate research and products of international quality.
Mission and Goals
The vision of the centre is to become a research institution of international repute. In pursuit of its mission, the AU-KBC Research Centre initiates research in new and emerging thrust areas such as nanosciences and expands research in established areas such as communications and biology with a strong modelling and experimental component. There is a strong interdisciplinary core of mathematics, physics and computing sciences that impact on all the teaching and research work at the Centre. The Centre does academic research with a prominent long-term perspective; the choice of directions and problems however are made in close interaction with industry. Research in core and thrust areas are oriented towards practical applications and also serve as a source of skilled personnel in niche areas.
Focus areas of the centre
The major areas on which the centre strives to achieve excellence are as follows Information Sciences, Life sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Bioinformatics, Nanobiology, Cryptography, Network Security, Communications Engineering and Natural Language Processing.
Achievements
With its expertise in the above areas, the centre receives research funding from various national and international research institutions. The centre has generated papers in all the fields and has its material published in major journals and conferences. The centre also acquired its first patent in the communications engineering area. The Government of India has funded the centre to push the open source activities into the regular academics and to contribute in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) mission for future generations.
Educational opportunities
The centre also provides post graduate and doctoral studies in all the fields mentioned above. The degree is awarded by the Anna University with the customory specialization.