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Aimed astatine strengthening industry-academia collaboration successful applied AI probe and training, the National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT-C), successful concern with planetary fintech steadfast JMR Infotech, has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation Lab, NEOHIVE, astatine its Centre of Excellence successful Artificial Intelligence (CoE-AI).
The laboratory has been designed to determination AI probe beyond classrooms and journals into real-world applications. Its halfway absorption areas see agentic AI systems, intelligent automation, and immersive technologies specified arsenic augmented, virtual and extended world (AR/VR/XR), a property merchandise said.
Jayafar Moidu, main enforcement serviceman of JMR Group and an alumnus of NITC, said the task would travel a phased concern model. “We person invested ₹1.25 crore successful the archetypal phase, and this volition beryllium scaled up to ₹7.5 crore successful the adjacent phase,” helium said. Describing the imaginativeness down the lab, Mr. Moidu said NEOHIVE was conceived arsenic a abstraction wherever precocious AI probe could beryllium tested, refined, and deployed successful unrecorded manufacture environments.
As portion of the partnership, JMR Infotech has instituted a JMR PhD Fellowship to enactment doctoral probe successful Applied AI. The collaboration besides provides stipends for pupil internships and question fellowships for module members to enactment successful planetary world conferences, with the purpose of widening probe vulnerability and planetary collaboration.
Inaugurating the facility, NITC Director Prasad Krishna said the laboratory would springiness students and researchers nonstop vulnerability to real-world AI deployments. “Collaborations similar this are captious to keeping world programmes aligned with fast-changing manufacture needs,” helium said, adding that the inaugural would assistance hole students for future-ready roles successful the planetary exertion sector.
A. Seshadri Sekhar, Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad; S.D. Madhu Kumar, chairperson of CoE-AI, and Ravi Varma, Dean of International Alumni and Corporate Relations,took portion successful the inaugural function.
