The Anna University–K. B. Chandrasekhar Research Centre (AU–KBC) is located in the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) campus. The centre was founded by K.B. Chandrasekhar, an MIT alumnus and the co-founder of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. The AU–KBC Research Centre is a public–private research centre in India, formed through the partnership between a wholly for-profit company (KBC Research Foundation Private Limited, KBCRF) and a state institution ( Anna University). The centre's original goal, when it had its own employees, was to foster research and create products of international quality. Its current goal is to create revenue for KBCRF and its sister for-profit concerns.

Mission and goals

The AU–KBC Research Centre initiates research in new and emerging thrust areas including nanosciences and conducts research in areas including communications and biology. There is an interdisciplinary core of

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, physics and computing sciences that impact on all the teaching and research work at the centre.

Areas of focus

The major areas on which the centre focuses are information sciences, life sciences,

, physics,

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

, nanobiology, cryptography, network security, communications engineering and

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...

. The centre also supports clinical research. The centre offers a course namely "Post Graduate Certificate Program in Clinical Trials Management". The clinical trials course at the centre offers its trainees a headstart with multinationals who wish to use these unprecedented opportunities for drug trials (Phase II) in India. It is offered both full-time and part-time and is a first such course offered by a public-private institution.

Achievements

The centre has conducted research in diverse fields and research papers have been published in major journals and conferences. The centre has acquired its first patent in communications engineering. The Government of India has funded the centre to extend the opensource activities to the regular academics and to contribute to the

Free and Open-source Software Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...

(FOSS) mission. To coordinate these activities, the centre in collaboration with the Chennai Division of the

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. History CDAC was created in November 1987, initially as the Centre f ...

(C-DAC) has set up the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software.

Educational opportunities

The M.S. (By research) and Ph.D. programmes of the Anna University in Information Sciences and Life Sciences are offered at the AU–KBC Research Centre as per the rules and regulations of Anna University.

References

External links

Official Website
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