The Worldwide Institute of Data Expertise Hyderabad (IIITH) has acquired $186,000 grant funding from Qualcomm Applied sciences Inc. to be used over subsequent three years in direction of analysis within the discipline of Edge AI and improvement of AI fashions in addition to for an Edge AI Analysis Lab.
The lab will work on growing Edge AI use circumstances on Qualcomm platforms for which the corporate will provide its Qualcomm Innovators Improvement Equipment (QIDK) together with technical and information assist and mentorship to the analysis group led by professor Ramesh Loganathan, IIITH stated in a launch on Friday.
“Qualcomm and IIITH share the imaginative and prescient of a future the place India is on the forefront of AI innovation, fuelled by creativity, collaboration and pursuit of excellence. Right now’s announcement marks the start of a three-year journey of collaboration, analysis, and innovation for advancing Edge AI applied sciences,” Senior V-P of Qualcomm Leendert van Doorn stated, inaugurating the Qualcomm Edge AI Analysis lab at IIITH campus.
A few of the potential expertise collaboration areas at Edge AI lab embrace laptop imaginative and prescient, graphics – picture processing, laptop graphics and ML era; Edge computing, VLSI and embedded techniques and 5G and platform machine studying.
“IIITH has lengthy been related to Qualcomm on a number of areas since its inception. This lab is one more on this collection and can assist take our current strengths within the Edge AI areas to new heights,” stated C.V.Jawahar, Dean R&D.
Qualcomm’s stated it’s the newest amongst ongoing initiatives to strengthen the analysis and improvement ecosystem in India.
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