IISc joins TI Leadership Universities

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has joined three other US universities as part of Texas Instruments' Leadership Universities initiative.

As part of this initiative, IISc will receive a seed funding of $400,000 over five year which will be used to support research programmes for industry-specific applications as well as curriculum development in DSP (digital signal processing), analog and mixed signal systems.

It will also gain enhanced access to TI's teams worldwide, and an opportunity to work with TI's other Leadership Universities on future TI-funded programmes.

The other Leadership Universities of TI in the US are Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rice University.

Rich K Templeton, TI president and CEO, said, "Our goal in joining with IISc through the Leadership University programme is to enable engineers to use electronics innovation to enrich lives. India is recognised for its progress and needs similar higher education research programmes to sustain intellectual credibility and advancement of the industry. TI is committed to the long term goals of the industry."

P Balaram, director IISc, said, "It is a pleasure to partner TI as a Leadership University. We look forward to sharing our ideas through collaborative research."