Hyderabad, Jan 21 : University of Hyderabad (UoH) Today  entered into a partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in research and innovation on next-generation communications technologies, semiconductor engineering, and heterogeneous computing architectures.
The MoU was signed by TCS Senior Vice President and Global Head of Technology Business Unit V Rajanna and UoH Registrar P Sardar Singh in the presence of UoH Vice-Chancellor B J Rao and other officials in the university campus, the University said in a statement.
“The MoU opens up the prospects for TCS and the University of Hyderabad to collaborate on fundamental research, technology validation and addressing transformational opportunities through the use of NextGen technologies.” V Rajanna said.”We are delighted to partner with the University of Hyderabad in this multi-disciplinary research initiative, under TCS’ Academic COINTM Program. Academic collaborations are part of our research strategy and build tangible value for all stakeholders,” Executive Vice President and Chief technology Officer, TCS K Ananth Krishnan said.
“Each new generation of wireless technology offers an increasing opportunity to seamlessly integrate humans and machines. This initiative will explore NextGen communication and computation, accelerate digitalisation, and contribute to our customers growth and transformation journeys”, he added.The UoH Vice-Chancellor said, “we are excited to partner with an Industry leader like TCS to collaborate and co-innovate on emerging frontiers of research and innovation. Such partnerships with industry are a crucial component of our endeavors to encourage UoH academicians’ research and innovation initiatives, which will remain anchored to industry imperatives and play a meaningful role in addressing critical business challenges.”
TCS and UoH entered into a strategic alliance to propel research and innovation around technologies such as RF Frontend, antenna design for next-generation communication technologies and semiconductor design for the next-generation computing architectures.
The MoU between TCS and UoH would enable the seamless exchange of ideas and collaboration between research teams from both organizations to develop highly performant, secure, intelligent, cognitive, and sustainable next-generation technologies, the statement added.(UNI)