Infy, Georgia Institute of Technology join hands

BANGALORE, INDIA: The Georgia Institute of Technology and Infosys Technologies have announced the intent to partner on potential research and educational opportunities.

A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Gary Schuster, Georgia Tech’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Kris Gopalakrishnan, chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys Technologies, formalizing the collaboration, said a press release.

Georgia Tech is exploring the possibility of establishing a small, high quality post-graduate research institution in Hyderabad, India. The proposed Georgia Tech facility would include centers for excellence in information technology and information systems, energy systems, biotechnology and infrastructure studies.

As part of the partnership, Infosys is planning to collaborate on research projects of mutual interest in these areas of technology. Moving forward, Georgia Tech and Infosys will create a roadmap to identify the necessary resources and infrastructure to transfer these technologies to market.

“Since Infosys has a presence both in Atlanta and Hyderabad, there are collaborative opportunities in both locations,” said Schuster. “Such alliances are critical to our goal of developing a global university and to enhancing closer educational, scientific and economic ties between the United States and India.”

According to Schuster, for the past several years the partnership between Georgia Tech and Infosys has been very strong in Atlanta, where the company has rapidly expanded its local workforce by hiring several hundred engineers. Schuster noted that the new collaboration extends the existing partnership to the research arena.

“Georgia Tech faculty and Infosys engineers and scientists will now have the opportunity to work together on emerging computing and web technologies that promise to add new efficiencies of cost and scale to rapidly expand markets in retail, manufacturing, commerce, energy and finance,” he said.

“The Human Resources Development Ministry of the Indian government has recently encouraged non-Indian universities to set up a presence in India through a forward-looking Foreign Universities Bill that has been recently introduced into the Indian parliament,” added Vijay Madisetti, executive director of Georgia Tech’s India Initiative.

Georgia Tech currently has research and educational initiatives in France, Ireland, Singapore, Shanghai and Costa Rica.