US' MIT-Lincoln Lab offers doctoral research opportunity to M.Tech student of MANIT

Updated on: Monday, August 27, 2012

An M.Tech student of the city-based Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) has received an offer from the US' MIT-Lincoln Lab for doing doctoral research and will be working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a foreign scholar.
 
Arun P V, who hails from Kerala, had recently done his M.Tech in Geographical Information System and got offer for doing doctoral research from MIT-Lincoln Lab as per the recommendation of ICR division of the university after approving his research work on "Geo-intelligence and Decision Technology".
 
Arun has got his admission letter from the MIT-Lincoln Lab, a pioneering defence institute, and will be working with NASA on defence projects for a period of two years after completing his research work.

Besides scholarship, Arun will get an annual package of Rs 35 lakh under the "outstanding foreign scholar" category, the MANIT sources said. Arun has completed ten research works and almost all of them got published in many journals of repute, Dr S K Katiyar, professor at Civil Engineering department (MANIT), under whose guidance Arun conducted the research told.

Arun and Dr Katiyar carried out research on the applications of high-resolution remote sensing satellite images and automated artificial intelligence tools for 'Geo-intelligence'.

The duo had also got appreciations from Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Government of India and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for their participation in INDGIS project, developed by CAIR. MANIT director Dr Appu Kuttan has lauded Arun's research papers.

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