Georgia Tech partners with Infosys for research initiatives

Updated on: Friday, June 11, 2010

The prestigious American institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, has partnered with Infosys Technologies of India on research and educational
opportunities, and are seeking to establish a high-quality research body in Hyderabad.
A memorandum of understanding in this regard was signed by Gary Schuster, Georgia Tech's provost and vice president for academic affairs, and S. Gopalakrishnan, chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys Technologies, early this week.

The proposed Georgia Tech facility, a media release said, would include centres 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," he said.

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. In fact, Infosys was recently named "Employer of the Year" by Georgia Tech's Division of Professional Practice.

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.

Gopalakrishnan said the association with Georgia Tech will focus on emerging technologies to develop client-specific business solutions.

Georgia Tech partners with Infosys for research initiatives

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