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An Exemplar Initiative http://www.iu-atc.com Supported by Research Councils UK(EPSRC)/British Council and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India Professor Gerard Parr UK- PI of the IU-ATC Chair in Telecommunications Engineering University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK [email protected] Developing an “Innovation Eco-system”- Key Timelines • • • • • • • Dec 2004- Parr Invited by RCUK-EPSRC to respond to an invitation by Sir Michael Arthur (British High Commissioner, New Delhi) to assess “why UK was not partner of choice for collaboration in ICT”. Jan 2005- Parr attended ICT Week in Delhi with Professor Dame Julia Higgins and Sir David King and members of EPSRC..visits to IITs including IIT Delhi and IIT Madras and ICT industry including InfoSys and Wipro. Jan 2006- First IU-ATC Technical Workshop in IIT Madras (Global Opportunities Fund-GOF and Department of Science & Technology-DST) During 2007- UK Trade and Investment and DST funding for further consortium development 2007 EPSRC INTERACT and British Council UKIERI project funding success June 2009 Major funding from RCUK-EPSRC and DST for larger scale R&D Centre of Excellence (total funding value £9.2 million),Phase 1 of initiative April 18th 2012- Phase 2 funding announced at UK-India Science and Innovation Council (£10.2 million) by Rt Hon David Willetts UK Minister of State. Professor Gerard Parr Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala EPSRC-DST Project Partners- UK • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Professor Gerard Parr, University of Ulster (IU-ATC Lead) Prof Nader Azarmi, Chief Technologist, BT Innovate & Design (IU-ATC Industrial Lead) Prof Bryan Scotney University of Ulster Prof Sally McClean University of Ulster Dr Philip Morrow University of Ulster Prof Steve Hailes, University College London Professor Saleem Bhatti, University of St Andrews, Scotland Prof. Rahim Tafazolli , University of Surrey Professor Barry Evans, University of Surrey Dr Muhammad Imran University of Surrey Prof. Klaus Moessner University of Surrey Dr Eliane Bodanese, Queen Mary, University of London Professor Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, University of London Prof Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Dr Pat Langdon, University of Cambridge Dr John Clarkson University of Cambridge Dr. Pradipta Biswas University of Cambridge Professor David Hutchinson, University of Lancaster Dr Andreas Mauthe University of Lancaster Professor Nishan Canagarajah, University of Bristol, UK Professor Joe McGeehan University of Bristol EPSRC-DST Project Partners- India • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala Dr Subramanyam Goparaju Mr. Arun Seth Mr Anant Chilkunda Professor David Koilpillai Professor Subrat Kar Professor Uday Desai Dr Abhay Karandikar Prof A.Chaturvedi Prof. T. 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Gonsalves Prof Krishna Sivalingham Professor KVS Hari Dr G Venkatesh Dr Shirish Dr Kumar Sivarajan, CTO Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthi Dr. Nadeem Akhtar, Mr Shashank Sharma Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Academic Lead -India) VP and Head, InfoSys SET Labs, Bangalore, (Industrial Lead - India) Chairman- BT India, Alcatel-Lucent Wipro Technologies, India Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Bharti Airtel Research Lab, IIT Delhi Director- Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Director- Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore CTO- Sasken Communications Technologies Midas Communications Technologies, India Tejas Networks Ltd., Bangalore Director- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Madras Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), Chennai, Tata Teleservices Limited Spin-off Projects, Fellowships and PhDs EPSRC-DST MAIN Project (2009-2014/15) Applications and Services Core Networks Protocols and Systems Theme Tasks Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks Theme Tasks IU-ATC British Council UKIERI Project– Virtual Graduate Research School 2007-2012 PhD and Faculty Visits, Exchanges IU-ATC Top-Level Structure Industry LABLET Internships Theme Tasks Indicative Output Impact • • • • • • • • • International Conference Papers ~250 Learned Journal Papers ~110 Recent Papers Accepted/Submitted ~ 60 Papers in progress 8 Books 7 Technical Reports 10 Technical Prototypes 10 Testbeds/Demonstrators 12 Patents 16+ • TheIn IU-ATC represents the largest collaboration of its kind Conclusion between UK and India in the ICT sector with about 200 scientists doing industrially relevant R&D and we want to grow the IU-ATC “ICT Eco-System” by:• Leveraging our international expertise/ technical testbeds • Developing early career researchers and engineers • Increasing our engagement with ICT industry through LABLETs • Supporting UK FCO/BIS/DFID/UKTI/TSB and DST to Strengthen UK-India links • Supporting National initiatives such as G-Cloud • Bridging the Urban Rural Divide of each nation by providing enablers to harness the benefits of the Future Digital Economy Thank You for your attention. Professor Gerard Parr University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK [email protected] Information and Communications Engineering (ICE) Group http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/ise_rg.php