Midcap IT firm Mphasis announced on November 18 that it has expanded its partnership with Ashoka University to establish an interdisciplinary lab for industry academia engagement on machine learning and computational use cases. As part of the partnership, Mphasis has committed a grant of Rs 18 crore for a period of three years.
The expansion of the lab will offer spaces for experiential learning through live projects and hackathons and flexible spaces for industry-academia engagement through lecture series and workshops. The Digital Makerspace will provide computer science (CS) and non-CS students with an equal opportunity to benefit from Ashoka’s interdisciplinary environment, the company said.
“As a follow-on to this partnership we will create an internship program and we are in talks with our clients for some of these internship programs. We will also become early adopters of…
