Flipkart which is owned by the e-commerce giant Walmart-owned has signed an MoU with IIT Patna for doing joint applied research with industry applicability in the focusing; on the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). This collaboration seeks to provide real-world industry exposure to students and scholars of IIT Patna and to facilitate the faculty members to work on research projects with Flipkart.
This MOU encompasses a whole list of activities comprising of joint research, writing research papers, organizing seminars, internship/mentorship opportunities, etc. This was announced by the Chief Data Scientist of FlipKart Mayur Datta. He said, “The aim behind this collaboration is to create industry-focused applied research which could help reach e-commerce to more consumers and sellers alike. With this MoU, we aim to establish deeper academia collaborations which could help students and the academia to leverage our data and platform knowledge to work on India specific e-commerce challenges, in addition to publishing research papers,”
Prof Asif Ekbal computer science professor at IIT Patna opined that the objective of this research was to develop robust machine translation techniques that will help in translation of voluminous user reviews written in English to the Indian vernacular languages.
Flipkart’s academic collaboration includes some of the premier institutes including Indian Institute of Science (IISC), IIT (Kharagpur, Bombay and Kanpur), IIM (Ahmedabad and Kolkata) and a few foreign universities like Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, San Diego.
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