A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was recently signed between U-Hopper Srl (an Italian company developing Big Data Analytics and AI solutions) and Amrita Center for Research and Development (ACRD). The collaboration engages the work of Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Associate Professor at Amrita School of Biotechnology, on a study about the analysis of virtual lab data using Machine Learning.

Amrita has been ranked Top 100 among Emerging Economies University Rankings by Times Higher Education.

January 20^th,  2020 marked the beginning of yet another creative initiative by the Department of Communication, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, for the research enthusiasts among the collective. An interaction series, named Research Stories, is a friendly platform to discuss, learn and explore the vast space of research.

Recently Mr. Dominic Cummings, Chief Political Strategist for Mr. Boris Jhonson Prime Minister of United Kingdom wrote a blog suggesting the need to revamp the decision making strategies employed in UK. Primarily he focused on the need to explore and exploit state of the art tools and techniques from mathematics and physics. Mr. Cummings wants to create a set of experts consisting of Physicists, Mathematicians and Data Scientists to deal with the major social and economic issues of UK.

Dr. Ullas Mony, Assistant Professor (Molecular Medicine), Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, has been selected by the prestigious American Society of Hematology (ASH) to participate as one of 18 hematologists from low and middle income countries in the 2019-2020 ASH Visitor Training Program held at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.