Res Scholar Presentation

8/11/2019 Res Scholar Presentation

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International

Opportunities for

Research Scholars

Office of International Alumni Relations


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MOUs with academic institutions and industry Generic template provided

Institutional & department-level MOUs

Senate-approvals obtained

Monitoring & renewal

Currently, > 100 MOUs in effect

Joint doctoral program IITM guidelines formulated, shared with partner institutions

Currently, 1 JDP in effect with NUS, Singapore

Institutional Partnerships: Current Status


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Australia Europe East Asia South Asia USA UK

Universities 10 75 29 16 37 5

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MoU Status


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General Guidelines for International Academic Collaborations

Study-Abroad Programs:

intended for (mainly) undergraduate and (some) graduate students

credit transferability to be ensured

Internships Abroad:

linked to students academic or research pursuits.

Research Scholar Exchange:

gains on both sides

cements a strong collaborative relationship

Faculty Visits:

encouraged to make visits to research labs abroad to continue orestablish collaborations.

short visits during the semester, longer stays over vacation periods/

sabbaticals.


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Modality: First Level

Faculty visits to identify collaborators

o Initial, exploratory

o Longer visits to initiate joint work

oJoint workshops to consolidate & disseminate

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Joint teaching of courses

Exchange of research scholars

o3-6 month stays at collaborators lab

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High productivity even during short stays

oHome institution pays airfare, host institution takes

care of living expenses


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Opportunities Abroad: Preparation

Improve your communication skills

Oral- discussion, presentationWritten- reports, papers, thesis

Seek out faculty who are collaborating with research

groups abroad

Look for joint publications

Ask!

Train yourself to be best-of-breed

Expectations much higher when you visit abroad

Develop outstanding skills in experimentation, theory,

simulation, literature survey


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Opportunities Abroad: Prep, (contd.

Attend conferences abroad, meet talk to people

Develop networks; sustain the dialogBenchmark your work against peers in a global context

Improve where necessary

Poster sessions can be more helpful than oral presentations!

Attend international conference sessions @ IITM

Great opportunity to interact at home with researchers fromabroad

Present at international conferences held in India, mingle

Publish in international journals during your

thesis work

Academicians value these!


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Opportunities Abroad: While youre there

Avoid ambiguity in work scope

Essential that collaborating faculty have a good &long working relationship

Document scope of collaborative work before yougo; confirm consensus on this.

Interact with lab mates, other faculty extensively Post-doc, employment may open up

Be alive to possibilities

A post-doc abroad adds great value to resume

Viewed favorably in faculty hiring (even at IITs) Chance to establish some financial security


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Doors are open


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USA: Strategic Partner Institutions

UNIVERSITY CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK

Purdue Large # of collaborating faculty, alumni in key positions

Joint proposal submitted for Obama-Singh Initiative

Several Purdue faculty teams have visited IITM in past 4-6

months

Workshop planned at Purdue in

June 2013 to facilitate contact &

discussions between IITM & Purdue

faculty

University of

Maryland at College

Park

Large # of collaborating faculty, alumni in key positions

Joint proposal submitted for Obama-Singh Initiative

Workshop planned at UMD in May

2013 to facilitate contact &

discussions between IITM & UMD

faculty

Penn State Several collaborating faculty Workshop planned at Penn State in

June 2013 to facilitate contact &

discussions between IITM & Penn

State faculty

Michigan State Long-standing collaboration

Joint-Doctoral degree program mooted by MSU

Need to seek MSU & IITM Senate

approval

IIT Chicago Strong partnership in Engineers-Without-Borders program,

innovation/ entrepreneurship initiatives

Dean, I & AR visit planned in May

2013

CMU Dr. Subra Suresh joining as President; Dean- Business

School is IITM alum

CMU has high interest in

collaboration; Dean, I & AR visit

planned in May 2013


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USA Canada: Other Potential Partners

NIVERSITY CURRENT

ENGAGEMENT

OUTLOOK

NYU, Columbia, MIT, Boston College,

Delaware, West Virginia University,

Ohio State, Wright State, Yale, UIUC, NCA & T State

Existing research

interactions

Collaboration

discussions in

progress

Dean, I & AR visit

planned in May 2013

UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz,

UC San Diego, US Santa Barbara,

UCLA, Rice University, U Houston, UT-

Austin, Texas A & M

Existing research

interactions

CA workshops planned

in late June-July; TX

workshop in Dec 2013

Indiana U, Iowa U, LSU, U Missouri-

Columbia, Northwestern, Wisconsin,Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, South

Dakota, U Alabama- Birmingham, U

Nebraska Lincoln, UT-Dallas, U

Alabama- Huntsville, U Arizona, Spelam

College, UOIT (Ontario), Uni. Toronto,

Waterloo U, Ryerson (CFI), McGill,Markham

Potential

researchcollaborations

Need to be cultivated

to next level of maturity


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European Strategic Partnerships

UNIVERSITY

MECHANISM

CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK

TUs (Germany) Large number of collaborating faculty, research scholar

exchanges, faculty visits

Sustain & grow

DAAD scholarships Enable DD, M.Tech., M.S. students to go for 6-month visits to

Germany

Sustain & grow

Indo-German Center

for Sustainability(IGCS)

Funded jointly by German & Indian Governments

Enables faculty exchanges, research scholar involvement injoint projects

Coordinated by Aachen

MOU renewed in 2013, to be signed in Germany in April

Sustain & grow

EU 7thFramework

Program (FP7)

Several IITM faculty involved, along with European

collaborators

On going

Erasmus Mundus

programs

Ongoing projects:

Heritage

IBES

GATE

Promote faculty , staff & student mobility to/ from Europe

4 faculty @ IITM involved as coordinators

HERITAGE Partners in Europe: Several (9 nations)

Indian partners are IISC, IITM, IITB, IITK, IITG, NIT Rourkela,

Anna University.

Need to get more IITM students

involved

Coordinators asked to meet

students & present re opportunities


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Europe: Other Partnerships

UNIVERSITY

MECHANISM


University of Passau Joint doctoral program with DoMS approved by Passau in March

2013

Need IITM Senate approval

to proceed

University of

Bremen, Germany

Student exchanges

Visited in March 2013; interested in collaboration in Physics, OE,

CS, EE

Need to sustain

University of Ghent,

Belgium

Collaboration with BT, ChE, OE

Frequent faculty visits, student exchanges

Erasmus Mundus partner

Sustain & grow

Denmark Technical

Univ, Denmark

Exploring student & faculty exchanges, internships for B.Techs Visit to IITM planned,

Initiate partnership

Insa Lyon, France Collaboration with Mech. Engg (Shyama Prasad Das)

Visited IITM in March

Expand to other depts

Jonkoping Univ,

Sweden

Exploratory MOU approved in March 2013 Need to cultivate & track

Kungliga Tekniska

Hgskolan KTH,

Sweden

MOU in place

Collaboration with Civil Eng (Murali Krishnan)

Need to scale

Univ. Pompeu Fabra,

Spain

MOU in place collaboration between Music School & CS (Hema

Murthy)

Need to expand scope

Univ. Twente,

Netherlands

MOU in place several faculty champions (B Viswanathan, Ashwin,

Sabitha Sarkar, Selvam)

Sustain & grow


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UK: Partnerships

UNIVERSITY

MECHANISM


The Open Univ.,

UK

EC FP7 grant with IITM as major partner

Collaboration with Physics Dept.

Ongoing

Cambridge

University, UK

Collaboration with China Studies Center

Visit by Prof. Peter Nolan in June

Sustain & grow

University of

Edinburgh,

Scotland

Collaboration with OE (offshore renewable energy)

Visit by Team in Feb

Various UG & PG initiatives

mooted

Univ. College

Cork, Ireland

MOU signed to promote student/ faculty mobility,

research collaborations in OE, ICT, Energy, Bio

Participants in Science Foundation Ireland Call

Scale-up in progress

Queens Univ.

Belfast

Student exchanges in Chemistry To begin in 2013

Dublin City Univ.,Ireland

Collaboration with Physics and ElectricalEngineering Dept.

Ongoing

Univ. of York VC visit in Jan; several depts visited; faculty

discussions initiated

Requires follow-up

Univ.

Southampton

Several relations, including UKIERI award

Dame Wendy Hall visit in Jan (CS interaction)

Sustain & grow


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Australia: Strategic Partnerships

UNIVERSITY

MECHANISM


University Western

Australia (UWA)

Collaboration with EE and CSE Ongoing, Expand relationship

with ME and CE. Have invited

faculty from IITM to visit UWA.

Curtin University Collaboration with OE (Petroleum Eng, subsea eng) Student & faculty exchanges

University of Sydney Collaboration with ED Student & faculty exchanges

University of South

Australia

Collaboration with ME, AM, BT Student & faculty exchanges

Deakin University Collaboration with MME and ME

Submitted proposal to govt. of Australia on development of

Hydrogen Hybrid Hi- Tech Van

Ongoing

Swinburne University Collaboration with BT. Visited on 12thMarch to collaborate

with other areas like Physics, Mathematics and Ocean

Engineering

Expand relationship

La Trobe University Research collaboration with CS Initiating student exchange


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Australia: Other Partnerships

UNIVERSITY

MECHANISM


Australian National

University

Joint Indo/Aus research project with Physics Dept

(Vijayan)

Met in Jan 2013 with Assoc Dir (Research), Chemistry

faculty

Expand relationship

Queensland University of

Technology (QUT)

Collaboration with CS Research collaboration

The University of

Queensland

Collaboration with HSS

University of Wollongong Collaboration with CE Student & faculty exchanges

University of Melbourne

andUniversity of Technology

Sydney (UTS)

Potential research collaborations and research

scholars exchange

Need to be nurtured


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Japan: Partnerships

UNIVERSITY

MECHANISM


The University of

Tokyo

Promoting exchange and offering scholarships Ongoing

Nagaoka University

of Technology,

Hitachi, IITM

Collaboration with MME Promoting exchange between

industry and university

Kyushu University

(IGSES)

Active collaboration with ED (Nilesh Vasa)

Advanced Graduate Program in Global Strategy

for Green Asia launched in Jan 2013

Dean IAR visited Kyushu for

the MoU signing ceremony;Kyushu delegation visited IITM

in March

Tokyo Institute of

Technology, Toyo

University, Shinshu

University and OsakaPrefecture University

Existing research interactions Sustain & grow

Toyohashi Univ.

Technol.

Collaboration with Physics Dept (Bisht) Initial stage

Toyo Univ. MOU in place

Interest in Physics student exchange (Somanth

Chanda Roy)

Need to scale

Shinshu Univ. MOU renewed in 2013 Student exchanges to start


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Asia: Partnerships

UNIVERSITY MECHANISM CURRENT ENGAGEMENT OUTLOOK

NUS, Singapore Joint doctoral program in place; 2

scholars have joined in 2013

Need to scale

NTU, Singapore UG student exchanges Need to pursue research collaboration

Seoul National University (SNU)

Kyungpook National University (KNU)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology (KAIST)

Korea Polytechnic University

and

Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon

Active research collaboration and

student exchange

Sustain and grow

Pukyong National University Visit by delegation in Jan 2013

Visited Research Park, EE, CSE.

Initiated collaboration in EE Dept.

Need to cultivate relations

UST, Hong Kong Visit by delegation in Nov 2012

Seeking Collaboration in Physics, Life

Sciences, CS, EE

Need to cultivate relations

National Taiwan University of Science

(NTUS)

National Tsing Hua University

(NTHU)

National Chiao Tung University

(NCTU)

IITM faculty visited in late 2012; strong

relations in EE, CS

Need to expand partnerships


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University of Melbourne ranked as Australias No.1

Engineering School and ranked No. 25 worldwidePhD offered in the areas of Engineering and IT Education

Key features of the program:

Dedicated program for IIT Madras students

Attractive scholarships covering tuition fees and living expenses

Joint supervision for PhD Program provided

PhD program at University of Melbourne


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University of Western Australia (UWA)

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Swinburne University

University of South Australia

Other Universities offering Research

Opportunities at Australia

E M d S h l hi


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Erasmus Mundus project is funded by the EuropeanCommission

Up to 1500 offered as scholarship

India is getting almost 400 scholarships between four

consortia.

The following consortia are involved with IIT Madras:

HERITAGE

IBIES Consortium

GATE

India4EU II

Svgata.eu

Erasmus Mundus ScholarshipsErasmus Mundus aims to enhance quality in higher education

through scholarships and academic cooperation between

Europe and the rest of the world.


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DAAD Scholarship for PhD Research

Stipend of Euro 1000.00 per month

A lump sum towards air fare from India to Germany and backExemption from payment of university tuition fees

A study and research subsidy

Compulsory health insurance covered by DAAD

2 months German Language Course in India - free tuition4 months German Language Course in Germany - free tuition

Boarding, lodging plus pocket allowance during period of stay

Financial support for field research


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German Universities offering PhD Programs

Bauhaus-universitat weimar

Catalysis Research Center of Technische- Universitat Munchen

Dortmund University of Technology

Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences

Friedrich-Alexander-University

Hochschule Bremen University of Applied Sciences

Hof University of Applied Sciences

Katholische Universitat Eichstatt WFI-Ingolstadt School Of Management

Leibniz Universitat Hannover Technical University, Braunschweig

Technische Universitat Berlin

Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Technical University Dresden

University of Kaiserslautern

University Karlsruhe University of Duisburg-Essen

EBS Business School, Wiesdaden

ESB Business School Reutlingen University


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French Universities offering PhD exchange

Programs with IIT Madras

Ecole Centrale de Nantes

Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

Ecole nationale Superieure d' Arts et Metiers

The University Paris-Sud

University of Rennes

University of Toulouse

Polytech Lille

Sciences Po

Scholarship Avenues

Corporate Scholarships By French Companies

Charpak scholarship program

N+I


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Korean scholarship OpportunitiesKorea-India governmental scholarship for IIT-

Madras exchange students

Korean Universities offering exchange PhD programs

with IIT Madras

Korea Advanced Institute of science and Technology (KAIST) Korea Polytechnic University, South Korea

Changwon National University

Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang

School of Electrical Engineering, (Brain Korea 21-IT), Korea University

SEOUL National University , Republic of Korea

Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon


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Admission through NUS or IITMScholars follow admission & graduationpolicies of admitting Institute

Must first be admitted into resp. Ph.D.program, then into JDPMust spend at least one year at thepartner Institute

3 scholars currently enrolled

IITM NUS Joint Doctorate


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Opportunities abound..

Limited only by your own initiative Use faculty as your main conduits

They can pave the way

Our Office can facilitate

Visit frequently Talk to personnel (Kavitha, Rahul, Vadhana, Archana)

Get familiar with all open offers

Select judiciously

Pursue relentlessly

GOOD LUCK!

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