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Jammu University Signs MoU with M/s Growbyte IT Providers Private Limited, Hyderabad.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the University of Jammu and M/s Growbyte IT Providers Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, today at University of Jammu (JU). Under the dynamic leadership of Prof. Umesh Rai, Vice Chancellor, JU, the Department of CS & IT, has moved one more step forward in building the industry-academia collaboration in form of MoU which is fourth of its kind in the recent times.
The MoU was signed by Prof. Rahul Gupta, Registrar, on behalf of the University of Jammu and Shri. Madhu Vadlamni, Director, M/s Growbyte IT Providers Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. The objective of the MoU is to provide technical and developmental opportunities for software development, organization of faculty development programmes, provide project assistance, conduct of seminars and workshops on recent trends in the emerging areas of Computer Science, which will mutually benefit the students, scholars, and faculty members of the Department.
Prof. Meena Sharma, Dean Research Planning, and presently, holding the charge of Vice Chancellor, while appreciating the efforts made by the department, expressed the sincere hope that such interactions with the corporate sector shall not only confine to the fraternity of Computer Science Department but also such expertise shall be extended in setting up of latest digital facilities like creation of incubation centres at JU.
Prof. Anju Bhasin, Dean Academic Affairs, University of Jammu, and former Vice Chancellor, Cluster University, Jammu, while congratulating the initiative, appreciated the consistent efforts made by the department to provide the high end opportunities to the students to learn industrial skills. Prof. Anju Bhasin further added that such initiatives shall enhance the capabilities of the students to meet the challenges of fast growing IT sector.
Prof. Neelu Rohmetra, Dean Research Studies and Former Director, IIM, Sirmaur, HP, while speaking on the occasion, welcomed the officials of the corporate sector and emphasized that such mutual collaborations of academia and industry shall enable the institutions of higher learning to get an exposure in the latest IT trends in field of academics and research.
Prof. Pawanesh Abrol, Head, Department of Computer Science & IT, apprised the dignitaries about various initiatives taken by the department including organization of workshops, FDPs, invited lectures etc., from time to time. Prof. Abrol further briefed the dignitaries present about the MoU and the academic initiative taken up by the Department in the latest domains like AI, ML, IoT, Cyber Security, Advance Networking etc. Prof. Abrol further said that the department is also planning to set up the AI/IoT labs in the near future.
M/s Growbyte IT Providers Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, is a global IT consulting company with in-depth expertise in providing end-to-end solutions especially, working in the area of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) working on the diverse projects in desktops and web-enabled applications, service oriented and complex enterprise architecture etc.
Prof. Vibhakar Mansotra, Prof. Vinod Sharma, Prof. Lalit Sen Sharma, Dr. Shubhnandan Singh Jamwal, Shri. Jasbir Singh, Dr. Suresh Rao, Dr. Haneet Kour, Dr. Rajneet Kaur, and Ms. Namrata Karlupia, Ms. Ayushi Gupta among others attended the MoU signing event in the Vice Chancellor’s Secretariat.