Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has signed an MoU with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) for three years whereby Ericsson Research plans to support and collaborate with ISI in multiple research activities to be carried out under the Cyber-Physical Systems (C-CPS) umbrella, as per the press release.
A collaborative research Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (C-CPS) between Ericsson Research and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has been set up in the first week of February 2024, it added.
C-CPS is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre set up to foster both fundamental and applied research in Sustainable and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) with immediate impact in deploying AI and CPS in the Indian ecosystem.
A series of talks and deliberations was organised to celebrate the occasion, where leaders from Ericsson Research and ISI participated to discuss the developments and advancements of current research plans and further collaborative research prospects between ISI and Ericsson. Some of the topics of discussion included next generation and energy efficient AI for CPS ready deployment at the network edge, fundamental challenges in 5G and beyond network research, quantum machine learning and secure communication, as detailed in the release.
“Research on safe and reliable CPS is expected to produce the necessary technologies for next-generation autonomy. ISI has a congenial ecosystem for collaborative translational research that has always focussed on the needs of future technologies. The institute wholeheartedly welcomes the collaborative ISI-Ericsson research centre and is happy to partner with Ericsson in this journey towards CPS realisation in the age of AI and 6G,” Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, director ISI Kolkata, said.
“This collaboration strengthens our R&D commitments in India and is pivotal to Compute and AI research. We are excited to partner with ISI and look forward to collaborative research in fundamental areas as well as translational research for our Future Network Platforms”. Dr Frodigh also presented Ericsson’s vision on 6G which aims to blend the physical and digital worlds enabling us to improve the quality of life by incorporating widespread Sensor-based communications between humans and machines through digital twins,” Magnus Frodigh, head, Ericsson Research, said.