IIITH gets $186k research grants

Hyderabad: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) has received a grant of $186,000 from Qualcomm Technologies Inc, the institute announced on Friday.

This funding is designated for a period of three years and will be utilized for research in the domain of edge AI, as well as the development of AI models and the establishment of an edge AI research lab at IIITH.

The lab’s primary focus will be the development of edge AI use cases on Qualcomm platforms. Qualcomm will provide its Qualcomm innovators development kit (QIDK) alongside technical and knowledge support, with the research team led by Professor Ramesh Loganathan, IIITH said in a statement.