Ten IIT Kharagpur Students Bag Scholarships to Pursue Research Internships From Foreign Universities; Check Details

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en meritorious students from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur have bagged scholarships to pursue research internships from renowned foreign Universities.

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New Delhi: Ten meritorious students from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur have bagged scholarships to pursue research internships from renowned foreign Universities. The scholarships are being provided by an IIT Kharagpur Alumnus, a hedge fund researcher based in New York, Dr Mukund Padmanabhan.

According to an official of IIT Kharagpur, Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan, who had worked at IBM T J Watson Research Lab after a BS in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering in IIT KGP and MS from the University of California, has donated funds through his US-based charitable organisation -Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF)- in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur Foundation USA.

The scholarship will facilitate the students to pursue their research internship in top universities in US, the UK, Belgium, Canada and Germany. The 10 selected students will be given a scholarship award of UG $ 45,000.

"These summer programmes add value to IIT Kharagpur academia and it is my pleasure, as an alumnus, to be able to provide these internships to the current students that will further contribute to their holistic development," Padmanabhan, a researcher at Renaissance Technologies, said.

Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, and one of the recipients of the scholarship said, “As a student pursuing my passion for artificial Intelligence and natural language processing, I got the opportunity to work on improving ChatGPT during my internship at Inria Paris”.

IIT Kharagpur Director, Professor V K Tewari, said that the scholarship has opened doors to new possibilities for meritorious students. “This kind of scholarship provides them a practical notion about research development and implementation of ideas in terms of global industry expertise,” he said.

Apart from this, 15 students from the departments of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur have also been awarded the IIT Kharagpur Foundation Scholarship 2023 funded by IITKGP Foundation USA, the spokesperson said.

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