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Newsletter o Foundation or Innovation and Technology Transer,Indian Institute o Technology Delhi, New Delhi
FITT FORUMISSN-0972-2548
Vol. 19 No. 1, January 2013
Content
Invited Articles
Enzyme Engineering or EnhancedStability and Anti-leukemic Activity
02
Regenerative Engineering 04
New Approaches or Clustering Data 07
Faculty Proles
Pro. Vinod Chandra 09
Pro. V. D. Vankar 10
FITT / IIT Delhi Happenings 11
Innovations
Opportunities or IP Licensing 12
Technology Proles 12
R&D Projects 14Proessional Development Programmes 15
Miscellaneous 16
Year 2012 saw the music sensation PSYs Gangnam Style go viral and
create ripples (the music video has already been viewed over a billion
times!) - demonstrating the power and reach o internet media. The
power o mainstream TV and social internet media was also evident in a
dierent albeit, unortunate circumstances when people rom all walks
o lie in the country came out to express their anguish over a gory andhorrendous occurrence that o lethal violence (symptomatic o a larger
social malaise) against an innocent girl in Delhi. The country was jolted
by this sad event at the ag end o 2012. Wide ranging condemnation
and strong calls or justice quite shook the nation out o some lethargy.
The case may just serve as an inexion point in public awareness and
discourse, and hopeully catalyze afrmative action against atrocities
and criminality in our society. In this context, it was ironical to have an
editorial in New York Times (NYT), describing India as a country which
basks in its success as a growing business and technological mecca but
tolerates shocking abuse o women. This and numerous other views
speak eloquently about the incongruous issues amongst us - contributedin a large measure by a variety o actors that include social, governance
or legal deciencies and systemic ailures. Fortunately, when ordinary
looking yet intractable challenges conront us we do look towards
technology or some salvation. I we can work towards developing /
deploying technologies to detect malignant cells, prevent countereiting,
detect enemy positions, create deensive ware and to address several
other administrative challenges, we may as well, look towards developing
credible and eective new technology based deterrents to ensure saety
o people at large and the vulnerable amongst us, in particular! Let that
be one o the priority challenges or the innovators. We may have to
go beyond a ew Apps and the chili powder! Hopeully, the innovationand techno-entrepreneurial ecosystem shall not be ound wanting in
addressing its share o responsibility!
FITT at IIT Delhi contributes in a small measure to enable meaningul
partnerships to address technological challenges as we too are
stakeholders in the growth and development agenda o the country.
We have been at it or several years now. While our perormance during
the past year was steady, we hope to maintain the momentum in our
multiarious activities more particularly towards ostering innovations,
technology commercialization and start-up businesses. We hope
the period rom 2013 onwards heralds a new wave o high impactinnovations.
Best!
Anil Wali
Technology Salvation
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Invited Articles
Enzyme Engineering or Enhanced Stability and Anti-leukemic Activity
Enzymes constitute one o the most crucial elements in
biological systems. In view o their robustness, enzymes have
been exploited in numerous areas that include medicine,
research, ood and dairy industry, paper industry, biouelindustry, etc. They have been widely used as therapeutics
or treatment o several clinical conditions like cancers,
anemia, cold, diarrhea, colitis, ood allergies, etc. Their clinical
application is however limited by one major drawback which
is their lack o stability. Most enzymes have a very limited
hal lie inside the human body and get degraded with time,
necessitating their continued and prolonged application or a
consistent eect. Such continued use may not only add to the
cost o treatment but may also be accompanied by negative
side eects on the body. It is thereore crucial to enhance their
stability to develop an eective clinical treatment.
Owing to their ubiquitous presence in nature, enzymes have
evolved to unction under widely varying environmental
conditions. Despite the environmentally sensitive proteomic
nature o most enzymes, many have been ound to be optimally
active at temperatures as high as 90C to sub zero temperatures.
These have been appropriately classied as thermophilic,
mesophilic and psychrophilic enzymes. Thermophilic enzymes
are well characterized or their stability and activity at high
temperatures. These enzymes have been ound to be potent
in extremes o hot springs bringing about speedy, error reecatalysis. By virtue o their stability, these could thereore serve
as attractive targets or clinical application by manipulating
them to work optimally at physiological temperatures.
Enzyme therapy or leukemia
Leukemia is a collection o diseases used to describe cancers
o the blood and bone marrow. Wide varieties o treatments
are currently in place to tackle the disease, with one o them
being the administration o the enzyme asparaginase. The
basis o this enzymatic therapy ollows rom the act that
cancer cells are deective in their ability to produce asparaginerequired or their survival and depend on blood or its supply.
So application o asparaginase, that hydrolyzes asparagine in
Dr. Bishwajit Kundu
Associate Proessor
Kusuma School o Biological Sciences,
Indian Institute o Technology, Delhi
the blood, is an eective treatment since it starves the cancer
cells o asparagine (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Antileukemic activity o Asparaginases; A - Normal cells cansynthesize asparagine rom aspartate. B - Cancer cells with very lowasparagine synthesis capability, depends on blood asparaginase or survival.C - Asparaginase degrades the blood asparagine, rendering the cancer cellsto die o asparagine starvation
Figure 2: Drawbacks (A) and side efects (B) o treatment with less stablecommercial asparaginases
Most o asparaginase based therapies utilize the mesophilic
orm o the enzyme, which works optimally at physiologicaltemperatures. Although efcient, the enzyme has several
drawbacks like low stability inside the body, an associated
undesirable glutaminase activity and immuno-reactivity
(Figure 2). Owing to its low stability the therapy requires
multiple dose administration that urther exacerbates its side
eects on the body in addition to increasing the cost.
We thereore, proposed a novel protein engineering strategyso as to counter this problem. Asparaginase rom the organism
Pyrococcusuriosus is highly thermostable and displays efcient
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Figure 3: Modulation o PA active site or higher activity
catalytic activity albeit at high temperatures. Most o the
protein engineering strategies till now have ocused on
engineering a mesophilic enzyme to enhance its stability.
Taking the reverse approach, we propounded the engineering
o a thermophilic enzyme to increase its mesoactivity,
thereby, producing a catalyst that is stable and active at body
temperatures.
We thereore, developed three dierent mutants o the wild
type, PyrococcusuriosusAsparaginase (PA) that had mutations
in the active site amino acid residues o the enzyme. These
residues were selected by comparing the structures o PA and
EcAII (E. coliasparaginase type II) and choosing the residues
which accounted or the dierence in active site topology o
the enzymes and resulting in an open conguration or easysubstrate accessibility (Figure 3). Accordingly, two amino
acids were identied as targets or mutation and were used to
construct single as well as double mutants.
These mutants showed remarkable results when testedor dierent aspects o therapeutic use. Firstly, one o the
mutants showed considerably high catalytic efciency
over the wild type and the other mutants at physiological
temperature. Secondly, all o the mutants were devoid o any
glutaminase activity, a highly desirable therapeutic property.
Further, the same mutant showed signicant resistance to
trypsin digestion, suggesting increased stability o the enzyme
inside the body since one o the reasons or ineectiveness
o mesophilicasparaginases is their proteolytic digestion and
early removal rom the system. Finally, these mutants were
tested or their cytotoxic (cellular killing) eect against leukemicand non leukemic cell lines. All o them exhibited extremely
potent cytotoxicity at very low concentrations as compared to
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those employed or presently used mesophilicasparaginases.
Also, these mutants were highly specic in action, targeting
only leukemic cells and displaying insignicant reactivity
towards non leukemic cell lines.
These results demonstrate that by mutating the thermophilic
enzyme PA at one criticial active site residue, we can produce
a protein that is stable, specic, potent and devoid o any
unwanted side eects. In light o these attributes, this enzyme
can serve as a avorable replacement or the currently used
asparaginase to overcome the pitalls o the existing therapy.
Not only did this approach help us in engineering a new
enzyme, it also brought to light some very interesting
mechanistic insights about asparaginase activity. Asparaginaseenzymes generally have two active sites consisting o two
dierent catalytic triads, i.e., three dierent amino acids at each
active site. Close inspection o the PA structure revealed that a
critical tyrosine residue might be unctioning in both the triads
by ipping between both the active sites. This is dierent rom
known triads o other asparaginases that contain separate
amino acid residues or the two triads.
Thus, protein engineering as a eld empowers us with the
ability to manipulate and play with protein structures. This
not only helps us with construction o novel, useul moleculesbut also enhances our knowledge o the existing structures.
It is only when we completely understand the biology o the
available plethora o proteins that we can envision and embark
upon the molding o dierent structures to yield innovative
models. Proteins regulate and orchestrate the biology o
lie and it is thereore o utmost signicance to explore
these mystic structures to deepen our understanding o the
unctioning o lie.
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Regenerative Engineering
Concept o using textiles in simulating human body parts is
not a novel idea. In 1543 amous European physician and
anatomist Andreas Vesalius (15141564) wrote a textbook
o human anatomy, named De humani corporis abrica libri
septem (On the abric o the human body), where he depicted
that most o the organs are made up o brous tissues. In our
laboratory, we are trying to develop various architectures maderom brous textile materials, to simulate shape, anatomical
orientation and mechanics o human tissues.
During the last decade, Tissue Engineering research has
made ascinating progress towards the abrication o tissue
constructs in laboratory to repair or replace lost morphology
and unctions in diseased or damaged organs, in an attempt
to meet the demand o our increasingly aged society. As
sant Kabir, who was also a weaver, mentioned lie as a jhini
bini chadariya (kahe ke tana kahe ke bharni, kauntaar se bini
chadariya), we also wonder which polymeric bres can be bestsuited to prepare abric (scaold) to engineer specic tissues.
Proper selection o scaold composition and architecture will
allow cells to multiply to ll the scaold and deposit new extra
cellular matrix (ECM) to resemble native tissue.
The ideal scaold should be biocompatible, biodegradable,
porous, permeable. We use various biopolymers (alginate,
chitosan, gelatin) or synthetic polymers or developing
scaolds, but Silk is our most avourite choice. Silk bre can
meet the growing need or highly specialized biomaterials
due to their biocompatibility, stability and mechanicalproperties, ease o chemical modication, controlled
degradability, nominal immunological response. The Silk
Fibroin protein consists o a light chain (molwt~26 kDa)
and a heavy chain (molwt~390 kDa) linked by a disulde
bond. Silk broin is a block copolymer rich in hydrophobic
beta-sheet-containing blocks, linked by small hydrophilic
moieties. The crystalline regions are primarily composed o
Glycine-X repeats, where X could be alanine, serine, threonine
or valine. Subdomains enriched in glycine, alanine, serine and
tyrosine are placed within these domains. This arrangement
results in a hydrophobic protein that sel-assembles to ormstrong and resilient materials. This understanding enables
us to develop large variety o three dimensional (3D)
architectures o biomaterials, in the orm o bres, hydrogel,
denatured porous geometry, bre-hydrogel composites,
textile structures (weaving, braiding, knitting, nonwoven) or
patterned lm. Electrospinning technique allows development
o matrixes simulating nano-brous architecture o ECM o
human tissues. Scaolds can also serve as a vehicle or cell
delivery and growth actor delivery, to guide the orderly
development and dierentiation o the neo-tissue. For
controlled and targeted delivery o bioactive molecules
pH-responsible polymers could be a ascinating choice (Re 1).
Development o 3D tissue models or in vitro assays
For design o therapeutic options or human diseases it ismandatory to test candidate pharmaceutical compounds
beore applying in the clinic. Biologists culture cells on at
petri dishes to check efcacy o drugs. But in most cases,
investigational drug molecules perorming successully in
monolayer culture o diseased cells ail to respond in later
stages during animal or human trial. Transgenic or genetically
engineered animal models play crucial role or development
o clinical protocols. But due to their specic physiology
and dierences in genomics, they cannot exactly predict
the reaction o the human patients metabolism, telomere
regulation mechanism. Animal-based experiments are costly.Ater European Unions ban o using animal models or trials o
cosmetic products pharmaceutical companies are desperately
looking or better drug screening assays, preerably using
human cell-based diseased models which would allow
appropriate transerability o the results.
Figure 1: Methods o preparing 3D tissues
Dr. Sourabh Ghosh
Assistant Proessor
Department o Textile Technology,
Indian Institute o Technology, Delhi
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Figure 2: Subtle diference in compliance o nano-brous matrix can guidestem cells to migrate and orm aggregate
Figure 3:Tissue engineering o intervertebral disc (a. Goat IVD, b.Orientation o cells and ECM bres in human Annulus tissue, c. Orientationo silk bres and cells on scafold, d. Tissue engineered disc)
Accumulating evidences suggest that 3D cell culture models
are undamentally superior to monolayer systems with
respect to mimicking physiologically relevant conditions.
Aggregation o cells in 3D clusters can be achieved by using
various strategies e.g., culturing on non-adherent surace,
using bioreactors, or upon various commercially available
matrixes (Figure 1). We acilitate cell aggregation by culturing
them over Poly-Hydroxy ethyl methacrylate coated dishes,
or by growing cells in 3D textile scaold matrixes (Figure 1).
Based on knowledge o human genome, understanding o
cell biology and insight into engineering aspects required to
maintain 3D tissue systems we are trying to establish disease
model systems or cancer or Osteoarthritis. Nonionic tethering
o pro-inammatory cytokines on chemically modied silk
could modulate transcription prole o healthy humanchondrocytes, which dramatically replicated gene expression
prole o osteoarthritic cartilage tissue rom patients.
We have reported that bone marrow derived stem cells and
embryonic stem cells can sense subtle dierence in stiness o
underlying nanobrous matrixes, and start to sel-aggregate toprepare tissues (Figure 2). This interesting nding could lead
to establishment o in vitro model to simulate mesenchymal
condensation mechanism o developmental biology (Re 2).
Tissue engineering
Using Tissue engineering strategies we are trying to engineer
cartilage, bone, intervertebral disc, cornea, muscle in the
context o their specic 3D anatomical architecture and
unction. Intervertebral disc (IVD) makes the spine exible to
bend and twist in all directions. Ageing process or injury to
IVD lead to dehydration o inner gel, cracks in Annulus tissue,disorientation o collagen bres, resulting in protrusion o
hard Nucleus Pulposus and application o pressure on spinal
nerve, causing chronic back pain (slipped disc). The current
approach or treating such degenerative disc problem is
through reduction o inammation and physiotherapy. Upon
urther degeneration, disc is surgically removed and ceramic or
metallic discs are implanted, at the cost o reduced exibility
o the spine. Replacement o degenerated disc by a tissue
engineered substitute could oer major advantages over
arthroplasty or implantation o prosthetic disc, in terms o
possibility o initial matching o biomechanical properties and
adaptive remodeling in the long term.
Several research groups around the world are attempting to
develop bioengineered IVD. But none o these studies could
successully simulate the precise anatomical orientation o
collagen bres in Annulus tissue in criss-cross lamellar ashion.
As a result, mechanical properties o most o these engineered
tissues are several orders o magnitude below the stiness oIVD. We have developed a silk scaold having custom-made
ber alignment, where silk bres are aligned at 30-40 degree
to the scaold axis, and in alternate direction in successive
layers. This brous alignment allowed cells to deposit brous
ECM proteins at a desired orientation (Figure 3) and ultimately
developed optimum biomechanical unctions o the IVD
tissue. Furthermore, silk bres were chemically modied to
attach chondritin sulate, an important component o cartilage
tissue, to prepare enhanced chondrogenic microenvironment.
Taken together, combined eect o chemical composition and
microstructural organization o scaold gives rise to anisotropicand nonlinear mechanical behaviors replicating biomehanics
o disc tissue.
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Rotator cu muscle tear is common problem in players as well
as aged people, leading to debilitating pain, reduced shoulder
unction. We have developed braided silk tapes replicating
elastic behaviour o human rotator cu muscle (Figure 4).
Structural integrity, durability, design exibility and precisiono braided textile structures make them highly potential or
such challenging application.
Personalized approach
Tissue engineering studies are moving in the direction
towards personalized therapeutic strategies, where scaolds
need to be abricated in tissue-specic, patient-specic
architecture. Direct-write technique, a miniaturized Rapid
Prototyping, is one o the promising approaches to develop
microperiodic complex architectured scaolds. Clinical
images captured rom the area o deect in patients body canbe converted to virtual 3D architectures using CAD sotware.
Using that image the computer-controlled translation stage
o direct-write system can move a syringe barrel incorporated
with ink deposition micro-nozzle in a layer-by-layer ashion,
to orm controlled and complex 3D construct. But proper
selection o polymeric ink composition and tailor made
viscoelastic properties are main challenges to ensure smooth
deposition o ink and shape retention (Re 4).
Obstacles remain
International community o tissue engineers is trying todesign new generations o biomaterials with exciting new
unctionalities. Problems related to availability o unding,
precise optimization o strategies to make scaolds o
specic chemistry, stiness, architecture or directing cell
behaviour, limited understanding o human physiology,
ethical issues, controlled clinical trials are enthralling them.
Material scientist, cell biologists, biotechnologists and
clinicians are trying to learn rom each other and to contribute
to each other. Considerable progress has already been
achieved resulting rom interdisciplinary interaction among
researchers o various elds. For example Pro. Farshid Guilak
(Proessor o Orthopedic surgery rom Duke University) and
Pro. Lisa Freed (a biologist rom MIT) realized potential o textile
technology and hired a mechanical engineering undergrad
student to abricate a 3D weaving loom, and developed
cartilage tissue constructs (Re 5). Such dynamic approach is
still unthinkable in India, because multidisciplinary approacho problem solving is still not understood and appreciated by
administrative authorities, biotechnology industries and even
by the researchers. There is a saying that, it is difcult to insert
new ideas in brain, but it is more difcult to take old ideas out.
Hopeully pieces will all into place, and Tissue engineering
research in India will ourish in near uture.
Reerences
Unveiling the sel-assembly o Poly (AAc-co-DMAPMA) in1.
situ to orm smart monolith displaying nanogels-within-
macrogel hierarchial morphology, A Das, S Ghosh, A R Ray,Polymer, 52, 2011, 3800-3810.
In vitro model o mesenchymal condensation during2.
chondrogenic development, S Ghosh, M Laha, S Mandal,
S Sengupta, D Kaplan, Biomaterials, 30, 2009, 6530-6540.
Oriented lamellar silk brous scaolds to drive cartilage3.
matrix orientation: towards Annulus Fibrosus tissue
engineering, M Bhattacharjee, S Miot, A Gorecka, K Singha,
M Loparic, S Dickinson, A Das, N S Bhabesh, A R Ray, I Martin,
S Ghosh, Acta Biomaterialia, 8, 2012, 3313-3325.
Direct-Write Assembly o Micro-Periodic Silk Fibroin4.
Scaolds or Tissue Engineering Applications, S Ghosh,
S T Parker, X Wang, D L Kaplan, J A Lewis, Advanced
Functional Materials, 18, 2008, 1883-1889.
A biomimetic three-dimensional woven composite scaold5.
or unctional tissue engineering o cartilage, F Moutos,
L Freed, F Guilak, Nature Materials, 6, 2007, 162-167.
Figure 4: a. Myobres o goat muscle, b. Comparison o mechanicalproperty o muscle and textile braids, c. Myoblasts growing on silk scafoldand using together, d. Architecture o textile braid
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New Approaches or Clustering Data
Clustering data is one o the central problems in Machine
Learning and Data Mining. Here, we will talk about new
approaches or clustering data that are being developed at
CSE, IIT Delhi.
Introduction
Clustering, in general, is the problem o grouping objectsinto separate classes such that similar objects are in the same
class. For instance, given some news articles, we might want to
group these articles into various classes like sports articles,
political articles etc. Another example is clustering medical
data into classes that represent diseases. Clustering is usually
the rst step in understanding large datasets that may be
generated in scientic and social experiments.
To be able to tell how well a clustering algorithm perorms,
we need a measure o similarity or dierence between pairs
o objects. In most practical cases, objects are represented aspoints in some ddimensional Euclidean space and the popular
dierence measure in this setting is the squared Euclidean
distance. The k-means problem is one o the most used and
well-studied problems in this setting. The ormal denition o
this problem is: given n points in a d-dimensional Euclidean
space, nd kpoints (called centers) such that the sum o square
o the distance o every point to its closest center is minimized.
Note that these kcenters give an implicit clustering o the data
points, all points closest to a single center being in the same
cluster (see Figure 1(d)). Mathematically, the problem can be
written as:
Given P = {p1,,p
n} Rd, fnd C = {c
1,...,c
k} Rdsuch that
(P,C)=pP
mincC
D(p,c) is minimized. Here D(p,c) denotes
squared Euclidean distance between points p and c.
algorithm perorms very badly. One o the main reasons or
poor perormance o the Lloyds algorithm is poor choice o
the initial k centers. To be able to x this problem, one needs
to come up with a ast and simple algorithm that picks the
initial kcenters in a cleverer manner. It turns out that a simple
sampling based algorithm helps to quickly nd k centers.
Moreover, this sampling algorithm solves the k-means
problem and there is a perormance guarantee attached with
it. This sampling algorithm is popularly called the k-means++
algorithm [Arthur and Vassilvitskii, 2007] and all it does is
randomly sample kpoints in the ollowing manner:
This problem is believed to be a hard problem to solve
efciently. The most popular heuristic algorithm that is used
to solve this problem in practice is the Lloyds algorithm. The
algorithm starts with k centers chosen arbitrarily, and in a
sequence o steps, shits these centers while improving the
solution each time. Even though this algorithm perormswell in practice, it does not have perormance guarantees.
This means that there are certain datasets or which this
Figure 1:The gure shows a two dimensional dataset being clustered intoour clusters using the sampling algorithm. The algorithm samples thecenters in our simple steps. The rst center is chosen randomly. For thesecond center, the points that are urther away rom the rst center aregiven more priority and so on
The above sampling algorithm has extremely nice properties.
It is simple to implement and runs very ast in practice.
Moreover, there is a perormance guarantee associated with
the algorithm. This means that it gives solutions that are close
to the optimal solution or every data input. We are trying
to understand the behaviour o this simple sampling basedapproach or clustering at CSE, IIT Delhi. In the next section, we
talk about some o our results.
Dr. Ragesh Jaiswal
Assistant Proessor
Department o Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute o Technology, Delhi
Pick the frst center randomly rom among the given points. Forthe ith center (i2), pick a point with probability proportional to
the square o the distance o this point to the nearest previously
chosen center.
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Our results
Algorithms or streaming setting: The amount and speed
o generation o data has increased a lot in recent times.
Due to this, traditional model o data analysis where one
assumes that the data ts and stays in the memory during
the entire computation is becoming obsolete. The more
relevant setting is the streaming setting where the algorithm
is only allowed to make a pass (or ew passes) over the
data or analysis. So, in some sense, the algorithm should be
able to analyse a stream o data. One such scenario is analysing
stock prices on a light-weight machine such as a smart phone
or PDA that has limited memory and gets access to a stream o
data. In [Ailon, Jaiswal and Monteleoni, 2009] we design
algorithms or clustering or the streaming setting using the
sampling based approach. Our algorithm showed very goodresults on many datasets.
Behaviour or special datasets: Certain datasets have some
nice properties that can be exploited to get better clustering
results. One such property is that there is some degree o
separation between the clusters. In [Jaiswal and Garg, 2012]
and some on-going projects we show that the sampling based
clustering algorithm give very good results or such datasets.
Near accurate clustering algorithms: Since the k-means
clustering problem is believed to be hard, existence oefcient algorithms that produce optimal clustering is unlikely.
However, there may be algorithms that produce clustering
that is very close to the optimal. In [Jaiswal, Kumar and Sen,
2012], we design and analyse a very simple algorithm based on
the sampling approach that provably gives solutions that are
arbitrarily close to the optimal solution.
Hierarchical clustering: For certain data, the number o
clusters is not known beorehand. For instance, consider
nding clusters o riends in some social network dataset. In
such scenarios, we would like to cluster the data at all levels
o granularity so that i there is a query or producing varying
number o clusters, one can do that quickly. This is known as
Hierarchical clustering. In an on-going project, we are exploring
how the techniques and algorithms developed in [Jaiswal,
Kumar and Sen, 2012] can be used to give good Hierarchical
clustering algorithms.
Concluding remarks
The sampling based approach has lot o potential in designing
ast and accurate clustering algorithms. In various projects
being conducted at CSE, IIT Delhi, we hope to understand
the power o this approach and develop good clustering
algorithms.
Reerences
[Arthur and Vassilvitskii, 2007] David Arthur and Sergei1.
Vassilvitskii. k-means++: the advantages o careul seeding.
In Proceedings o the 18th Annual ACM-SIAM symposium
on Discrete Algorithms (SODA07), pp. 1027--1035, 2007.
[Ailon, Jaiswal and Monteleoni, 2009] Nir Ailon, Ragesh2.
Jaiswal and Claire Monteleoni. Streaming k-means
approximation. In Advances in Neural Inormation
Processing Systems (NIPS09), pp. 10-18, 2009.
[Jaiswal and Garg, 2012] Ragesh Jaiswal and Nitin Garg.3.
Analysis o k-means++ or separable data. In Proceedings
o the 16th International Workshop on Randomization and
Computation, pp. 591-602, 2012.
[Jaiswal, Kumar and Sen, 2012] Ragesh Jaiswal, Amit Kumar4.
and Sandeep Sen. A Simple D2-sampling based PTAS or
k-means and other Clustering Problems. In Proceedings o
the 18th Annual International Conerence on Computing
and Combinatorics, pp. 13-24, 2012.
Research in Dr. Sundars LabSundars lab has made signicant contribution in developing
strategies to evolve new DNA-binding specicity in zinc nger
proteins, especially in the area o zinc nger transcription actor
libraries, which has tremendous application in biomedicine. His
work was highlighted by Nature India in January 2011. Further
Sundars computational biology research employs the structure
and unction prediction tools developed by his group to help
guide experimentalists in manipulating proteins and extracting
inormation about their unction and structure, both at the singlemolecules as well as at the genomic / system levels.
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Faculty Proles
Pro. Vinod ChandraDepartment o ElectricalEngineering,Indian Institute o Technology,Delhi
Proessor Vinod Chandra completed his B. Tech in 1971 and
PhD in 1978 rom the department o Electrical Engineering at
IIT Delhi. He was appointed as the Senior Research Assistant
in 1971 in School o Radar Studies and Senior Scientic Ofcero CARE in 1974. He joined as Lecturer in the department o
Electrical Engineering at IITD in 1978 and was promoted as an
Assistant Proessor in 1981 and subsequently to the position
o Proessor in 1990. He was a Visiting Proessor in department
o Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic
University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA during 1987-1988.
He has developed the ollowing courses as part o his
teaching contributions: Fault Diagnosis in Digital Systems,
Testing and Fault Tolerance, Digital Communication and
Inormation Systems, Broad Band Communication andInormation Systems, Optical Communication Systems, Fiber
Optics and Optical Communication Lab. Along with other
aculty members he has been responsible or setting up a new
Photonics Laboratory in the institute.
He has made signicant research contributions in
development o electronic systems or various industries in
India. The innovative work has resulted in commercially viable
know-how and regular commercial production o several
microprocessor based electronic systems and instruments
in the area o Railway Electronics and Signalling. Themost signicant contribution is the development o AXLE
COUNTING SYSTEMS which are used or automatic signalling
in railways. The design and development o this system led to
the production o more than thousand equipments which are
in actual operational use in Indian Railways. This has resulted
in oreign exchange saving o approximately 75 crores.
These axle counter systems have been exported to Zambian
Railways against international competition. The successes
o these axle counters have also inspired the creation o new
R&D groups in saety electronics in Indian industry. Several
companies like M/s Crompton Greaves, DCM Data Products,Central Electronics Limited have taken this know how. Recently
RDSO has given a consultancy to IITD or improvement o
reliability o Axle Counting Systems or Block Working and
modications have lead to signicant perormance o these
systems in the eld.
As part o Photonics Mission, Technology Development
projects a FIBER OPTIC LAN FOR RAILWAY SIGNALLING
APPLICATIONS has been developed by him and his team
o students. This is a state o the art system or controlling
movement o trains in a sae manner in railway yards via optic
ber. An agreement on TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER or the
system developed by Pro. Vinod Chandra and his team has
been signed with M/s HBL Power Systems Ltd., Secunderbad,or total value o Rs. 20 lacs and the technology transer has
been completed. The rm has received a development order
rom Indian Railways and the rst system has been put on eld
trials at Falaknuma station in Hyderabad.
In addition to the above, several other electronic systems
developed by him have resulted in technology transer to the
industry. Together with above systems these innovations have
resulted in approximate production o about Rs. 100 crores
so ar. He has led a dozen sotware copyright applications
through FITT, IIT Delhi which have been approved to coverthe technology transers. He has also validated many railway
signalling systems rom the aspect o saety and reliability
and these have been accepted by RDSO or giving approval
to introduction o these systems in operational use in
Indian Railways.
He has guided six PhD theses and about ty M.Tech theses
and has published over ty papers in international journals
and conerence proceedings.
His current research is in the area o Optical Communicationand Optical Networks. He is currently guiding our research
scholars in this emerging area. Along with other aculty and
Axle Counter or Automatic Signalling in RailwaysNational Invention award 1979: Pro. P V Indiresan, Vinod Chandra, S VedanthamAxle counter is used or detecting the presence or absence o trains on the railwaytrack and is used or automatic signalling in railways. The system was developed atIIT Delhi in association with Research Design and Standards Organisation o IndiaRailways. The system is currently being manuactured by Central Electronics Ltd.,Sahibabad, who have installed over eight thousand systems in Indian Railways.
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students, he has led two Indian patents on Optical Data
Vortex Interconnection Networks or applications in high
perormance computing. An application or US patent in this
area with application in Bi-directional Optical Interconnection
o high perormance computing in a highly scalable and ault
tolerant network, or connecting computers or sharing o data
and processing capabilities has been led.
Apart rom academic work, he has taken up administrative
responsibilities such as President, Board o Student Publications,
Co-ordinator o Interdisciplinary Optoelectronics and Optical
Communication program.
Pro. Vinod Chandra is recipient o the NRDC National
Inventions Award and was awarded 5
th
Hari Ramji Toshniwal
Proessor V. D. Vankar was born in Varanasi. His entireeducation was in Varanasi / Banaras Hindu University. He
got his PhD rom B.H.U. in 1975 on Small Angle Diraction
rom Thin Gold Films. He joined Thin Film Laboratory o
IIT Delhi as a Research Associate in 1976 and later became
the Lecturer in 1978, Assistant Proessor in 1985, Associate
Proessor in 1991, Proessor in 1995 and Proessor HAG
Scale in 2009.
He also had visiting assignments at Syracuse University, NY
and has been visiting UCLA, University o Caliornia San Diego,
Tokyo University etc.
Pro. Vankar has been teaching Electromagnetic Theory, Solid
State Physics, Thin Films Technology, Characterisation o
Materials etc. to undergraduate and Post Graduate students. His
research interests are in Nano-technology, Carbon Nanotubes
and Graphene Thin Films, Structure and Growth o Thin Films,
Plasma Processing o Materials, Solid Solid Interaces, Phase
Change Materials or Optical Recording, Hard Coatings,
Micro-crystalline Diamond, Diamond like Carbon and Surace
Physics. In these areas o research he has published about
more than 130 research papers in International Journals andone U.S. Patent on Boron Nitride and related coatings. He has
also developed several types o sputtering systems including
Memorial Award o the Institution o Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers in the area o Electronics or
Application to Industry.
He has been actively participating in extension activities o
the institute and has conducted several short courses in areas
o Fault Tolerant Systems and Communication Systems. He
has also been involved with the Phase-I audit o Delhi Metro
along with other aculty colleagues rom the institute. He
was Member, Inter Departmental Technology Cooperation
Expert Group or Railway Signalling and Telecommunication,
DSIR, Ministry o Science and Technology. He was member o
high power Railway Saety Review Committee constituted by
Ministry o Railways, Government o India under the
Chairmanship o Justice H R Khanna.
Pro. V. D. VankarDepartment o Physics,Indian Institute o Technology,Delhi
Planar Magnetron sputtering systems, Plasma Assisted
Chemical Vapour Deposition systems in his laboratory.
Pro. Vankar has supervised 26 PhD students, 50 M.Tech and
about 12 M.Sc / B.Tech students or their thesis work. His
research work also presented in several National and
International Conerences / Workshops. Six o his papers got
Best Paper Awards too. At present six students are working
with him or PhD degree.
Pro. Vankar has been actively involved in the development
o various laboratories in Physics Department and has
created important research acilities therein. He was Principal
Investigator o several projects worth more than our crores.
He has been actively collaborating with important industries
such as Moserbear India Limited and other organization like
NPL, SSPL, IUAC etc.
Pro. Vankar is lie member o The Material Research Society o
India. He was also a member o Electron Microscope Societyo India, Indian Vaccum Society, Sigma Xi association o USA.
He was conerred with Material Research Society o India
(MRSI) Medal in 1997. He was invited to give several Invited
Lectures in various institutes / research laboratories / Theme
Conerences and workshop in India and abroad. He was
member o several important committees o CSIR / UGC / DRDO
/ National Laboratories / Institutes.
Pro. Vankar is very popular among his students. His students
have got prestigious jobs in India and all over the world, in
industries, National Laboratories and institutes etc. He is knownto be very conscientious person. He was a member o Society
or Scientic Values or three years.
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FITT / IIT Delhi Happenings
POSOCO Power System Awards (PPSA)2013Announced
To recognize the outstanding contributions made in the
eld o power sector, Power System Operation Corporation
(POSOCO), a wholly owned subsidiary o Power Grid
Corporation o India Ltd. (POWERGRID) in collaborationwith Foundation or Innovation & Technology Transer (FITT)
has taken the initiative to coner awards to innovations
and research works within the IITs and NITs to motivate
individuals and encourage urther research activities in
the area.
Under the Doctoral and Masters category a total o orty
awards are instrumented. An independent committee
consisting o representatives rom industry, academia and
research will evaluate the projects and make selection
or recognition. The top ten projects under the Doctoralcategory will be awarded with cash prize o Rs. 75,000 and
the remaining thirty under the Masters category will receive
cash o Rs. 35,000. Entries are open rom 1st o January 2013
to 31st January 2013.
Innovation Contest by EDCAnother innovation contest was organized by The Entrepreneurship Development Cellin
IIT Delhi on 29th November, 2012. There were ten teams in total, where each o the team
was assigned with news items ocusing on a particular issue. The task was to come up
with solutions and idea o the various issues, keeping in consideration the sustainability,technical easibility and easy implementation o the plan with general acceptance. Students Activity during the
2nd Innovation Contest
Annual General Meeting o FITT, October 31, 2012
Research and ViewsN. Ramakrishnan and R. Bose, Dipole entropy based1.
techniques or segmentation o introns and exons in
DNA Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 101, Iss. 8, 083701,
August 2012. This paper is currently eaturing in APL
website under Top Stories.
Link-http://apl.aip.org/eatures/top_stories
Coverage in the web-
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/aiop-
ith091112.php
Roy, S., Dutta, S., Khanna, K., Singla, S. and Sundar,2.
D. (2012). Prediction o DNA-binding specicity in zinc
nger proteins. J. Biosciences 37(3):483-491
18th AGM o FITT
i3 Fair on 3rd December 2012The Indian Innovation Initiative, i3National fair was held
at IIT Delhi on 3rd December, 2012. This annual agship
initiative o the Department o Science & Technology DST
Government o India, Conederation o Indian Industry
(CII) and Agilent Technologies Ltd. was inaugurated by
Dr. Y S Rajan, Chairman o the National Board o Accreditation.
i3 mainly aims to give the country an innovative eco-systemat the same time providing innovators a unique platorm
with adequate unding, incubation, technology renement
and excellent marketing.
FITT in collaboration with the Government o Gujarat,
National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship
Development Board,
CII Technology
Development &
Promotion Center
(Tamil Nadu), WWF, YiYoung Indians, TIFAC
and India Angel
Network made this
event a huge success.
Cell phone based Indoor Navigation SystemRoshni or visually impaired individuals
developed by students o IIT, Delhi
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Innovations
Opportunities or IP Licensing
Technology Proles
Sl. No. Title PI / Dept.
1 A surgical stapler Pro. Sneh Anand, CBME
2 An apparatus or measuring abric hand value Pro. Apurba Das, DTT
3 Wireless ECG patch and system or obtaining high denition mobile ECG Pro. Sneh Anand, CBME
4 A novel device and mechanism or mixing o uids Pro. S N Singh, AM
5Triple layer wound dressing material and mechanism or efcient drug release and
healing therebyPro. Veena Koul, CBME
6 Contra lateral limb controlled prosthetic knee joint Pro. Sneh Anand, CBME
7
Ionic liquid catalyst and a process or preparation thereo, and improved tertiary
butylation o phenol / phenolic compounds or higher conversion o phenol and
phenolic compounds
Pro. Sreedevi Upadhyayula,
CHEM
8 A system o generating rereshable tactile text and graphic Pro. P M V Rao, ME
9A novel closed loop speed control using carrier space vector pulse width modulated
direct torque control scheme or induction motor drivePro. J K Chatterjee, EE
10 Microbial process or removal o toxic phorbol esters rom de-oiled Jatropha seed cake Pro. S K Khare, Chemistry
11Power actor correction base 4D yback converter or permanent magnet brushless DC
motor drives or an applicationPro. Bhim Singh, EE
12Mechanical arm or transer o substrates under oxygen ree ambience between an
oxygen ree chamber and a thin lm coating system Pro. Viresh Dutta, CES
13Control strategy o optimum CNG uel injection or BSEC improvement and emission
(CO2
and NOx) reduction o a dual uel stationary diesel engine
Pro. K A Subramanian, CES
Sustainable Power Generation with GreenEnvironment using Diesel Engines with HybridFuels (CNG and Diesel)
Dr. K A Subramanian
Center or Energy Studies,
Indian Institute o Technology, Delhi
Diesel engines emit high level o oxides o nitrogen (NOx) and
particulate matter due to its combustion with heterogeneous
air-uel mixture. These emissions can be reduced signicantly
using compressed natural gas (CNG) which is injected into
intake maniold o diesel engine where as diesel as pilot uel
is directly injected into engine cylinder using conventional
injection system or initiating ignition o the air-uel charge. NOxand CO
2emissions decreased about 30% and 22% respectively
with 34% CNG energy share (1/3rd CNG and 2/3rd Diesel).
NOx emission can urther be reduced up to 60% with 2/3rd
CNG energy share but CO and HC emissions would increase.
Brake thermal efciency increased about 21% with 1/3rd o CNG
share. IIT Delhi has developed a technology entitled controlstrategy o CNG uel injection or dual uel diesel engine which
was unded by Department o Science and Technology (DST),
Government o India. This technology is basically a retrot gas
injection system to inject accurate and optimum quantity o
CNG share. This technology has an additional eature o system
exibility as it can be set the control strategy with optimum
CNG window based on required emission limit. The developed
electronic control unit (ECU) can also inject two gaseous uels
with independent control. The pilot uel can also be replaced
with renewable uel such as biodiesel and main CNG uel can
be derived rom variety o renewable source including biogasand producer gas resulting to sustainable power generation
with green environment.
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A Novel Purication Platorm or Cost EfectiveManuacturing o Therapeutic Proteins
Dr. Anurag S Rathore
Department o Chemical Engineering,
Indian Institute o Technology, Delhi
Eective and efcient manuacturing process is a critical
element o biopharmaceutical product development cycle. In
todays competitive market, besides being rst to the market,
quality and cost-eectiveness o the product are also key
drivers or process development. Downstream processing is an
integral part o any biopharmaceutical process which accounts
or up to 80% o the total manuacturing cost. Developing the
novel innovative processes is a key or the successul survivalo the biopharmaceutical companies in a highly competitive
market.
Present invention ocus on the developing single step
purication strategy or purication o cytokine class o the
biotherapeutic proteins. Recombinant human granulocyte
colony stimulating actor (rHu GCSF) was selected as a model
protein or the study. Proposed invention makes use o the single
step multimodal chromatographic purication or removal
o critical product related as well as various process related
impurities. Existing manuacturing process or GCSF involves
a combination o reolding and various chromatography steps
or removal o various product and process related impurities,
i.e. oxidized and reduced variants o native GCSF and Met
variants. Conversion o multistep purication platorm to the
single step purication process signicantly improved the
process productivity by 30 %.
FITT in collaboration with BIRACFITT has been selected as one o the three BIG partners in the country or implementation o Biotechnology Ignition Grant
(BIG) Scheme o Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Government o India enterprise. The scheme is
designed to help establish and validate proo o concept and enable creation o spins o. The proposals under this scheme can
be submitted online rom January, 2013.
Short Course: Financing o Renewable Energy Technologies,December12-15, 2012
Certicate Programme: Telecom Technology & Management,August 2012- January 2013
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R&D Projects
Sl. No. Title PI / Dept.
1Development o process o hardening or booster pump shat An alternative to hard
chrome plating Phase-IPro. J Bijwe, ITMMEC
2A process or the preparation o polymeric materials or composites and composite
polymer sheet and a sheet thereoPro. B L Deopura, TT
3 Study o grapheme as top layer contact material or silicon solar cells Pro. B R Mehta, Physics
4De-silting and rehabilitation o sewer barrels by CIPP technology along dierent line at
Q point in New DelhiPro. A K Keshari, CE
5 De-silting and rehabilitation o sewer line rom Bhai Veer Singh Marg to Sansad Marg Pro. A K Keshari, CE
6Research study on catalyst loading and its impact on the perormances o trickle bed
reactorsPro. K D P Nigam, CHEM
7 Benchmarking o plasma polymerized modied hollow bre membranes Pro. A K Ghosh, CPSE
8Design and development o 5-bit RF MEMS switched line phase shiter and LTCC
package or DMTL phase shiter (Phase-II)Pro. S K Koul, CARE
9 Graphite components in NAO riction material on NVH characteristics Pro. J Bijwe, ITMMEC
10
Determination o Mode o Filed Diameter (MFD) theoretical cut-o wave length, zero
dispersion wavelength (ZDW), macrobending loss, ber cut-o wavelength and cable
cut-o wavelength o a given bre reractive index prole
Pro. B P Pal, Physics
11 Examination o a saety intravenous catheter vis--vis Patent No. 240086 Pro. A Chawla, ME
12 Optimal water allocation network synthesis Dr. M A Shaik, CHEM
13 Basic design o pneumatic conveying system or yash Pro. V K Agarwal, ITMMEC
14 Technical inputs or pneumatic conveying o yash Pro. V K Agarwal, ITMMEC15 Exploration in machine learning and optimization or market applications Pro. Jayadeva, EE
16 Road saety political mapping in India Pro. G Tiwari, TRIPP
17 Comparison o LLDPE samples Pro. V Choudhary, CPSE
18 Dewatering scheme and design at additional building o Supreme Court Pro. A K Keshari, CE
19Development o some techniques / programs or educational sotware modules on
ber and integrated opticsPro. R K Varshney, Physics
20 Development o small molecules targeting cancer proteins Dr. N G Ramesh, Chemistry
21 Failure analysis o vibro-sieve and its re-design or extended lie Dr. R K Pandey, ME
22Recommendation or precision manuacturing process control and optimization
(Phase-II)
Dr. S Jha, ME
23Structural proteomics o plasmodium vivax development o a three-dimensional
structural dutubare o 500 soluble proteins in malaria paranitePro. B Jayaram, Chemistry
24 Development o sotware or underwater domain awareness (UDA) Phase-II Pro. R Bahl, CARE
25 Development o innovative ertilizers Regulating Nitrogen Delivery (RND) Pro. H M Chawla, Chemistry
26 Development o big-data analytics algorithms and models or mobile marketing Pro. S Chaudhury, EE
27Development o wear resident grades composites based on high perormance
polymersPro. J Bijwe, ITMMEC
28 Treatability study or the removal o chloride rom gelatin industry waste waters Pro. T R Sreekrishnan, DBEB
29 Image quality improvement or interventional X-ray imaging system Dr. K B Khare, Physics
30 Design o barrages o Nikki Tawi and Waddi Tawi over Tawi River, Jammu Pro. A K Keshari, CE
31Estimation o sub-surace hydraulic parameters or dewatering design or construction
o additional ofce complex or Supreme Court o IndiaPro. A K Keshari, CE
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Proessional Development Programmes
Forthcoming HRD Programmes (early 2013)#
Sl. No. Title DateSponsored/ Participation
Fee BasedFaculty / Dept.
1
Standardization and Measurement
o Custom Satisaction or ONGC
Executive
January
7-8, 2013ONGC, Vadodara Dr. Harish Hirani, ME
2
CEP course on Underwater
Superiority Technologies or
Underwater Acoustic Surveillance
January
17-19, 2013INS Valsura
Pro. R Bahl, CARE
Pro. Arun Kumar, CARE
3Advances Bridge Construction
Practices
January
28-30, 2013
Participation Fee Based Dr. Kumar Neeraj Jha, CE
4
2nd High Noon Spring School
Adaptation to Changing
Water Resources Availability in
Northern India with respect
to Himalayan Glacier Retreat
and Changing Monsoon Pattern
February
4- 7, 2013
UKaid Department or
International DevelopmentPro. A K Gosain, CE
5
Executive Development
Programme on Project
Management or IOCL Executive
February
11-16, 2013IOCL, Gurgaon Dr. S P Singh, DMS
6
Workshop on Development
in Renewable Energy Sources(Biomass, Solar etc.)
February
27-28, 2013 Participation Fee Based Pro. D K Sharma, CES
7
Training workshop
Discovery Development and
Commercialization o Biotech
Therapeutics
March
11-15, 2013PATH, New Delhi Pro. A K Gosain, CE
Proessional Candidate Registration Programme
Applications are invited rom qualied proessionals working
in industry and research organizations or a unique knowledgeaugmentation and skill enhancement programmes at IIT
Delhi. This involves a semester-long registration or a regular
PG course. Course ees ranges rom Rs. 15,000/- to Rs. 20,000/-
(industry proessionals) and Rs. 6,000/- to Rs. 8,000 (academic /
government personnel) or a 42 hour lecture course. In the case
o a ew selected courses, on-site course delivery using the two
way audio-video link can be considered.
All major disciplines o Science and Engineering, and also
relevant courses rom the Humanities, Social Sciences and
Management streams which are being conducted at IIT Delhiare covered. The course detail can be downloaded rom FITT
website www.tt-iitd.org.
Eligibility: Degree in Engineering or Masters Degree in Science,
Management or any other Post Graduate Degree with relevantindustry experience. The two semester sessions in the academic
year starts in the month o July and January, the exact dates
being notied in advance.
Contact: [email protected], [email protected].
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Miscellaneous
Corporate Membership o FITTFITT invites the industry / industry associations / R&D
organizations and nancial institutions to become
corporate members o FITT at a nominal annual
subscription. A corporate client can participate in
technology transer and joint R&D programmes o the
Institute on a priority basis with FITT providing the
interace. Membership orm can be mailed on request or
can be downloaded rom www.tt-iitd.org.
Team
Chairman, Governing Council: Pro. R K Shevgaonkar, Director, IIT Delhi
Managing Director: Dr. Anil Wali
Executive Team: Sh. K K Roy, Sh. M Mahajan
Staf: Mrs. S Lamba, Sh. R K Mehta, Sh. V Bhattacharya, Sh. J Singh,
Sh. U Aswal, Sh. M K Rajoriya,
Consultant: Sh. G Kumar
Associates: Mr. D Sahu, Mr. N S Tomar, Ms. T Jain, Ms. S Bhuyan
Editing Desk: anilwali@tt iitd ac in surekha bhuyan@iitd ac in
Techno-Entrepreneurship SupportsFITT extends supports or innovation / entrepreneurship
under approved Government Schemes:
Technological Incubation and Development o
Entrepreneurs (TIDE), DIT: to nancially support
technology ventures (IT and IT & ES) at incubators during
early stages o their development (www.mit.gov.in).
Seed - Support to Incubatees, TDB: or addressing the
varied development needs o the start-ups at incubators up
to Rs. 25 lakhs (www.dsir.gov.in).
Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) Scheme o BIRAC
(DBT): to establish and validate proo o concept through
nancial support / mentoring to incubatees and new
startups up to Rs. 50 lakhs (www.birapdbt.nic.in)
News and ViewsIIT-D All Set to Open Design Innovation Centre
A spate o new projects will soon grace the campus o the
Indian Institute o Technology (IIT Delhi). While the institute
has already set up its Student Innovation Centre with seed
unding provided by the batch o 1986, it is now ready to set
up yet another centre. The Government o India has approved
an innovation centre to be set up at the IIT campus. This is
going to be a design centre and will be dierent rom the
existing student innovation centre that already exists said,
R. K. Shevgaonkar, Director, IIT (Delhi).Sources: Hindustan Times, 26th October12
Foundation or Innovation and Technology Transer
Indian Institute o Technology, Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Phone: +91 11 26857762, 26597289,
26597153, 26597285, 26581013
Fax: +91 11- 26851169
Website: www.tt-iitd.org
Email: anilwali@tt iitd ac in mdtt@gmail com
Research at IIT-Delhi to get a booster dose: Director
IIT-Delhi plans to increase collaborations with oreign
universities. It wants to introduce ellowships or Ethiopian
students who wish to pursue a PhD. IIT-Delhi is also helping
the Mauritius government establish a research academy.
Source: The Indian Express, 27th October12
Transer land or extension campus, IIT Delhi tells Haryana
.The institute requested or an additional 100 acres in
Jhajjar. A six-member team rom IIT-Delhi visited plots in
Jhajjar to identiy the site or the second extension campus
Source: The Indian Express, 7th December12
Roshni: Indoor navigation system.
Students at IIT Delhi have created a navigation system based
on Global Positioning System that can work well i oor plans
o building are available.
Source: Hindustan Times, December12
Giveter.com: ex-IITians start-up helps people zero in on
the perect git
Source: The Economic Times, 10th December12
We spend only 0.9% o GDP on R&D
Research and development (R&D) is the basic constituent o
promoting innovation. The culture o research needs to be
urther augmented in our country. Only about 6,000 patent
applications were led by Indians in 2010, which is a mere 0.3
per cent o the total applications led in the world.Source: Business Standard, 16th December12
Nvidia, IIT Delhi collaborate on exascale computing
The new Exascale Research Lab (ERL), co-developed by
Nvidia and IIT Delhi, will help the nation achieve this goal by
providing advanced ongoing research, testing, and technology
development in a variety o areas, including processor
architecture, circuits, memory architecture, high-speed
signaling, programming models, algorithms, and applications.
Source: Times o India, 20th December12