MaGE signs MoU with Deakin University

​Hyderabad: Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) and Deakin University, Australia announced a strategic alliance to start education and training programs and establish Data Science and Cyber Security Centre of Excellence.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Professor Jane den Hollander AO, Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University and A P Ramabhadran, Senior Vice President, Manipal Global Education Services.

This MOU marks the coming together of two dominant professional education providers to formulate and derive solutions to valuable corporate and societal problems and construct new machine learning technologies to interrogate relevant data.

The scope of this engagement involves solving sector specific big data problems, developing new knowledge and practices in new complex problems and bringing methodological consistency that are particularly relevant to the Indian context.

A P Ramabhadran, Senior Vice President, Manipal Global Education services said “The MOU enables Manipal Global’s professional services arm to bring in solutions to industry which can help solve reskilling challenges in the digital and cyber security space.

The Centre of Excellence will throw open solutions already existing with the "Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics Centre” at Deakin Australia to solve analytics challenges faced in the healthcare, IT and BFSI sectors.

In addition, the COE will also work to solve, through cutting edge Machine Learning and Big Data solutions, the larger societal challenges in India relating to Financial Inclusion, Education and Healthcare" he added.

The COE intends to investigate and discover valuable problems in key technology areas in the Indian ecosystem – health, insurance, banking, security and education.

It will add early value into the corporate sector by enabling it to solve problems which have already been tackled globally, hence enabling translation of global learnings with speed into India.