Samsung sets up AI, machine learning lab in Karnataka university

Lab to give millennials, Gen Z students an opportunity to research in emerging cutting-edge tech areas. Engineers at Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, will provide mentorship to students to make them industry-ready 

Samsung has established a world-class artificial intelligence, machine learning and data engineering lab at the KLE Technological University in Hubballi, Karnataka, providing young millennials and Gen Z students an opportunity to research in emerging cutting-edge tech areas and help find solutions to real world problems. 

This is the first of its kind initiative of Samsung in Karnataka. At the Samsung Student Ecosystem for Engineered Data (SEED) lab, students and faculty members at KLE Technological University will get to work on joint research and development projects along with senior engineers at Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore (SRI-B) who work in the domains of mobile camera tech, speech and text recognition and machine learning. 

“India is a repository of young millennials and Gen Z talent. At Samsung, we envision this lab to become a hub of young minds igniting India’s innovation ecosystem, build capabilities among the students to make them industry ready, and also promote industry-academia collaboration. This will further Samsung’s commitment to its vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Dipesh Shah, managing director, Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore. 

Collaborative research projects will be open to third and fourth year BTech and MTech students and PhD scholars at KLE Technological University. Students will also be encouraged to publish papers jointly with SRI-B engineers. 

The SEED lab is spread over 3,000 square feet and is equipped with facilities such as a special dark room with lighting equipment to conduct experiments on multimedia in varied lighting conditions, devices and accessories, image quality analysis tools, among others. It also has backend infrastructure to store, process and archive large volumes of data. 

“The Samsung SEED lab is a great initiative that gives the students the opportunity to learn and work under SRI-B engineers on research projects that address the issues facing the world,” said Dr Ashok Shettar, Vice-Chancellor, KLE Technological University, Hubballi, Karnataka. All students will receive certificates for their contribution at the end of each project from SRI-B. 

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