Industry-Academic Partnerships: A New Global Era Panel Discussion

Carnegie Mellon’s Innovators Forum presented “Industry-Academic Partnerships: A New Global Era” on August 25, 2015, following the announcement of a historic $35 million gift to the university from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS):    • Historic Gift from TCS - Full Announcement  

The panel included leaders and perspectives from industry and academia and addressed this new type of collaboration that is flourishing at CMU and driving ideas and products that are shaping our world.

The panelists are:

Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO and managing director of Tata Consultancy Services, one of the fastest growing global leaders in IT services and digital and business solutions since 2009;

Jelena Kovačević, the David Edward Schramm Professor, head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, professor of biomedical engineering, and director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics at CMU; and

Jay Whitacre, CMU professor of materials science and engineering and engineering and public policy, and founder of Aquion Energy, a manufacturer of clean and sustainable saltwater batteries that outperform traditional batteries.

The panel was moderated by CMU’s Richard Scheines, dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of philosophy, machine learning and human-computer interaction.

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