Centers of Excellence
Pioneering Innovation and Expertise
Transformative Hubs:
PIMR's Innovation Initiatives
PIMR has established Centers of Excellence (CoEs), with specific and well placed objectives. It is a prevalent, impactful and valuable practice in today’s academic landscape in India and across the world.
These Centers of Excellence are aimed to focus on specific domains, technologies, business objectives, or educational goals, by providing required infrastructure, expertise, technology, and operational support.
The primary goal of CoEs is to enhance and excel in specific domains, technologies, business outcomes, or objectives within the educational institution.
Establishing newer Centers of Excellence is a continuous process at PIMR.
Objectives and Benefits
PIMR CoEs concentrate the efforts and resources on specialized areas of study or research. This specialization often leads to higher levels of expertise and innovation in those domains.
By focusing on specific domains or technologies, CoEs often facilitate close collaboration with industries and businesses related to those areas. This connection can be highly beneficial for students, researchers, and the institution itself, as it helps align educational offerings with industry demands.
PIMR CoEs are focused on research and development activities. These are with support on research projects, access to cutting-edge technology, and partnerships with industry experts.
PIMR has created infrastructure with technology, and operational support. This support ensures that the CoE has the necessary resources to transfer knowledge effectively to students and researchers.
The CoEs attracts top-tier faculty and researchers in their respective fields. This, in turn, improves the overall quality of education at the institution, making it a more attractive destination for students and faculty members alike.
The CoEs are instrumental in addressing pressing societal challenges, such as climate change, healthcare, and cybersecurity. By concentrating expertise and resources, these centers will contribute significantly to finding solutions to complex problems.
The CoEs have gained international recognition for their expertise and contributions to their respective fields. This recognition enhances the reputation of the educational institution and attracts talent and partnerships from around the world.
The CoEs stimulate economic development in the surrounding region by fostering innovation, creating jobs, and attracting investments. This not only benefits the institution but also the local community and economy.
The CoEs serve as platforms for training and capacity building. They will offer workshops, seminars, and courses that enable students and professionals to acquire specialized skills and knowledge.
List of PIMR Centers of Excellence
This Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a pioneering hub at the forefront of manufacturing innovation, established to harness cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of production.
PIMR has established a Center of Excellence for Drone-tech with a focus on advancing the development and application of drone-based technology in upcoming sectors. The primary aim is to propel startups to the forefront of global opportunities.
In today’s technology-driven VUCA world, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Blockchain have taken the driving seat. To achieve operational excellence, the application of IoT, blockchain and predictive modeling have become indispensable. Both academia and the corporate world are realising this need to become future-ready. The Centre will not only train students of MBA in areas like Big Data Analytics & Visualization, the role of AI & ML techniques and algorithms, prompt engineering, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Behaviour (IoB), cybersecurity, AR, VR, MR, Metaverse, but also provide hands-on training using cutting-edge software to provide practical training.
This CoE encompasses development of service applications like health-tech, fin-tech, and more. SaaS stands out as the most highly esteemed business approach. PIMR has designed a specialized program, "SaaStart," exclusively dedicated to nurturing and supporting SaaS-based business.
The Center of Excellence for Media and Animations will be a hub of creativity and innovation. It will nurture aspiring artists and animators, fostering a culture of constant learning and skill refinement.
PIMR aims to partner with leading analytics firms to create a CoE in Data Analytics. The partner will provide access to real-world datasets and analytics tools.
PIMR aims to collaborate with leading cybersecurity companies to create a CoE for cybersecurity education and research. The partner will supply the latest cybersecurity software, simulators, and incident data for analysis. This CoE produces cybersecurity experts who help protect critical systems from cyber threats.
PIMR aims to establish a CoE in innovations, in association with a top level company / agency. The partner will provide expertise, and access to use-cases. The CoE will conduct research on innovations which can be sector or problem specific.
PIMR aims to partner with tech giants to create a focused CoE, on key areas like artificial intelligence (AI), clean-tech, etc. The CoE will have cutting-edge hardware and software, conduct regular workshops.