Research Platforms & Collaboration With India

Prof. Heinz W. Schmidt

India ICT global sourcing IT Transformer of India The “Bangalore” SW Factory

Bangalore Institutes collab Research Platforms

AICAUSE eResearch

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What I Want You To Take Away

• India Software Factory of the world• Australia/Victoria needs India SW industry• India/Karnataka needs Education, Research & Innovation,

with focus on ICT / Technology• Global opportunities for local action:

– Research Platform collaboration– Cross-disciplinary software research– RMIT PhDs in Hyderabad, Bangalore and elsewhere

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India Technology & ServicesGlobal Sourcing

• SW, IT, call centre, health care (soon aged care) global services• SW & IT outsourcing over US$100 billion p.a. focused on

– US-IN trade and Germanic technology axis to EU (initially)– growth: global sourcing demand dwarfs supply (in ICT) (continued)– in contrast: AUS steady at 4% + brain drain to UK

• US Defence, government and large multinationals s.a. GM– largely or 100% buy not build: global source ICT (ex.: GM)– companies like ABB, IBM global source in-house (global services & innovation

network)– Examples:

• GM 15 design centres in 12 countries• ABB 7 R&D services centres across world (we are working with the

Bengaluru ABB R&D)• Wipro Bengaluru campus global services with shop front in out sourcing

countries (ex: South Melbourne ~350 staff)

• State Governments policies and ‘location incentives’ (cf. Victoria)3 RMIT eResearch Office Commercial-In-Confidence (C) Heinz Schmidt 6/2013

India Software Factory of the World

• By Design: Software and IT services world-wide (esp. net/mobile centric)– software as transformer and accelerator– (in contrast China as manufacturing floor of world)

• Bengaluru now ICT capital of India – with IT campuses as famous in India as the Ganges– but not as old ! so one wonders about persistence...

• Quality smarts: strategically positioned– CMM Lvl 5/ISO9000-3/Spice certified companies

higher than anywhere other than US - and growing since early nineties (China beginning to overtake)

– Strategic Germanic focus (also ringing with quality “Made in Germany” and centuries of trade/edu history)

– Education flanked by institutes– perception: necessary for outsourcing (literature

confirms)

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Excursion: Quality FocusICT SW/Proc/People CMM certification

1 ANZ Operations & Technology Private Limited Bengaluru2 Applitech Solution Limited Ahmedabad3 CBS India Chennai/Bengaluru4 CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Private Ltd Bengaluru5 CG-Smith Software Limited Bengaluru6 Citicorp Overseas Software Limited Mumbai7 Cognizant Technology Solutions Bengaluru8 Covansys India Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru9 DCM Technologies Hyderabad10 Engineering Analysis Center of Excellence Pvt. Ltd. (EACoE) Bengaluru11 FCG Software Services (India) Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru12 Future Software Ltd Chennai13 HCL Perot Systems Noida/Bengaluru14 HCL Technologies Limited Chennai15 Hewlett Packard India Software Operations Limited Bengaluru16 Hexaware Technologies Limited Chennai and Mumbai17 Honeywell India S/w Operations Bengaluru18 Hughes Software Systems Bengaluru19 IBM Global Services Bengaluru20 i-flex solutions limited, IT Services Divisions Mumbai and Bengaluru21 Information Technologies (India) Ltd. New Delhi22 Infosys Technologies Limited Bengaluru23 InfoTech Enterprises Limited Hyderabad24 Intergraph Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad25 International Computers (India) Ltd., Pune/Mumbai26 ITC Infotech Ltd. Bengaluru27 Intelligroup Asia PVT.Ltd., Hyderabad28 IT Solutions (India) Private Limited Bengaluru and Chennai29 Kshema technologies Ltd Bengaluru30 Larsen & Turbo Infotech Limited, Mumbai and Navi Mumbai31 LG Soft India Pvt. Ltd Bengaluru32 MphasiS-BFL Limited Bengaluru 5

166 CMM (3/2009) source: CMU SEI

20 of first 32 (alpha order) w/ location in Bengaluru

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Excursion: Indo-Germanic Tech Axis

• Indian-German trade links go back to the 16th century (>500y)– Merchant/banker Jakob Fugger (FRA) financed first ship voyages to Goa– 16th-18th century establishment of trading companies in India (linking to E.Asia)– 19th century Siemens built first telegraph links Kolkata-London, via Berlin

• Long-standing strong Sci-Eng R&E links– DE Fed Gov has incentivised Indian HED (for decades) to foster cultural & trade relations– Partnership between Elite Unis & large-scale federally funded R&D (Max-Planck,

Fraunhofer, Helmholtz etc) with Indian Institutes, some since their foundation a century ago– plus significant mutual cultural links and exhibitions (ex: 2012 mobile space)

• DE-IN trade relations significant and growing fast p.a. (2010 data)– >5% of German trade (EUR15.4b trade = 9.2b Ex + 6.2b Im), ~18% growth– 300+ Indian companies exhibit in Hannover Fair

• IN increasing appetite for energy and technology imports– DE 7th largest investor in India: ICT, auto/transport, chem/pharma, elec/automation

– ABB, Siemens, Bosch, Daimler, VW, BASF ...

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Excursion: Indo-Germanic Tech Axis

• Indian-German trade links go back to the 16th century (>500y)– Merchant/banker Jakob Fugger (FRA) financed first ship voyages to Goa– 16th-18th century establishment of trading companies in India (linking to E.Asia)– 19th century Siemens built first telegraph links Kolkata-London, via Berlin

• Long-standing strong Sci-Eng R&E links– DE Fed Gov has incentivised Indian HED (for decades) to foster cultural & trade relations– Partnership between Elite Unis & large-scale federally funded R&D (Max-Planck,

Fraunhofer, Helmholtz etc) with Indian Institutes, some since their foundation a century ago– plus significant mutual cultural links and exhibitions (ex: 2012 mobile space)

• DE-IN trade relations significant and growing fast p.a. (2010 data)– >5% of German trade (EUR15.4b trade = 9.2b Ex + 6.2b Im), ~18% growth– 300+ Indian companies exhibit in Hannover Fair

• IN increasing appetite for energy and technology imports– DE 7th largest investor in India: ICT, auto/transport, chem/pharma, elec/automation

– ABB, Siemens, Bosch, Daimler, VW, BASF ...

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2011 DE-IN Treaty was first DE Treaty outside EU and Israel;

now DE-IN cabinet level meetings on trade, security and global finance

Quality psychology: Automation “Made in Germany” by proxy

- builds on indo-germanic tech and trade history - adds to quality certification and - rings with industrial revolution which India is seeking

while post British rule, it is perhaps more acceptable from Germany & Co than from UK. RMIT eResearch Office Commercial-In-Confidence (C) Heinz Schmidt 6/2013

Software+Education Transform and Innovate

• Thanks to ICT: 3 million well-paid, formal good jobs + 10 million service jobs around these (est.)

• Young multinationals: Infosys (93), Wipro (04), TCS and 750 multinationals (+ Satyam fraud 09)

• Young entrepreneurship culture in High-Tech• partly migrating ‘home’ combining business experience in

west with technical acumen• startups using software to overcome everyday problems

• However India falling behind: • China, Russia with multi-billion dollar ICT startups • (Brazil now trailing in BRIC after loud plans to bypass India)

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Education Smarts:Industry-Focused Institutes

• Creation of IISc, IITs, IIITs and similar– important factor for ICT rise– aligning postgrad education, applied research and high-tech industry

innovation– providing for global sourcing: cultural, linguistic, technological

readiness and process abilities

• Some RMIT India linkages (incl. Phd programs) exist with– IISc Bengaluru (founded 1909)– IICT Hyderabad (founded 1944)– IIIT Bengaluru (founded 1999)

• Bengaluru MoUs focus on ICT, eResearch and platform technologies broadly

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Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (Hyderabad)• Autonomous national research centre (under CISR)

– 1944 established as CLSIR by state; 1954 national launch by then PM Pandit Javaharlal Nehru

– 1983 renamed to IICT– directed now by Prof Lakshmi Kantam (RMIT Adjunct Prof.)– strong industry and international linkages; more than 150 technologies

commercialised– RMIT - IICT joint PhD program

• Chemical science and engineering disciplines – span from organic chemistry & biochemical engineering– to related mechanical engineering and process design– houses national Molbank

• Prof Suresh Bhargava has more on this in next talk...

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Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru)

• Highest advanced edu and res reputation– 1896 - conceived industry focused (industrialist Tata)– Trust since 1909 - Nobel laureate Raman 1st director

• Sci/Eng faculties – w/ ~400 staff and ~4000 students (incl. 2300Phd+Int.PhD)

– ~US$100m R&D funding p.a. (90% public) • Globally and locally connected

– collaboration with top-ranked international universities– contributor to all major initiatives in country– >30 industry partners significant in grants & centres

• Main player in US$1B national eResearch initiative– national high bandwidth research network, supercomputer grid

and research data silos– comparable to AUS Super Science investment since 1999

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Divisions

!  Biological Sciences !  Chemical Sciences !  Earth and

Environmental Sciences !  Electrical Sciences !  Mechanical Sciences !  Physical and

Mathematical Sciences

IISc

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Independent Centres

Centre for Nano Science & Engineering !  Cutting-edge fabrication and

characterization facilities

Supercomputer Education Research Centre !  State-of-the-art computing facilities !  Research in computer systems and

computational sciences

IISc

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Interdisciplinary Programmes

!  Nano Science and Engineering !  Earth Science !  Neuroscience !  Institute Mathematics Initiative !  Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical

Systems !  Bioengineering !  New collaborative research programmes

in photonics, photovoltaics etc.

IISc

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!  Catalyses and nurtures

consultancy projects !  Design and

development of products and processes

!  Transfer of technology

Interactions with Industry

Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy

IISc

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International Institute of IT (Bengaluru)

• government-founded 1999 to flank growth of Bengaluru as core of the “India ICT Inc”

• highest government score as IN Deemed Uni (2005 and more recent review)

• PG only - Masters(course), MSc, Phd• ICT & Computer Engineering, Robotics

– adjunct faculty from ABB Corporate R&D– Masters/PhD internship @ ABB Corporate R&D– “Incubation” Tech Park for startups and industry

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Logo“Jnanam Uttamam”“Knowledge is Supreme”

“To build on the track record set by India in general and Bangalore in particular, to enable India to play a key role in the global IT scenario through a world-class Institute with a focus on Education & Research, Entrepreneurship and Innovation”

Mission

• Status as “de novo deemed university ”awarded by the Govt. of India in Feb 2005• Initiated by the Govt. of Karnataka in 1998

Deemed University

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International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Faculty across Various SpecializationsCommunication Engineering (C) Software Engineering (C)

VLSI, Embedded Systems, RTOS Computer Science

Information Systems Geographical Information Systems

Industrial Informatics (C) Economic and Social Impacts of IT

Sponsored Labs– Intel Planet Lab– CEEMS, HP Lab– Daimler Chrysler Mobility Lab– Siemens Vision Lab– Honeywell Automation Lab– Tools Lab supported by IBM, Microsoft, Borland

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International Collaboration • International collaborative partners within the area of ICT

– Student Exchange Programme ( Interns) Examples: University of Kaiserslautern ( Germany) and Malmo ( Sweden), Singapore, Brazil, French Reunion Island, Fulbright Scholars

– Collaborative Research Project Examples: With European Union ( Insight, India mentor, Ingeneus)

– UKIERI, Liver Hume Trust, UK – ICT and development – HP labs France: Communicaccation and networking

Incubation• Incubated 5 companies• Four have succeeded• Eight more in the seed

stage

Social Impact

• Closely working with NEN and IIMA in entrepreneurial education

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• 100% RMIT PhD degree with joint supervision– Location 3y India + 1y Australia (Melbourne)– Tuition waiver by RMIT and Indian institution– India+travel stipend: source industry and RMIT– Scholarship for 4th year by RMIT (incl. travel)

• High-performing students (very few selected)– PhD completion in 3-4y – 3 papers/articles p.a.

• PhD program costs shared between RMIT + Institute– 3 travel grants for scientists to Melbourne– Commercialisation, marketing and web presence

• Currently ~20 RMIT PhD students in IICT• Planned similar model with IIITB starting 2014, later IISc• Dual PhD AcSIR/RMIT growing from 2014

AcSIR = Academy of Science and Industry Research, hub is HQ in CSIR and spokes to CSIR network nodes

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RMIT PhD in India

AcSIR

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Joint Research RMIT-IIITB-ABB

• Supervision: Masters(Res) 3y, PhD 5y• Process: Selection & Support

– similar to RMIT PhD (Hyderabad) with revisions– establish Global IT Industrial Research Centre

• Joint work on grants AISRF / ARCL / ABB grant CFP

• Industrial PhD – ITSEASY (Sweden), ABB already partner– CSIT industrial PhD (aspect of DR033 PhD)– RIIERP – potentially: Industrial Transformation TC

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Global IT Industrial (GITI)Research Centre

• Located at IIITB Bangalore, RMIT PhDs, industry sponsorship, mobility MEL-BLR, bursts of industry internship time

• Leverage local industry and State government connections of both institutes– industry and government stream incl. FT scholarships/

topups and PT industry PhD– open stream allowing Indian students to fund place

• Timeline: first intake (northern) winter semester 2014, agreement Dec 2013

• Establish record and later apply for double-badged PhD arrangement (legal context currently changing)

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AICAUSE Centre

Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering (AICAUSE)

ABB, State Government of Victoria and RMIT University in Partnership

eResearch: Virtual Interoperation Testing LaboratoryResearch: Global Software Engineering, Architecture and Testing (at a distance), lifting existing research links between Prof. Schmidt and ABB Corporate Research (Germany/Sweden)Grant: 4yr incubation, Victoria Digital Futures FundNetworking: across ABB India & Australia, engaging ABB-ready RMIT research groups, linking further industry partners

rmit.edu.au/research/aicause

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Industry and International Mobilityfor AICAUSE research and PhD students and others(MoUs IIIT Oct’12 & IISc Jan’13)

Bengaluru

Melbourne

TrainingPhDs & Interns

PhDs & InternsTraining

R&D Mobility

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IISc

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Global&Opera+ons&Visualisa+on&(GOV)&Lab@RMIT

On(site(equipment,users,(technicians

Remote(Ops(Team

Monitoring/visualisa+on/conference&facility

Remote&opera+on&/&configura+on&sta+on

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AU

EU

Advanced&ManufacturingRobo+cs&InteroperabilityTest&(AMRIT)&Lab

CyberGPysical&SystemsSimula+on&Rack&(CSRack)

@RMIT

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ABB BU field remote

Virtual Interoperability Testing Laboratory (VITELab) Stage 1: 3 physical sites, 1 R&D platform

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Integration & interoperation testing, monitoring and software updates over distanceSoftware in heavy or specialist remote infrastructure with component-in-the-loopOff-site cloud-based test management and control, “test services in the cloud”

Component-domain knowledge local and protectedArchitecture roadmap & refactoring/rebalancing off-shoring vs. local vs. remoteCombining global software engineering with eResearch (global research ICT grid)

ABB BU field remote

RMIT Melbourne

ABB Notting HillABB R&D Bengaluru

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RMIT eResearch ContextStrategic research IT infrastructure advice and lobbyingAdvanced research software support

for large research grants (incl. international) and top-ranked research groupsmassive research data curationadvanced computing (cluster, cloud) global collaboration/visualisation platforms

Cooperative Research PartnershipsVictorian and national shared res facilities: instruments, compute and data centresMulti-university, multi-disciplinary collaboration

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Trifid@VPAC

Vayu NCI @ ANU Tango @ VPAC

RMIT is the home of VPAC and 50% owner of Trifid

2880 cores (INTEL E5-2670) in 180 nodes (6 @ 156GB RAM ea, 174 @ 64GB RAM ea), FDR Infiniband, CentOS 6 Linux

(C) 2012 Heinz W. Schmidt

Research Data CurationDefinition: Curation beyond storage

tagged, indexed, searchable, findable, citable (and auditable by peers and sponsors)secure and protected for 7-15y (beyond projects & people)open/private according to discipline or contractual requirements

Force: Research Data Delugefrom telescopes (SKA), satellites, synchrotrons and supercomputer facilitiesfrom microscopy, robots, biotech labs, sensor networks or digitisation of legacy artefacts

Driver: Compliance and Risks (Financial & Research Reputation Loss)Australian Code for Responsible Conduct of ResearchContractual obligations in ARC/NHMRC grant agreements

Responsibility of universities and individual researchers

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• India Software Factory of the world• Australia/Victoria needs India SW industry• India/Karnataka needs Education, R&I with focus on ICT /

Technology• Global opportunities for local action:

– cross-disciplinary software research– eResearch collaboration platform

• Training next-generation leaders in innovation in India

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Sources: Mathews: China, India and Brazil: Tiger technologies, dragon multinationals and the building of national systems of economic learning; Asian Business & Management 8:1 (5-32), 2009Beulen et al: From application outsourcing to infrastruture management, European Management J 23(2):133-144, 2005MIttal & Nivsarkar: Emerging Markets from an Indian Perspective: Focus on Germanic Countries; in [B]CMU-SEI: multiple reports on CMM 2004-2009Kshetri: The evolution of the offshore outsourcing industry: Brazil versus other BRIC economies, Suma de Negocios 3(3):33-46, 2012Gronwald: Global sourcing: shifting the focus from cost saving to a strategic setup, in [B] [B] Bäumer (ed), Globalization of Prof. Services, Springer, 2012The 2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research, Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Industry, Innovation, Science and Research

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