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{{Infobox organization
| name = Anna University - K. B. Chandrasekhar Research Centre
| image = File:Aukbc.jpg
| abbreviation = AU-KBC Research Centre
| size = 250px
| formation = 1999
| type = [[Public Private Partnership]]
| headquarters = [[Chennai]], [[India]]
| location = [[Madras Institute of Technology]], [[Chromepet]]
| leader_title = Director
| leader_name = Dr. Gautam Pennathur
| parent_organization = [[Anna University]]
| website = [http://www.au-kbc.org/ au-kbc.org]
}}

The '''Anna University - K. B. Chandrasekhar Research Centre''' (AU-KBC) is located in the [[Madras Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Madras Institute Of Technology|url=http://www.mitindia.edu/en/125-mitindia/home/343-landmarks|access-date=2020-08-30|website=www.mitindia.edu}}</ref> The centre was founded by K. B. Chandrasekhar, MIT alumnus and co-founder of [[Great Lakes Institute of Management]], Chennai.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omtDAAAAYAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=au+kbc+anna+university&q=au+kbc+anna+university&hl=en|title=India Today|date=2004|publisher=Thomson Living Media India Limited|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=K B Chandrasekhar, Jamcracker Inc: Profile and Biography|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/1777688|access-date=2020-08-30|website=Bloomberg.com|language=en}}</ref> The AU-KBC Research Centre is a first of its kind, a public-private research centre in [[India]], being the partnership between a wholly for-profit company (KBC Research Foundation Private Limited, KBCRF<ref>{{Cite web|title=About....|url=http://www.au-kbc.org/about.htm|access-date=2020-08-30|website=www.au-kbc.org}}</ref>) and a state institution ([[Anna University]]). The Center has no employees, and all researchers stationed there are employees of the for-profit company KBCRF.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The amazing success story of K B Chandrasekhar|url=https://www.rediff.com/money/2006/jul/26mspec.htm|access-date=2020-08-30|website=www.rediff.com}}</ref> The Centre's original goal, when it had its own employees, was to generate research and products of international quality. Its current goal is to create revenue for KBCRF and its sister for-profit concerns.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZ7tAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=au+kbc+anna+university&q=au+kbc+anna+university&hl=en|title=Industrial Economist|date=2001|publisher=S. Viswanathan|language=en}}</ref>

== Mission and goals ==
The AU-KBC Research Centre initiates research in new and emerging thrust areas such as [[nanoscience]]s and conducts research in areas such as [[Telecommunication|communication]]s and [[biology]] with modelling and experimental component. There is an interdisciplinary core of [[mathematics]], [[physics]] and [[Computer Science|computing sciences]] that impact on all the teaching and research work at the Centre.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Europe PMC|url=http://europepmc.org/article/med/26717904|access-date=2020-08-30|website=europepmc.org}}</ref>

== Focus areas of the centre ==

The major areas in which the centre dabbles are [[information sciences]], Life sciences, [[mathematics]], [[physics]], [[bioinformatics]], [[nanobiology]], [[cryptography]], network security, communications engineering and [[natural language processing]].

The centre is also concentrating on producing individuals in the field of clinical research. Clinical research in India has the fundamental merits of sparse federal oversight, and a drug-unexposed population. Accordingly, the centre has started a course "Post Graduate Certificate Program in Clinical Trials Management". The clinical trials course at the centre offers its trainees a head start with multinationals who wish to use these unprecedented opportunities for drug trials (Phase II) in India. It is offered both full-time and part-time and is a first such course offered by a public-private institution.

== Achievements ==
Employees of KBCRF stationed at the AU-KBC centre have the "rare" opportunity of receiving taxpayer rupees from various national (government) and international research institutions, even while "enjoying" all the "benefits" of being employees of a purely for-profit company. The centre has generated papers in all the fields and has its material published in major journals and conferences. The centre also acquired its first patent in the communications engineering area. The Government of [[India]] has funded the Centre to push the open source activities into the regular academics and to contribute in [[Free and Open Source Software]] (FOSS) mission for future generations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kumar|first=G. Bharadwaj|last2=Saini|first2=Sanjeev K.|last3=Imran|first3=K. R. Mohamed|last4=Anand|first4=Senthil|title=Tutorial: Free open source software for research community|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5972503/authors#authors|journal=2011 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (ICRTIT)|pages=1–1|doi=10.1109/ICRTIT.2011.5972503}}</ref> To coordinate these activities, the centre in collaboration with the Chennai Division of the [[Centre for Development of Advanced Computing]] (C-DAC), has set up the [[NRCFOSS|National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software]].

== Educational opportunities ==
The M.S. (By Research) and [[PhD]] Programs of the Anna University in all the areas of Information Sciences and Life Sciences are offered at the AU-KBC Research Centre as per the rules and regulations of [[Anna University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Supervisor List - Centre For Research|url=https://cfr.annauniv.edu/research/supervisorlist.php?type=science|access-date=2020-08-30|website=cfr.annauniv.edu}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.au-kbc.org Official Website]

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[[Category:Research institutes in Chennai]]
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