Infosys sets up $ 2-million fund with Princeton University

Bengaluru: Infosys BSE -0.16 % has set up a $2-million fund along with Princeton University to enable up to two scholars to pursue research at the school's Institute of Advanced Study, thereby underlining new CEO Vishal Sikka's strategy of deepening partnerships with academic institutes globally.

This comes almost a month after Infosys signed an agreement with Sikka's alma mater, Stanford, to jointly make course curriculum in Data science and Analytics and help Infosys and the college work on real-world problem areas. "At Infosys we believe that people, when amplified by technology, knowledge, imagination and an enriching ecosystem, can achieve incredible things," said Vishal Sikka, Infosys CEO and MD.

"By mentoring visiting scholars, in both academic and practical terms, the IAS has created yet another avenue to produce advances in knowledge that can change the way we work and live — with wide-ranging impact on global development" Infosys' rival Wipro too announced last month that it will partner with Vellore Institute of Technology to train its graduates hired this year in analytics space as the company looks to overcome the shortage of data scientists in the industry.

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