Students of SRM University with the award
Next Tech Lab was awarded in the student-led innovation for spearheading student-led cross-disciplinary research in India. Nominees for the awards included Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, National University of Singapore, Imperial College London and other renowned universities.
The final nominees were selected from thousands of entries worldwide and were invited to take part in the showcase pitch conducted at the conference. SRM University was the only Indian university reaching the finale and bagging the accolade, said a statement here.
Quacquarelli Symonds, better known as QSiS is famous for its annual publication of international university rankings.
R P Sathyanarayanan, president, SRM, said, "Our students have made us proud once again, by being awarded with this prestigious award. SRM has always encouraged novelty and out of box thinking which has helped us maintain ourselves as front runners in technology. While Next Tech doesn't just ape the Media Lab framework like in Richard Feynman’s anecdotes about 'Cargo-Cult Science', its policies are built to foster innovation and disruptive thinking."
The lab has advisors from MIT, CMU, Cambridge University and silicon-valley start-ups. Members of the lab often bag top research and industry internships, win international hackathons and present their research at prestigious conferences.
The final nominees were selected from thousands of entries worldwide and were invited to take part in the showcase pitch conducted at the conference. SRM University was the only Indian university reaching the finale and bagging the accolade, said a statement here.
Quacquarelli Symonds, better known as QSiS is famous for its annual publication of international university rankings.
R P Sathyanarayanan, president, SRM, said, "Our students have made us proud once again, by being awarded with this prestigious award. SRM has always encouraged novelty and out of box thinking which has helped us maintain ourselves as front runners in technology. While Next Tech doesn't just ape the Media Lab framework like in Richard Feynman’s anecdotes about 'Cargo-Cult Science', its policies are built to foster innovation and disruptive thinking."
The lab has advisors from MIT, CMU, Cambridge University and silicon-valley start-ups. Members of the lab often bag top research and industry internships, win international hackathons and present their research at prestigious conferences.
