VIT-AP Enters Into Quantum Computing & Carbon Nanotubes

Quantum computing and carbon nanotubes may come across as sci-fi to most of us, but they have successfully moved out from research labs into commercial products and services, at least in the developed world, and VIT’s Andhra Pradesh University has now become one of the first universities in India to forge two tie-ups for bringing this next generation technologies to VIT-AP students.

Quantum computing is a new type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics. Its first applications are now starting to appear along with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science, in diverse fields like Life Sciences, Healthcare, Transportation, Finance, Industrial and Space Technologies. 

Research in quantum computing is also projected to create a huge number of high paying jobs in the near future. Tech majors including Google, IBM, Microsoft, Intel and AWS Braket (Amazon) are major players in quantum computing, even while new players like Strangeworks, Zapata Computing, Coldquanta & QC Ware have emerged as serious contenders and emerging employers of quantum computing talents.

VIT-AP is now bringing research in Quantum Computing into its campuses by a recent tie-up with Bengaluru based QpiAi, and their MoU also covers Machine Learning and Data Science. A sister university of the more established Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Tamil Nadu, VIT-AP is demonstrating the same innovational DNA that has always set apart VIT from its peers and elevated it to be one of the leading deemed-to-be universities in the private sector in South India, especially in engineering. VIT-AP was the first private university to come up in Amaravati, the new Andhra Pradesh capital, in 2017.

Carbon nanotube technology is another sunrise knowledge domain that VIT-AP is bringing to its campus. Carbon nanotube-based membranes are finding increasing applications across industries, especially by achieving feats that earlier seemed impossible with conventional means. For instance, carbon nanotube based membranes can extract clean water from almost any type of water source.

VIT-AP has recently tied up with a leading R&D player and manufacturer of high-quality carbon nanotubes, NoPo Nanotechnologies, which is also based at Bengaluru, to bring this most promising technology to its campus to solve societal challenges in order to provide a better life for human beings.

The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between these two companies from Bengaluru  - QpiAi and NoPo Nanotechnologies - and the VIT-AP University, Amaravati, was held recently, on a virtual platform. 

Dr. Arun Sehrawat, Director of Quantum Theoretical Research, QpiAI India, and Gadadhar Reddy, CEO, NoPo Nanotechnologies were present for the event and signing of the MoUs. Dr. SV Kota Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, VIT-AP University, briefed the online audience about the involvement of VIT-AP University in successfully establishing industrial collaborations. 

The Vice-Chancellor emphasized the importance of academia-industry collaboration in developing new technologies and discovering simple solutions for complex problems. He added that these collaborations help in creating new job opportunities in various fields for the Master’s students in Physics, Data Science and other branches of science and engineering.

The VIT Group of Universities were founded by the multifaceted leader Dr. G Viswanathan who serves as the Chancellor of VIT, and is today led by Vice-Presidents Sankar Viswanathan, Dr. Sekar Viswanathan & GV Selvam, and its Executive Director Dr. Sandhya Pentareddy.