The Tata Group has committed to fund the alliance over five years. The project will foster an intellectual exchange between the university and three Tata companies: Tata Sons, Tata Consultancy Services, and Tata Chemicals. The initial aim of the alliance is to expand research and its application in fields ranging from network science to data science to healthcare. During each year of the agreement, Yale will also host visiting Tata scholars, who will actively participate in the research projects.
The alliance will be led at Yale by Professor Nicholas Christakis, co-director of the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS) and the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science. We will be happy to assist you with your emailer interaction with Professor Christakis to hear further on this alliance.
To leverage the full range of innovative ideas at Yale, a joint steering committee will support key initiatives and solicit proposals from faculty across the university, awarding research funds to promising investigations. The six-member committee enlists leading thought leaders from both organizations. Representing Tata are Gopichand Katragadda; Arup Basu, president and chief technology officer at Tata Chemicals; and Ananth Krishnan, chief technology officer at Tata Consultancy Services. Representing Yale are Tamar Gendler, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Daniel Spielman, the Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science and co-director of YINS; and Christakis.