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Our Chancellor Amma places a strong emphasis on research activities. Rather than simply memorising all the knowledge that has been accumulated in a particular field, Amma wants us to delve deeper, to explore, to discover for ourselves. She is always encouraging the students and faculty of Amrita University to undertake research and development work that will benefit society.

They are heeding her call: exciting, original research is taking place in the fields of information technology, engineering and medicine, among others. At CEN also we have undertaken and succesfully completed several research projects, some of which are listed below.

Currently, the Center is actively involved in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. A massive translation project is underway that aims to develope tools to translate web content from English to Indian languages. This initiative, when complete, will enable every child in India to access information in his or her own mother tongue. Research is also ongoing in the area of speech translation.

Research @ CEN:

Research at CEN is multidisciplinary in nature. At present 10 full time research scholars are working in the center. The research is in the following areas:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Robotics
High Performance Computing for Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
Computational Chemistry
Machine Learning ( with tools like Neural Network, Support Vector Machines, Graph Learning Algorithms)
Wireless Sensor Networks for Remotely Controlling Aquaponic System and Precision Farming
Wireless Communication with Software Defined Radio
Advanced Signal Processing methods like Wavelet Theory, Sparse Signal Representation, Compressive Sensing, PDE based Image Processing
Geographical Information System
Natural Language Processing (Text and Speech)
Vibration Analysis
Radio Astronomy

Research at CEN requires financial foundation which is met by undertaking projects funded by the Ministry of IT, ISRO, DRDO, NPOL, MHRD, DST, DIT, CDAC, and Coconut Development Board, Government of India. Total research grant is over 33 million INR. The details of the completed and ongoing funded projects are listed below.

Completed Funded Projects:

Project Title	Sponsoring Agency
Massively Parallel Support Vector Machines for Target Classification	NPOL
Analysis and Characterization of Fluid Flow using PIV & PLIF	ISRO
Machine Fault Simulator for Space Vehicles	ISRO
Development of Image Fusion Techniques and Measurement	ADE
Development Of Methodologies for Detection of Digital Contents Plagiarism	MCIT
Development of Infrastructure for Remote Sensing Applications	ISRO
Video Summarization and Annotation for Content based Retrieval	ADRIN

Ongoing Funded Projects:

Project Title	Sponsoring Agency
Machine Translation System for English to Indian Languages	MCIT
Creation of Linguistic Tools and Corpora for Indian Languages	MHRD
Vibration Damper for Launch Vehicle Applications	ISRO
Joint Development of Speech Modules	DIT-CDAC
muShare: Multi-User Realtime Shared Access Platform for Remote Experimentation	MHRD
openLab: Open Source Graphical Programming Environment for Scientific Computing Applications	MHRD
Process Monitoring and Control for Ultra-Precision Machining of Titanium Alloys	DRDO
Improving Coconut Production in Kerala using Soil data through Remote Sensing and GIS Technique	Coconut Development Board – Gov of India
Analysis, Processing and Synthesis of Emotions in Speech	DST
Wordnet	DIT