IISc Women Students to get fellowship opportunity from Sony India Software

Fellowships would be awarded to students pursuing M Tech programmes in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computational and Data Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Female MTech students of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are getting the opportunity to pursue fellowship at Sony India Software Centre Pvt Ltd (SISCPL). According to the reports, SISCPL established five fellowships in the broad area of computing sciences for women MTech students of the institute. An official statement released in this regard states, “as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment, the initiative from SISCPL aims to encourage women students seeking to pursue careers in the technology sector, Bengaluru-based IISc.”

Talking about the collaboration, Masayuki Toriumi, Managing Director of SISCPL said, “I hope we can grow this partnership and have many more women opting for sciences and this in turn contributes to improving gender diversity in organisations.”

Fellowships would be awarded to students pursuing M Tech programmes in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computational and Data Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Electronics and Communication Engineering. According to the official information released regarding the scholarship and other benefits, “Selected students will get a monthly scholarship for the entire course period as well as an unrestricted research grant including travel expenses, purchase of laptops and other consumables.”

Talking about the vision behind the launch of the fellowship, the statement reads, it is to encourage more women candidates to pursue higher studies at IISc, especially in engineering and technology, in order to address the gender inequality in these areas, and increase the number of women students. The fellowships would be awarded from the August 2021 academic year.

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