INDO-U.S. Science & Technology Forum
Catalyzing over the years…
Dr. Nishritha Bopana
Science Officer
nbopana@indousstf.org
History of INDO - US S & T Cooperation
1950’s
1960’s
1970’s
1980’s
1990’s
2000
2001
2005
2005
2006
2008
2009
2009
2010
Green Revolution with PL 480 Fund
Establishment of Land Grant Colleges
Establishment of IIT Kanpur
Establishment of NCERT
Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (Tarapur Power Plant)
NASA-ISRO-SITE
Indo- US S&T Sub Commission
STI (Gandhi-Reagan S & T Initiative)
USIF (US-India Fund)
Indo-US S&T Fellowship Program
DST-NSF S&T Program
NASA-NOAA/ ISRO-DST MoU
DBT/ ICMR-NIH Health and Medical Science Programs
INDO- U.S. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORUM
High Technology Cooperation Group
Indo-US Strategic Partnership
Indo - US S & T Agreement / Joint S & T Commission
US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative
NASA-ISRO Agreement / MOES-NOAA Agreement
Indo-US Nuclear Agreement
Indo-US Innovation Endowment Fund
Indo-US Joint Clean Energy R&D Centre
INDO - US Strategic Partnership
Green Partnership
Energy Security, Climate Change,
Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy
Research & Deployment and Water
Management
Global Security and
Counter Terrorism
Counter terrorism, Early
Warning Systems,
Disaster Mitigation &
Response
Education & Development
Obama-Singh Knowledge
Initiative in Education/
USIEF
Agriculture Cooperation
Food Security,
Research, Education,
Commercial Linkages
Health Sciences
Disease Detection, Public
Health & Health Services and
Biomedical Research
INDO - US S & T Agreement (2005)
Bilateral agreement to initiate wide range of scientific and technical
cooperation between the two countries
Establishes for the first time the IPR sharing protocols
Encourages Public - Private Partnership in R & D
Establish Joint Commission to coordinate, facilitate and review
cooperative activities
“The new Science and Technology Agreement will complement the
activity of the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum by
facilitating follow-on technical collaborations.”
- Fact Sheet
U.S. Department of State
July 18, 2005
Organizational Structure
Co-Chair U.S.
GB
Co-Chair INDIA
Executive Director
INSTP
IUSSTF Secretariat
Administrative Mechanism
 Autonomous
 Bilateral
 Non-Governmental
 Not for profit society
Funding Source
 Annual Interest from US Endowment
Fund with matching contribution from
DST, Government of India
 Freedom to secure private and other
funding
Governing Body
Indian Co-Chair
T. Ramasami
Secretary, Department of Science and Technology
Govt. of India
US Co-Chair
Norman P. Neureiter
Adviser, American Association for Advancement of
Science (AAAS)
Indian Members
Maharaj K. Bhan
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology
Samir Brahmachari
Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research
Sanjay G. Dhande
Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Murali Sastry
Chief Scientist, Tata Chemicals Ltd
R. Seshasayee
MD, Ashok Leyland India
Sheila Sangwan
Addl. Secretary & Financial Advisor, DST
US Members
Michael Clegg
Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Science
Roderic Pettigrew
Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Engg
Subra Suresh
Director, The National Science Foundation
Phyllis G. Yoshida
Deputy Assistant Secretary
US Department of Energy
Ray O. Johnson
Sr. VP and Chief Technology Officer
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Director, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
Harvard University
Objectives
CATALYST to facilitate, seed and promote US-India bilateral
collaboration in science, technology, engineering and biomedical
research through substantive interaction among government,
academia and industry
Create awareness through exchange and dissemination of
information and opportunities in S & T cooperation
Capitalize and build on the scientific and technological synergy
leading to long term partnership on shared values
Support exciting program portfolio that lead to sustainable
interactions and strengthens strategic partnerships
Nurture contacts between young and mid career scientists to
develop mutual trust, foster excellence and explore new frontiers
Encourage public-private partnership to foster elements of
innovation, application and enterprise
IUSSTF Program Portfolio
Collaborative
Research
Networks
Capacity Building
Programs
Innovation Programs
Program
Portfolio
Flagship Programs
Strategic Initiatives
Industry Programs
Program Portfolio of Indo-US S&T Forum
Bilateral Workshop/ Symposia
Public – Private Networked Centres
Knowledge R & D Networked Centres
Training / Advanced Schools
Travel Grants
Submission Deadlines
Award Announcements
15 February
May
15 June
September
15 October
January
Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE)
Establishment of Indo- US Clean Energy Research &
Development Center (JCERDC)
Partners: Govt of India & US DOE
Program coordinated by DBT & DST and administered through IUSSTF
Objective: To facilitate joint R & D aimed towards deployment for
clean energy technologies
Priority Areas:
• Solar Energy
• Second generation biofuels
• Energy efficiency of buildings
Funding: US $ 5 million each year for 5 years from GOI
and DOE. The center will receive matching private funding
Snapshot of Indo-US S&T Forum Supported Activities
Programmatic
Activities
Accomplished
2001-2010
Planned Activities
2011
Bilateral Workshops/
Round Tables
158
17
Training Programs/
Advanced Schools
31
3
Joint Centers
24
4
Support to International
Events
92
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Travel grants
45
2
Events have led to interaction of over 9500 US and Indian scientists
Cutting Across Disciplines
Outcome of Workshop / Symposia
65 % events have resulted into various outcomes
Source: NISTADS Report 2007
IUSSTF – Industry linkages
Training Programs
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Science Technology and Innovation
Enrichment of Science Communication in Museums
Digital Visualization of Archaeological Sites
Weather Research & Forecasting Modeling
Integrated Water Resource Management
Computational Methods in Aeroelasticity
Electronic Structure in Computational Materials Theory
Microsoft Summer School on Cryptology
Systems and Networks
Lecture Series on Mathematical Chemistry
Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity
Flow cytometry and Signal Transduction
Complex Systems in Physical and Life Sciences
School on Immunology
Indo – US Joint Center
 R & D Knowledge Networked Center
 R & D labs and academia partnership (2+2)
 Network focal areas of thematic research
 Provide opportunities for integrating research and education
 Leverage existing infrastructure and funding
 All partners to have stake
 Public-Private Networked Center
 Foster academia - R & D lab - industry partnership (2+2)
 Promote pre-commercial R & D with application potential
 Frontier areas and bottom of the pyramid technologies
 Leverage existing infrastructure and funding
 All partners to have stake
 IUSSTF Funding (Period - 2 years)
 Exchange travel support and hospitality
 Database development and dissemination/ publication
Indo-US Knowledge R & D Networked Center
 iGEON - India (Geological Information Networking)
 University of Hyderabad
 University of California, San Diego
 Jammu University
 University of Oklahoma
 Penn State University
 Pune University
 Climate Change and Impact on Arabian Sea
 National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
 Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine
 Space Application Center, Ahmedabad
 University of South California, LA
 Old Dominion University, Norfolk
Indo-US Knowledge R & D Networked Center
 Correlated Electrons in Materials
 S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
 University of Arizona, Tuscon
 Mississippi State University, Drawer
 Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
 Theoretical Physics of Ultra-Cold Atoms
 Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
 Georgetown University, Washington DC
 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Kolkata
 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
 Accelerators & Detectors for High Energy Physics
 University of Delhi, Delhi
 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois
 Bharat Electronics Ltd, Bangalore
 Argonne National Laboratory, IL
Indo-US Knowledge R & D Networked Center
 Nanoparticle Aerosol Science & Technology
 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
 Washington University, St. Louis
 C-DAC, Pune
 University of Iowa
 University of Maryland, MD
 Highway & Airport Pavement Engineering
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts
 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
 University of Texas, El-Paso, Texas
 Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring
 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
 Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata
 Michigan State University, MI
Indo-US Knowledge R & D Networked Center
 Nanomedicine & Cellular Engineering
 Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 NIIST, Trivandrum
 University of Notre Dame
 Silk Protein Scaffolding
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
 University of California, San Diego
 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
 Tufts University, Massachusetts
 Burnham Institute of Medical Research, San Diego
Indo-US Public- Private Networked Center
 Composites through Microwave Processing
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
 Penn State University
 Michigan Technological University
 Pradeep Metals, Mumbai
 Cell-Targeted Diagnostics and Therapy using Nano-materials
 Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Cochin
 Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin
 Rice University, Houston, Texas
 University of Connecticut, Storrs
 Stanford University
 Cellworks India Private Ltd, Bangalore
Indo-US Public- Private Networked Center
 Biomaterials for Healthcare
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
 University of Washington, Seattle
 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
 University of Texas, San Antonio
 National Metallurgical Lab, Jamshedpur
 Brown University, Providence, RI
 Shaping Concepts LLC., USA
INDO - US Center for Research Excellence
Center for Research Excellence on Fabrionics
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
 University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
 Northwestern University, Evanston
 University of California, Irvine
 Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur
 CMERI, Durgapur
Center for Research Excellence on Advanced Materials Research
 JNCASR, Bangalore
 Northwestern University, IL
 Argonne National Laboratory
 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
INDO - US Center for Research Excellence
Center for Research Excellence on Nanobiotechnology
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National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Stem Cell Institute, Bangalore
Harvard - MIT Division of HST, Cambridge, MA
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,
Bangalore
Center for Research Excellence on Nanomaterials for Energy
 JNCASR, Bangalore
 Purdue University
 GE India Technology Centre, Bangalore
Exchange Programs
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Student Visitation Program with APS
Visiting Professorship / Lectureship with APS
Visiting Professorship in Microbiology with ASM
MIT- IUSSTF Internship Program
Khorana Exchange Program with University of Wisconsin,
Madison & DBT
 UC-Berkeley - IIT Kharagpur Exchange Program
 Cornell Univ - State Agri Univ IARD Exchange
 Viterbi - India Internship Program
Research Internship in Science and Engineering
Eligibility:
Indian/ American Citizen
Master and Ph.D. students enrolled in recognized institution
Duration: 3-6 months
Placements:
Laboratories, universities and industries
Indo-US Research Fellowships
Partners: SERC (DST) - IUSSTF
Objective:
Enable young Indian researchers to carry out research in frontier areas
of S & T at premier institution in USA
Fellowship includes
•Monthly stipend
•Return airfare
•Preparatory allowances
•Conference allowances
Fellowship period
3 months to 12 months
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2011
Stanford India Biodesign Fellowships
Partners: DBT- IUSSTF- STANFORD
Institutions: AIIMS- IIT Delhi- Stanford University
Objective:
Biomedical Device Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Fellowship includes:
•Monthly stipend
•Return airfare
•Preparatory allowances
Fellowship period:
12 months
Flagship Events
3rd Indo- American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2010
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Health Diagnostics & Disease Monitoring Technologies
High Performance Computing
Advanced Engineering Materials
Clean Environment Technologies
4th Indo-US Frontiers of Science Symposium, 2011
• Algorithms & Big Data Sets/ Topological Order & Quantum
Computation
• Biometric Materials
• Creative Brain
• Extinction- Causes & Consequences
• Hydrological Cycles of Glaciers
• Organic Synthesis & Drug Discovery
• Genetic Basis of Disease
Frontiers Awards
Indo-US Engineering Education Conclave
“Meeting Common Challenges: Strengthening Engineering Educational
Institutions in India and the US” (10-11 January 2011)
• Educational and Research challenges in US and Indian engineering
education institutions;
• Leading and managing engineering education institutions; and,
• Possible collaborative programs and activities.
"For Universities of the 21st century to succeed, I believe they need to cooperate
to launch a movement of sharing and partnering in stages for course content
exchange, course content collaboration, course content co-innovation,
knowledge co-creation, and collaborative learning connection.”
- Minister Kapil Sibal speaking at the Indo-US Engineering Education Conclave
Programs in Partnership with Industry
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DST- Lockheed Martin - FICCI - Univ of Texas, Austin- IUSSTF
India Innovation Growth Program
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Lockheed Martin - IUSSTF Academia Connect Program
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IBM - IUSSTF Visiting Fellowship in Nanotechnology
▪ spintronics ▪ nanoelectronics ▪ nanophotonics
▪ materials and devices for energy conversion
▪ materials for memory devices
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DST - INTEL - IUSSTF Technology Entrepreneurship Program
- India Innovation Pioneers Challenge
- Global Faculty Colloquium at University of California, Berkeley
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HP Innovate
- Recognize and reward engineering graduates with outstanding and creative
ideas and expose them to best practices in US
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Agilent Technologies Clean Air Challenge
IUSSTF Vision
 Facilitate, seed & implement inter-governmental initiatives
 Build programs with federal agencies
- Create S & T networks for collaborative research
 Link American universities with India
- Research Internship for student exchange
- Faculty fellowship and guest researchers program
- Promote US partnerships in new institutions in India
 Build academia - industry connect programs
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Research Clusters
- Internships
 Promote Indo- US collaboration on engineering education
We at the IUSSTF value your interactions and partnerships
INDO-US SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FORUM
Fulbright House, 12 Hailey Road
New Delhi 110 001, INDIA
Phone: 91-11- 42691700
www.indousstf.org
INDIA
ARABINDA MITRA
Executive Director, IUSSTF
Email: amitra@indousstf.org
USA
MICHAEL CHEETHAM
Director, INSTP
Email: mcheetham@si.edu
Thank you