[Important: CoE-AH will be admitting PhD students in Autumn, 2024 for translational research in affordable healthcare domain where the areas are: biomedical systems / instrumentation / signal & image processing / machine learning and embedded systems, assistive technology, rehabilitations, digital pathology etc. Option to apply for PhD is available at institute portal.] ***Centre of Excellence in Affordable Healthcare (CoE-AH) is a new CoE at IIT Kharagpur which came up in March, 2023. The aim of the CoE is to make healthcare accessible, available and efficient. It provides an interdisciplinary platform to pull the expertize and resources and work for a common goal. The steering committee of the CoE consists of following members.1. Dr. Pranab Kumar Dutta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engg., Dean, Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Biotech & Biosc. Ex-Head, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and School of Medical Science & Technology2. Dr. Cheruvu Siva Kumar, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; Ex-Head, Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship3. Dr. Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Electronics & ECE; Abdul Kalam Tech. Innovation Fellow4. Dr. Pabitra Mitra, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering; Ex-Head, Centre for Computational and Data Sciences5. Dr. Manjunatha Mahadevappa, Professor, School of Medical Science & Technology, Prof.-in-Charge, Biomedical Instrumentation Lab.6. Dr. Soumen Das, Professor & Head, School of Medical Science & Technology; Dean, Dr. B. C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre; Vice-Chairperson, CoE in Affordable Healthcare7. Dr. Goutam Saha, Professor, Dept. of Electronics & ECE; Chairperson, CoE in Affordable Healthcare; Nodal Coordinator, ICMR CLiMB Biodesign Program; VSNL Chair Professor, Ex-Dean, R G School of Intellectual Property Law; Ex-Coordinator, IMPRINT-India Healthcare DomainBesides Core faculty, CoE-AH has the service of associated faculty from different academic units. To spearhead its activitites, four workgroups have been formed namely, Infrastructure workgroup, Technology Bank workgroup, Hospital Trial / Validation Study workgroup, Tech. Transfer workgroup.
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