7th December 2021, Mandi: IIT Mandi iHub & HCI Foundation, India (Ihubiitmandi) and Rubiscape Pvt Ltd – India’s first unified Data Science product company, (rubiscape) have signed a wide-ranging MoU on Tuesday. The MoU aims to harness the mutual strengths in technology, research, skill development, and incubation areas. As part of this MoU, the two organizations would be working together in the fields of Data Science – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning with Rubiscape technology and their industry applications.

Dr Prashant Pansare, Founder and CEO of Rubiscape Pvt Ltd said “The growing digitization creates a huge opportunity for data-democratisation. Technology R&D and IP Creation is gaining momentum in India, and we are excited about collaborating with IIT Mandi iHub by empowering the young and aspiring minds for futuristic innovations – From The Campus To The Global Markets”.

Addressing the session Dr Varun Dutt, Project Director of iHub, said, “This alliance would help to share information and resources toward creating more impact through collaboration in AI-DS & HCI technologies and applications on real-world problems.” He further added, “This will be a long term and strong partnership as it brings a very good synergy with the vision of IIT Mandi iHub and Rubiscape technology, towards the Atma Nirbhar Bharat ”.

Adding more to this, Mr Avinash Punekar, CEO of iHub said, “Rubiscape as a “Technology Partner” will allow startups/entrepreneurs from the iHub incubator/accelerator program to conceptualize and build their products, services, and solutions utilizing the platform provided to iHub.”

About Rubiscape

Rubiscape® is an award-winning low-code Data Science platform for unified, simpler, and faster –AI-ML, IoT, Computer Vision and Business Analytics. Rubiscape has emerged as a winner of the IP Innovation Award by CII and The Graham Bell Award 2021. Many leading institutions and enterprises run Rubiscape® for their data-driven innovation programs across diverse industry segments. With its ISO certified lab at Pune, Rubiscape® is featured under India’s DIPP start-up program, a member of NASSCOM’s Deep-Tech Club Rubiscape® is empanelled as a software OEM on Govt of India’s eMarket Place.

Rubiversity – an EdTech arm to partner with universities offering a blended eLearning platform (software + courseware) for joint certification. Rubiversity enables institutions to set up innovation incubation, and a centre of excellence for AI & ML technologies.

About iHub IIT Mandi

The iHub – IIT Mandi iHub & HCI Foundation is a Section-8 company supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. The iHub with its mandate in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is India’s premier organization for research and development, skill development in the areas of HCI, BCI, AR/VR, IoT.