Inspiration:
“With the declaration of new decade (2021-2031) as the ‘Innovation Decade’, I beseech my honourable colleagues from educational field to support and plan how Jaypee Education System can have a strong R & D and innovation campaign. It will require a change in mindset besides resolve to fight for a respectable place in the country’s unfolding technological spectrum.” - Hon. Chancellor, Sh. Manoj Gaur Ji
Vision
To build a culture of ideation, innovation and incubation at Jaypee Institutes with an objective to contribute to the development of S & T based solutions to the most pressing issues facing our nation, world and all of us.
Mission
To strengthen the research, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem at Jaypee Institutes for contributing to the development of applications, technologies and products in the areas having high strategic and techno-commercial importance.
About DRID
DRID Strategic Planning and Administrative Group
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Prof S.C. Saxena,
Pro-Chancellor -
Prof B.R. Mehta,
Director (Research, Innovation and Development) -
Prof. Vibha Rani,
Associate Dean (Innovation), JIIT -
Prof. Indira Sarethy Rao,
Associate Dean (On-line Education), JIIT -
Prof. Shruti Jain,
Associate Dean (Innovation), JUIT -
Associate Dean (Innovation),
JUET -
Mr Ashok Singh Shekhawat,
Administrative Assistance
Main Function and Roles
Transforming nascent ideas to start-up stories
Setting up of Directorate of Research, Innovation and Development (DRID) is a visionary and transformative initiative of Sh. Manoj Gaur Ji, Hon. Chancellor, JIIT.
The central objective of DRID is to enhance research and innovation activities in the 4 Jaypee universities (JU), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida; Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat (H.P.), Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology (JUET) Guna (M.P.) and Jaypee University, Anoopshahar (U.P.) resulting into the growth of vibrant and thriving innovation culture.
DRID views the 4 Jaypee universities as one entity for Innovation and Research. One of its missions is to strengthen interdepartmental and inter-institutional collaboration by strategically combining the scientific expertise and infrastructure available at these institutes and utilizing the diverse locational advantages
DRID has a mission to support and mentor the faculty and students with a focus on idea generation, converting the ideas into pre-start up proposals with well-defined deliverables. DRID will provide support and mentorship for overcoming the techno-commercial bottlenecks and assist students and faculty to carry forward the translational innovations.
DRID will provide support and advise for initiating major group research and innovation projects funded by external agencies and formulation of Centre of Excellences in the areas of techno-commercial and strategic importance to the nation.
Innovation Hub and Digital Learning Centre are the two major activity pillars of DRID.
Innovation Hub
A 20,000 sq feet Innovation complex comprising of Innovation Hub and Digital Learning Centre is coming up at JIIT (Sector 128 campus). Innovation Hub comprises Start-up Cabins, Student Make & Learn space, Advanced Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Computational Facility and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Innovation Hub will support pre-start up and start up teams in terms of basic infrastructure support, central fabrication and characterization facilities, technical mentorship and expert advice. The start-up entrepreneurs will have access to the scientific infrastructure, faculty expertise and well-trained student population at JIIT and other Jaypee Universities. The start-up at Innovation Hub will derive large benefits from the vast industry expertise in diverse areas available at Jaypee Industries.
Digital Learning Centre
Digital Learning Centre comprises of state-of-the-art multimedia studio, discussion and chroma studios, a 100 seater review cum lecture room, automated control, editing, simulation and animation infrastructure. The objective of the Digital Learning Centre is to contribute towards enriching the learning experience of students, at Jaypee Universities and also contribute to the education ecosystem at national level. It will be an endeavour of DLC to prepare digital content beyond mere class room recording of lectures and with rich simulation and animation content. DLC digital content will be powered by Artificial Intelligence by incorporating student-centric automation, content enhancement and adaptive learning concepts. Activities and programmes of DLC will be designed and developed to feed into the online and blended mode education with an objective of providing rich engineering, science and social science educations to a larger number of student population at Jaypee University System and at national level.
Student Pre-Start up Projects
DRID has initiate 3 schemes namely Student Pre-Start up projects, Faculty Innovation Projects and Centres of Excellence.
Under the student pre-start up scheme, seed funds are provided to the student teams to carry out innovation driven project work. The work carried out as a part of the pre-start up projects is expected to carry forward the student teams to the entrance of the innovation hub. DRID and Jaypee University system will provide hand holding and technical and business mentorship to the student start up teams. 6 Student Pre-start up Projects have been approved and seed funds have been provided. A fresh call has been made and it is expected to approve about 60-70 projects in the 2nd phase,
1. HIMMEL HAWKS
To make use of reliable and precision data captured through drone for better decision making of the field inputs
Student team: Shivam Mukherjee, Lehen Zehra and Vaishnavi Dubey.
Faculty Mentor: Dr Alok Joshi (JIIT)
2. FOOD SAVER
About 6 % of global greenhouse gas emission are produced due to wastage of food. This cause global warming, harm to the environment, wastage of food (which can be fed to the poor), wastage of resources and wastage of money. Food Saver is a device that will keep you informed of the status of the food and warn you before the food expires or is wasted.
Student Team: Mohit Lamba, Nakshatra Maharishi, Hritik Agarwal and Priyanka Kakkar.
Faculty Mentor: Dr Vikas Saxena (JIIT)
3. COVID AID MAT
The pandemic made us realize that any disease/infection if not contained can become highly infectious. To prevent this, there is a serious need of effective screening. With our mat we aim to conquer these problems by introducing a smart device which will make use of IoMT and ML techniques.
Student team: Arunima Saxena, Jatin Pathak, Dharuv Verma.
Faculty Mentor: Mr Raghvenda Kumar Singh (JIIT)
4. AR PLATTAR
To increase engagement and enhance customer experience through infotainment and better visuals. To provide a digitalized menu with AR technology making contributions in the upcoming web 3.0 and also to minimize the confusion that occurs due to cultural, lingual or regional diversity by an Augmented representation of the product.
Student team: Utkarsh Rai, Virad Chaurasia, Vikas Saxena (JUET)
Faculty Mentor: Dr Nilesh Kumar R Patel.
5. WEB BASED APPLICATION FOR DETECTION OF BIRTH DISEASES (BIO HACKERS)
To develop a potential web-based application that can serve as a diagnostic tool in screening out congenital genetic heart disorder. (also associated with Down's syndrome).
Student Team: Divya Jindal, Saloni Mittal, Vinayak Agarwal.
Faculty Mentor: Dr Ashwani Mathur (JIIT)
6. JARVIS
Jarvis is an AI developer assistant like you have never seen before. It's trained on billions of lines of code and can help you in almost every code-related problem. It answers your coding questions, explains you the code, generates documentation, calculates the time complexity of functions and does many more things which increase the productivity of the developer and make programming fun and easy.
Student team: Ayush Singhal, Vinay Patwal, Ishan Goswami.
Faculty Mentor: Dr Gaurav Verma (JIIT)
Faculty Innovation Projects
The objective of the faculty innovation project scheme is similar to Student Pre-Start up projects but these projects are expected to have direct and leading involvement of the faculty. In the first phase, 6 faculty innovation projects have been approved and seed funds provided. In the 2nd phase, it is expected to approve about 60-70 projects.
- Pine needle based Biofuel
Dr. Sudhir Kumar, Department of Biotech and Bio informatics, JUIT - prebiotic cookies using edible seeds
Dr. Smriti Gaur, Department of Biotechnology, JIIT - Context-aware digital image enhancement of X-Ray film image
Dr. Suma Dawn, Department of CS & IT, JIIT
Centres of Excellence
Under the Centre of Excellence Scheme, faculty teams from different departements across Jaypee universities are encouraged to work together to achieve well-defined deliverable. The central objective of this scheme is to create and enhance a research and innovation ecosystem in the Jaypee universities. It is expected that the faculty groups will submit group innovation projects to external funding agencies.
1. Artificial Intelligence for Education
The central object of this activity is to develop i) AI tools for automatic generation of student's exercises in learning programming concepts, ii) assessments that will offer detailed and immediate feedback to students related to their learning progress, iii) to convert speech to Indian sign languages to aid hearing impaired learners, iv) tools to identify the learning style and pattern to facilitate learning for an individual and v) development of a teacher-bot to act as an interface to provide personalized education through AI.
CoE on AI for education has been developed at JIIT. Similar groups are being formed at JUIT, JUET and JIIT (sector 128 campus). It is planned to build a strong collaboration between 4 groups leading to the formation of a cluster of excellence.
2. Bio-Technology solutions for soil and water remediation (JIIT)
The research focus of this CoE is to create an Incubation facility and pilot stage plants to address issues of pollution in soil & water.
3. UAV and electronic border security (industrial fencing) (JIIT)
The central focus of the CoE is to carry out work on simulation and development of separate and hybrid acoustic and RADAR system for drone detection. Design of compact Smart antenna system using switched beam technology and blockchain based border security system. One of the important deliverables of this group is to develop an integrate and complete system for Industrial fencing.
4. Intelligent evaluation and rehabilitation of structures (JYIT)
The aim of this activity is to develop an prototype of early landslide detection system and stone crete blocks and helical soil nailed slope. In addition, development of android-based GUI for real time information and warning on potential landslide threats will be developed.
Jaypee Innovation Network
Innovation ecosystem at Jaypee Education system is a strong network of students, faculty and Alumni across 4 Jaypee universities and 23 Jaypee schools. Each Jaypee University has department level innovation laboratories, where students carryout Make & Learn activities and brush up their innovation skills.
Jaypee Innovation and Incubation Centre (JIIT, Noida)
Jaypee Innovation and Incubation Centre (JIIC) established at JIIT in February 2021, primarily aims to dispense development of innovation ecosystem and to engross faculty, research scholars, students, alumni and non-teaching staff in IPR, innovation and entrepreneurship related activities at JIIT by employing collaborative multidisciplinary efforts and skills.
The Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (JUIT, Waknaghat)
The Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (TIEDC), JUIT focuses on harnessing the talents and research strengths available in the area of different engineering disciplines. This is done by supporting start-up ventures in socially relevant areas. The main objective of the incubation centre is to mentor the entrepreneurs in acquiring the necessary managerial skills for running their business ventures. TIEDC signed MoU with the Department of Industries under the Chief Minister’s Start-up/ Innovation Projects/ New Industries Scheme for Providing Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through Incubators. Till date TIEDC has successfully organized more than 30 workshops / hackathons/ ideathons /seminars /bootcamps /startup related webinars. TIEDC has evaluated 116 applications. 28 startups have been initiated/established/tenure-completed in the incubator and are at different stages of entrepreneurial progress.
List of 28 Start-ups successfully incubated :-
- Himjoy
- listyfied.com
- Localguy
- Elite Planning
- The Ridge Environment Consultants
- Smart Home Automation
- Automatic Car Tyre Changing Mechanism
- JORRS (Life Science)
- Pahadiroots
- Furpaaws
- ScraBID
- Edustage
- ePath
- elixirskills.com
- Brahmastra
- Iculture
- HGO STOCK
- Connecting Dots
- ASPER
- English Grammar
- India Brain Power
- Vector Interactive Studios (new start-up)
- Adventro
- Listener (new start-up)
- GURU
- Modern Kaksha (new start-up)
- Campsvilla
- HYDROHIVE (new start-up)
AICTE sponsored JUET Institution Innovation Council (JUET, Guna)
As a part of AICTE and Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, has formed an JUET Institution Innovation Council (IIC) has been formed at Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna (MP). IIC consists of Faculty members, students and outside experts. The objective of JUET Innovation Council is to encourage the creative energy of students as well as to systematically foster the culture of innovation and start-up/entrepreneurial ecosystem. The University organises various events in areas such as: Entrepreneurship, IPR, Start-up, and Innovation to educate students. Toycathon 2021 was organized at the University in 2021 in 2 phases. JUET has also adopted 3 nearby ATAL schools for mentoring in the area of AI. Recently, the University has been given responsibility to organize AICTE- MIC Impact lectures.
Links for Different Forms
- Faculty Innovation projects and CoE project submission form (Form No 1)
- Quarterly Progress report form (Form No 2)
- Pre-Start up Short Proposal submission form (Form No 3)
- Pre-Start up Full Proposal submission form (Form No 4)