CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute
(Formerly CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation)
A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).
Dr G K Patra
Director, CSIR-4PI
CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI), NAL Belur Campus, Bangalore-560037, India
Phone: (+91) 80-25224667, 25051921 and Fax: (+91) 80-25220392
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Dr G K Patra took charge as the Director of the CSIR Fourth Paradigm institute on 10th June, 2025, FN.
In the late 1980's, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) recognized the growing significance of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, as it became evident that modelling approaches were critical for illuminating the structure and evolution of complex systems that were invading the areas of scientific analysis and technological design. Fields like Geology and Biology, which for a long time was considered largely observational and qualitative had already begun to exploit the new possibilities, offered by Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation to grow new areas of computational geology and computational biology.
The Council therefore established in 1988 the "CSIR Center for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation", briefly called C-MMACS (pronounced as seemax). On February 21, 2013, CSIR-CMMACS was repositioned as the nucleus of CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4P1), as it would provide the country a unique positioning in the domain of computational, data intensive research and discovery. The institute is located in the Belur Campus of the CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), Bangalore.
CSIR Fourth paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI) is a young and vibrant organization committed to promoting mathematical modelling and data driven research culture across CSIR and accelerate the pace of discovery in the areas of interest to CSIR. CSIR-4PI played a pivotal role in shaping up the computational research capability in CSIR and has the same potential to impact the emerging data science research to solve problems of societal and strategic importance. Structurally CSIR-4PI, with major thrust area as data science, has two scientific divisions with the scope of interdisciplinary research.
Chairperson
Smt. Nivruti Rai
Managing Director & CEO of Invest India
External Members
Prof. (Mrs.) Sagarika Mukhopadhyay
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology- Roorkee (lIT-Roorkee)
Commissioner
Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) and Commissioner
Karnataka Disaster Management Authority (KDMA),Bengaluru
Prof. R. Govindarajan
Professor
Supercomputer Education and Research Center (SERC) and Computer science and Automation (CSA)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
Dr. R Krishnan
Director
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
Secretary MoES or his nominee
Dr. T Srinivasa Kumar
Director
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad or his nominee
DG Nominee
Dr. Atul Narayan Vaidya
Director
CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur
Sister Laboratory
Dr. Abhay A Pashilkar
Director
CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru
Director/Head of concerned Lab/Institute
Dr. Sridevi Jade
Head
CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute
CSIR Hqrs. Invitee
Dr. Abhishek Kumar
Senior Scientist
Central Planning Directorate (CPD),
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi
To synergize the Transdisciplinary Pan-CSIR expertise and build a unified platform that embodies a rich set of big data enabling technologies and services with optimized performance to facilitate data intensive scientific discovery in the country.
To Pioneer data driven interdisciplinary research in diverse fields through state-of-the-art data science ecosystem and impactful industrial partnerships for the betterment of Society.
To develop cutting edge data science products as a horizontal across the CSIR Themes and position as an Institute of Excellence in Bigdata and Artificial Intelligence.
SPARK is intended to provide a unique opportunity to bright and motivated students of reputed Universities to carry out their major project/thesis work and advance their research knowledge in mathematical modelling and simulation of complex systems. The programme is intended to increase the interaction between scientists and faculty members of academic institutes along with their students towards a long term research collaboration. Click here to apply for SPARK.
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