Sat, Jun 07, 2025

CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute

(Formerly CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation)

A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).

Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

 

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

Vision: 

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.

Mission:

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.

Mandate: 

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.

Student Programme for Advancement in Research Knowledge (SPARK)

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.

A FAQ on SPARK is available here.