Stanford University, Stanford

TCS is funding collaborative research in the area of data privacy and security. TCS is also a member of the NSF Science and Technology Center –  Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST). This is a multi-university led initiative on security and privacy, led by UC Berkeley with Stanford University, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University among the other university partners.

Main focus of TCS-Stanford collaboration has been on a theory of privacy and its application in information systems. This collaboration builds upon the notion of contextual integrity framework for understanding privacy expectations and their implications. This framework was developed originally in the literature on law, public policy, and political philosophy.

In their research projects, Professor John Mitchell and the team have formalized some aspects of contextual integrity in a logical framework for expressing and reasoning about use and transmission of personal information. This has led them to a method for comparing privacy concerns with business process objectives, and for designing business processes so that both goals can be achieved. As a test of their privacy framework, and as a step toward incorporating it into hospital patient portals (web sites that let patients communicate with doctors and see lab test results), they have represented key portions of the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in an executable form.

Some TCS researchers in data privacy worked with the research group intensely and contributed significantly to the research, especially in the formalization of HIPAA Compliance Checker for a Medical messaging system. Additionally, there were regular visits by the Stanford collaborators to India for discussions on the work, and these discussions helped TCS develop new tools like SafeMask and Privacy Meter.

Principal Investigator: Prof. John Mitchell  Read More...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

TCS is a Research Patron of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. CISR has a strong track record of practice-based research in management of information technology. Classic areas of research include IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture and IT portfolio. Some of CISR’s current research topics include: Collaboration, Innovation, IT Unit Organization, and Global IT Governance.

Some of the benefits of our sponsorship and interactions were:

• CISR was able to publish some case studies based on information gathered in interaction with TCS associates;

• TCS Global Consulting Practice interacted strongly and created some offerings jointly with CISR;

• A CIO Symposium was organized in MIT and TCS client CIOs were invited to participate; and

• MIT Faculty gave lectures, and held workshops at some of TCS' Client-meets.

Principal Investigators: Prof. Peter Weill, Prof. Jeanne Ross  Read More... 

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• TCS is supporting a professorship at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, to carry out research in the area of “Business Components”.

The primary research goals were:

• To develop methodology for composing (assembling) business applications from pre-existing web services/ components to implement a given business process.

• To develop schemes of representing the functions, roles, processes, business rules, and data supported by a component.

• To develop methodologies, approaches and algorithms and proof-of-concept prototypes of the tools for identifying appropriate business components and/or web services from existing and/or new applications that are usable within and across industry domains.

An agile process and supporting tools and techniques have been developed to identify, elaborate and compose web services to build an application implementing given business processes.

New research work on Complex event processing with focus on real time management of global supply chain is being carried out.

Principal Investigator and Tata Consultancy Services Professor: Prof. Hemant Jain  Read More...

Columbia University, New York

Nanotechnology is an emerging field of science and technology and is expected to impact several industrial sectors including electronics and materials. TCS has entered into an alliance with Columbia University to carry out collaborative research in the area of nanotechnology. The collaboration focuses on developing synthetic polymeric nanogels that have applications in coatings and in drug delivery.

As a part of the benefits of our sponsorship, TCS researchers were introduced to polymer nanogels, its synthesis and release of drug molecules. This knowledge was useful in TCS’s research on drug delivery. Further, a workshop on nanobiotechnology was also organized in TCS.

Principal Investigator: Prof. P. Somasundaran  Read More...

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Financial risk management is an extremely important discipline for corporations, financial institutions and many government enterprises. The revolution in the financial services industry that has occurred in the last thirty years has been caused by the confluence of several factors. These include advances in information technology, deregulation, liberalization and globalization. One of the main results of this revolution has been the development of new models for risk management. Old-fashioned methods have been replaced by sophisticated scientific approaches.

TCS has entered into multiyear strategic collaboration with Institute for Quantitative Finance (IQFI), at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. The faculty has both width and depth in terms of its expertise in risk management. It is reputed to have the strongest actuarial science expertise in North America.

The research is particularly focused on:

• Pricing and hedging of complex financial derivatives

• Estimation of Value at Risk (VAR)

From the interactions with the University research staff and faculty, TCS Qualitative Finance team has learnt several techniques for conducting advanced research in this area.

Principal Investigator: Prof. Thomas Coleman  Read More...

Object Management Group

TCS sponsors OMG and contributes actively to some of its standardization efforts. Researchers from TCS were very actively involved in the specification of standards for QVT (Query/View/Transformation), Mof2Text, and AST (Abstract Syntax Tree). These have been accepted by Architecture Board as OMG standards. Currently, TCS is participating in OMG CVL (Configurability Variability Language) standard specifications.