Research Mentor - Electrical/ Electronics

The Mentor gets to be part of exciting new startup based in India which is promoting the development of innovation driven education towards the vision of Innovation Driven Economy. The Research Mentor would be active young researcher who is ready to mentor around 100 - 150 B.Tech students and 15 faculty members to engage in active research as a part of the Accendere initiative to develop a culture of research in an educational institution He/ She will be expected to mentor this group to produce papers, conference proceedings, patents, products of repute within a structured time frame in a systematic and transparent fashion.To assist him in this endeavor, he will have the assistance of our custom designed process, software, necessary labs and infrastructure and hardware and software resources including access to more than 17,000 journals from across the publishing landscape. The candidate must be in a position to take a target and his performance will be measured against the same.Growth opportunities include both technical and managerial positions depending on the unique skillsets with locations across India and a few around the world depending on the strategic goals of the company. Salary would be fixed based on individual capability but will be structured well above current industry standards.This job is especially for PhDs in Electrical/ electronics and related fields though other disciplines may also apply.

About the Company:

 We at Accendere are into knowledge management. We aim at developing the human, and knowledge capital of our educational institutions and our country at large. Across the ages, superior technology has always defined the greatest empires/nations. We believe that the demographics of our country when catalyzed with excellent education and training of the talent pool would play a crucial role in propelling India to the status of a super power.

India produces approximately 350,000 engineers every year. A huge percentage of these come from institutions which do not have the magic three letters behind their name. Given the fact that a huge number of engineers graduate with just academic knowledge, they are unable to hit the ground running to compete in the global scenario. Much of this gap is caused by an inherent lack of excellent, innovative scientists, teachers and researchers. It is indeed a point of great concern that we produce an abysmally low number of PhDs (7,000 PhDs in various sciences and a paltry 700+ in engineering) as a country. If India has to be technologically strong, the quality and quantity of research must go up exponentially. In fact, strong science and engineering PhD programmes are precisely the catalysts for the amazing growth of countries like USA, Germany, Japan and China.

It is our belief that the love for science arises at a very young age and that is why is important to create and sustain a research platform at every level of education, be it high school, under-grad or graduate school.

Job Description :

 The research mentor will be expected to mentor a team of around 20 faculty and 200 Btech students in a university and get them to author top quality research papers.

                         The candidate should have a publication track record in Scopus indexed journals.