CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute - India Information

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 accelerating 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 over the past 30 years and has the same potential to impact the emerging data science research to solve problems of societal and strategic importance. The current mandate is to develop reliable knowledge products for decision support in Earth, Engineering and Information sciences as well as to host a centralised supercomputing facility for CSIR. Long term vision is to synergize the strong expertise in various disciplines across CSIR and build a unified platform that embodies a rich set of big data enabling technologies and services with optimized performance to facilitate research collaboration and scientific discovery. Structurally CSIR-4PI is divided into two distinct scientific divisions with the scope of interdisciplinary research viz., Data Science and Supercomputing Division (DSSD) and the Earth & Engineering Sciences Division (EESD).