The awards recognize achievements of Indian R&D centres and honour stalwarts in the technology space. SRI-B is Samsung’s largest R&D centre outside South Korea.

The jury deemed SRI-B as the winner based on parameters such as its vision, initiatives, implementation and impact in the local market.

Under Samsung’s ‘Make for India’ initiative, SRI-B has been developing several India-specific innovations by understanding Indian consumers’ lifestyle and pain points. As part of this program, SRI-B has developed innovations for various B2C, B2B and Business to Government products.

“It is imperative to understand the challenges and pain points that Indian consumers face in their day to day lives and provide suitable technology solutions. Samsung has recognized this early on and has been continually innovating along this path to empower Indians and their businesses under its ‘Make for India’ program,” said Dr. Aloknath De, Chief Technology Officer, SRI-B.

Samsung R&D Institute – Bangalore (SRI-B) has been recognized as the ‘Champion for Local Markets’ at the prestigious Zinnov Awards 2018. Karthik Krishnan (Left) with the ‘Technical Role Model (Middle Level)’ Award and Madhupa Chowdhury and Sundar Srinivasan with the ‘Champions for Local Markets’ Award won by SRI-B.

SRI-B has more reasons to celebrate this year at Zinnov Awards 2018 as Karthik Krishnan, who is a member of the Health and Medical Equipment (HME) Team at the R&D centre working on Medical Imaging and Visualization Technology, won the award for ‘Technical Role Model (Mid-level)’. He was awarded for his capability to influence others within SRI-B as well as beyond, to follow a technical career path.

“I am elated to have won this award from Zinnov as it is a testimony to the vibrant ecosystem that we are able to work within and create new technology. I would like to thank my team for all their support through the years, as well as SRI-B which has given me the opportunity to collaborate with others in our ecosystem and build my technical skills,” said Karthik after winning the award for ‘Technical Role Model’.

Over the last three years, SRI-B has introduced several products and services for its Indian customers. When Bixby Voice came to India with the Galaxy Note8, it was optimized for India by the SRI-B team to understand English in Indian accents. The device was also embedded with a feature that recognized text messages written in Hindi with the S-Pen and converted the message into Devanagari script. Engineers at the R&D centre had recently developed the Social Camera mode that was launched in the Samsung Galaxy J7 Max Smartphone. The Social Camera mode allows users to instantly edit and share photos and videos directly to social media sites from their camera app. SRI-B has also developed the Samsung Tab IRIS, which is the first commercial IRIS integrated tablet to be approved by UIDAI for Aadhaar and KYC verification.

This is the 9^th year of the Zinnov Awards and the fourth consecutive year that SRI-B has won a Zinnov Award. SRI-B has won the Zinnov Award for ‘Great Place to Innovate’ in 2017, ‘Center of Excellence’ in 2016 and ‘Design Thinking’ in 2015.

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Dr Balvinder Singh (L), VP- Multimedia Solutions and Dr. Aloknath De, Senior VP and CTO, SRI-B at the award ceremony

Samsung R&D Institute (SRI), Bangalore, was recognized as a ‘Great Place to Innovate’ at the prestigious Zinnov Awards 2017. The awards recognize and celebrate titans in the technology world and honour Indian centres that have created an impact on a global scale. SRI-B is Samsung Electronics’ biggest R&D facility outside Korea.

“What makes SRI-B a ‘Great Place to Innovate’ is our focus on meaningful innovation. At SRI-B, cutting-edge technology converges with social needs. Such innovations also create quality intellectual property or revenue-boosting solutions. Innovations coming from few pockets is common, but institutionalizing innovations as a culture makes all the difference,” said Dr. Aloknath De, Chief Technology Officer, SRI-B.

SRI-B is Samsung’s biggest R&D facility outside Korea

Over the last 20 years, SRI-B has notable “world’s first” and “world’s best” innovations to its credit. The highest number of patent filings and grants in India from the private sector is from SRI-B. The Iris Tab and Samsung Pay for India – recognized amongst the most innovative mobility products – have come from SRI-B.

SRI-B’s C-Lab ideation initiative is already paying rich dividends in terms of establishing local and global value addition in features and solutions from an intrapreneur-driven culture.

In more good news for SRI-B, Dr. Vijay Narayan Tiwari of SRI-B was recognized as ‘Technical Role Model’ at Zinnov Awards 2017. Dr. Tiwari heads Connected Health & Fitness department at SRI-Bangalore.

Dr. Vijay Narayan Tiwari (R) of SRI-B collecting ‘Technical Role Model’ award at the ceremony

“It is a matter of great pride that our research which combined medicine with engineering was recognized by Zinnov Awards. It tells me that our work in wearable health and fitness has had a positive impact. That is the dream of every researcher. I thank my team and my mentors for their constant encouragement. I am fortunate to have worked at SRI- Bangalore which provided an excellent platform to innovate and invent new things,” said Dr. Vijay Narayan Tiwari.

The Zinnov Awards 2017 winners were selected by a jury comprising eminent members from various India R&D centres, CTOs, industry influencers and previous award winners.

This year, Zinnov Awards received more than 200 nominations from around 80 companies across eight different categories.

SRI-B had won the Zinnov Awards for ‘Design Thinking’ in 2015 and ‘Center of Excellence’ in 2016.