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Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has appointed Ramesh Kumar, former ESPN vice-president and head of ESPN for India and South Asia and Global Head of ESPNcricinfo, as the Chief Executive Officer of Center of Excellence in Sports Science and Analytics (CESSA).
Kumar, an alumnus of IIT Madras (BTech (ME)), 1992 Batch comes with more than three decades of industry experience with an initial corporate stint with the Tata Group in India and close to 24 years in the sports industry.
The Center of Excellence in Sports Science and Analytics at IIT Madras will be a global platform for fostering innovation in sports technology and delivering products and solutions to enhance athlete performance and also serve general fitness and health consumers, the institute said in a statement.
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CESSA will create and deliver products and solutions across media platforms and work with sporting federations and bodies to increase fan engagement.
Besides, CESSA will be establishing an incubator ecosystem for sports tech start-ups. This will be supported by interdisciplinary faculties accomplished in the fields of modelling, data science, IoT and AI and wearables and biomechanics.
IIT Madras said that the centre will deliver high-quality sports science and education courses and sports coaching products targeted at students and coaches through various strategic collaborations with IIT Madras’ credibility, expertise, content and certification.
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Over the next few years, CESSA will also take the lead in carrying out research in sports science and analytics in collaboration with leading institutes in the world.
CESSA is already collaborating with leading institutes nationally and globally focussed in the field of Sports science, technology and engineering including the Sports Authority of India, the National Center for Sports Science Research, Inspire Institute of Sports, Northwestern University and the University of Birmingham.
It aims to incubate 25 start-ups a year and serve to develop a central data, insights and analytics hub to provide sports-related analytics service to various stakeholders in the sports industry worldwide.
The centre is being set up with support from the ‘Institute of Eminence initiative of the Government of India.
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