Scientific fields covered by the RTG Big Data Research

The core of the RTG Big Data Research Program is to train PhD students and to facilitate bilateral exchange between Indian researchers from affiliated partner organisations and scientists from Heidelberg University working in the field. The curriculum for the students is comprised of projects in the area of big data research in the context of different scientific areas, such as:

Biology and Life Sciences
Mathematics
Computer Science

In these areas, the program allows students to acquire competences in the following methodologies:

Bioinformatics/Computational biology
Mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization
Image processing
Machine learning
Data visualization
Text analytics
Data mining
Algorithms for big data processing
High-performance computing
Parallel and distributed computing
Cloud computing

and related areas.

In 2018 the first three students joint the program. The program runs five years. Each year the scientific board selects up to ten students and three postdoctoral researchers.