Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has appointed Ramesh Kumar, former ESPN Vice President and Head of ESPN (India and South Asia) and Global Head of ESPNcricinfo, because the Chief Executive Officer of Center of Excellence in Sports Science and Analytics (CESSA), as per the press launch. 

The institute stated that the Center of Excellence in Sports Science and Analytics at IIT Madras can be a world platform for fostering innovation in sports activities technology and ship merchandise and options to boost athlete efficiency and in addition serve common health and health shoppers. It can even create and ship merchandise and options throughout media platforms and work with sporting federations and our bodies (creating their platforms and enhancing on floor expertise and dealing with different media platforms) to extend fan engagement.

CESSA can even be establishing an Incubator ecosystem for Sport Tech start-ups. This can be supported by inter-disciplinary schools achieved within the area of modelling, knowledge science, IoT and AI and wearables and biomechanics. The middle can even ship prime quality Sports science and schooling programs and sports activities teaching merchandise focused at college students and coaches via numerous strategic collaborations with IIT Madras’ credibility, experience, content material and certification.

Over the subsequent few years, CESSA can even take the lead in finishing up cutting-edge analysis in sports activities science and analytics in collaboration with main institutes on the earth.

“We are delighted that CESSA will be led by Ramesh, an industry veteran with a proven track record of impact. This aligns with our commitment to be at the forefront of sports tech helping athletes, coaches and all stakeholders,” Mahesh Panchagnula, dean, Alumni and Corporate Relations), IIT Madrasand, Head of CESSA stated. 

Ramesh Kumar, an alumnus of IIT Madras (BTech (ME), 1992 Batch) comes with greater than three a long time of trade expertise with an preliminary company stint with the Tata Group in India and near 24 years within the sports activities trade. He has been offering management to drive international digital management, innovation and development of the world’s no 1 digital sports activities model ‘ESPNcricinfo’. He additionally drove general strategic management for ESPN India and South Asia operations.

“I am excited to join the Center and leverage the deep tech knowledge and domain strengths in the fields of AI, ML, data science, IoT/sensors,  computer vision technology and biomechanical analysis to envision solutions and products for sportspersons, general athletes, media platforms, sports fans, sporting federations and players in the sports education domain,” Ramesh Kumar, CEO, Center of Excellence in Sports Science and Analytics (CESSA), IIT Madras, stated.

CESSA is already collaborating with main institutes nationally and globally focussed within the area of Sports science, know-how and engineering together with Sports Authority of India, National Center for Sports Science Research, Inspire Institute of Sports, Northwestern University and University of Birmingham.