Images: Top: a view of the Centre for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) at IIT Madras 
Bottom: From Left: Sudha Gopalakrishnan,  Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, Prof. K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the Government of India, and IIT Madras alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan, at the inauguration of the  Brain Centre on March 19 2022: 
Chennai,March 20, 2022: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras  saw the inauguration yesterday, of  a  brain research centre. To be called the ‘Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre’ it is planned  as a global centre for human brain research with transformative impact in the fields of science and medicine. Prof Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam of IIT Madras, who will be head of the Centre.
The centre which is  supported by  Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, an alumnus of  IIT-M  and his wife Sudha Gopalakrishnan,  was inaugurated by Prof K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India who said: ““The combination of IIT Madras, which has the expertise in science and data analysis, with medicine is going to be revolutionary. Going forward, we have an extraordinary problem in Neuroscience, i.e. on the functioning of human brain. We are at an earlier stage in our understanding of the human brain functioning. The IIT Madras brain centre will help in solving complex issues that will benefit the world.”
Added IIT Madras Director, Prof V Kamakoti: “ “The Brain Research Centre is a great case study which proves that technology can contribute to medicine and solve societal problems. The Centre will make deep in-roads in collecting data for brain research,” congratulating the researchers.”.
There is no full mapping done on the human brain yet. By means of microscopic study IIT Madras will do this research. 10 IIT professors, 30 researchers, renowned professors of the world and 25 global researchers have associated with the Institute for the research.
The first ongoing project of the centre titled ‘Computational and Experimental Platform: for High-Resolution Terapixel Imaging of ex-vivo Human Brains’ for high-throughput light microscopic imaging of whole human brains is supported by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Through this project, the centre has developed a high-throughput histology pipeline that processes whole human brains into high-resolution digital images. Using this technology platform, the centre is imaging post-mortem human brains of different types and ages. The centre has already acquired whole-brain serial-section, cell-resolution volumes of three developing brains to date.
IIT Madras is already home to the Centre for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) whose goal is  to explore the interface between Neuroscience and Engineering disciplines. A two-way interaction is envisaged, where an understanding of the brain can help drive significant technological advances, and in turn engineering tools can help analyze and probe neural circuits. Within this overall vision, CCBR pursue two broad areas of activity:
Analysis of the structure and activity of neural circuits:This includes the analysis of big data sets related to whole brain measurements of neuronal connectivity and activity, the development of new technologies for data acquisition, and the theoretical understanding of these data to derive underlying principles.
Brain-inspired hardware and software architectures:This includes research into improving hardware efficiency (speed and energy consumption) based on insights from studying neural circuits, developing next generation algorithms, software and hardware for machine intelligence, and improving the robustness and programmability of software systems.