The AISRF is Australia’s largest fund dedicated to bilateral science cooperation and will help build links between Australia and India’s top universities, research institutions and the end users of scientific innovation.

In the 2019-20 financial year, the Indian student market was estimated to be worth 6.6 billion dollars to the country’s economy.

Experts say that at this rate of admission, Indian students will surely overtake Chinese students as the largest group on campus within the next three years.

8 million students would be spending as much as $85 billion in online overseas higher education

As the founding chair of Women in Maths, Prof. Rao has put in place several initiatives to improve gender equity within the mathematical sciences in Australia.

Their projects aim to solve the high energy usage of Internet of Things (IoT) communication networks and to improve petrochemical refinery wastewater treatment.

More than 17,000 Indian students are out of Australia while 48,000 are studying onshore during the pandemic.

“I specifically took up with Minister Payne the problems faced by Indian students in Australia because We have heard a lot from them and I think their frustrations, their feelings, are completely understandable."

"I get chills and tears in my eyes when I think of those times. I have nightmares and have been seeking counselling from my university.”

WELL DONE TO ALL THE STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHO TOOK UP THE CHALLENGE, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS