The KBC Research Foundation Pvt Ltd (KBCRF) was established in the year 2000 in Chennai, promoted by K B Chandrasekhar and aimed at carrying out applied R&D in cutting edge areas of science and engineering, leading to the generation of Intellectual Property of economic and societal value. Towards this goal, KBCRF set up the AU-KBC Research Centre (the Centre) in Anna University Chennai (the University) through an MoU with the University, and the Centre today represents a novel and unique initiative in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) in Indian R&D. The KBCRF is formed to foster high quality research in the fields of Information sciences (focussed on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL)) and Life Sciences. Towards this goal an MOU between KBCRF and Anna University was made to establish a world class research organization, AU-KBC Research Centre.