Anis Fatema, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain received the Best women-owned business pitch and Best overall pitch award at the WiSe-YP Big Idea Pitch Competition and a prize money of $400 at the IEEE Applied Sensors Conference 2023 (IEEE APSCON 2023) held at Bengaluru on 24 January.
G V Ihita, MS student in SPCRC working on IoT security for smart cities under the guidance of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, was selected as a representative of the Indian delegation and the Generation Connect initiative to attend United Nations agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-D Study Group-2 meeting at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 – 9 December 2022.
Research work by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded first prizes for their oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS – 2022), held from 22 – 23 December at Bengaluru, for their research work on:
1. Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Across Three Waves in India – Dr. Nita Parekh and her student Kushagra Agarwal.
2. Evaluating Generalizability of Deep Learning Models Using Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset – Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli.
Fourth-year students, Sriram Devata and Kanakala Ganesh Chandan, won the first and second prizes respectively. Rohit Modee, a Ph.D scholar was also awarded for methodology for innovative usage of ML irrespective of performance of the framework used. Sandeep Nagar, a Ph.D student, was also awarded for the best team name at a conference on Machine Learning for Molecular Sciences (ML4SCIENCE 2023), was held at Germanus Springs Resort at Kodaikanal from 9 – 12 March.
Team Vayu, consisting of Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE); Sara Spandhana (MS, ECE); Om Kathalkar and Shreyas Gujar (Interns, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC won the Environment Sensing Project Competition (2022) while team AirIoT comprising Ayu Parmar (MS, ECE); Nitin Nilesh (MS, CSE) and Ritik Yelekar (Intern, College Research Affiliate Program – IoT) from SPCRC and SCRC, made it to the short-list. The event was organized by the MegaSense team, University of Helsinki.
