Rahul Suresh Vishwakarma (4th year dual degree student in EERC) working under the supervision of Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla won the Excellent Young Researcher Award for the best poster presentation for his research work on Analysis of Hill Slope Buildings for Twist Variation with Change in Aspect Ratio at the 17th International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia at IIIT-Hyderabad from 12 to 14 December.
1st Year UG Student Mukund Choudhary is one of the top 20 finalists selected through a rigorous 2-stage jury process among 470 submissions from 60 countries to attend the prestigious 10th Global Peter Drucker forum in Vienna from 29 – 30 November. He also received travel funding to attend the award ceremony.
Dr. Ravi Kiran S and Yashaswi Verma were awarded the IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) – Best Doctoral Dissertation Award during the ICVGIP 2018 Conference held from 18 – 22 December at IIIT-Hyderabad. The awardees were given a citation and a cash prize for their achievement. The dissertation topic of Dr. Ravi Kiran S was Deep learning for hand-drawn sketches: Analysis, synthesis and cognitive process models.
Prof. Vishal Garg received the Arthur H Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Award from the Global Cool Cities Alliance in California, USA. The Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) has established an award to honor the legacy and impact of Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld’s advocacy for cooler buildings, cooler cities, and a cooler planet. Dr. Rosenfeld was a founder of GCCA and a tireless advocate for building materials that improve thermal comfort and make a positive impact on global climate change.
Dr. K S Rajan has been invited to be the Associate Editor of Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS). It is the premier publication of the Society and has been in publication since 1973. Over the last decade, it became an international journal with Springer publishing and distributing it world over.