Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bengaluru Campus

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

July 2012

• Ms. Vineetha K.V.,Ms. Shinu M.R.,Ms. Radha D.,Mr. S. Ullas and Mr. Saravanan S. attended an ISTE Workshop on Computer Networking, under the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD (Govt. of India),organized by IIT, Bombay at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru from 30th June to 5th July, 2014.
• Dr. J. Amudha, Dr. K. Sangeeta, Dr. Rakesh N., Ms. Tripty Singh, Ms. Radha D., Ms. Sangita Khare and Ms. Santhanalakshmi S. attended a ISTE Workshop on Cyber Security, under the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD(Govt. of India), organized by IIT, Bombay in Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru at 10th July.

June 2012

• Ms. Supriya M., Ms. Uma Maheswari, Ms. Priyadharshini, Mr. S. Ullas, and Ms. Sreevidya B. attended ISTE Workshop on Computer Programming, under the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD (Govt. of India),by IIT, Bombay from 16th to 21st June, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

March 2012

• Ms. Chandrika K. R. attended the National Conference on Cloud Computing & Enterprise Networks at AMC Engineering College from 24-25 March, 2012.
• Dr. TSB Sudarshan, Mr. Radhakrishnan and Mr. A. A. Nippun Kumar attended the SAP Faculty Day at SAP Labs, Bangalore on 16th March 2012.
• Ms. Sangita Khare, Ms. K. V. Vidya, Ms. Juhi Srivastava, Ms. Meena Belwal attended the IBM Women’s event on 14th March 2012 at ASE Bangalore.

February 2012

• Mr. A. A. Nippun Kumaar attended the workshop on “Writing a Conference paper “organized by IIT Bombay through A-View from 18-19 Feb, 2012.

December 2011

• Mr. A. A. Nippun Kumaar presented a paper titled “Sensor Counter Approach for a Mobile Robot to navigate a path using programming by demonstration” at the International Conference on Communication technology and system design – ICCTSD ’11 held at Amrita School of Engineering , Ettimadai from 7th -9th December 2011.
• Mr. A. A. Nippun Kumar , Mr. Rajesh and Ms. Vineetha Jain attended the International Conference on “Wireless Technology for Humanitarian Relief “ at ASE , Amritapuri from 19-20 December, 2011.

November 2011

• Mr. A. A. NIppun Kumaar presented a paper titled “Mobile Robot Programming by Demonstration “ at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology – ICETET’11 held at Le Meridian , Mauritius , from 18th to 20th November 2011.

November 2012

• Ms. Juhi Srivastava, Ms. Sreebha B., Ms. Shinu M. R., Ms. Chandrika K. R., and Mr. Rajesh M. attended the conference workshops conducted by ISOC and Inet Society on topics such as Ethical Hacking, Mobile Application Development and IPV6 from 5-6 November, 2012.

September 2010

• Ms. Supriya, Ms. Santhanalakshmi and Ms. Vanithamani V attended the ACM Conference on Women in Computing from 16th 17th September 2010 held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai.

July 2010

• Ms. Vineetha Jain and Ms. Mamtha V. attended the AICTE MHRD sponsored Summer School on Cloud Computing and Virtualization from 12th 18th July 2010.
• Ms. Divyaprabha K. N. and Ms. Kavitha C.R. attended the Faculty Enablement Programme on Business Intellegence and its Applications sponsored by Infosys from 12th 16th July 2010 held at Infosys Campus, Bangalore.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

September 2017

• Ms. Suja P reviewed one research paper for the international journal "IET Image Processing" and two research papers for the "Third International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS 2017)" which will be held during 13-16 September 2017 at Manipal University, Karnataka.

October 2015

• Ms. Suja P reviewed five papers for "The second International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS'15)" to be held at IIITM-K during 16^th-19^thDecember 2015, which is organized by IIITM-K and ACM.

September 2015

A chapter titled Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Breast Cancer Detection was co-authored by

• Dr.Tripty Singh:

  DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9530-6.ch015

  • Dr.TriptySingh
    Source title: Optimizing Assistive Technologies for Aging Populations
    Authors:  Arun Kumar Wadhwani (Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, India), SulochanaWadhwani (Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, India) and Tripty Singh (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India) Copyright © 2016. 18 pages.   ISBN13: 9781466695306|ISBN10: 1466695307|EISBN13: 9781466695313|

August 2015

• Dr. Rakesh N
  • Invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for 2^nd International Conference on Marine, Ocean and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (MAROCENET'2016) to be held on March 15, 2016 in Bandung Indonesia.

July 2015

• Dr. Tripty Singh:
  1. Reviewed paper titled “An Improved Approach for Automatic Denoising and Binarization of Degraded Document Images Based on Region Localization” for IET Image Processing Journal.
  2. Served as ‘Technical Program Committee Member’ at International Conference on “Signal Processing & Data Mining” held at Istanbul, Turkey during 26^th-28^th July, 2015.
  3. Completed editorial assignment for STME Journal as Editorial Board Member in July 2015.
• Dr. Rakesh N.:
  1. Invited to serve as ‘Technical Program Committee Member’ for:
     • 2015 International Conference on “Control Theory and Its Application (CNTIA)” to be held during 15^th - 17^th December, 2015 in Vietnam
     • International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications 2015 to be  held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during October 14^th -16^th, 2015.    
     • IEEE Eighth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 -2015) which will be organized during 20^th-22^nd August 2015, Noida, India.
  2. Invited to serve as ‘Designated Reviewer’ for:
     •  2015 International Conference on Machine Learning and Signal Processing (MALSIP) to be held during 15^th - 17^th December, 2015 in Melaka, Malaysia.
     • 2015 Advancement Research on Biotechnology, and Biofuels International Conference (AR2BIO2015), will be held in Medan, Indonesia during 8^th - 10^th December, 2015.         
• Mr.Ullas upon invitation gave a talk on “Etherchannel and Layer2 Redundancy” during a workshop on Communication networks held in IISc. on 18^th July 2015.

June 2015

• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. was an External Examiner for a Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam conducted at Department of CSE, R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru on 24^th June, 2015
• Dr. N. Rakesh
  • Was invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for:
    • ICCAT'  2015 ( International Conference on Computer Applications & Technology), will be held on 5^th-7^th  November 2015,Venue: Crowne Plaza St. Peter's Rome, Italy.
    • 7^th International Ultra ModernTelecommucations and Control Systems, 06^th -8^th October 2015,Brno, Czech Republic.
    • Nominated as an Examiner to evaluate the M.S/M.Tech (By Research) Thesis, Anna University, Chennai 600 025. India.
• Ms. Nalini Sampath
  • Ms. Nalini Sampath attended a Hands-on Workshop on IoT. The two day workshop conducted by IISc. in unison with Intel was held between 27^th-28^thJune, 2015. The workshop emphasized on topics like Galileo and Arduino Boards.
• Dr. Tripty Singh
  • Joined the Reviewer Committee: The Fourth International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT::2015) FGCT 2015, 4th International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies, United Kingdom, Luton, 29^th- 31^stJuly 2015.

May 2015

Has been invited to serve in the ‘Technical Program Committee’ for:

• Dr.Sudarshan T S B
  1. Attending a meeting on 8^th May, 2015 with ITU (International Telecommunication Union) - APFI members for 150^th Anniversary celebration at Bengaluru
  2. Has been included in the core group committee of ITU - Asia Pacific Telecommunity Foundation of India
  3. Has been invited to be a Reviewer for the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section.
• Dr. Tripty Singh
  1. Has been invited to be in the Technical Program Committee for:
     •  ICACCI Special Session on Multimedia Security and Forensics. 2015tobe held in Kochi, Kerala, India during August 10^th-13^th, 2015.
     • International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA) 2015 which was  held on 26^th - 28^th May 2015 at Kuala Lumpur.
  2. Appointed as a ‘Reviewer Board Member’ for IJCSN International Journal of Computer Science and Network ISSN No-2277-5420 Impact Factor - 1.417. IJCSN Articles Indexed By Elsevier.
• Dr. N. Rakesh

  Has been invited to serve in the ‘Technical Program Committee’ for:

  • • IEEE 2015 Advanced Research in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology (ARiEET2015), 24^th - 26^th November 2015 in Bandung, Indonesia.    
    • IEEE 7^th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, CICSyN2015 3rd – 5^th June 2015, Riga, Latvia.
    • International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME’15), held in Kochi, Kerala, India during 10th-13^thAugust, 2015.       
    • Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2015)), to be held in Kochi, India during August 10^th-13^th, 2015.
  1. Invited to serve as Designated Reviewer for 2015 International Symposium on Sciences and Mathematics (ISySM2015) 24^th– 26^thNovember 2015 in Bandung, Indonesia. 
  2. Attended Computer Society of India Coordinators & Students branch meet on 9^th May 15 held at CSI-Bangalore Chapter Office, Infantry Road, Bangalore.

April 2015

• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B.
  • Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. reviewed a manuscript for Springer International Journal “Circuits and Signal Processing Systems”
  • Invited to be a member of Technical Program Committee of the 16^th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS) 2015 to be held on Nov 4^th - 7^th 2015 in Mokpo, Korea.
  • Invited to serve as Technical Program Committee member for 2^nd International Workshop on Mobile Applications to be held during  24^th -26^th of August 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.
• Dr. Sangeeta K.
  • Invited to serve as Technical Program Committee member for International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications SSCC 2015, reviewed  papers  for the conferences which would be held during August, 2015 at Kochi, Kerala. 
• Ms. Supriya M.
  • Invited to serve as Technical Program Committee member for International  Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications SSCC 2015 and International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications  ISTA 2015 and reviewed  papers  for the conferences which would be held during August, 2015 at Kochi, Kerala. 
• Ms. Santhanalakshmi S.
  • Invited to serve as Technical Program Committee member for International  Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications SSCC 2015 ,reviewed  papers  for the conferences which would be  held during August, 2015 at Kochi, Kerala. 
• Dr. N. Rakesh:
  • Invited to serve as a member of “Technical program committee” for IEEE Globecom 2015 - San Diego, CA, USA to be held during 6^th-10^th December 2015.         
  • Invited to serve as “Designated Reviewer” for IEEE GAME PHYSICS AND MECHANICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015 to be held during 25^th - 27^th August, 2015 at Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia.
  • Invited to serve as “Designated Reviewer” and reviewed technical papers for IEEE 2015 Progress in Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering (PIAMSE) to be held during 29^th September - 01^st October, 2015 at Bali, Indonesia.           
  • Invited to serve as “Technical program committee” and reviewed technical papers for International Symposium for Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, to be  held in Kochi, Kerala, India during August 10^th-13^th, 2015.
  • Invited to serve as “Technical program committee” and reviewed papers for 2015 IEEE International Advance Computing Conference June 12^th-13^th, 2015 B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.
• Dr. Tripty Singh:
  • Reviewed Research Paper “Image Super-resolution based on the Dictionary Selected Learning and Bilateral Regularized” IPR-2015-0046 for IET journal on Image Processing.
  • Invited as a member of Technical Program Committee for 2015 IEEE CGVIS. 
    This conference is scheduled to be held on Nov 2-3, 2015 at KIIT University, 
    Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
  • Joined as Editorial Board Member for:
    • International Journal of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
    • International Journal of Distributed Computing and Technology
    • International Journal of Massive Parallel Processing and Grid Computing

March 2015

• Dr. N. Rakesh Was invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for the:
  • 2nd International Conference on Wireless Communication Systems and Networks,which will be held in Barcelona, Spain during 22nd - 24th June, 2015.
  • IEEE GSCIT 2015, a Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology from 11th to 13th June, 2015 in Sousse, Tunisia.
  • IEEE 2015 International Conference on Single Processing & Data Mining from 26th to 28th July, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Dr. Tripty Singh:
  • Completed the editorial assignments as Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Image Processing and Vision Science (IJIPVS) and also for “Research & Reviews: Journal of Embedded System & Applications”, STME Journal.
  • Joined as Technical Program Committee Member for GSCIT' 2015 ( Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology), which will be held from 11th to 13 June, 2015 in Sousse, Tunisia. GSCIT' 2015 is a Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology technically co-sponsored by IEEE Tunisia Section.
• Ms. Nalini S. attended a one week ISTE Workshop for Coordinators on “Introduction of Design of Algorithms” held from 16th to 20th March, 2015 in IIT Kharagpur. The workshop was conducted as a part of an initiative taken by IIT Kharagpur to work with Engineering College in India to enhance teaching skills of faculty colleagues in core Engineering and Science subjects under Train Ten Thousand Teachers Programme. This is an initiative of "National Mission on Education through ICT‟ which is supported by MHRD. The workshop emphasized on topics like Elements of Algorithm Analysis, Design Methods, Data Structure, Searching, Sorting, Basic Graph Algorithms, Matrix and String Problems,Combinational Optimization and NP-Completeness, Approximation and Randomization. The trained coordinators will be the Workshop coordinators during the main workshop liaising between the participants at their Remote Centers and IIT Kharagpur from where the lecture is transmitted live.

February 2015

• Dr. Tirumale Ramesh:
  • Upon invitation has accepted to serve as the General Conference Chair for the International Conference on Computing and Network Communications to be held during December 16th -19th, 2015 at Techno Park, Trivandrum hosted by Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K). The conference is seeking technical sponsorship from IEEE computer and communication societies and IEEE for inclusion of the conference proceedings in the IEEE Xplore.
  • Has been nominated as Vice- Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter.
• Ms. Suja P. presented her first open seminar on 25th February, 2015 on the research topic “Emotion recognition from facial expressions using images”.
• Dr. N. Rakesh:
  • Was invited to serve as “Designated Reviewer” for Advanced Research in Material Sciences, Manufacturing, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Technology International Conference (AR4MET2015) to be held during 2nd - 4th June, 2015 at Bali,Indonesia.
  • Was invited to serve as “Designated Reviewer” for International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA) to be held during 26th -28th May, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
  • Was invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for:
    • IEEE 17th International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation, UKSim2015 to be held during 25th - 27th March, 2015 at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), UK.
    • Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks to be held during July 7th -10th, 2015 at Sapporo, Japan.
    • 13th International Conference on Wired & Wireless Internet Communications to be held during May 25th -27th, 2015 at Málaga, Spain.
    • International Conference on Marine Science and Environmental Engineering(MAROCENET) to be held during 9th - 11th June, 2015 at Phuket, Thailand.
• Dr. Tripty Singh:
  • Was invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for:
  • International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA) 2015 and reviewed Research paper entitled “Simplified Parameter-Transformation for Guaranteeing Variable-Filter Stability” to be held during 26th - 28th May, 2015 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • IEEE SPICES 2015: IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing,Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems An International Conference by IEEE Kerala Section and National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC) during 19th -21st February, 2015
  • International Conference on e-Quality & e-Service Sciences, EQeSS' 2015 held at Dubai, UAE during 24th -25th February, 2015

  January 2015

  • Dr. Tripty Singh:
    • Had defended her thesis on “A Computer Aided Medical Expert System for Diagnosis of Breast Cancer” under guidance of Dr. Sarita Badauria, Dr. S. Wadhwani and Dr. A.K.Wadhwani and has been awarded the Ph.D. degree by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalay.
    • Joined as "Technical Program Committee Member‟ and reviewed papers for the International Conferences:
      • on "Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME-2015)‟
      • on "Computer Vision and Image Analysis applications ICCVIA 2015‟
      • on "Solar Energy and Building (ICSoEB‟ 2014)‟
  • Dr. Tripty Singh, along with her Ph.D Supervisors has submitted a chapter - “Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Breast Cancer Detection” to IGI global, which has been accepted for publication. IGI Global is a privately held publishing company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, that publishes journals, books, encyclopedias, and teaching cases in information Science, Computer Science and Information and Technology Management.
  • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan along with Dr. N.S. Murty from the Department of ECE attended the International Conference on "VLSI Design‟ from 5th to 7th January, 2015 in Bengaluru on a special invitation.

  December 2014

  • Dr. Amudha J. participated in the Faculty Colloquium on “IoT Intel India Innovation Conclave 2014” held on 9th & 10th December, 2014 at Hotel Leela Palace, Bengaluru.
  • Dr. N. Rakesh:
    • Was invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for the following International Conferences:
      • IEEE First International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME‟15), which will be held in Kochi during 10th - 13th August, 2015.
      • IEEE 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'15), which will be held in Dubai, UAE during 19th - 21st October, 2015.
      • IEEE ENCINS' 2015 (2015 IC Engineering & Computational Innovative Sciences) in Casablanca, Morocco, which will be held during 20th - 23rd April, 2015.
      • University of Human Development Second International Conference on Computing and Information Technology 2015 (UHDComp'15), Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which will be held during 1st - 2nd April, 2015.
      • IEEE 2015 Asia Pacific Conference on Multimedia and Broadcasting (APMediaCast 2015). The conference will be held at Grand Inna Kuta Bali Indonesia during 23rd -25th April, 2015.
    • Attended IEEE Workshop on “FINE- Fellow Identification & Nomination Exercise” on 20th December, 2014 held at Hotel Matthan, Bengaluru.

  November 2014

  • Dr. N. Rakesh was:
    • Invited to serve as “Designated Reviewer” for the:
      • IEEE 2015 1st International Conference on Telematics and Future Generation Networks (TAFGEN 2015) to be held during May 26th-28th, 2015 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
      • IEEE WoWMoM 2015 Sixteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia networks to be held during June 14th-17th, 2015 at Boston, MA, USA.
    • Invited to serve as “Technical Program Committee Member” for IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA‟15) to be held during August 10th-13th, 2015 at Kochi, India.
  • Ms. Sangita Khare, Ms. Bhargavi Upadhyay and Ms. Meena Belwal attended the National Workshop on “Electronic System Level Design and Verification” on the 14th and 15th of November, 2014. The workshop was organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

  October 2014

  • Ms. Tripty Singh was invited to be a Technical Program Committee member at the:
    • International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference 2014 at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia held between 28th September & 1st October, 2014.
    • International Symposium on Research of Arts, Design and Humanities (ISRADH 2014) Universiti Teknologi MARA 40450 Shah AlamSelangor, MALAYSIA held between 28th September & 1st October, 2014.
  • Dr. Rakesh N.:
    • Was invited to serve as as “Technical Program Committee Member” for:
      • IEEE IBP 2015 (International Broadband and Photonics Conference 2015). IBP 2015 to be held during 23rd-25th April, 2015 in Bali, Indonesia.
      • eQeSS 2015 (2015 International Conference on e-Quality & e-Service Sciences). The conference will be held during 24th - 25th February, 2015 in Dubai, UAE.
      • IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) will be held in Aluva, Kochi, India during 10th to 13th August, 2015.
    • Invited to serve as “Program Committee Member” and he also reviewed technical papers for the VLSI-SATA 2015 (International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology and Applications) Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham, School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus to be held between 8th & 10th January, 2015.
    • Invited to serve as a “PEER REVIEWER” for 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (2015 IEEE ICECCT) which is scheduled during 5th - 7th March, 2015 at SVS College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
    • Invited to serve as “International Review Committee Member” and he also has reviewed technical papers for IEEE ICCCI - International Conference on Computer, Communication and Informatics 2015, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India which will be held during 8th-10th January, 2015.

  September 2014

  • Ms. Tripty Singh:
    Was a Technical Program Committee Member of:
    • InCIEC 2014 (International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference 2014), IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications held at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia from 28th September to 1st October, 2014.
    • The Third International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014) and Third International Symposium Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP-2014) held at Greater Noida, India from 24th - 27th September, 2014.
    • International Symposium on Research of Arts, Design and Humanities (ISRADH 2014) held at University Teknologi MARA, Selangor, MALAYSIA from 28th September to 1st October, 2014.
    • Completed the review of a research paper for IET Image Processing in September 2014.
    • Was responsible for the Editing and formatting work for International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics for Vol. 14, Issue No.1, 2014.
  • Dr. Rakesh N.:
    • Was invited to serve as a “Technical Program Committee Member” and reviewed:
      • twenty one technical papers for 8th European Modelling Symposium, EMS2014, Pisa, Italy to be held from 21st to 23rd October, 2014.
      • two technical papers for 10th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'14) which will be held in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates between 9th & 11th November, 2014.
    • Was invited to serve as “Designated Reviewer” for the IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems 2015 (IEEE SPICES 2015). The conference will be held in National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode, Kerala, India during 19th -21st February, 2015.
    • Was invited to serve as “Program Committee Member” for:
      • International Conference on Web & Open Access to Learning - ICWOAL'2014 to be held from 25th to 27th November, 2014 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He has reviewed four technical paper for the Conference.
      • IEEE International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (ICCCT 2014), to be held during 11th -13th December, 2014 at Hyderabad, India. He has reviewed two technical papers for the Conference.

  August 2014

  • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
    • Represented the university at Nokia on 20th August, 2014. The events at Nokia included Technology Talks by senior members of Nokia and tech demos. There was a meeting on improving Industry-University linkage.
    • Was invited as Chief Guest for the inauguration of the 3-day Workshop on “Multicore Architectures, Multithreading and Programming” on 21st August, 2014 at Acharya Institution, Bangalore. He delivered a keynote address on "Multicore Architectures: Progress in Parallelism".
    • Has been invited to be Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets 2014, to be held in Taj Vivanta,Bangalore between 15th & 17th October, 2014.
  • Dr. Tirumale Ramesh:
    • Delivered a keynote talk on “Security and Trust- New Challenges to Computing Today in Cyber Space" in the 7th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, August 7-9, 2014, Noida, India.
    • Was invited to give a talk on "Cyber Security and Trust" at ITS Engineering College, Greater Noida, 8th August, 2014.
  • Ms. Tripty Sigh:
    • Member of Technical Program Committee for first International Conference on Networks & Soft Computing- 2014(ICNSC -14), Department of CSE, Vignan University, Vadlamudi, Guntur Dist - 522 213, Andhra Pradesh, India held on 19-20 August, 2014.
    • Member of Technical Program Committee for the Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2014). The University of Bedfordshire is based in Bedford and Luton, the two largest towns in Bedfordshire, England held on 13-15 August, 2014.
    • Reviewed research paper for IET Image processing Journal.
  • Dr. Rakesh N.:
    Has been invited to serve as a Technical Programme Committee Member for
    • Eighth Asia International Conference on Mathematical Modeling & Simulation, Taipei, Taiwan, during 23-25 September, 2014.
    • IEEE 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and applications in Engineering and Technology, ICAIET2014), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (Malaysia)during 3-5 December, 2014.
    • International Conference on Computer Applications & Aided Diagnosis ("ICCAAD‟ 2014), during 25-26 November, 2014 in Algiers, Algeria.
    • IBMSGS' 2015 (2015 International Summit on Bio-Metrics and Smart Government), Sousse, Tunisia during 18-20 January, 2015.
    • IEEE for Euro Med Telco Conference 2014, Naples (Italy) - University of Naples “Federico II” Congress Center, during 12-15 November, 2014.
    • IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICCICN 2014) during 14 -15 November 2014, Bhopal.
    • IEEE 2015 Asia-Pacific International EMC Symposium and Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, during 26-29 May, 2015.
      Has been invited to serve as Reviewer for
    • IEEE C3IT 2015: 3rd International Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Information Technology, Adisaptagram, Hooghly, WestBengal, India during 7- 8 Feb‟2015,
    • IEEE 2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium to be hosted in Zadar, Croatia, 13 - 15 April, 2015
  • Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B., Mr. M. Rajesh and Mr. A.A. Nippun Kumaar attended IEEE Authorship Workshop on 12th August 2014 at IISc., Bangalore. The workshop was conducted by Prof. Saif Rehman and attended by IEEE members.

  July 2014

  • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
    • Reviewed a paper for Index Science Publishers, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking in July, 2014.
    • Has been nominated to be a "Technical Programme Committee Member‟ of IEEE Cloud Computing for Engineering Markets to be held in Bangalore from 15th to 17th October, 2014.
  • Dr. Rakesh N.:
    • Has been nominated as the „Technical Programme Committee Member‟ for The 2014 IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications (ISBEIA 2014) to be held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to be held during 28th September, 2014 - 1st October, 2014.
    • Has been nominated as an "Editor-in-Chief (EIC)‟ of the journal “Current Trends in Information Technology”.
    • Has been nominated as the "Technical Programme Committee Member‟ for “CIMSim 2014-Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation”, Colombo, Sri Lanka to be held during 25th - 27th September, 2014.
  • Ms. Tripty Singh:
    • joined the Program Committee for:
      • The Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2014) to be held at The University of Bedfordshire, England between 13th & 15th August, 2014.
      • The International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing Applications (ICCVIA' 2015) between 18th & 20th January, 2015 at the University of Sousse, Sousse Tunisia.
      • First International Conference on Networks & Soft Computing (ICNSC 2014) which will be organized by Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology & Research, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh with the Technical Sponsorship of IEEE Hyderabad Section on 19th & 20th August, 2014.
      • Served as Editorial & Review Committee Member for International Conference on Applied Information Technology and Computer Science (ICAITCS – 2014) held on 20th & 21st of June, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
    • Member of Technical Program Committee for:
      • WSMEAP' 2014 (World Symposium on Mechatronics Engineering & Applied Physics), held at the beach city of Sousse, Tunisia, between 18th & 20th June, 2014.
      • ICOST 2014, 12th International Conference on Smart homes, Assistive Technologies, Robotics and Health Telematics Denver, CO, USA, held between 25th & 27th of June, 2014.
      • Third International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SPPR - 2014)" held on 26th & 27th July, 2014 at Chennai, India.
    • Served as an Editorial Board Member for editing a manuscript for the STME Journal.
    • Reviewed a paper for
      • International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics in July, 2014.
      • International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics ISSN:1694-2507 (Print) on 7th June, 2014.

  June 2014

  • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan
    • attended the meeting of the Board of Studies of Department of Computer Science & Engineering, MSRIT in the capacity of "Member, BoS‟ on 27th June, 2014 at MSRIT, Bengaluru.
    • Met Prof. Lallie, University of Warwick, UK to discuss about International Conference on Pedagogy for Computer Science & Engineering at Bangalore Club on Wednesday, 11th June, 2014.
  • Dr. Tirumale K. Ramesh upon invitation, presented a talk on “Cyber Hardware SecurityThen and Now for Computing” at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Information Science held between 26th & 28th June, 2014 at Kollam, India.
  • Ms. Supriya M. attended a workshop on “THINK PARALLEL : Parallel Programming for Engineers & Scientists” organized by C-DAC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru from 23 June, 2014 at C-DAC, Bengaluru.

  May 2014

  • Ms. Tripty Singh:
    • Served as Technical Programme Committee Member for the IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineerin (CHUSER 2014) held between 7th & 9th April, 2014 at Secretariat Universiti Teknologi MARA 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia.
    • Served as Technical Programm Committee Member for the International Colloquiumon Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering & Technology (ICoSSEET 2014), Penang, Malaysia held between 7th & 9th April, 2014.
    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya:
      • Was chosen as an International Program Committee Member for the IEEE Third International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2014) held at the Faculty of Engineering, ¨C Lebanese University, Campus of Hadath, Beirut,¨C Lebanon held between 29th April & 1st May, 2014.
      • Was chosen as an International Program Committee Member of the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2014) held at University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand between 6th & 8th May, 2014.
      • Was chosen as Program Committee Member for the 2014 International Conferenceon Materials Engineering and Environment Science (MEES 2014) held on 10th &11th May, 2014 at Changsha, China.
      • Was chosen as the Program Committee Member for the 2014 International Conference on Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (MME 2014) held on 10th & 11th May, 2014 in Changsha, China.
      • Was chosen as the Program Committee Member for the 2nd International Conference on Materials Engineering (ICMEN2014) held on 17th &18th May, 2014 in Nanjing, China.
      • Was chosen as Technical Program Committee Member for the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies, held from 27th to 29th May, 2014 at Bandung. Indonesia.
    • Mr. Rajesh M. attended the ISTE coordinator‟s workshop on „Computer Networking‟ at IIT, Bombay from 5 th to 9 th May, 2014. In continuation of this, a workshop on the same will be conducted through Distance Education mode at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru between 30th June & 5th July, 2014.
    • Ms. Supriya M. attended the ISTE coordinator‟s workshop on „Cyber Security‟ at IIT, Bombay held between 17 th & 21 st May, 2014. In continuation of this, a workshop on the same will be conducted through Distance Education mode at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru from 10th to 20th July, 2014.

    April 2014

    • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
      • has been nominated as a member of the Board of Studies for the M.Tech. Programs in CSE, ES, Robotics and Automation.
      • has been invited to be a member of Technical Program Committee for International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Applied Computing to be held on 9th and 10th August, 2014 at Amritapuri Campus, Kerala.
      • is a part of the delegation visiting Yaskawa Pvt Ltd., Bengaluru to discuss about the collaboration in Robotics & Automation Program of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham with Senior Administrators of the campus. Prof. Bhavani from Ammachi Lab and Ms. Gayathri headed the delegation on 21st April, 2014.
      • has been invited to be a member of Technical Program Committee for the „International Conference on Networks and Soft Computing (ICNSC-14)‟ to be held during 19th and 20th August, 2014 in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
    • Ms. Tripty Singh is selected as a Technical Program Committee member for WSMEAP' 2014 (2014 World Symposium on Mechatronics Engineering & Applied Physics). The symposium was technically co-sponsored by IEEE Tunisia Section and was held on 7th April, 2014 in the beach city of Sousse, Tunisia.
    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattchharjya:
      • was chosen as Program Committee Member of the "2014 International Conference on Computer Science and Network Security (CSNS 2014)‟ and "Economic Management and Trade Cooperation (EMTC 2014)‟ held between 12th- 13th April, 2014 in Xi`an, China.
      • was chosen as the International Editorial Committee Member for the workshop on „Security, Sensor, Cloud & Super Computing, Grid, Parallel & Distributed Computing, Mobile and Wireless, Networking and Communication‟, held between 15th-18th April 2014 at Jeju National University International Center, Jeju Island, Korea.
      • was chosen as the International Program Committee Member of the „IEEE Third International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare, and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2014)‟ held at the Faculty of Engineering - Lebanese University, Campus of Hadath, Beirut - Lebanon held between 29th April - 1st May 2014.

    March 2014

    • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
      • has been nominated as Vice-Chair of "IEEE Robotic and Automation Society‟, Bengaluru Chapter by IEEE Bengaluru section.
      • has been invited to serve as Member, Technical Programme Committee for the "International Conference on Embedded Systems (ICES 2014)‟ scheduled on 4 & 5th July, 2014 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
      • has served as General Chair for "IEEE International Conference in the Applications of Digital Information & Web Technologies‟, which was held at PRIST University, Chennai from 17th to 19th February, 2014
    • Dr. Tirumale K. Ramesh:
      • has served on the Advisory & Technical Programme Committees of International Conference on "Advances in Computing, Communications and Information Sciences‟ to be held between 26th & 28th June, 2014 at Kollam, India and reviewed 4 papers for the conference.
    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattchharjya:
      • was one of the Programme Committee Members of the Fourth International Conference on "Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC2014)‟ that was held at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between 18th & 20th March, 2014.
      • was a Technical Programme Committee Member of "World Symposium on Web Application and Networking-WSWAN'2014‟, which was held in Hammamet, Tunisia from 22nd to 24th March , 2014.
      • is chosen as an International Programme Committee Member and reviewed four papers for the IEEE Fourth International Conference on „Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2014)‟ that will be held at University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand from 6th to 8th May, 2014
      • is chosen as an International Programme Committee Member and reviewed three papers for the IEEE Third International Conference on "Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare, and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2014)‟ that will be held at the Faculty of Engineering - Lebanese University, Campus of Hadath, Beirut - Lebanon from 29th April to 1st May, 2014.
    • Mrs. Tripty Singh
      • has been chosen as Technical Programme Committee Member of International Conference on "Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC)‟, technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and financially sponsored by Technology Innovation Association, which was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from 3rd to 6th February, 2014.
      • has been chosen as a Editorial Board Member for "Journal of Advanced Research in Construction and Architectural Engineering‟.
      • has been chosen as a Technical Programme Committee Member / Reviewer of Third International Conference on "Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIPPR - 2014)‟ held in Chennai, on 3rd March 2014.
      • was selected as a Programme Chair for the IEEE sponsored fifth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2014) which was held between 17th & 19th of February, 2014 at PRIST University, Chennai Campus.

    February 2014

    • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
      • attended the “World Ranking Summit” at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore on 25th February 2014 on an invitation, wherein results of the QS World University Ranking by Subject were announced.
      • has been invited to be a member of the Technical Program Committee for 2014International Workshop on Mobile Application (MobiApp 2014) to be held in Barcelona, Spain during 27th - 29th August, 2014.
    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya:
      • was invited as a Technical Committee Member (Part of the Organizing Committee) for the International Conference on „Remote Sensing and Wireless Communications (RSWC 2014)‟ which was held on 15th & 16th February, 2014 in Shangai.
      • reviewed two papers for IEEE Technology and Engineering Education(ITEE) in the month of February.

    January 2014

    • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
      • Visited Kalasilingam Univeristy on an invite to be part of the interaction with the delegates from "Aurel Vlaicu‟ University of Arad, Romania from 28th to 30th January, 2014.President Prof. Lizica Mihut, Rector Prof.Ramona Lile, Prof. Gabriela Keelemen, and Prof. Valentina E. Balas were the delegates.Discussion on Research Collaboration in the area of Robotics & Control and Soft Computing were held.
      • Has been invited to be "Editor-in-Chief‟ of the Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on "Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing - ARTCom 2014‟ to be held in October, 2014 in Bengaluru. He will also be the "Publication Chair‟ for the conference.
      • Has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for:
        • The 2014 International Workshop on "Design and Performance of Networks on Chip‟ to be held between 17th & 20th of August, 2014 at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on "Future Networks and Communications(FNC 2014)".
        • ICEPIT 2014 (The 2014 International Conference on "Electronic Publishing and Information Technology‟) to be held between 22nd & 24th April, 2014 at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain.
        • The International Workshop on "Computer Vision and the Internet(VisionNet‟14)‟ which is affiliated with the Third International Conference on "Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014)‟. The conference will be held from 24th - 27th September 2014 in Delhi.It is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society.
    • Dr. Tirumale Ramesh was invited and he has accepted to serve on the Technical Program Committee for the 2014 International Workshop on "Design and Performance of Networks on Chip‟ to be held between 17th & 20th of August, 2014 at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on "Future Networks and Communications (FNC 2014)‟.
    • Ms. Tripty Singh:
      • has reviewed two papers for International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics in January, 2014.
      • has reviewed a paper for IET Image Processing in January, 2014
    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya:
      • was chosen as the "Track Chair‟ for Logistics Management Track for International Conference on „Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2014)‟ which was held between the 7th & 9th January, 2014 in Bali, Indonesia.
      • was a Distinguished Guest and Technical Program Committee member at the „IC-IMPETUS 2014‟ (IEEE International Conference on IMPact of E-Technology on US 2014) held between 10th & 14th January, 2014 at PESIT, Bangalore Campus.
      • Was the Technical Program Committee Member of the World Congress on "Computer Application and Information Systems‟ held in Hammamet, Tunisia between the 17th & 19th January, 2014.

    December 2013

    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya
      • was chosen as a "Technical Programme Committee Member‟:
        • for the 2013 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM 2013) which was held in Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia, from 9th to 11th December, 2013.
        • for the 2013 Seventh International Conference on "Sensing Technology (ICST2013)‟, which was held from 3rd to 5th December, 2013 at Wellington, New Zealand.
        • for the IEEE Recent Advances in "Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS-2013)‟ which was held in Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum, Kerala, India from 19th to 21st December, 2013.
        • for the 2013 IEEE International Conference on "MOOC, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE)‟, which was held from 20th - 22nd December, 2013 in Jaipur.
      • was chosen as an "Organizing Committee Member‟ for the 3rd International Workshop on "Pervasive and Context-Aware Middleware (PerCAM13)‟ in conjunction with Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence(AmI 2013) held in Dublin, Ireland, on 3rd December, 2013.
      • was a "Program Committee Member‟ of:
        • The IEEE 2013 International Conference on "Cloud Computing and Big Data(CloudCom-Asia)‟ that was held in Fuzhou Lakeside Hotel, FuZhou, China, from 16th - 19th December, 2013.
        • The 2013 International Conference on Information and "Communication Technology for Education (ICTE 2013)‟ held on 1st & 2nd December, 2013, Singapore.
        • The 2013 International Conference on "Information Science and Cloud Computing (ISCC 2013)‟, held on 7th & 8th December, 2013 in Guangzhou, China.
    • Ms. Tripty Singh was chosen as a "Technical Program Committee Member‟ of:
      • The International Conference of 2013 IEEE Jordan Conference on "Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)‟ which was held in The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan from 3rd to 5th December, 2013
      • The International Conference of 2013 IEEE Second International Conference on "Image Information Processing (ICIIP -2013)‟ which was held in Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh during 9th - 11th December, 2013.
      • The International Conference of 2013 IEEE Colloquium on "Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER)‟. IEEE sponsors: Malaysia Section IE/IA/PEL Joint Chapter in December, 2013.
    • Dr. Tirumale Krishnaswamy Ramesh has been chosen:
      • to serve on the Editorial Board of STM Journal of "Trends in Parallel Computing‟.
      • to serve as a Reviewer for International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems.
      • to serve on the Technical Program Committee for the International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics which will be held in Penang, Malaysia on 7th & 8th April, 2014.
    • Mr. N. Rakesh has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Studies on various terrains and distance parametric influences on channel propagation‟ on 13th November, 2013 at Prist University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu under the guidance of Prof.S.K. Srivasta, Retired Professor from Anna University, Chennai.

    November 2013

    • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan
      • was chosen as a member of the Editorial Board of “Journal of Mobile Computing, Communications & Mobile Networks”.
      • was chosen as a member of the Editorial Board of “Journal of Advancement in Robotics”.
      • has been invited to be a member of Technical Program Committee for “International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems”.
    • Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya
      • was chosen as a "Technical Programme Committee Member‟ of the 3rd International Conference on "Multimedia Technology (ICMT 2013)‟, which was hosted by Ningbo University and co-sponsored by Tsinghua University. The conference was held between 29th November & 1st December, 2013 in Guangzhou, China.
      • was chosen as a "Technical Program Committee Member‟ of the 10th International Conference on "Electronics, Computer and Computation - ICECCO 2013‟ which was held between 7th & 9th November, 2013 at Turgut Ozal University, Ankara, Turkey.

    October 2013

    • Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan
      • attended the "Asia-Pacific Internet Workshop and Meet‟ as part of Internet Governance Forum (IGF)-2013 held at Bali, Indonesia between 19th & 22nd October, 2013. The event was organized to share the knowledge, policies and network with Internet Industry Professionals and Academicians from various countries, on numerous educational and informational activities related to Internet.

• has been invited to serve as a "Reviewer‟ for International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems.
• has reviewed a research paper for Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Springer.
• Ms. Tripty Singh
  • defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “A COMPUTER AIDED MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER” on 24th October, 2013 at Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, also known as Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Madhya Pradesh.
  • presented a paper titled “INTELLIGENT SYSTEM DESIGNING FOR AIRCRAFT IMAGE STRETCHING, NOISE REMOVAL AND ANALYSIS” at an International Conference on STME (Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineering) 2013 held at Delhi Technology University, New Delhi on 25th and 26th October 2013.
  • reviewed a research paper for the journal IET Image Processing pertaining to Sampling Theorem in October, 2013.
  • served as a member of the Technical Program Committee for InCIEC 2013 mInternational Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference held between 22nd & 24th September 2013 at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
  • served as Technical Program Committee member for AEECT 2013, 2013 IEEE Jordan Conference on "Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)‟ on 15th October 2013.
• Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya served as Technical Program Committee member for World Congress on Multimedia and Computer Science held at Hammamet, Tunisia, from 4th to 6th October, 2013.
• Dr. Amudha J. evaluated a thesis titled “Novel OUT based watermarking techniques for two dimensional and spectral images for copyright protection and authentication” for Anna University.
• Ms. Nalini Sampath completed her M.Tech. in CSE from R.V. College of Engineering, an autonomous institution under Visvesvaraya Technological University.

September 2013

• Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya
  • has reviewed three papers for IEEE 2nd International Conference on "Advanced Computing, Networking and Security - ADCONS ‟13”, to be held at NITK Surathkal, India from 15th -17th December, 2013.
  • has reviewed four articles for the IEEE Technology and Engineering Education magazine.
  • has reviewed two papers for the IEEE Conference “Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems "(RAICS-2013)” to be held in Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum, Kerala, India from 19th -21st December, 2013.
  • has reviewed a paper for the IEEE Sensors Journal.
  • was one of the judges of the event "inGenius 2013‟ a 24 hour hackathon event organized by PESIT, Bangalore South Campus and ACM India on 21st and 22nd September, 2013.
  • was the Technical Programme Committee Member of the 4th IEEE workshop on “Fiber Optics in Access Network/Short Distance Fiber Optics - FOAN2013” that was held on 11th and 12th September 2013, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This workshop was colocated with ICUMT 2013.
  • was the Program Committee Member of the IEEE Second International Conference on Informatics & Applications (ICIA 2013) that was held in Lodz, Poland held between 23rd & 25th September, 2013.
  • was the International Advisory & Program Committee Member of the 2013 IEEE International Computer Science and Engineering Conference, Bangkok, Thailand that was held between 4th & 6th September, 2013.
  • was the International Program Committee Member of the IEEE Second International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2013) which was held at Lodz University of Technology, Poland, held between 23rd & 25th September,2013.
  • was chosen as an Editorial Board Member for Research & Reviews: Journal of Embedded System & Applications (RRJoESA).
• Ms. Tripty Singh
  • has reviewed four research papers for AEECT 2013 : The Second IEEE Jordan Conference on “Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies 2013” to be held between 3rd & 5th December, 2013 at The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
  • was chosen as Technical Program Chair for International Conference on “Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications (ISBEIA 2013)” that was held between 22nd & 25th September 2013 at Kuching, Malaysia
  • was the Technical Program Chair for InCIEC 2013 International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference held between 22nd & 24th September, 2013 at Kuching, Sarawak Malaysia.
• Mr. N. Rakesh has reviewed a paper for Journal of Computer Technology and Applications(JoCTA).

August 2013

• Dr. J. Amudha
  • was chosen as the "Technical Program Committee Member‟ of Second International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics (ISI'13).
  • was chosen as the "Technical Program Committee Member‟ of International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI- 2013).
  • delivered a technical talk on "We Are What We See - A perspective view of Computational Visual Attention System" at a 3-Day National Level Workshop on, "Machine Intelligence & Imaging Technologies MI-IT 2013‟, organized by Department of CSE, BIT, Bengaluru.
• Mr.Aniruddha Bhattacharjya Chaired a session in IEEE International Conference on "Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2013)‟ held at Mysore.
• Ms. Tripty Singh
  • was chosen as the "Program Co-Chair‟ at Third International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2013 LONDON). The conference was held at the City Temple Conference Centre Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2DE UK .
  • reviewed a research paper for IET Image Processing Journal. Print ISSN 1751-9659.
  • reviewed a research paper for International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics.(IJCSBI)ISSN : 1694:2108
  • was chosen as a "Reviewer Board Member‟ of "Research & Reviews: Journal of Embedded System & Applications", STM Journal and has reviewed an article for the same.
  • joined the Editorial Board of International Journal of Image Processing and Vision Sciences(IJIPVS) which bears an ISSN(Print): 2278 - 1110.
  • joined as the Editor of Journal in Computers and Innovations: An International Journal of Computer Engineering (CIIJCE) under Ethics publications.
• Mr. Ullas S. and Mr. Umesh N. Dev attended "Cisco Academy Instructor Conference and Retooling Workshop" held at The Residency Hotel, Coimbatore. The event was organized by Cisco Systems and 65 participants were present from various institutions in India apart from Cisco Systems employees.

July 2013

• Ms. Tripty Singh reviewed a research paper for the International Journal of IET Image processing and International Journal of Computer Science and Networks, ISSN:2277-5420.
• Dr. K. Sangeeta and Dr. J. Amudha participated in the workshop to sensitize the Management and Teachers of Technical Institutions to tackle the „Menace of Sexual Crime against Women „organized by AICTE, Bangalore on 25th July, 2013 at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.

June 2013

• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B.
  • Reviewed a paper for International Journal of ‘Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)’.
  • Has been invited to be the Distinguished Member of the Advisory Board of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
• Ms. S. Santhanalakshmi and Ms. Supriya M. attended National Symposium on ‘Recent Advances in Cyber Security’ Conducted at CSIR-4PI during 6th- 7th June, 2013.
• Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya
  • Reviewed four research papers for the first IEEE Workshop on ‘Machine to Machine Communications Interfaces and Platforms (M2MCIP 2013)’ to be held on 24th October, 2013, at Sydney, Australia, in conjunction with The 38th IEEE Conference on ‘Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN)’.
  • Has been invited as Technical Programme Committee Member and has reviewed a paper for 2013 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference (RFM 2013) to be held in Bayview Beach Resort Penang, Malaysia, from 9th – 11th December, 2013.
• Ms. Tripty Singh
  • Selected as a reviewer for International Journal of Computer and Information Technology (IJCIT) and has reviewed a research paper for the same.
  • Selected as a Technical Program Committee member for IEEE International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2013) Mysore, India. She reviewed 7 (seven) technical papers for the same.
• Mr. Ullas S., the Mentor of Amrita Networking Club along with Secretary, Joint Secretary and 6 Executive Members, successfully conducted a workshop for CCNA students on ‘LAN Cabling and Configuration’.

March 2013

• Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya reviewed a research paper for the IEEE Journal ‘Technology and Engineering Education (IEEE ITEE)’, ISSN 1558-7908 in March, 2013.
• Ms. Tripty Singh reviewed a research paper for IET Image Processing Journal in March,2013.
• Mr. Ullas S. co-ordinated a 1-Day Industrial Visit to Cisco Systems on 6th March, 2013. 48 students accompanied by Mr. Umesh N. Dev, Mr. Shiju Kumar from ICTS and Mr. Ullas S. were part of the visit. In addition to the seminar given by experts from Cisco, Mr. Ullas demonstrated to the students the latest technologies developed by Cisco.
• Dr. T.S.B.Sudarshan has been selected for fellowship with the 'Applied Innovation Institute’, San Francisco, USA on 30th March, 2013. This fellowship is to enable him work in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research with other fellow members of Applied Innovation Institute for a period of one year.
• Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan chaired a session on ‘Information Technology Track’ in International Conference on ‘Information Technology, Electronics and Communications’ held in Bengaluru on 30th and 31st March, 2013.

Februry 2013

• Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “An OSGi based Multi-Layered Multi- Domain RFID Framework using Java Message Service (JMS) infrastructure”, successfully on 14th February, 2013 at Chandra Mohan Jha University, Meghalaya.
• Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan has been invited to be the Publication Chair for International Conference on ‘Advances in Mobile Network Communication and its Application (ICAMNCApps)’ to be held on 3rd and 4th August, 2013 at Chandigarh, Punjab.

November 2012

• On 3rd November 2012, Dr. T.S.B. Susarshan and Mr. A.A. Nippun Kumaar attended a Symposium on ‘Cyber Physical Systems’ held at IISc., Bengaluru organized by IEEE Control Systems,Bengaluru Section.
• On 6th November 2012, Mr. A.A. Nippun Kumaar attended the ‘National Instruments Day 2012’conference, conducted by National Instruments held at NIMHANS Convention Hall, Bengaluru.
• The ITE-SMT is a professional body of 102 subject experts across the Globe.Mr. Ullas S. is nominated as a subject expert on ‘IT-Essentials Small Market trial’. His role would be to review the content, design the curriculum & instruction flow of the course, conduct quizzes & tests and provide feedback.
• Mr. Ullas S. along with Mr. Umesh N. Dev completed CCNA course work for external students at CISCO Academy, ASE Bengaluru on 26th November, 2012.
• Mr. Ullas S. along with Mr. Umesh N. Dev started CCNA course for 25 students of Amrita during the month of October, 2012.

October 2012

• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. has been nominated as Member, Editorial Board, for International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networks published by Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), USA.
• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. attended the NI Directors Meet and Professor’s day on an invite by National Instruments at Chennai on 17th October, 2012.
• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. has been invited to be an Advisory Committee Member for International Conference on ‘Computing, Communication and Networks’ organized by Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai in association with IEEE and Computer Society of India on 15th and 17th March, 2013 at Chennai.
• Dr. Amudha J., Associate Professor, has been designated as the Thesis Co - Advisor for Ph.D. scholar Ms. Aarthi, who is a faculty from the Department of IT, ASE, Ettimadai campus,Coimbatore.
• Dr. Amudha J., Associate professor, reviewed following two papers for the Amrita International Conference of Women in Computing (AICWIC 2013), Emerging trends in Computing to be held between 9th & 11th January, 2013.
  • Video Surveillance using Background Subtraction Algorithm
  • Text Extraction from PDF document
• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B., Mr. G. Radhakrishnan, Dr. K. Sangeeta, Ms. Suja P., Ms. B. Uma Maheswari, Ms. Kavitha C.R., Ms. Lakshmi P. and Ms. Priyanka Vivek attended a talk on ‘Programming - Past, Present and Future’ by Dr. T.S. Mohan from Infosys Technologies Ltd on 3rd October, 2012.

September 2012

• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. has been invited to be a member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2nd International Conference on ‘Advances in Computing, Communication and Informatics’ to be held from 22nd to 25th August, 2013 at Mysore,India.
• Dr. K. Sangeeta Iyer, Ms. Radha D., Ms. Tripty Singh and Ms. Sangita Khare attended a 2-Day Hands-on Train the Trainer Program on ‘Embedded Software Development on Beaglebone Platform’ conducted by Texas Instruments India University Program in collaboration with IEEE - CAS Beaglebone chapter and Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

August 2012

• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. has been invited to be a member of ‘Advisory Committee’ in International Conference on ‘Recent trends in Communication Engineering and Network Technologies (CENT2012)’ to be held in Chennai, India on 3rd and 4th December, 2012.
• Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. has been invited to be a member of the ‘Advisory Committee’ in Second International Conference on ‘Computational Intelligence and Information Technology (CIIT 2012)’ to be held in Chennai, India on 3rd and 4th December, 2012.

July 2012

• The following teaching staff members have qualified for the Ph.D. programme at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham by clearing the entrance examination and have registered as ‘Part-Time Research Scholars’ under the guidance of Dr.T.S.B. Sudarshan, Professor & Chairman, Department of CSE.
  • Ms. Meena Belwal
  • Ms. Juhi R. Srivastava
  • Ms. Akanchha Tiwari
• Ms. A. Anasuya Threse Innocent and Ms. Swati Pandurang Karande from outside the ambit of Amrita faculty have also qualified for the Ph.D. programme by clearing the entrance examination and have registered as ‘Full Time Research Scholars’ in the Department of CSE, ASE-Bengaluru, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham under the guidance of Dr. Sangeeta K. Iyer, Associate Professor, Department of CSEand Dr. Deepa Gupta, Assistant Professor (SG), Department of Mathematics respectively.

March 2012

• Dr. TSB Sudarshan attended the Research Retreat at Amrita School of Engineering , Amritapuri campus on 28th March 2012 and presented an overview of research activities of Bangalore Campus.
• Dr.TSB Sudarshan has been invited to join the program committee of Federation of International Robo-Soccer Association [FIRA] world congress 2012 to be held in Bristol ,UK from 20-25 August, 2012.
• Dr.TSB Sudarshan has been invited to be the Publication chair for an International Conference on Information Technology in Education and E-learning (ITeL) to be held at Kaulalampur Malaysia from 17-18 December, 2012.
• Dr. TSB Sudarshan has been invited to be organizing co-chair for fourth International Conference on “Advances in Recent Technologies in Communications and Computing (ARTCom 2012)” to be held at Bangalore from 19-20 October, 2012.

February 2012

• Dr .Amudha J. was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for her thesis titled “ Performance Evolution of Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches in Computational Visual Attention System “ on 3rd Feb, 2012.
• Dr. TSB Sudarshan has been invited to be a reviewer for Journal of Engineering & Computer Innovations as an expert in Crptography and Crypto-Hardware on 27th Feb 2012.
• Dr. TSB Sudarshan has been invited to be the Publication chair for third International Conference on “Recent Trends in Information Processing and Computing (IPC 2012)” to be held at Kualalumpur , Malaysia from Dec 17-18, 2012.

January 2012

• Dr. TSB Sudarshan has been invited as a Member, Technical Program Committee for third International Workshop on “Trust Management in P2P Systems” to be held at Chennai from 3-5 August, 2012.
• Dr. TSB Sudarshan has been invited as a Membe, Technical Program Committee for the third Annual Conference on “Advances in Distributed and Parallel Computing”to be held at Bali, Indonesia from 17-18 September, 2012.

November 2011

• Dr. TSB Sudarshan visited Amritapuri Campus for Evaluating a research project presentation by Mr. Senthil Kumar as part of the MS (by research) program from 1-2 November 2011.
• Dr. TSB Sudarshan, Mrs.Supriya M., Mrs. Santhanalakshmi, Mrs. Radha, Mrs. Divya Prabha, Mrs. UmaMaheshwari and Prof. Raj Sreedharan with 70 students from CSE department attended the INET Conference held at Taj Vivanta, Bangalore on 4th November 2011.

July 2011

• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has been invited to be a part of the technical programme committee for the International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC20111), to be held from 22nd to 24th July 2011 at Kochi, Kerala.

May 2011

• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has been invited to be the Technical Chair for the International Joint Journal Conference Engineering (IJJCE2011), to be held in May 2011 at Kochi, Kerala.

March 2011

• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has reviewed a paper for the 2nd International Conference on Complexity, Information and Cyber Security to be held from 27th to 30th March 2011 at Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has been invited to be a part of the advisory committee for the International Conference on Computer Communications and Electrical Technologies 2011 to be held from 18th to 19th March 2011 at Tirunelveli, TamilNadu.
• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has been invited to be Publication Chair for the International Conference on Recent Trends in Information, Telecommunication and Computing(ITC2011), to be held from 10th to 11th March 2011 at Kochi, Kerala.

Feb 2011

• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has been invited to be a part of the advisory committee for the International Conference on Advances in Communication, Networking and Computing (CNC2011), to be held from 23rd to 24th Feb 2011 at Bangalore.

December 2010

• A paper titled “Intelligent Lighting System Using Wireless Sensor Networks” authored by Dr.T.S.B. Sudarshan was published in ‘International Journal of Ad-Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing’. Vol.1, No.4, December 2010.

November 2010

• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has been invited to be a part of the technical programme committee for the International Conference on Real-time Embedded Systems (RTES2010), to be held during 1st to 2nd Nov 2010 at Singapore.

September 2010

• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan has attended and co-chaired a session on the Research Collaboration in Embedded System Design in Indo-Taiwan Research Meet on Nano, Micro Elctronics and Embedded Systems held at BITS, Pilani during 24th to 25th September 2010.
• Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan was the local organizing member of 15th FIRA Robo Soccer World Cup and Congress held during 14th to 19th September 2010 at ASE, Bangalore.

August 2010

• Mr. Rajesh M. attended the IBM WebSphere Day celebration organized by IBM India held on 27th August 2010 at IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, Bangalore.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS / PARTICIPATION / RECOGNITION

August 2017

• FACE kick-started the year with BUGSTERS, a code debugging contest on 10th August, 2017. It saw around 100 students from all the years participating in the first round of the contest. They either took part in solo or a teams of two (2). It consisted two sets of question paper, an amateur one for the first years and a competent one for the second and third years.
  The names of the top 20 teams along with the key to the questions asked were put up on the FACE official Facebook page.
  The Second round of ‘Bugsters’ was conducted on 30th August, 2017 with an equally exciting and stimulating note. All the selected team came in with great enthusiasm and high spirit of competitiveness. This was an online programming round, wherein each team had to debug and code, two thought-provoking and brain racking programs within a time limit of 40min.
  After an intense level of competition, the FACE team had a tough time shortlisting the three winners of the contest.

October 2016

• Amrita Networking Club (ANC) organised a distinguished lecture on IOT- Internet of Things on 26th October, 2016. The guest speaker was Mr. Ananth Rao, Technical Manager, APJ Region, CISCO Systems. Ms. Shwetha Koushik, Year III, CSE formally welcomed the gathering and introduced the speaker.
  Mr. Ananth Rao started his talk with a question and answer session which grabbed the interest of the students and made the session more interactive. He connected all the technological and related advancements including Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurship, Cyber security etc. with IOT to explain its importance in the present scenario. He also described the applications of IoT in domestic uses. Extending his talk on how IoT can make things easier, he explained about the driverless cars which are likely to come in next ten years. Often relating his personal experiences, he emphasized on the need of Networking and Cyber Security Engineers, expressing his grave concern on the problem of insecurity in the virtual world. He also discussed about the job opportunities available for them in the domain. He also briefed about some initiatives of CISCO following which he introduced the audience to Packet Tracer and its benefits in IOT applications. The session ended on a high note with memento distribution by Mr. Ullas S., Assistant Professor, Department of CSE and vote of thanks by Shaambhavi Shrivastava, Year II, ECE.There were nearly 90 student participates from various departments of our campus.

January 2015

• On 21st of January 2015, the Amrita ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Chapter had a distinguished speaker Dr. Ullas Nambiar, Chief Researcher at CTO office, EMC India Center of Excellence, Bengaluru. He spoke about Big Data, Analytics and Data Science. The participants were welcomed by Dr. Amudha J., Associate Professor and Faculty Chair of ACM, the student chapter and various other faculty members from the Department of CSE. Both UG & PG students participated in this program.
• FACE - the CSE departmental forum in collaboration with Monday Education Lab conducted a workshop on "Android Application Development‟ on 31st January, 2015. The four hour long session was conducted in Rama hall and witnessed an overwhelming response of around two hundred students. The workshop began with the members of FACE and Monday Education Lab, helping students who had difficulty in installing the software -Android Studio, which was a pre-requisite for the workshop. This was followed by an introductory talk by Ms. Subbalakshmi Naik, the Human Resource Representative of Monday Education Lab. Ms. Naik took the audience through the entire session starting from the basics. She began the session explaining the need for Java and concluded the session by helping participants to develop their own “Hello World” application. She also emphasized on the different features available in the software and their utilities. The session ended with a teaser of SLAC, the upcoming mega event organized by FACE.

November 2014

• 17 students from 7th semester CSE and IT have attended in the ACM Conference on Women in Computing held on 16th to 17th September 2010 at ASE Coimbatore.
• Two students Ms. Ramya Rajaraman (7th semester IT student) and Ms. S. Supraja (7th semester CSE student) has been awarded the Best outgoing Girl Student Award in the ACM Conference for Women in Computing 2010.
• Mr. Vinoth L. And Mr. Sreedharan Krishnan (7th semester students) has attained patent registration for their work on the topic Multi Secured Dropping of Spoofed Packets at the Gateway for Unauthorized Networks from The Patent and Trademarks Office.

• • FACE organized various events during Ekatva '14 - the Technical Fest of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru campus. The events were Appalanche, Code Quest and Heavy Liquid CTF. The events were conducted in the computer labs and witnessed participation from many students. These events were spread over two days of the technical fest on 7th and & 8th November, 2014.

  September 2014

  • Amrita Networking Club
    • Amrita Networking Club organized a workshop titled “Into the World of Internet”. Thiswas the inaugural event of Amrita Networking Club for the year 2014-2015. This event was focused on helping students understand internet technology.The inaugural event was followed by a Two-day workshop on “Adobe Muse” software by Sahaj Ramachandran, a S7 student. Hosting and routing concepts were also demonstrated by the students of CCNA on 25th September, 2014. The demonstration included the connection, establishment and configuration of devices like: Access Point Switches, Routers, DNS and HTTP services. Around 100 students attended the workshop.

• Sequoia: Hack 2014
  • Mr. Subramanian Ramvijji, ex-student, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru and currently Trainee Decision Scientist at Mu Sigma Inc, Bengaluru and Mr. Prashanth Reddy, ex-student, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru won the prestigious "Sequoia:Hack 2014‟ (Payments Category). They were awarded a cash prize of Rs. 200,000/-.

February 2014

January 2014

• • "FACE‟ the departmental forum organized:
    • Workshop on "Android App Development Techniques‟ on 1st February, 2014 by Mr. Santosh Reddy, a student of S8 CSE. It was a one day workshop held in Krishna Hall. The workshop was aimed at beginners, who had no prior experience in Java/ Android development. The workshop started with a brief introduction to Java with the Android app market and explored the interface of the Android Developer Tools. Mr. Santosh explained about the Android Virtual Device Manager. Then the participants created a simple Hello World app and executed it on Android Virtual Device Manager. Students learned how to create a Toast Message, created a login page with fields for a username & password and a submit button. Nearly 70 students who participated in this workshop also created alert boxes and designed simple applications. Deployment of app to Google Play Store was also covered.
    • A workshop on "Web Development‟ on the 5th and from 26th to 28 of February,2014 in the E-Learning Center. The objective of this event was to inspire the B.Tech.students to participate in the upcoming event called SLAC. Mr. Adivandhya. B.R. ofS6 CSE took a series of sessions on web development. Students were taught how to build web applications right from the ground up. Bootstrap, front-end framework along with back-end coding in python were taught. Many B.Tech. students attended this workshop.
    • "CTF‟ Training on 20th February, 2014 in the E-Learning Hall. Mr. Tanoy Bose of S8 ECE and Mr. Shiek-Al-Farhan S4 CSE were the speakers. The speakers conducted an introductory session regarding „Capture the Flag (CTF)‟ contests. Students were told about CTF and how to go about solving challenges. The speakers demonstrated these techniques by solving a simple CTF and gave a chance for the students to take part in a CTF. Many B.Tech. students attended the training.
  • "FACE‟ - the departmental forum organized:
    • A seminar on "Google App Engine‟ on the 10th of January, 2014. The objective of the seminar was to introduce the students to GAE and the services related to cloud computing. The seminar was presented by Mr. Aditya Sriram from Samsung. He described GAE from the perspective of system administration. Advantages of GAE such as persistent storage, good integration with google accounts, automatic scaling, backend service and speed were covered. He also gave a demonstration on the services. Around 60 students across all the branches attended this seminar.
    • A seminar on „Linux Programming‟ on 29th January, 2014 in the E-learning Hall. Mr. Mithun, a S8 student of CSE began the seminar by taking the audience through the magical world of Linux and showed the students how Linux is indispensible for today‟s coder. He gave an insight as to how Google and Facebook have attained great heights today as their focus is on problem solving rather than the aesthetics. He showed as to how python is an excellent choice for handling data of large databases as it does not require that the programmer should construct custom data structures for large numbers. The concept of dynamic programming was elegantly demonstrated by the problem of “cutting a rod”. The concept of NP complete problems and the theoretical working of a Turing machine were also covered. Finally he demonstrated how to use Vim editor to its maximum potential. Then a live presentation of how to root one‟s android phone was demonstrated by Mr. Santosh Reddy, who is also a student of S8 CSE. It was interesting to learn how versatile an android mobile phone is and how to gain a complete technical know-how of this essential device which has become a partand parcel of our lives. The seminar was attended by around 40 students of B.Tech.

October 2013

• • Amrita Club for Robotics and Mechatronics (ACROM) had organized a Hands-on Workshop on „Basic Robotics‟ at the School on 27th October, 2013. The workshop was an effort to familiarize beginners with the basic procedure involved in Robot making and programming. The workshop covered the following modules like Line and Light Following, Detection of Edges and Sumo Wrestling (using bumper sensors). This is the first of its kind event where in the senior members of the club were the trainers for the workshop. Students participated in groups of three with a take away kind of robot for every team. The event witnessed a very good participation from 32 teams.

• FACE, the departmental forum organized a GCDC Hackathon on 26th October, 2013. The main aim of the event was to make the students comfortable with GCDC Hackathon which is conducted at the international level. A hands-on workshop on web application development was also organized. The event was attended by most of the students from the first year of B.Tech. There were about 73 participants who attended this hackathon, which began at 10 AM and went on till 4.20 PM. The participants were given some prizes at the end of the event. By 15th November 2013, all the applications will be evaluated online and will be suitably awarded by Google.

September 2013

August 2013

• • FACE- the departmental forum organized the „Google Android Workshop‟ on 22nd September, 2013 in the campus. The workshop was conducted by Bangalore Andriod Users Group and Google Developers Group. The event which was open to students of all the B.Tech. programmes saw a good participation. Around 200 students participated in the event. The aim of this workshop was to introduce the students to Android Technology starting from the basic theory of how Android is implemented on systems to the development of live basic application.The speakers of the workshop were Mr. Aman Alam, Mr. Shubham Goyal and Mr. Sundeep Chowdary.
  • Technozion, the annual technical festival of NIT, Warangal organized the first round of National Progamming League (NPL), a Programming Contest in Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru in August, 2013. Mr. Nerusu Surya Teja of III Year CSE coordinated this event. This event was held in the Computer Labs. Around 110 students from all the branches of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru participated in the event. The whole idea of the event was to provide the basic idea of Progamming competitions.
  • Txtweb Development Workshop was started on 26th August, 2103 in the E-learning Hall. Around 120 students of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru attended this workshop. Two sessions on this have been successfully completed. Mr. Subramanian Pillai, a student from the IV Year of CSE gave an introductory video demonstration which threw light on aspiring developers.

March 2013

February 2013

• • The session was continued by Mr. Sameer Ranawade, a III Year student of CSE. This workshop had a hands-on session where the students registered themselves through a simple txtweb application created by Mr. Rahul Bhargav of III Year CSE.
  • To motivate the first year students who are weak in programming and to develop their confidence, senior students of CSE joined their hands together and started "C" Programming classes in the Computer Lab. Two sessions have been successfully completed with the strength of 36 students. These classes will be held throughout the semester.
    • The following students of S6 CSE participated in a Technical Fest at Osmania University, in Hyderabad and presented the papers:
      • Ms. Pooja Sudeshna Vinta and Ms. Jakkam Akhila presented a paper on “Cyborgs The Ultimate Invention”.
      • Ms. R.G.L. Kavya Sri and Ms. G. Sindhura presented a paper on “Holographic Data Storage”.
      • Ms.N.Nihari and Ms.B.Bhavani presented a paper on “Near Field Communication”.
    • The Forum for Aspiring Computer Engineers (FACE) conducted the first exclusive Technical and Computer Science Quiz, ‘ASE TechMasters’ on 16th March, 2013 as part of its semester activity. Mr. Suhas S.G. from S8 CSE and an intern at Verisign, was the Quiz Master for the day. Around 70 students across different branches participated in this event.
    • ‘Integra’ a team comprising of Mr. Bhargav Krishna, Ms. Amritha Dilip of S8 and Mr. Anish Gupta of S6 have been selected for the finals of ‘2013 Berkely Mobile University Challenge’ which is being held in Barcelona, Spain from 28th to 5th March, 2013 as part of GSMA Mobile World Congress. Amrita Bengaluru is the only Indian team that could make it to the finals this year. This is the 3rd time that the students of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru have reached the finals.
    • Team ‘Integra’ consisting of 3 students - Mr. Bhargav Krishna and Ms. Amritha Dilip of final year CSE and Mr. Anish Gupta of third year CSE were selected for the finals of ‘2013 Berkeley Mobile University Challenge’ which was held in Barcelona, Spain from 25th to 28th February, 2013 as part of GSMA Mobile World Congress. These students stood fifth among 11 teams who participated in the competition.
    • A workshop on ‘TRACKING THE TRACKERS’ for digital privacy under the banner of Internet Society, Bengaluru Chapter. Mr. Ankush Bagotra started the session demystifying the myths about Internet. He explained the threats the users’ bear over the Internet. Various online tracking attacks with the help of add-ons like ghostery, disconnect.me, ad block plus were demonstrated. The workshop highlighted the issues of Internet footprint, digital privacy and security issues. This was the second time that ISOC, Bengaluru has collaborated with Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
    • A seminar on ‘Virtualization and Cloud Computing’ conducted by Dr. Anup Gangwar, Managing Director, VirtuQ Education, Bengaluru in the school on 25th of February 2013. Students from S4 and S6 of B.Tech. and S2 of M.Tech. attended this session. The session lasted for about an hour wherein the speaker explained about Hardware Virtualization, which is an essential aspect of Cloud Computing.

RECENT FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

July 2017

• • A demo session on "STATCRAFT - A Statistical Analysis Tool" and "Machine Learning/Analytics with R" was arranged on 28th of July 2017 for the faculty members of the Department of CSE Mr. Shubham and Mr. Manjunath from Predictive Analytics had given an overview on these tools. The session was attended by faculty members of the department.

March 2012

February 2012

August 2009

• • ASE, Bangalore organized the IBM -women's event titled "Global Marathon E-week" which was Live telecast to ASE Ettimadai and ASE Amritapuri through A-View on 14th March 2012.
  • The Department of CSE organized Research Seminar on "Computer Vision for Robotics(CVR 2012 )" and Hands-on session on NI Labview. Dr. Jharna Majumdar delivered the keynote speech and officially inaugurated the event.
  • A faculty development has been conducted on Finite Element Methods from January 2009 - August 2009 by Dr.K.Sangeeta (Chairperson and Professor , Department of Computer Science and Engineering.)