Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, ranked the fourth Best Overall University in India in NIRF 2020, has inked an MoU with Esri India, the market leader in Geospatial Information Systems, to establish a Centre of Geospatial Excellence on Spatial Analysis and Modeling with dedicated facilities for research, development and testing.
The Centre would promote development of specific skills and technical knowhow among academicians, students and the industry around geospatial technologies and latest toolkits like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and geospatial Big Data Analytics. It would conduct certificate and diploma courses, training programs and workshops, particularly around geospatial technology application areas to strengthen multi-hazard risk reduction and community resilience.
The first international fully online women-only Capture-The-Flag competition named ShaktiCTF was conducted as a part of the Shakti Conference (ShaktiCon), organized by Team Shakti, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s women-only cybersecurity team, on December 4, 2020.
In a subject-wise analysis carried out by Stanford University in the USA, Amrita professors, Dr. Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh, Dr. Shantikumar Nair, Dr. R. Jayakumar, Dr. Madhav Dutta and Dr. N. Radhika have been cited among the top two percent of scientists in the list available on Scopus.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's Virtual Laboratory project was a runner-up for a 2020 International E-Learning Association (IELA) award, Academic Division, and was honored on September 25, 2020, at the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL).
With funding from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs [MoTA], which has declared Amrita as a Tribal Center of Excellence, Amrita Ayurveda has united with AmritaCREATE to boost the health, nutritional, and economic status of tribals through digital learning.
