Team Na-Sarathy of Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, placed 12th in the world ranking in the Hackathon 2 of Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), organized by Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). The hackathon was held for a week from September 12 – 19, 2020. 

Amrita collaboration with Penn State University on Locust swarm based collision avoidance published as a paper in Nature Electronics Journal

A student team from the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has emerged as the champions of the Scilab Toolbox Hackathon 2020. Seven hundred student teams and startups participated in this hackathon organized by Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE) Center of Excellence at IIT Bombay and supported by National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of Ministry of Education, Government of India.  

Coders of Blaviken, a student team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, was ranked third in the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2020 software edition for a problem statement of the Government of Madhya Pradesh. 

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will conduct remote proctored Amrita Engineering Entrance Examination (AEEE) for admission to B.Tech programs. Admissions to B.Tech programs offered at Amritapuri(Kollam), Coimbatore, Bangalore & Chennai engineering campuses of Amrita will be based on the marks secured in AEEE conducted as remote proctored model, so that the candidates can attend the exam sitting at home.