Amrita Center for Wireless Network & Applications will be hosting a free webinar on Career Opportunities in Geoinformatics on July 4, 2020, 10AM onwards through Microsoft Teams. Dr. Tarek Rashed, Professor and Consultant in Geoinformatics & Visiting Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will be delivering the session. The webinar is open to all students from science and engineering background.
In order to avoid frequent visits of the medical support staff to the isolation wards to check on patients, the Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) developed a solution - Remote Bed Side Monitoring using Smartphones.
Dr. Maneesha Ramesh, Dean of International Programs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, and Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, was a panelist on a Malayalam TV channel, Manorama News' panel on COVID-19 scenario affecting education, students and other stakeholders in the community.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications team has come up with a method of using smartphone cameras to remotely monitor the vitals of coronavirus-infected patients.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, (Dean of International Programs and Director of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks (AmritaWNA) and Applications at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) met with UNESCO's Dr. Kristof Vandenberghe (Secretary of the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP)) and Dr. Soichiro Yashukawa and Dr. Masaya Sasaki (Programme Specialists on Disaster Risk Reduction), during her invited visit to UNESCO headquarters at Paris as the first group of 58 signatories of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (KLC2020), signed at UNESCO Headquarters at Paris on September 18, 2019.
