AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Bengaluru · 2017-06-08 · IEEE PES Bangalore chapter had organized “Young Researchers Meet” on 17 December 2016 in the campus. Students of B.Tech

Volume : 8 Issue : 6 : December 2016

AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Bengaluru

NEWS LETTER

Young Researchers Meet 2016 17th December 2016

South Zone Youth Festival 18th December 2016

ICPC 2016 22nd & 23rd December 2016

Gita Chant 10th December 2016

December 2016 PAGE 1

Young Researchers Meet

School Highlights

IEEE PES Bangalore chapter had organized “Young Researchers Meet” on 17th December 2016 in

the campus. Students of B.Tech. and M.Tech. from different colleges, professional researchers from various

companies and faculty of Department of EEE, Amrita School of Engineering participated in the meet.

The session started with a welcome address by Dr. K. Deepa, Assistant Professor and Mentor of IEEE PES

and IAS joint student branch chapter, Amrita school of Engineering. The session was headed by Dr. Suresh

H. Jangamsetti, Professor & Senior Member of IEEE, Basaveshwara Engineering College, Bagalkot.

Dr. Suresh gave a brief idea on how to draft a technical paper, pre-requisites for writing a paper and how to

develop fundamentals in research tools. The next session was carried forward by the eminent speaker

Dr. Balaraman K., PRDC, Vice Chair of IEEE PES-Bangalore Chapter. He discussed about various

emerging trends for research in the field of Renewable Energy and Microgrid. He also guided the

participants about developing a research mind and emphasized on the importance of connecting with peers

through collaborative approach for the exchange of ideas.

The next session was taken by Dr. Manohar Singh, CPRI who gave a brief idea on “Protection

Requirement for Modern Power Delivery Systems”. He gave an overview of protection in DC Microgrids

and need for adaptive protection in micro-grid emphasizing the relation between penetration of renewable

energy and CTI. Later the session was continued by Dr. Hariram Satheesh, ABB & Dr. T. Ilamparithi,

OPAL-RT. They threw light on “Enabling Technologies for Power and Energy Sector - an overview”. Last

session was taken by Dr. Faraz from PRDC who gave insights on “PMU Related Research Opportunities”

He also discussed about layout of PDC in smart grid architecture. After these informative sessions by

speakers, a vigorous mentoring session was conducted to provide in person interaction to all the participants

with the speakers so that they can clarify their doubts. For the interactive session, seven panels were formed

covering various topics for discussions like power system reliability, power system operation, microgrids,

power electronics & drives and technical writing. The main crux of this mentoring session was to give a

broad prospective to researchers and to let them know that a research should not be confined to a small area

but it should cover each & every aspects of area of research.

The meet was concluded with vote of thanks by Dr. T. Ilamparithi, felicitation of the speakers by Ms. Mini

Sujith, Vice Chair, Department of EEE and Dr. K. Deepa, distribution of certificates to the participants by

Dr. Balaraman K. and Dr. Suresh and with a promise of doing these great events in near future.

The students participated in the Inter-Amrita

drama competition to qualify for the AIU

fest. Having participated in the Mime, Skit and One

Act Play Categories, the team emerged first in the

latter two, bringing laurels to the School and qualified

to represent the University in the South Zone Youth

Festival, which was held on December 18th 2016.

Amidst heavy competition, and a terse atmosphere,

the team won 1st position in the Skit and Elocution and

3rd position in the One-Act play and Debate, thus

qualifying for Nationals, scheduled in the month of

February 2017 in Maharashtra.

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

hosted the Asia - Amritapuri Multisite Regional Round

of the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest

(ICPC) on the 22nd and 23

rd of December 2016.

96 enthusiastic teams from reputed institutes like the

IITs, IISc., BITS, NITs, North South University

(Dhaka, Bangladesh) to name just a few, gathered at

the campus to compete in the most prestigious

International Coding Contest.

On the 22nd of December, a practice session was

conducted after the registration process, to help the

participants familiarise themselves with the coding

environment and other technical facilities provided.

The Inaugural ceremony commenced with the lighting

of the lamp by the dignitaries, followed by a welcome

address by Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan, Chairman,

Department of Computer Science & Engineering. A

contest overview was given by Mr. Rajesh M., Asst.

Prof., Dept. of CSE which outlined the history and

evolution of the contest. He also gave the guidelines to

the contestants regarding the contest. The Chief

Guest, Mr. Ganesh Jayadevan, Pervacio Pvt. Ltd., in-

spired the audience with his short audio visual presen-

tation. Mr. G. Radhakrishnan, Vice Chair, Dept. of

CSE delivered the vote of thanks.

23rd December dawned bright for the 298 contestants

who set out to make their mark. Determination and

drive were visible on the contestants’ visages as they

sought to solve problems of increasing complexity.

The test culminated to a remarkable display of logic,

technical aptitude and teamwork.

A comprehensive discussion of the problems posed

and their solutions preceded the announcement of

results. The event concluded on a joyous note, with

the top 12 teams, who have qualified for the World

Finals, emerging from the Bengaluru Centre. The top

three teams were Faceless Men from IIT Kanpur,

Mobius Treap from IIIT Hyderabad and Rocket from

IIT Bombay respectively.


South Zone Youth Fest

School Highlights

ICPC


School Highlights

Gita Chant

The global chanting of Gita is aimed for

maintaining world peace, to gain universal outlook, to

see whole world as one family and for the revival of

spiritual culture. ASE-B Campus was part of Gita-

Mahotsav-16. It participated in the global event on

10th December 2016 from the campus. Faculty mem-

bers and around 50 students were involved in the Gita

chant.

Selected 18 Shlokas were chanted by the

students. More than 28 countries participated in Gita

chanting at the same time. The spiritual development

of individual and masses through the gospels of Gita is

the sole objective of this programme.

ICPC

Papers Presented

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Presented By:

N. Rakesh

Author(s):

Surya S.

N. Rakesh

“Traffic Congestion Prediction

and Intelligent Signalling Based

on Markov Decision Process and

Reinforcement Learning”

30th –31

st

December,

2016

2016 International Conference

Cognition and Recognition,

Maharaja Institute of

Technology, Mysore.

Conference Proceedings in Springer.

Lecturer Notes in Networks and

Systems

INVENTORS TITLE FILED ON

Dr. Amudha Joseph

Ms. Nilima Kulkarni

“System and Method for Detection of features in

an Image using Knowledge of Expert’s Eye Gaze

pattern”

4th November, 2016

No. 201641037789

Patent Filed

Department of CSE


Dr.Sudarshan T.S.B. was invited to be the Session

Chair for the track on “Interfaces and Systems” in the

8th International Conference on Intelligent Human

Computer Interaction held on December 12th and 13

th

2016 at BITS Pilani, Rajasthan. The conference was

jointly organized by CSIR-CEERI, BITS Pilani and

IIIT Allahabad.

Ms. Supriya M attended the NASSCOM-DSCI

Annual Information Security Summit 2016 scheduled

between 13th and 15

th December, 2016 at Hotel Leela

Ambience Gurgaon, New Delhi. She got a

complementary registration to attend this event as her

poster titled "Trusted Cloud Storage for Big Data" was

adjudged as the Best Poster at 7th International

Summer School on Information Security and

Protection (ISSISP 2016) hosted by Amrita University

in Bengaluru, Campus during August 2016.

Dr. N Rakesh, Assistant Professor, Department of

CSE and Dr. Navin Kumar, Associate Professor,

Dept of ECE attended Nokia Bangalore Innovation

Day 2016 as a part of invited guest from Academic

Invitees on 14th December, 2016.The event had

exhibition of innovative ideas from Networking and

Communication background, solution for IoT and

Smart City Projects. Dr. N. Rakesh and Dr. Naveen

involved in discussion with the organizing committee

and also saw the demonstration of their products. The

exhibition showcased demonstration of products from

both Industry and Academic.

Faculty Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Department of CSE


M.Tech. (S3-Embedded Systems) students

Ms. Poonam, Mr. Renjith and Ms. Swetha have been

ranked 1st in the HiPC 2016 Student Parallel

Programming Challenge – NVIDIA track. The

winning team were invited to present their work and

awarded Rs.30,000 at the conference Hyderabad

scheduled from 19th to 22

nd December, 2016.

HiPC 2016 hosts the Student Parallel Programming

challenge to highlight the value of code parallelism,

parallel algorithms, and the role of mathematics in

solving real-world problems. The programming task

was taken up as part of their M.Tech. course on

GPU Architectures and Programming offered by

Dr. Madhura Purnaprajna and Ms. Lakshmi P.

Nokia Bangalore Innovation Day 2016

Talk on “Simulation Based Policy Analysis to

reduce EBOLA transmission Risk in Air Travel”

Prof. Ashok Srinivasan from Florida State University,

USA visited the campus on 28th December ,2016 and

gave a talk on “Simulation Based Policy Analysis to

reduce EBOLA transmission Risk in Air Travel”.

Also an interaction with Dr. Madhura P. and Dr. Su-

darshan T.S.B. was held to explore opportunities to

work on collaborative projects

Sigma Panel Meet

The Aeronautics R&D Board has instituted a Grants

in-Aid Scheme to nurture the available research talent

and to develop facilities in Higher Technological

Institutes, Colleges and other Research Centers. The

scheme is coordinated through various specialist

panels, duly constituted by the Chairman AR&DB

across different disciplines.

Dr.N.Rakesh Co-Principle Investigator of the

proposal named: “UAV communication system simu-

lator for user defined terrains, trajectories and its

testing” attended Special Interest Group for Micro

Aircraft (SIGMA) panel meeting held on 27/12/2016

at Dr.Abdul Kalam Sabhaangana, Bangalore. The

Principle Investigator of the proposal is Dr. Dhanesh

G. Kurup, Dept. of ECE, ASE-B.

Students Achievements Other News

Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By:

Prathyusha Sane

Shikha Tripathi

Author(s):

Prathyusha Sane

Suja P.

Shikha Tripathi

“Emotion Recognition from facial

expressions of 4D videos using

curves and surface normals”

12th to 13

th

December,

2016

8th International Conference on

Intelligent Human Computer

Interaction (IHCI2016), BITS,

Pilani

Published by Springer Scopus-

Indexed

Presented By:

Kirti S. Pande

Author(s):

Divya Sreenivasan

Devika Purushothaman

Kirti S. Pande

Murty N.S.

“Dual-Threshold Single-Ended

Schmitt-Trigger Based SRAM

Cell”

Received Best Paper Award in

the track 15

th to 17

th

December,

2016

IEEE International Conference on

Computational Intelligence and

Computing Research (2016 IEEE

ICCIC) 2016 at Agni College of

Technology, Old Mahabalipuram

Road, Thalambur, Chennai, Ta-

milnadu, India.

Scopus Indexed

Presented By:

K. Sai Sandeep

Author(s) :

K. Sai Sandeep

M. Sumanth

N. Sowjith

Sonali Agrawal

“Low power VLSI architecture

for combined FM0/Manchester

Encoder for re-usability and

FM0/Manchester Codecs”

Presented By:

Lalitha S.

Author(s):

Lalitha S.

Shikha Tripathi

“Emotion Detection using Per-

ceptual based Speech Features”

16th to 18

th

December,

2016

13th IEEE India International

Conference, INDICON, IISc.

Bangalore.

Scopus Indexed

Presented By:

R. V. Sanjika Devi

Author(s):

V. Sruthi

S. Krishnaveni

R. V. Sanjika Devi

Vrinda K.

Dhanesh G. Kurup

V. Senthil Kumar

“Macromodeling of a dual polar-

ized X band Microstrip-T Cou-

pled Patch antenna”

Presented By:

Jeeva Priya K.

Author(s):

Sneha V.

Hardhika G.

Jeeva Priya K.

Deepa Gupta

“Isolated Kannada Speech

Recognition Using HTK – A

Detailed Approach”

21st to 23

rd

December,

2016

International Conference on Ad-

vanced Computing and Intelligent

Engineering (ICACIE 2016) Spring-

er

Organized by C. V. Raman College

of Engineering, Bhubaneshwar

Department of ECE


Ms. Sanjana Jinasen V. from S7 has been offered

an opportunity to do her final semester internship

at Czech Technical University, Prague, under the

guidance of Prof. Robert Bestak, Department of

Electrical Engineering, CTU. Dr. Chithra R. re-

ferred her for the internship and is her internal

guide.

Ms. S. Kiruthika from S7 got selected for a fellow-

ship program at NTU Singapore. This is an India

connect research internship with a stipend of SGD

300 per month. Dr. Arpita Thakre is her internal

guide.

Student Achievements

Department of ECE


Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By:

R. Mahalakshmi

Author(s):

R. Mahalakshmi

J. Viknesh

K.C. Sindhu Thampatty

“Mathematical Modelling of Grid

connected Doubly Fed Induction

Generator based Wind farm”

14th to 17

th

December,

2016

2016 IEEE International

Conference on Power Electronics

Drives and Energy Systems

organized by IEEE PEDES 2016

and Hosted by Mar Baselious

College of Engg. and Technology,

Thiruvananthapuram

Presented By:

R. Mahalakshmi

Author(s):

R. Mahalakshmi

J. Viknesh

M.G. Ramesh,

M.R. Vignesh

K.C. Sindhu Thampatty

“Fuzzy Logic based Rotor Side

Converter for Constant Power

Control of Grid Connected

DFIG”

Presented By:

Aniketh R.

Author(s):

Aniketh R.

E.B. Manohar

G.R.S. Pruthvi Ram Yazwa

Nithya M.

Rashmi M.R.

“A Decentralized Fault -Tolerant

Weights Based Algorithm for

Coordination of Swarm Robots

for a Disaster Scenario”

16th to 18

th

December,

2016

13th International IEEE India

Conference (INDICON-2016),

IISC, Bengaluru, India.

IEEE Digital Explorer

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17th

December

2016

Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Organized


Mini Sujith

Sailaja V.

Lekshmi S.

Manitha P. V.

“Young Researchers Meet –

2016”

17th

December

2016

IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter

Amrita School of Engineering,

Bengaluru

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Attended

Department of EEE


Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By:

Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi

Author(s):

Ishaan Mehta

Keshav


Subir Kumar Saha

“A Teach Pendant to Control

Virtual Robots in RoboAnalyzer”

17th-20

th

December

2016

IEEE International Conference on

Robotics and Automation for

Humanitarian Applications (RAHA

2016) at Amrita School of

Engineering, Amritapuri, Amrita

Vishwa Vidyapeetham

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Presented By:

Rohit Kumar

Author(s):

Rohit Kumar

Sripad D. Vantmuri


Subir Kumar Saha

“Dynamic analysis of four-bar

mechanism in MechAnalyzer

software”

22nd -23

rd

December

2016

XII IPRoMM-2016 (Challenges in

Manufacturing) VNIT Nagpur Presented By:

Janani Swaminathan

Author(s):

Sachin Kumar Verma

Janani Swaminathan


Subir Kumar Saha

“Static force analysis of planar

mechanisms in MechAnalyzer

software”


Shali S. “Aeroelasticity” 19th-28

th

December

2016

By GIAN (Global Initiative for

Academic Network) at IIT

Kharagpur

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Attended

Department of ME


Dr. Veeresh Kumar G.B., delivered an Invited

talk on "Applications and Innovations in

MMCs" in an International Workshop on

Research and Application of Advanced

Composites and Materials (IWonRAACM’

16), during 7th and 8

th December, 2016, under the

financial support by TEQIP 1.2 - organized by the

Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDM

College of Engineering and Technology,

Dharwad.

Mr. Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi

Was invited to conduct a tutorial and hands-

on session on “Learning Robot Kinematics

using RoboAnalyzer and ABB Robots” during

IEEE International Conference on Robotics

and Automation for Humanitarian

Applications (RAHA 2016) on December 17th,

2016 at Amrita School of Engineering,

Amritapuri, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

University

Chaired a session on “Robot Manipulators”

during RAHA 2016 conference

Guided an Intern, Mr. Bishal Ghosh from IIT

Ropar, on a project entitled “Automatic

Generation of CAD Assembly of Serial Ro-

bots in Autodesk Inventor and their Analyses”

for the duration 21st -31

st December, 2016.

An Introductory session on programming using

Visual C++ was organized by INGENIUM on De-

cember 10th, 2016 in the afternoon session at

CAD/CAE Lab. Mr. Rajeevlochana G. Chitta-

wadigi, Assistant Professor, Department of Me-

chanical Engineering, conducted a hands-on-

session where he explained about the basics of

programming, object-oriented programming and

introduction to Visual Studio. Seven faculty mem-

bers from the department participated to learn

how to develop simple programs, which would

eventually help them to develop educational soft-

ware related to their topics of teaching and/or

research.

Dr. Debjyoti Sahu organized a technical talk on

“Fuel Cell Technology” by Dr. Avijit Ghosh,

Assistant Professor, Heritage Institute of

Technology, Kolkata, on 15th December, 2016, 2

pm at Project Hall near Shock Waves Lab.

Around 20 Research Scholars and PG Students

from Department of Mechanical Engineering

participated in the event and were benefited from

it.

Faculty Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Department of ME


Departmental Forum Activity

Other News



CONFERENCE

Presented By:

M. Dharani

Author(s):

M. Dharani

C.S. Shastry

“Structure of the transmission

peaks in bands generated by at-

tractive Dirac comb potentials”

19th -21

st

December

2016

SCICON16 held at Amrita School

of Engineering, Coimbatore

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Presented By:

M. Dharani

Author(s):

M. Dharani

C.S. Shastry

“Model Study of Transmission

across N Periodically Placed Ion-

ic Molecules in One Dimension”

26th-30

th

December,

2016

DAE SSPS held at KIIT,

Bhubaneswar

Paper will be published in AIP,

Scopus indexed

Presented By:

Praveen D.

Author(s):

Praveen D.

“Enhanced photoelectrical per-

formance of TiO2 electrodes of

DSSCs irradiated with 80MeV

O6+ ion”

Physics

Department of Sciences & Humanities


Papers Presented



CONFERENCE

Presented By:

Amrita Thakur

Author(s):

Amrita Thakur

S. Giridhar Reddy

“Green synthesis of Silver Nano-

particles using Sodium Alginate

and Lignosulphonic Acid”

27th -28

th

December,

2016

Dadi Institute of Engineering

Technology , Vizag, Andra Pradesh

Proceedings: Elsevier Materials

Today:

Chemistry

Papers Presented

Ms. Sreevidya B. Dept. of CSE

Ms. Kirti S. P ande

Dept. of ECE

Ms. Mamatha I. Dept. of EEE

Ms. Mrudula Prashanth

Dept. of ME

Mr. H. Manjunath Dept. of Sciences

Dr. Neetu Srivastava Dept. of Mathematics

Ms. Deepa K. Narayan

Dept. of English

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Kavitha C.R. Assistant Professor

Dept. of CSE Editor

Ms. Vasanthi

ES to Associate Dean Editor

Mr. Shiju

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AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Bengaluru · 2017-06-08 · IEEE PES Bangalore chapter had organized “Young Researchers Meet” on 17 December 2016 in the campus. Students of B.Tech