Best research paper award at the 4th National Conference of the Society For Biotechnologists of India held on January 13th, 14th, 2007

Mr. C.N. Vishnu Prasad, Ph.D. student at the Amrita School of Biotechnology, under the guidance of Dr. Anil Kumar, brought glory to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham by bagging the first prize-- The Shri C.V. Jacob Award, for the best research paper, presented at the , at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, (AIMS)Cochin. The paper was unanimously selected as the best, beating the competition which included well-established and renowned institutions including Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology(RGCB) and Cochin University (CUSAT)Dept. of Biotechnology.

Karthik Sankar.R won the "Prodigy award (Best Campus recruit)"in Embedded and Product Engineering Services division of Wipro Technologies.



Education and Career:

My schooling was in Lisieux School Coimbatore where I invested all my school boy years from LKG to class XII.

I did my MSc Software Enginnering at Amrita Institute of Technology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham(5 cherished years at Amrita). Its been a year since I am working in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. It6 is here i tasted academic success of a larger dimension when I became the University Rank Holder(rank 4th in Bharathiar University) (http://www.amrita.edu/news/news.htm) and Co-author along
(with Dr.KP Soman and ShivSubramani.K of an International paper.

The way Amrita moulded me eventually led me to winning the "Prodigy award (Best Campus recruit in Embedded and Product Engineering Services division of Wipro Technologies.."

Reflections:

Life at Amrita:
One memoir I cherish is how I used to watch this new college when I used to travel by train from Coimbatore to my native palakkad. My mom used to tell me hopefully one day you will be there if you study hard. And there I was in Amrita Institute of Technology right after my class XII…a dream come true.

Our Class:
Our class - the pioneer batch of MSc Software Engg (a 5 year course) was software all the way. Our class was hand picked and we had the best of brains. It was a bandwagon of illustrious individuals. I am sure all of them are on their way to this page.

It was a 5 year dream run.

Our faculty:
Among the many good faculty we had during the course I must say we were indebted to Mrs.Rajathilagam. She played a pivotal role to convert our class of novices to budding professionals.

Dr. Soman who was our project guide in the final semester is an epitome of dedication. He has a phenomenal knowledge on almost all fields. We could learn a lot from him.

Some of the people whom I draw inspiration from are Dr.S.Krishnamoorthy, Dr.T.R.Padmanabhan, Dr.Deepak Gupta, Ms. Shobana Madhavan. The list is endless for we have an excellent brigade.

We have some of the best minds of the academic world who are already there and with more of them coming to join Amrita I guess the golden age has just started.

Vidya:
A wonder called Vidya was born right in front of our eyes. I say with pride that it is one of the best digital libraries in the world. A collection of timeless knowledge from core engineering to Literature. Mr. Ajai Narendran is the architect of this incredible work of art. More»

Hostel Life:
A special mention about our warden Brahmachari palanivelu fondly called PV sir. He was like a father to all of us and had this phenomenol ability of identifying people and parents by their voice. His demise shattered all of us. We are all indebted to him for the pleasant family atmosphere in hostel.

Ambience:
The environment provides an ideal setting for learning and recreation. Apart from that I cherish the Ettimadai railway station and the hostel balcony where the two places where most of my poems where born. Vallikavu silhouetted between backwaters and the ocean. where we used to go frequently is heaven on Earth

Spirit of Service:
The unique blend of hard core technology based on values is what makes us stand out. All of us are indebted to the values inculcated in us right through the course.
I was fortunate to take part in Amritavarsham 50, visit vallikavu and participate in the community service. We students are given the noble opportunity to serve food to the poor and needy. This made us understand that life has indeed come on a platter for most of us.

A special mention is our COO Br.Abhayamrita Chaitanya who leads by example when it comes to work and also selfless service.

Above all the atmosphere has the divine grace of AMMA. AMMA has showered her grace on all her children. AMMA is an epitome of selfless service to the entire world .This inspires all of us to show that dedication and commitment with an attitude of selflessness wherever we are.

Karthik Sankar.R
Karthiksankar.r@gmail.com
http;//technicalphilosopher.blogspot.com

Exploring Frontiers in Macromolecular Engineering



Aditya Narayanan of 2005 BE ( Polymer Engineering) batch is currently pursuing  his Ph.D programme at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is specialising in the cutting edge area of Macro molecular Engineering.



Aditya on his student years at Amrita.

I did my schooling in Sishya, an ICSE board school in Chennai. The foundation was laid right there, and helped me gain admission to Amrita Institute of Technology. Right from day one, I was fascinated by the College, now one of the fastest growing research universities India. Life at Amrita , was truly memorable. An excellent blend of value-based education,coupled with the great ambience around the campus, along with a fun-filled hostel life brings back many moments worth cherishing. The bhajans, the community service we all were engaged in whenever Amma came to Coimbatore, and frequent trips to Vallikavu, were amazing experiences for me. Spending valuable time at the Computer labs and College canteen in the evenings were always fun-filled.

My undergrad was in Polymer Engineering. Prof Subba rao , the Chairperson of the Department was a great motivator and often used to urge us into pursuing higher studies .From the 2nd year on, I was keen on doing a Master's at a prestigious University in the US, and started preparing towards that, as the years went by. The syllabus for every semester was chalked out well wherein, I was exposed to the different fields of Polymer Science and Engineering. The applications of Polymers is tremendous, from domestic use to high-tech applications.Over the third and fourth years at Amrita, through the help of the faculty and specific labs, we gained expertise into the details of Polymer Processing,Characterization ,Design and Testing . This laid the perfect foundation to study further and specialize in one of these fields. By the middle of the third year, it was all about narrowing down on my interests and selecting Universities, which offered specialized MS/PhD programs in Polymer Science and Engineering. This was when I got some valuable information from Ajai Narandran Sir, Content Manager and Web Master for Amrita, Coimbatore.

Ajai sir was telling me about the places where I was applying, the weather conditions there, amongst other things. I have had a couple of serious discussions with him , regarding the various Universities I had in mind.He knew where all I was planning to apply, and when I once mentioned about the Graduate program at the University of Michigan(U of M, UMich) -Ann Arbor, I still remember how excited Ajai Sir got, he told me to try my best to get an admit, and that I should have no hesitation in going there, because it was a Top 10 Engineering University in the US, and a great place to study. I had no hopes of gaining admission to U of M , but Ajai sir's confidence kept my hopes alive, and in the end , I did secure an admit to this University. I am currently working towards my Ph.D in Macromolecular Science and Engineering at U of M, and plan to specialize in the field of Fluorescent Polymeric Chemical and Bio-chemical sensors .

The University is simply amazing, there are quite a few Indians here in Ann Arbor. A coinciding factor about Ann Arbor, is that one of Amma's main ashrams in the US, is located at Ann Arbor.I got to know this, from Prof. Subba Rao, when I met him for the last time, before it was time to leave Amrita. A wonderful place, it truly brings back memories of the bhajans back in the Ettimadai campus.

Research& Career
I am focusing my research on Fluorescent Polymeric Materials for use as Chemical/Bio-chemical Sensors.It has has gained much interest in the recent years,and is a key study in our Research Group.We use femtosecond pulse Lasers to work on different novel molecular structures.This spectroscopic technique is one of the best in the world, and very few research groups in the US use this method for characterization.

My career plans are shaping up slowly but steadily. I'd like to gain expertise in the field mentioned above, and graduate with a Doctoral degree in Macromolecular Science and Engineering. I intend to focus my career in Macromolecular Science and work in a Research Lab / Industry, emphasizing on my field of specialization.

I really hope to see more of our Juniors coming here, and would be happy to help , regarding higher studies in the US. Thank you.

Aditya Narayanan
Ph.D Student , Macromolecular Science & Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Amrita's Presence at Stanford University

Vijay Francis from 2005 BE ( Polymer Engineering) batch secured admission for Masters Programme at the prestigious Stanford University, USA. He was doing his MS in Materials Science at Univ. of Dayton, Ohio prior to getting this admission offer from Stanford. Vijay joins the expanding group of Amrita students securing admission for higher studies at some of the most prestigious universities around the world. Earlier Mr. Udhay Kumar of ECE 2004 batch secured admission at Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Cambridge University, UK , Mr.Shyam Divakar of ECE 2002 batch is currently doing his Ph.D on Computational Neuroscience at University of Milan, Italy, Aditya Narayanan - Ph.D Macromolecular Science and Engg -University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Subramaniam M.V.S.S - Ph.D Chemical Engineering - Ohio State University,Columbus and Sandeep Unnikrishnan doing his Ph.D in the area of Bio-MEMS at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Vijay on his Life @ Amrita

I did my schooling in Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi which is in my native place, Thrissur. The life skills learnt in there helped me in the transition to college life at Amrita. In my first year I was introduced to subjects which were to form the base of my major, Polymers. The good tracking system in place at Amrita made effective by advisors and counselors saw to it that I, along with all others gave in our best. The Chairperson of Polymer Department, Prof. Subba Rao was someone that all of us looked up to during this period. Second year was the most demanding part of my B.Tech education where I really got to know polymers. I consider it a blessing to have had very good instructors for those subjects. The labs which were offered and the regular symposia (Polyvista) that used to happen in Polymer Dept. helped me in selecting what I wanted to do. Having a direction helped me in doing courses in my third and final years with enthusiasm.

Final year was my most enjoyable time at Amrita. I owe it mainly to my project partners Prabeesh T.K and Siva Subrahmanyam who are currently pursuing M.Tech in CEN and PhD in Ohio State Univ. respectively. The evening walks on campus with hostelites and the bhajans on Thursday nights will always have a special place in me. I feel happy and a bit lucky that I was able to get what I wanted, from Amrita. I could have done better though! I have never had the fortune to walk up and receive prizes for any of the University exams nor could anyone spot me in the library, while I was like a fixture in the college canteen. All those hours were wasted on me and I wish that my juniors will strive to differ. Good luck!

Vijay Francis

Article that topped the list of hottest 25 Articles ranked by Science Direct

An article by Dr Biresh Sahoo, Associate Professor, Amrita School of Business, in the journal, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (Dec.2005),Netherlands , has topped the list of hottest 25 Articles ranked by Science Direct. The article is titled "Evaluating Cost-Efficiency and Returns to Scale in the Life Insurance Corporation of India using Data Envelopment Analysis". More »

The article has been listed on the top among the Top 25 Hottest Articles by ScienceDirect in the Subject Area, "Business Management and Accounting" .ScienceDirect lists the most frequently downloaded journal articles,from any selected journal among more than 2000 titles in its database,or from any of 24 subject areas.

Dr.Brijesh Sahoo with over five years of teaching experiences, erved as a Postdoctoral Fellow for 12 consecutive months at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo under the auspices of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Foreign Researchers. Has qualified the National Educational Test (NET) for Lectureship in Economics conducted by University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi. His work has been published in refereed international and national journals. More »

From Electronics Engineering to Brain Modelling at University of Milan, ITALY

Mr.Shyam Diwakar of B.Tech ECE 2002 batch is currently pursuing a Doctoral programme at University of Milan, Italy. He works on 'Mathematics and Statistics for Computational Science' with interdisclipinary focus towards creating computational models of the brain.

About me & my career:
I currently work on computational modeling of cerebellar granule cells as a part of my PhD work. I am officially supported by a non-EU student grant for a period of 3 years to do research by the Universita' degli Studi di Milano(University of Milan), Milan, Italy and am registered as a Dottorando(PhD registrant) at the Dipartimento di Matematica( Dept. of Mathematics) for study on "Mathematics and Statistics for Computational Science".

However, all my work is being done at the Department of Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. I have visited some meetings at Hebrew University of Israel, Max Plank Institute-Germany, Abdus Salam ICTP- Trieste etc as part of my study.

Life at Amrita:

I joined Amrita Institute of Science and Technology(now ASE) as a student in 1998. I saw my first lessons of humility when I saw the Correspondent ( now the COO) stepping down as an ordinary helper to arrange chairs during an event related to inauguration of a supercomputer. My interest in mathematics has been always overshadowed by laziness and in most cases i usually did not perform math very well, especially in exams. I wanted to pursue Superstring theory in my first year of bachelors for which I was very much supported by the physics department in spite of their limited facilities then.

But real interests for math was motivated in courses handled by Prof. Padmanabhan and later by Prof.Soman. Amrita University(Schools of Engineering and Business) had been conducting very interesting summer courses for people from industry and academia on lead topics like parallel computation, machine intelligence etc. It was during some of these courses that I learnt that engineering is math. The studies on probabilistic methods for pattern recognition provided me an idea for a paper which i presented in Greece immediately after graduation. Math turned interesting. Better motivation came from Prof.Soman who then insisted i could continue on a research career and also provided me a position as an research assistant under him at Amrita
Institute of Management (now ASB).

Later on he started the Centre for Computational Engineering to which I was transferred. It was at CEN that my interests to pursue brain modeling were rekindled. Prof. Ramachandran supported me and inspired me through his wonderful course on partial differential equations and later suggested i work on a system of my choice preferably retaining my interests on Hodgkin-Huxley type equations. He had been more than just my teacher. He supported me as a researcher and we used to have interesting discussions on dynamics even on tea tables at the canteen.

Life is wonderful especially to work on academics mostly because its hastle-free. Amrita campus gave me just more than that. I used to walk into the outer woods surrounding the campus when i had too much stress and one hour of time sitting on a bare rock overlooking into the greenery and the pink Institution buildings farther below was more than just sufficient. All thanks to that campus that has brought me here. I am very happy to say its only because of Amrita that I am.

Shyam Diwakar Mukundanunny
Contact: shyam[DOT]mukundanunny[AT]unimi[DOT]it
Dottorando MaSSC
Dipartimento di Matematica "Federigo Enriques"
Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano MI, Italy

Paper at IEEE ISI 2005 - Atlanta and Invited Speaker NET ID 2006 - Berlin

Mr .Senthilkumar Chandramohan of B.Tech ( Electronics and Communication Engineering - 2004 batch) has been invited as a speaker at Identity Management: Building Trust in the Internet, European Conference on Identity, Trust, Privacy & Security (NET ID 2006) to be held in Berlin. Senthil also made a presentation at IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, (IEEE-ISI 2005) hosted at Atlanta in May 2005. Senthil is currently with Torry Harris Business Solutions - Bangalore as Associate Software Engineer. His current research is focused on intelligent informatics and signal processing.



Senthil's Reflections- Career and Life at Amrita

Education @ Amrita:

I completed my Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Amrita Institute - Coimbatore between 2000-2004. My areas of interest include Informatics, RFID, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. My current research is focused on intelligent informatics and signal processing for rural up-liftment. Since June 2004 I am functioning as Associate Software Engineer for Torry Harris Business solutions, Bangalore. I am planning to pursue my masters degree from Sep 2006.

Life @ Amrita:

Amrita has its unique way to enlighten the young minds with the right mix of technology and tradition. My four years at Amrita has made an impeccable transformation in me and has refined every aspect of my life.We at Amrita not only gain technical knowledge, but also learn the basic ethics of human life. To mention, our prayers have never been confined only towards self betterment but also towards the betterment of the eternity - "Lokhahe Samasthah Sukhino Bhavanthu". Today Amrita has not just made me an engineer but also has moulded me as a professional with rich moral and ethic values.

My little success would have always been a dream without the continued encouragement and support of my beloved parents, esteemed staff members and well wishers. I am very much grateful to my project guide Jayakumar Sundaram and the Amrita community. Every alumnus of Amrita will make an irrefutable note about its excellent infrastructure and its multi facility campus and I am certainly not an exception. "Vidya" the digital library, hi-tech labs, committed staff members and researchers at Amrita provide an excellent foundation and environment for a successful research career.

It gives me immense pleasure to see Amrita scaling greater heights every day. I am sure with the blessings of almighty and with the sustained efforts of the management, staff and student community Amrita will soon be a premier research institute.

Please feel free to write me at senthilkumar.chandramohan@gmail.com

Senthilkumar Chandramohan,
Associate Software Engineer,
Torry Harris Business Solutions - Bangalore

Prize winning entry @ VI Mantra 2004 conducted by National Instruments
Mr. Ajith Peter (2003 B.Tech Productuion Engg. batch) and Rakesh Peter (2005 B.Tech CSE batch) won the 4th prize in VI Mantra 2004 competition conducted by National Instruments India, for their work on "Image Processing based Flow Measurements ". Their prize winning entry fetched the university latest hardware worth $1500. Ajith is a research associate with Amrita's Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, working towards completion of his M.Tech in Computational Engineering. Rakesh recently joined the Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking as a research associate pursuing his MS (by research) in Computational Engineering.

DAAD, Germany candidate from IIT,Kharagpur


Ms. S Kalaivani of B.Tech 2003 batch ( Polymer Engineering ) has been awarded the DAAD scholarship( German Academic Exchange Service - translated in german as Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) to carry out her M.Tech research at Institute of Polymeric Materials, Germany. After her graduation from Amrita she joined the Polymer Engineering department as a faculty member and later moved over to IIT,Kharagpur to pursue her M.Tech programme. At IIT she topped the Autumn Semester 2004 which qualified her for the DAAD Scholarship.She will be carrying out research work on Rubber Nanocomposites.

Life at Amrita : Kalaivani's reflections

Learning is an art. The focus at Amrita is not only to impart this art but also to provide a perfect blend of the essentials of life. In other words it provides value-based education. Amrita Institution is much more than being just a college. It’s a divine place with serene environment, good infrastructure, highly qualified faculties and well-trained lab assistants.

I feel lucky to be a student and also to serve as a faculty member in the Institute. Each and every day of my four years as a student is valuable and treasured in my memory forever. Even though it’s just a year being a faculty, it gave me a new vision, made me focused and helped me to draw experience all that I need to meet any expectations.

During my days at Amrita I felt the influence of our divine mother – AMMA in all my earnest endeavors. All my achievements are due to Her.

I take this opportunity to thank our Polymer Engineering Department Chairman, Prof. R. Subba Rao, for his valuable guidance and motivation, Prof. S.S. Bhagawan and all our faculty members for their support and timely help.As a present student of IIT Kharagpur, I thank Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick for accepting me as a project student and for his valuable suggestions, all faculty members and friends of Rubber Technology Center.

Last, but not least, I’m so grateful to my Father and Mother, for bringing me up to this level regardless of all the difficulties.

Anna University ME (VLSI) rank holders
K G Smitha	B Yamuna
Our students Mrs.K G Smitha and B Yamuna of ME (2002-2004 batch) secured the 1st and 2nd ranks respectively in the ME (VLSI) examination conducted by Anna University. Smitha's reflections on Amrita: I completed M.E in VLSI Design at Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, in June 2004. After graduating, I was fortunate to take up a 6-month career as Lecturer at Amrita Institute. I had a fruitful and enriching experience at Amrita as a student and also as a teacher. Let me take this opportunity to sincerely wish all the very best for the institute’s future educational and developmental efforts. I am indebted to the entire faculty and friends for their relentless support and motivation in all my endeavors. Currently I reside in Singapore, and am looking for opportunities to pursue higher studies in VLSI design. - Mrs. Smitha Sreekumar, Singapore. Yamuna's reflections on Amrita: I joined Amrita institutions in the year 2000 as faculty in department of ECE. Then I pursued ME VLSI Design as a full time student at Amrita Institute. After completion of the course I rejoined as faculty in ECE department. Currently I am pursuing Phd under the guidance of Dr.T.R. Padmanabhan in the field of VLSI in Wireless networking The 4 years of my stay at Amrita both as a faculty and as a student had a great impact on the development of my career. Amrita Institute is an excellent centre for learning. It offers the best atmosphere for working as well. With Amma’s blessings I am sure that in the coming years Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham would become one of the best universities in the world. B.Yamuna Dept of ECE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

APICS Best student member of the year 2004 – 2005 Hareash Vontivilu ( Batch 2003) is currently a graduate student in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA.Recently his paper entitled Kano Model - Manage Quality through Measurement for the 2nd Annual Student Technical Paper Competition of the American Society for Quality. On Monday, May 16, 2005. This event will be held at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA.He was also presented the Best student member of the year 2004 – 2005 from APICS (American Society for Production and Inventory Control) - The Association for Operations Management. His reflections on Amrita I did my bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from AMRITA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, 2003 pass out batch. Harish says: " I was a very irresponsible chap before coming to Amrita Institute. I was molded into a good shape at AITEC. Thanks to all the faculties, management and friends I had". I was a Graduate Research Assistant for the National Institute for Aviation Research, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA. – For one year (Jan 2004 – 2005)and currently I am Working at Bombardier-Learjet Aerospace, Wichita, Kansas, as a Methods Engineer since two months. Hareash Vontivilu Methods Engineer, Learjet Bomardier Aerospace, Wichita, KS, USA Young Innovators : Jayaram & Vinoth                     Jayaram                     Vinoth Our two Mechanical Engineering students Mr.Jayaram and Mr.Vinoth built Tele-operated Defense Surveillance Robot that is capable of surveying the area for Land mines and Chemical weaponry hazards. Read media report» Jayaram's reflections on Amrita: Life at Amrita is a unique and one of the kind experience in my life. The campus is located in a serene and divine Environment which stimulates even young student towards research. In Amrita I not only I got to learn Engineering and technology but a life science, selfless working and care for the world. Only in Amrita you get to hear Loka samastha sukinu bhavantu means let everybody be well and happy. My four year of life at campus were memorable ones. There were a encouraging set of faculty who had confidence in us and allowed to do what we wanted. To develop a cutting edge technology we don’t always need sophisticated facilities and funds but innovative thinking and a little support which Amrita had offered me in plenty. Being an Amritaite has created a difference in my life and the values that Amrita has instilled in me will continue to influence me all through my lifeMy future plan include complete a PG course on MEMS and Robotics and to pursue a career in R&D. Jayaram H h_jayaram1@rediffmail.com Vinoth's reflections on Amrita: Located on the lush green western ghats, Amrita has made my life change. Amrita –where you can realize nature, life and protected by the shadow of Amma; is a superstructure where you have the real value based education. I entered into this new world – Amrita, with lot of expectations and it had shown me the right direction to lead my life. I felt Amrita would make me shine and give me the right path to achieve my goals when I stepped into it for the first time. In my four short years at Amrita, I have realized what engineering is by the values induced on me. I stepped Amrita into Mechanical Engineering department. The faculties gave me a thrust and motivation to work. I thank all the faculties who were responsible for my achievement. In my engineering life, I have got wonderful partner, who has been helping, working with me all the years of my life at amrita. He has been always insisting on one thing “Think differently” , you can become a hero. The next step I have planned is doing Post-graduation in Robotics and MEMS technology. Vinoth M vinurobo@yahoo.com Young Innovator Imagine a refrigerator-cum-heater that costs Rs 1,000, is portable and cools two litres of water in half an hour. Sounds impossible? Unni Suresh, a third-year Production Engineering student of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has come up with this dream machine. This mini refrigerator works on the thermocouple principle. In this 12V, 3 amps machine, Germanium and Silicon are doped and current is passed to create hot and cold junctions. The cold junction inside the refrigerator reduces the temperature, depending on the room temperature. At a room temperature of 35 degree Celsius, a considerable –5 degree Celsius could be achieved inside. More» Unni's Reflections on Amrita I have found this college to be the embodiment of knowledge, grace and spirituality. The serine environment gives us warmth, confidence and above all the maturity to understand ourselves. The staff and the infrastructure are an exquisite to this exotic temple of learning. Encouraging the student’s ideas and exploiting their knowledge in various fields of research and development, in my experience this college is the veritable melting pot of creative minds. Should anybody require any assistance or guidance in any future projects do not hesitate to contact me. I will be happy to be of any assistance to them. Unni Suresh

National Science Foundation cites ASB professors   Amrita School of Business professor Dr. Deepak Gupta , was featured in the National Science Foundation publication "Science and Engineering Indicators-2004" More>> ASE faculty helps develop landmark software to detect banking fraud Mr. T Senthilkumar, Senior Lecturer , CSE department guided a key project in developing a landmark software to detect banking fraud. In the words of the developer : "If you use my system, you will be able to cut down the time required to detect suspicious bank transactions from hours to just minutes,’’ he says, standing on the sidelines at a technology seminar in Lucknow." Read the Report online >> || PDF Best paper Award at MobiComNet 2004 Mr. K.S. Javid of 2001-2005 B.Tech Information Technology won "Best Paper Award" for his paper entitled, "Secure Ad Hoc Networks using Threshold Cryptography" at MobiComNet 2004, the international conference on Mobile Computing at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. Incidentally, his paper was ranked top among 77 papers presented at the international conference. Javid on his education and life at Amrita -Impressions: I am doing my Final Year Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology in this institution which is known for its popularity for having state-of-the art Infrastructure and Technical assets. With the Blessings of Divine Amma, I got placed in one of the Best software companies "Inautix Technologies-Chennai". I am much interested in Networks and in Communication Concepts. To be more precise I designed on my own some prototype models of sending the (SOS) signals in any emergency cases through Mobile Phones. Part of this interest was spurred by the IT Department. The IT Department has organized various technical symposia and events including "Convergence", which is one of the most popular student events in Amrita University. Life at Amrita: It is very hard to say all my four years of life in Amrita in just four lines. When I first came inside this college, I was feeling as a small fish from an Aquarium is getting inside a large ocean. I was little bit scared and had questions arousing in me whether I could survive in this ocean of Competition, and Knowledge and to be as honest as possible with the rules and regulations of college. I was very fond of my college Infrastructure and its astounding beauty which provided me with the best atmosphere to use all the resources available like technical staff assistance, labs and superb library. The 4 years of my stay at Amrita had a great impact on my career with enlightening Knowledge and bag full of Opportunities to show my talents and correct myself inorder to get tuned myself to the world of opportunities.I take this opportuinity to thank my Parents because of whom I am here in my life. I am thankful to my Seniors of 99 & 2000 batch and to my Department Staff members for their untiring commitment inspite of their hectic schedule of work especially to Prof.K.Gangadharan and to Mr.Prashant.R.Nair who have encouraged me in all tough times in my 4 years of life. Mr. K.S. Javid B.Tech (IT) 2005 batch, Amrita School of Engineering Represented global UG community at HLT/NAACL2004 , Boston N.Udhaykumar R.Swaminathan S.K.Ramakrishnan of the ECE 2004 batch

N.Udhaykumar, R.Swaminathan and S.K.Ramakrishnan of the 2004 batch authored a landmark paper "Mutlilingual speech recognition for information retrieval in Indian context" which was accepted for the HLT/NAACL Student Research Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2004. It is one among 10 papers all over the world and the only paper by undergraduates. Uday has to his credit 2 international and 2 national publications. Recently he was selected as one of the 45 young researchers to attend a round table discussion on the future of speech technologies. The discussion is jointly organized by Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Cambridge University,UK and is going to be held as a workshop along with Eurospeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal in September. He is going to talk about the growing interest and challenges in developing speech applications for emerging markets in rural India. Uday on his Education and Life at Amrita: I did my undergraduation in Electronics and Communication at Amrita Institute of Technology, Coimbatore (2000-2004). My interests include signal processing, machine learning and Human-Computer interaction. I am particularly excited about research focussed towards the needs of emerging markets like India. I developed a robust multilingual spontaneous speech recognizer for Hindi and Tamil as a part of my final year project. Currently I am a Design Engineer in the Speech and Audio group of SANYO, working on the design and development of various speech and audio codecs. After a few years of industrial exposure, I plan to pursue my graduate studies in signal processing. My life at Amrita: The unique blend of moral and technical education at Amrita has refined me. I am grateful to my faculty without whom my acievements would not have been quite possible. I especially thank my guide, Mr.Santhosh Kumar and Vice Chancellor Dr.Venkat Rangan for their continuous encouragement and support. Apart from the world-class infrastructure and highly qualified researchers, the calmness and tranquility of the campus provides an environment that is most conducive to learning. The education system is quite different here which emphasizes one's creativity and personal growth instead of just rote learning. Value-based education at Amrita has not only transformed me as a competitive engineer to face the corporate world, but also as a disciplined citizen of the society. Being an alumni I am overwhelmed by the recent progress like e-learning, telemedicine etc at the university. I am delighted to know that Amrita has become a rendezvous of scientists, academicians and corporate professionals. With the blessings of Amma, Amrita will soon emerge as one of the premier institutes in the world. Udhyakumar.N Design Engineer, Speech & Audio group, DSP Software Division, SANYO LSI Technology India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore, INDIA. Swaminathan on his education: I finished my B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Coimbatore (2000-2004). Currently I am working as a Design and Development Engineer in TATA ELXSI, Bangalore. I am with the Digital Signal Processing and Multimedia group, working on audio codecs. I am very content to be working in a field in which I utilize all the basic technical education imparted to me as a part of my engineering curriculum. I have now set my sight on a Masters in Business Administration. This is because I firmly believe that a blend of technical and management skills is essential for a successful and a colorful career. Swaminathan's reflections on his 4 years at Amrita: As I reflect on my life, I realize that my four years at Amrita have played a very crucial role in bringing out the person in me. The faculty, the ambience, the resources available and above all Amma’s blessings has contributed a lot towards moulding my personality. Also I am extremely grateful to my mentor Mr.C.Santhosh Kumar, who was instrumental in guiding us through our final year project. Now seven months out of the college, I am spellbound to see the institute progress by leaps and bounds in all available avenues. Certainly the life at Amrita will be evergreen in my memories and am proud to be alumni of this institute. R.Swaminathan Design and Development Engineer TATA ELXSI, Bangalore. Ramakrishnan on his Education and life at Amrita I completed my B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering at Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, India in April 2004. Currently I am working at Wipro Technologies, India. My areas of interests are Speech Recognition, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) Systems. About my college Four years I spent in Amrita are short and sweet days in my life. Amrita Institute provided me the oppurtunities to expose my talents in all possible ways. The most inspiring thing about the institute is the value based technical education that helps the students to mould their character and face the challenges in day to day life in a better possible way. All these days what I have failed to see outside my college campus is the dedicated team of faculty and state of the art infrastructure. I would like to thank and appreciate the help provided by the Management and faculty of Amrita Institute for their constructive comments and encouragement which helped my project team to do our work on Multilingual Speech Recognition. We presented our paper in Student Research Workshop at Boston in May 2004. It is really great to see that the college has a very good recognition in the industry. With Amma's blessings the institute will soon attain its goal in creating leaders for this millennium. Ramakrishnan.S.K Project Engineer, Wipro Technologies, Chennai.

AIMTDR Achievement Award Conferred on Prof.V.Radhakrishnan

Prof.V.Radhakrishnan, Director (Research), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been conferred the AIMTDR Achievement Award (Academic), by the All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference, a forum of country’s eminent researchers, academics, designers and practicing engineers in the field of Manufacturing Engineering, for his significant and well acknowledged contributions to research, teaching and development. AIMTDR, a forum of 35 years standing, has honoured him for his original contributions to the area and in recognition of his national and international standing. Home page>>

Commonwealth scholarship awarded

Srinivasan C.J, Batch 2002, B.E Computer Science & Engg was awarded both Commonwealth Scholarship and Chevening Scholarship, accepted the former. Commonwealth Scholarship is being funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) under Govt. of UK.This Scholarship is for full time Masters Course M.Sc Intelligent Systems at University of Sussex, UK. He specialised on Intelligent Systems with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Srinivasan on his education I finished my B.E Computer Science and Engineering at Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Coimbatore in 2002. I worked onMainframes at iNautix Technologies, Chennai for a couple of years before I joined University of Sussex, UK for my Masters in Intelligent System. I have been working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) since a few years. My interests are in Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning and NLP. I am planning to work towards building autonomous systems that can make machines more friendly and usable. Srinivasan's reflections on his 4 years at Amrita My four years at Amrita campus redefined me. The time I spent here gave me more than a valuable Engineering degree. The campus, located in a natural setting of astounding beauty, provided me not only with highly competetive education and technical facilities, but also a spirtual aura for the kickstart of my career. The institution continues to impress me, with its ever expanding horizon in its services to the society, which is to deliver affordable, interdisciplinary and value-based education. No wonder, Amma's guidance has accelerated the growth of this campus into a deemed university that is redefining education at all levels. I am delighted to find that the university is taking efforts to revive the values of Indian Sciences like Ayurveda. I continue to stay stunned to see the campus colloborating with the industry and the governmental institutions for the development of the society and nation, at large. Srinivasan C J M.Sc Intelligent Systems, Research Associate, Centre For Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking ( CEN ) Best Business Idea 2004 award from Staffordshire University, UK Mr. Sameek Ghosh of PGDM 2001 batch (Amrita School of Business) is the winner of the Staffordshire University Bizcom Prize for Best Business Idea 2004 organised and sponsored by Mercia Institute of Enterprise. Sameek on his education and life at Amrita-Impressions: Appreciation comes after realisation, realising through achievement in a foreign land increases appreciation manyfold and I repent of what I am missing every day from the happenings in my alma mater. Yes! given a chance and if situation permits I will come back to this holy place which has moulded me to accept and adapt changes with ease, work with people, embrace diversity, tackle exceptions and become globally effective. After working in India and UK I value my learning at ASB more than before. The teaching was truely best in its class, with a global perspective using cutting edge methodologies, information technologies and comparable with top ranked global institutions. I am sure, ASB will become one of the top 10 management school in India within next 5 years. I wish, all the best to my faculty and juniors. Hope to learn more from you in the coming days. Mr. Sameek Ghosh Stoke-on-Trent City Council, UK Outstanding foreign student award at University of Aachen Sandeep have been selected by his university as this year's foreign student with outstanding achievements. He received the award from DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service (translated in german as Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) on 26th of November 2004 at the townhall of Aachen. Sandeep on his education: I studied B.E Production Engineering at Amrita Institute (1996-2000). After 2 years of industrialexperience, I resigned my job and opted for higher education. The university in which I am currently studying is - The University of Applied Sciences Aachen, which is located in a city named Aachen near the western border of Germany. At this university I am doing my Master of Science in Mechatronics since November 2002. My specialization is in the field of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). I am currently doing my master thesis in the Netherlands at the University of Twente in the field of Bio-MEMS. My master studies would be completed by January 2005. From February 2005 I am planning to start my Ph.D at the University of Twente. Sandeep's reflections on his 4 years at Amrita Today whatever I could achieve is because of the strong educational foundation which I obtained from Amrita Institute. The disciplined methodology of studies at Amrita has helped me a lot. I am grateful to all my professors and lecturers who lit the candle of knowledge in me. AMMA's blessings has always been with me. My experiences at the Amrita Institute are unforgettable. I had always been attached to AITEC, as a student and now as an alumni. Wherever I go, I see   myself as an AITECian and this feeling in me motivates me to help AMMA's students to lead their career into a successful path. Sandeep Unnikrishnan , [ sandeepu79@yahoo.com ] Master of Science in Mechatronics University of Aachen, Germany From Ettimadai to the United Nations Organisation, New York Vijaychandran of BE (2004) batch, who is currently enrolled for MS programme at the University of South Florida is selected by the United Nations Organisations to execute a key project. He happens to be the youngest intern at the Information Technology Dept. in United Nations Office of Legal affairs. Vijay's reflections on Amrita Students are built by the institutions and I can tell that in this context, Amrita can really be proud of moulding such fine individuals and technocrats. I am sure that in the coming years Amrita Alumni will be all over the globe and sure enough, they will be excelling in their chosen fields. The four years were really like being in fire for me, frankly I struggled a lot through the rules and restrcitions there and but now I realise that it was the best which I can get that time. They were meant for my better tomorrows and once we get out of the campus we realise that all the rules and restrictions were there to enable us confront the realities in the world. I am happy to see education there getting enriched with more research activities. Facilities in the college is really comparable to any other colleges. I am also touched by the untiring commitment of some of my faculty members who helped me out even at during odd hours amidst their hectic schedule. Vijay on his Education and current work: I am a full time international graduate student in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Dept. at the University of South Florida. I aim to complete my MS degree in Industrial Engineering by Spring 2006. In the coming Spring 2005 semester, I have been accepted into the very prestigious internship program at the United Nations Organization (UNO) Secretariat Headquarters in New York City. I believe that I am the only student from the college who has been presented with such a great opportunity. The period of the internship will extend from 10 January 2005 to 10 April 2005 at the Information technology Department in United Nations Office of Legal affairs. The focus of my project at the UN is to develop and implement a new web based search algorithm to query the existing database, sort publications and provide search results to the user. In addition the work will also involve implementation of security protocols to authenticate and restrict user access. This internship would allow me an unprecedented opportunity to observe the working and management of an international organization. The interdisciplinary nature of my internship program and the project in UN will be excellent training for my MS thesis research. The challenges, which I will face, and the actions that I will take to overcome them, will be a great experience and further boost to my research work here. I would be able to apply the resulting insight and knowledge specifically to the student community by sharing my research experience with my program colleagues. Vijaychandran Veerachandran, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Organisation, New York Top Please click here to read  more of our students' reflections »