Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Indo

Ms. Maneesha V Ramesh, faculty of CSE and Dr. Krishna Shree Achuthan, Program Co-Director of Indo-US International Initiatives visit various US universities. Ms. Maneesha is the lead for the project funded by the European Commission, called WINSOC (www.winsoc.org). This very interesting project explores the development and experimental deployment of clusters of wireless sensor networks interconnected by satellite networks for wide area monitoring of landslides. Maneesha has presented the research updates at the European Commission in Belgium. The team met prominent professors and researchers at the following US and Canadian Universities.

University of Washington

3rd June 2008

Host: Dr. Ed Lazowska (Chair,Computer Science)

US Geological Survey

6th June 2008
Attendees: Dr. Ray Wilson (USGS), Kevin Schmidt (USGS), John Stock, Daniel Mazmon (USGS), Joe Johnson (USGS), Mark Reid (USGS), Maneesha V. Ramesh (Amrita), Dr. Krishnashree Achutan (Amrita), Josh Freeman (Amrita) , Dr. H.M. Iyer (UGS/Amrita)

University of California, Santa Cruz

9th June 2008

Host: Dr. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering )

	11th June 2008 Host: Dr. Tapan Parikh (Asst. Professor, Computer Science)
	University of California, Berkeley
	University of Maryland
	Date: July 11, 2008 Host: Dr. Ashok Agrawala, Dr. Abhijit Dasgupta, Dr. Nikhil Chopra, Dr. Balachandran

	17th June 2008 Host: Dr. R. Edward Beighley (Assistant Professor & Director Soil Erosion Research Laboratory )
	Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (SDSU/SERL)

University of Southern California

18th June 2008
Host: Ramesh Govindan (Professor & Dean, Computer Science)

University of New Mexico

Host: Dr. Sanjay Krishna (Center for High Technology Materials), Stephanie Forrest (Professor and Chairman-CS), Prof. Deepak Kapur (Distinguished Professor)

Univeristy of Dallas

Date: June 30, 2008
Host: Dr. Gopal Gupta (CS), Dr. Tamil (EE), Dr. Padmakumar Nair (Business)

University of Michigan

7th July 2008

University of California, Los Angeles

8th July 2008

Eastern Michigan University

Date: July 8, 2008
Host: Dr. Gopal Gupta (Professor and Associate Department Head)

New York University

Date: July 10, 2008
Host: Dr. Lakshminarayanan (Asst. Professor, CS)

Columbia University

Date: July 10, 2008
Host: Dr. Somasundaran (La von Duddleson Krumb Professor, Director, I/UC Research Center
)

University of Maryland

Date: July 11, 2008
Host: Dr. Ashok Agrawala (Professor, CMPS-Computer Science), Dr. Abhijit Dasgupta (Professor), Dr. Nikhil Chopra (Asst. Professor), Dr. Balachandran (Professor and Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering)

Harvard University

Date: July 17, 2008
Host: Dr. Venky Narayanamurti (Dean of Engineering)

CANADA VISIT

University of Toronto

Date: July 20, 2008
Host: Ravin Balakrishnan(Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair), Dr. Ashvin Goel (Assistant Professor)

University of Guelph

Date: July 20, 2008
Host: Dr. Jack T. Trevors (Professor; Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo), Dr. Hung Lee (Professor, University of Guelph, Department of Environmental Biology)