Dr. Ingrid Paoletti, Associate Professor of Building Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milam – POLIMI), Italy, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in October 2016 as a part of the Rector’s Delegation to India.
Encouraged by Chancellor Mata Amritanandamayi, a team of staff members from the Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) were sent to the remote village of Dunda in Uttarakhand to help fix a water distribution problem. This village also faced severe scarcity of water during summer.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) team presented research papers at the International Conference on Computing, Communications & Informatics (ICACCI ’16) held at Jaipur, India from September 21-24, 2016.
Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of HRD, inaugurated Amrita OceanNet, in the presence of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma, on September 26, 2016.
The Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications(Amrita WNA) co-hosted an Indo-US workshop with Lockheed Martin Space Systems and CANEUS International on Sensors and Small Satellite Technology for Disaster Management (SSTDM 2016) from August 17th-19th, 2016.
Research Associate Ramesh Guntha of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) presented papers at the International Conference on Mobile & Wireless Technology (ICMWT 2016) held at Jeju Island, Korea from May 23-26, 2016 and the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016) held at Utrecht, Netherlands from June 28-30, 2016.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AWNA), attended the United Nations/India Workshop on the “Use of Earth Observation Data in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction: Sharing the Asian Experience” held in Hyderabad during 8th-10th March 2016.
The Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India has awarded the prestigious Young Faculty Research Fellowship under Visvesvaraya PhD scheme for Electronics and IT for the year 2015-16 to Prof. Maneesha Ramesh and Prof. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
By the grace of Chancellor Amma, Amrita WNA team successfully conducted their 2nd Vishuthaineetham event on April 2016. The theme of the event was ‘To reduce your carbon foot print.’’
A paper titled, “A Real-Time Detection and Warning of Cardiovascular Disease LAHB for a Wearable Wireless ECG Device”, jointly authored by Anjali Arunan (Master’s student), Rahul Krishnan (Project Associate, Amrita WNA) and Maneesha V. Ramesh ( Director, AmritaWNA) was accepted for poster presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).
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