Mr. Sreeram Kongeseri, a PhD Student and Research Associate at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, participated in the 2017 CASOS Summer Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA, which was conducted from 4^th -10^th June, 2017

Sreeram has been working on “Abhi Ya Kabhi”, a board game for life skills and other games as educational and engagement tools for the rural communities. Amrita Center for International Programs – ACIP’s Live-in-Labs® and Amrita SeRVe programs has been working with 101 villages in India on various areas that focus towards self reliance of the villages. At CMU’s CAMOS Summer Institute, Sreeram said that he had an alternative outlook into current trends, practices and tools available for social network analysis, link analysis, simulation, and multi-agent modeling which was used for complex socio-technical systems.