An Amrita team, Jameer Babu (Semester 7 student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus) and Dr. Athi Narayanan S. (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus), have emerged as ‘Runner Up’ of NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Image Colorization for achieving best perceptual and objective quality.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham conducted the convocation ceremony of the outgoing students of various postgraduate and undergraduate courses of Allied Health Sciences 2014 (partly) and 2015 batches on September 5, 2019, at the Health Science Campus, Kochi.
An Amrita Workshop on Research Data Collection Methods for team members of SAS, Palakkad, was conducted on September 5, 2019, by Shri. S. Kanagaraj, Field Coordinator, Department of Social Work, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.
The department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, held its Onam celebrations on September 8, 2019.
A student team, Team EXALTERS, from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, won the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) EngiNX Challenge 2019.
On September 7, 2019, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, celebrated its graduation day in the presence of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Chief Guest Prof. Hemantha Kumar (Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore) and Guest of Honor, Dr. G. M. Nair (Secretary, Government of Kerala, India).
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Dean of International Programs and Director of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was invited to present the ongoing research and development work on rainfall-induced landslide risk reduction at the India-UK Workshop: Science for Disaster and Emergency Risk Management, held at New Delhi, from August 29-30, 2019.
Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies (ICSS) conducted a three-day workshop on “Tantric Traditions of India”, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru campus, from August 2 – 4, 2019.
Aniketh Girish and Akhil K. G. of the amFOSS club of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, were speakers at the annual developer conference of KDE, “Akademy” – 2019, held at the University. . .
Dr. Amalendu Jyotishi, Professor, Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, spoke on “Land Tenure Systems and Land Degradation Neutrality” at the UNCCD Conference of Parties (COP14) event “Sustainable Transitions of Shifting Cultivation Systems for Land Degradation Neutrality- Opportunities and Challenges in the Uplands of South and Southeast Asia” on September 4, 2019, organized by IFAD at New Delhi, India.
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