Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham faculty members and researchers, Coimbatore campus, met with a delegation of the Indian Army on January 26, 2017 to discuss developing lightweight bunkers, smart hybrid power sources in the field and bio friendly waste management systems, among other solutions.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham secured top honors in the Computer Society of India’s (CSI) national convention. Amrita bagged 10 national awards, more than any other university or institution at the CSI 2016 Convention held at Hotel Le Meridien, Coimbatore on January 23-24, 2017.
Dr. U. Krishnakumar, Sri. D. Harikrishnan, Asst. Professor and HOD, Dept. of Visual Media and Communication, Ms. Nitha L., Asst. Professor, Dept. of CS & IT, Ms. Ranjidha Rajan, Asst. Professor, Dept. of CS & IT and Mr. Yadhu Krishna M., 2015 Integrated BCA-MCA, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, attended the 51st Annual Convention of Computer Society of India – CSI-2016, organized by Coimbatore Chapter on the theme “Digital Connectivity – Social Impact” from January 23- 25, 2017 at Le Meridien, Coimbatore.
A workshop on virtual learning project ‘Online Labs for School Lab Experiments’ was organized at Bharani Vidhyalaya Senior Secondary School, Karur, Tamil Nadu, on October 22, 2016, by AmritaCREATE, one of the research and project development wings of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Eighty-five science teachers from twenty-five schools participated in the workshop.
The Department of Electronics Communication and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus, organized a national workshop on the ‘Image Processing for Biomedical Applications’ at the institution campus from December 16-17, 2016. Over 50 participants including academicians, research scholars and post graduate students attended the event.
AmritaCREATE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Kottayam Sahodaya jointly organized a one-day workshop on the project ‘Online Labs for School Lab Experiments’ at Sanjos Senior Secondary School, Choondacherry, Kottayam, on January 21, 2017. One hundred and seventy science teachers from sixty-nine schools attended the workshop.
The department of Visual Media and Communication, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, organized a 7-day Script and Film Production workshop from January 16 – 23, 2017, for the 2nd semester PG students.
AmritaCREATE, a research and development institution of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted an Online Labs training program at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Delhi, on January 19, 2017. Forty-three science teachers from eighteen schools participated in the training programme.
A healthcare research project at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) has been focusing on developing affordable and indigenous sensors, healthcare data analytics techniques, and communication architectures for use in sparsely connected regions in India.
Asha Vijayan, Chaitanya Nutakki (PhD students), Dhanush Kumar, a computer engineer, and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, based at the Computational Neuroscience Lab at Amrita School of Biotechnology, are working on bio-inspired robotics.
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