Activities

1. Faculty : Nandivardhan H. R.
   Course Code : 15CSE374
   Course : Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (Elective Course)
   Innovation : Online platform was used in addition to the chalk and talk
   Goal : To introduce an online programming challenge for the students to help them effectively prepare for online time-bound programming skill test which is a mandatory hiring process step.
   Method : The challenges were set up on an online platform codeboard.io (only open access platform). The start up code was given and hidden. The testcases were hidden and they were checked on submission. The challenge was auto-marked for 20 and was displayed on submission as shown in the figure below.
   
   Significance : The students were given a live experience of the coding challenges. The different examples are shown in the subject below.
   
   Reusability : The similar challenges can be given as a part of programming courses as it supports wide range of programming languages.
2. Faculty : Ms. Priya B. K.
   Course Code : 15ECE356
   Course : Satellite Communication
   Innovation : Simulation assignment based on MATLAB
   Goals : To introduce simulation-based assignment using MATLAB tool.
   Tool used : MATLAB is used for the simulation
   Significance of results : It will help the students to understand the uplink and downlink budget and to explore the contents effectively. It will help the students to understand different multiple access techniques and different multiplexing techniques learnt in the classroom in online mode.
   Effective presentation : The simulation comprised of report writing, execution of the program and viva voce which helped the faculty to know the understanding level of the students.
   
   Reproducibility and reusability by other scholars for further development : Further this can be used with software tools to design the link between satellite and the earth station.
3. Faculty : Ms. Sanjika Devi M., Dr. Raghu J. and Ms. Priya B. K.
   Course Code : 15ECE402
   Course : Radio frequency Engineering
   Innovation : Software tool used to analyze the behavior of RF devices
   Goals : Introduction of circuit level simulation using QUCS tool
   Appropriate methods : Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (QUCS) is an open source tool used for the simulation
   Results : The QUCS software includes circuit and scattering parameter simulation, where various passive microwave and RF devices were modeled and its corresponding scattering parameters as a function of frequency were analyzed. Student will formulate the given problem and using the tool the problems are solved. It enables the student to vary the different input parameters and see the impact of such variation in the output of the problem. Student can formulate the real-world problems and check for the correctness of the problem. In order to train the students to be well equipped as a core Microwave Engineer, they should be trained on different tools which solves RF problems.
   Effective presentation : The simulation comprised of report writing, execution of the program and viva voce which helped the faculty to know the understanding level of the students.
   
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   Output Table :
   
   Reproducibility and reusability by other scholars for further development : Once students are familiar with circuit level simulation, they can go for 3D design of the devices and check its performance and hardware development can be taken care.
4. Faculty : Ms. Priya B. K.
   Course Code : 19EAC285
   Course : Microcontroller Lab
   Innovation : Software tool used to show the simulation of interfacing of hardware components with the ARM Microcontroller
   Goals : To introduce the simulation of interfacing using Proteus tool
   Appropriate methods : Proteus tool is used for the simulation
   Results : It will help the students to understand the hardware interfacing effectively.
   Effective presentation : The simulation comprised of report writing, execution of the program and viva voce which helped the faculty to know the understanding level of the students.
   

   

   Verification in Keil Output Port :

   

   

   Reproducibility and reusability by other scholars for further development : Further this can be used to test the hardware using ARM Controller for different applications

1. The project titled “ A Gesture Vocalizer Translation System for Efficient Communication” , funded by AI & Robotics Technology Park (ART-Park), IISc. got selected for State Level Poster Presentation and Exhibition to be held at Sharnbasva University, Kalaburagi on 9th and 10th August 2024 as part of 47th series of Student Project Programme (SPP): 2023-24 by KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru.
   The project reference no. is 47S_BE_2035. The BTech students who worked on this project are Ms. C. G. PRIYA bearing Reg. no. BL.EN.U4ECE20036, Ms. ANANYA MURALIDHARAN bearing Reg. No. BL.EN.U4ECE20013 and Mr. GOUTHAM P. KEERIYAT , Reg. no. BL.EN.U4ECE20059. This project was carried out under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K., Senior Asst. Professor in Department of ECE.
2. The project titled “Landmine Detection Using Robotic Vehicle” with Reference No: 47S_BE_2554 is funded by AI & Robotics Technology Park (ART-Park), IISc. The above project is  selected for State Level Poster presentation and exhibition to be held at Sharnbasva University, Kalaburagi on 9th and 10th August 2024 as part of 47th series of Student Project Programme (SPP): 2023-24 by KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
   Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru – 560 012
   The BTech students VADAPALLI CHIRANJEEVI SAI NITHEESH bearing Reg. no. BL.EN.U4ECE20173,
   Mr. VASIREDDI SRI VEERA VENKATA RAMGANESH bearing Reg. no.  BL.EN.U4ECE20176
   and Mr. ACHIMSETTY BHARADWAJ with Reg. No. BL.EN.U4ECE20183 worked on this project under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K., Senior Asst. Professor in Department of ECE.
3. Dr. Navin Kumar, Professor, Dept of ECE, served as TPC Chair for 10th edition of IEEE International conference, CONECCT 24 (Conference on Electronics, Communication and Computing) flagship conference of IEEE Bangalore Section held during 12-14 Jul at IISc Bangalore.
4. Dr.  Navin Kumar, Professor, Dept of ECE also organized a workshop on Protocol Testing and Log Analysis for 5G Network during CONECCT 24 on 12th Jul 2024
5. A motivational Talk on “Data Science” by Mr. Srikanth, Validation Architect, Intel technologies, Bengaluru was organised by the Department of ECE on 19/07/2024, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, in Amriteshwari Hall.  The talk was directed towards the Data Science course for III Sem ECE students. The session was very informative wherein the speaker explained industry use cases and everyday examples of data science applications. The basic concepts in statistics were discussed with interesting examples. The talk garnered positive response from the students and they interacted with speaker with good enthusiasm.
6. Dr. Jitendra Bahadur delivered an invited talk on “Development of indoor/outdoor photovoltaics for switching applications”, during the FDP on “Exploring the modern Circuits, Devices, and Systems Designs in Nanotechnology”, held from 1^st April 2024 to 5^th April 2024 at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai.
7. Ms. Priya B. K., Ms. C. G. priya Ms. Ananya Muralidharan Mr. Goutham P. Keeriyat got their proposal titled, “A Gesture Vocalizer Translation System for Efficient Communication” sanctioned from Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, 47^th Series Of Student Projects Programme: 2023 – 2024. The amount sanctioned towards this proposal (with reference number 47S_BE_2035) is Rs. 5500.
8. Ms. Priya B. K., Mr. Chinchu Dheemanth, Mr. Cherlopalli Jaideep, Ms. Tugu Mohitha Sai got their proposal titled, “Predictive Maintenance of Battery for EV Prototypes” sanctioned from Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, 47^th Series Of Student Projects Programme: 2023 – 2024. The amount sanctioned towards this proposal (with reference number 47S_BE_2039) is Rs. 5500.
9. Ms. Priya B. K., Mr. Vadapalli Chiranjeevi Sai Nitheesh, Mr. Vasireddi Sri Veera Venkata Ramganesh, Mr. Achimsetty Bharadwaj, got their proposal titled, “Landmine Detection using Robotic Vehicle” sanctioned from Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, 47^th Series Of Student Projects Programme: 2023 – 2024. The amount sanctioned towards this proposal (with reference number 47S_BE_2554) is Rs. 5000.
10. Dr. Parul delivered a technical Lecture in “MNDT Techniques ” on 30th March 2024 in Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam
11. Dr. Sunitha R. participated as a speaker in the Faculty Development Program on ‘Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Signal Processing’ from 6th February 2023 to 13th February 2023, organized by E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
12. R. V. Subrahmanyam, N. Jyothi Srinivas, P. Nagendra, Priya B. K. presented a paper titled, “A Smart Social Distance Monitoring System”, at International Conference on Futuristic Technologies (INCOFT 2022) Organised by S. G. Balekundri Institute of Technology Shivabasava Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Belagavi Karnataka, India from November 25 – 27, 2022.
13. Ch. Jnana Ramakrishna, D. Bharath Kalayan Reddy, B. Vishaal Bharadwaj, Sonali Agrawal, Ganapathi Hegde presented a paper titled, “A Novel Image Encryption using 3D Logistic Map and Improved Chirikov Map”, at International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Materials: ICACCM-2022 Tula’s Institute, Dehradun, India from November 10 – 11, 2022.
14. Pavithra P. has completed NPTEL Certification course on “Signal Processing for mmWave communication for 5G and beyond” from July to October 2022.
15. Divisha Jaysinghani, Shree Deeksha B., Aarathi U. S., Kirti S. Pande presented a paper titled, “A Cascode Current Mirror Based 90 mV to 1.8 V Level Shifter with Alleviated Delay”, at 6^th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (2022 IEEE DISCOVER), Organized by JNN College of Engineering, Shimoga, Karnataka, India, held from 14^th to 15^th October 2022.
16. Yarra Kaveri, Bestha Uday Kumar, B. Bharani Kumar Reddy, Kirti S. Pande presented a paper titled, “Reconfigurable Clock Rate Based Synchronous Binary Counter”, at IEEE Mysurucon 2022, Organized by JSS Science and Technology University (SJCE), Mysuru, Karnataka, India, held from 16^th to 17^th October 2022.
17. Kurla Chandrika, Pooja R. B., Twihal P., Sonali Agrawal presented a paper titled, “Low-power High-speed Folded MCML-based Frequency Divider for High-frequency Applications”, at IEEE Mysurucon 2022, Organized by JSS Science and Technology University (SJCE), Mysuru, Karnataka, India, held from 16^th to 17^th October 2022.
18. Thanga Dharsni I., Kirti S. Pande, Manoj Kumar Panda presented a paper titled, “Optimized Hazard Free Pipelined Architecture Block for RV32I RISC- V Processor”, at 3^rd International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication ICOSEC 2022, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India, organized by Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy held from 20^th to 22^nd October 2022.
19. Sandeep Kumar Taumar, Sonali Agrawal presented a paper titled, “An Efficient Metal ECO Methodology for Addressing Timing Violations with 10X Turnaround Time”, at 3^rd International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication ICOSEC 2022, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India, organized by Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy held from 20^th to 22^nd October 2022.
20. Gorrepati Chaithra Sri, Veera Hanuma S Arpitha Kopparthi, Nuthalapati Harshita, Sonali Agrawal presented a paper titled, “An Efficient Quasi Comparison-free Bidirectional Architecture for Sorting Algorithm”, at Global Conference for Advancement in Technology, 2022, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore held from 7^th to 9^th October 2022.
21. Sundeep MSG, Rohith Reddy, Nischay, Sunitha R. and Anand Jatti presented a paper titled, “Functional Connectivity Analysis of Neuronal Interactions”, at ICMLDE 2022 07 – 08 September 2022 UPES, Dehradun, India, from 7th to 8th September 2022.
22. Neelima N. have been the mentor of the team for the hackathon “AI for Social Good” organized by IEEE & CDAC from 11^th to 12^th June 2022.
23. A project proposal titled, “A Smart Social Distance Monitoring Device”, guided by Ms. Priya B. K. got sanctioned under 45^th series of Student Project Programme (SPP) by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) with the Project reference number:45 S_BE_3934. The amount sanctioned is Rs. 6,000/-. The student who are invlived in this prohect are from 8^th semester ECE as mentioned below:
    • Rallapalli Venkata Subrahmanayam (BL.EN.U4ECE18130)
    • Nookala Jyothi Srinivas (BL.EN.U4ECE18510)
    • Peddina Nagendra (BL.EN.U4ECE18511
24. Mangu Aman Surya,Lakshmi P. H. , Kuruganti Madhu Sri , Amancherla Shanmukha Sai Saketh, Devendra J. Patra Kailash, Tarun Sai P., Parul Mathur, Vineetha Jain, Dhanesh G. Kurup, presented a paper titled, “OpenGL Based Simulation Test Bed for Aircraft Ground Telemetry System using Antenna Beam Forming”, at 2022, IEEE Fourth International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Computers, and Communications (ICAECC), organized by Reva University, Bangalore held from 10^th to 11^th January 2022. The paper received Best paper award under Academia.
25. Mr. Sagar B., Assistant Professor in Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru took part in the event, “The International Symposium on “Educational Pedagogies & Technologies for Sustainable Development (EPTS 2022)” from 24^th to 26^th January 2022 from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm (UTC). The EPTS 2022 event was organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development and Amrita School for Sustainable Development. The symposium aimed to showcase thinkers, experts, and practitioners in various fields to garner ideas, explore technologies, challenges, and opportunities for reimagining the educational pedagogies and technologies for sustainable development across different thematic areas. The symposium comprised renowned speakers presenting keynote addresses by sharing experiences in the areas of pedagogical approaches, educational technologies, and a vision for reimagining education. As part of the symposium, Mr. Sagar B. was invited as a panelist on the topic “Insights from Implementing Experiential Learning Program” on 24^th January 2022. The fellow panelist included Dr. Manoj P, Associate Dean, Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru and Coimbatore; Prof. Jay Misra, Director, Targeted Projects, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Professor, Amrita School of Business & Amrita Ahead; Dr. B Soundharajan, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore; Bri. Dhivvya J., Asst. Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri; Br. Sreeram Kongeseri, Asst. Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering.
26. Kaveri Hatti, C. Paramasivam, presented a paper titled, “The MUX-Based PUF Architecture for Hardware Security”, at International Conference on Circuits, Controls and Communications (CCUBE) – 2021, Organized by RNSIT Campus, Channasandra Dr. Vishnuvardhan Road Bangalore during December 23 – 24, 2021.
27. Dr. Navin Kumar, presented a paper entitled “Simplified approach for Collision Avoidance in Vehicular Network” in 6^th IEEE CONECCT 2021 organized by Bangalore Section on July 9 – 11, 2021
28. Dr. Navin Kumar, served as track chair for the track “Vehicular Technology for Intelligent Mobility” and chaired the session during CONECCT 2021 conference.
29. Maran Ponnambalam delivered an invited speech through google meet during the faculty development series on, “Advancements in Emerging Areas of Electronics and Communication Technologies (AEAECT)”, organized by M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India on 21^st April 2021.
30. Following faculty members received Publication Merit Award under Amrita Innovation & Research Awards 2021 (AIRA 2021) for publishing an article in an international journal in 2020.
    • Navin Kumar
    • Dhanesh G. Kurup
    • T. K. Ramesh
    • R. V. Sanjika Devi on 21^st April 2021
    • Lalitha S.
    • Vinodhini M.
31. Ms. Kirti S. Pande reviewed a technical paper for IETE Journal on 13^th October 2020.
32. Dr. Navin Kumar served as workshop chair and organized a half day event on, “Leveraging AI in 5G and Wireless Networks” on 31st May 2020, on behalf of IEEE ComSoc, Bangalore. There were 4 industry experts who delivered different aspects of wireless communication using AI. They explained the importance and how AI is moving to almost all areas of communication networks. WeBex platform was used for the event and over 75 participants attended the event.
33. Dr. Navin Kumar served as workshop chair and organized a half day virtual workshop on, “The Era of Programmable Networks” on behalf of IEEE ComSoc Bangalore. WebeX platform was used to deliver talk. Four different industry experts explained about programmability of network, why and how it is becoming important and how it can be done and usage of SDN and Virtualization, NFV, segment routing, etc. Over 70 participants attended the event.
34. Dr. S. Kamatchi delivered an invited talk at national level online webinar on “A National Level Webinar on Vedic Mathematics and its Application”, on 12th June 2020 organized by Department of Science and Humanities (Maths), Hindusthan college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. Around 200 participants attended the webinar.
35. Arpita Thakre delivered an invited talk on Machine Learning in Wireless Communication”, on 19^th December 2019 at The International Conference CODEC 2019, organized by Institute of Radiophysics & Electronics, Kolkata.
36. Arpita Thakre organized an IEEE Workshop on 5G along with Dr. Navin Kumar. The workshop was collocated with IEEE ANTS from 16^th to 19^th December 2019 at Goa, India.
37. Ms. Jalpa received the VGST approval towards the funding of Rs. 5,00,000/- under the Research Grant of Scientist/Faculty (RGS/f) for the project titled, “IoT Based Environment Monitoring and Controlling System for Preserving Cultural Heritage”, in June 2019.
38. Dr Navin Kumar delivered an invited talk on ‘5G Enabling Technologies, Architecture and Channel Model’ during TEQIP – Faculty Development Programme on Wireless Network-A Smart City Perspective at BMS College of Engineering from 17 to 21 June, 2019.
39. Dr Navin Kumar has been selected as a coordinator for 5G India Forum (5GIF) IMT2020 for evaluation of 3GPP 5G Specification.
40. Dr Navin Kumar delivered an invited talk on ‘Research Methodology and Authorship Lab Workshop’, during a week-long Faculty Development and Orientation Program organized at Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore from 3rd to 4th June 2019.
41. Dr Navin Kumar was invited to IEEE Communication Society Asia Pacific Regional Chapter Chair (APRCC) meeting organized by IEEE HQ Communication Society at Shanghai, China during IEEE ICC conference on May 19-22, 2018. He also attended many other technical committee meetings during the ICC.
42. Dr Navin Kumar conducted Research Methodology and IEEE Authorship Lab workshop from 1st to 2nd February 2019 at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore.
43. Dr. Navin Kumar was the General Chair for 2nd EAI International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication and Network Computing (UBICNET 2019), during 8th to 10th February 2019 organized by Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
44. Dr. Navin Kumar served as Local Arrangement Co-Chair at Silver Jubilee (25th) edition of National Conference on Communication (NCC) organized at IISc Bangalore from 20th to 23rd February 2019.
45. Dr. Navin Kumar hosted the university adjunct Professor, Anatoliy Platonov, the Professor from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland who has been one of the plenary speakers during UBICNET 2019. Dr. Navin Kumar accompanied Professor to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University campus at Coimbatore for collaborative discussion.
46. Dr. Navin Kumar has successfully organized 3rd IEEE International Workshop on “5G and Future Wireless Technologies (5G-FWT 2018)” co-located with 12th IEEE ANTS, 16-19 Dec. 2018 held at Indore, MP- India. ii) He was one of the panelists during ANTS in the main conference and represented academia on the theme “Transformation on Digital Edge” iii) He was invited speaker to “5G Summit and GISFI Workshop” organized by BSNL Ranchi Jharkhand -India. The two days’ summit and workshop was organized on 8-9 Dec. 2018.
47. Ms. Vinodhini M. was invited and attended as esteemed Chair for session on Symposium on VLSI Design and Embedded Computing in Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI’18), held at PES Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, South Campus, India during 19^th to 22^nd September 2018.
48. Dr. Navin Kumar organized half day workshop on “Evolution of Data Center in the Context of 5G” on 27th July 2018, jointly with Wirpo Technology Limited, at Wipro, Electronic City, Bengaluru. He highlighted various initiatives of 5G wireless technology research being carried out in India and globe. He also explored and met delegates with Wirpo and CDoT researchers to identify a common problem to be solved related to LiFi. He has also arranged the two day hands-on workshop on Internet of Things (IoT) at this campus on 27^th to 28^th July 2018.
49. Dr. Navin Kumar is the organizing program chair of 2-day “5G Technology Workshop” on 29^th to 30^th June, 2018 at Mac Sterlings Hotel, Old Madras Road, Bangalore. He also delivered a talk on “5G Overview and Challenges in Millimeter Wave Design”. The workshop attracted over 225 participants and 35 speakers including 3 DoT secretaries.
50. Dr. Navin Kumar was invited to give one day lecture on 25^th May 2018 on “Problem Definition and Publication” during 5 days FDP program organized by CSE Department of Christ University, Bangalore.
51. The KSCST under the 41^st series of SPP sponsored (with amount of Rs. 5000) project titled, “Design and Implementation of Automatic Miniature Indoor Plant Cultivator Using Artificial Environment” got evaluated on 19^th May 2018 at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The project teammates Ms. Shriya Nithyan (VIII Sem), Ms. Sowmya C. (VIII Sem), Ms. Akhila S. (VIII Sem) and Ms. Priya B.K attended the evaluation process of the project followed with the demo of the hardware prototype during the evaluation. The project has been selected for the state level exhibition to be scheduled on 10^th to 11^th August 2018.
52. Dr. Navin Kumar organized two days workshop on Research Methodology on 2^nd to 3^rd May 2018 hosted by Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. He delivered the keynote address on how to write and publish paper at the event.
53. Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick as a chair of IEEE Photonics Society, delivered a guest lecture at PESIT south campus, Bengaluru, on “Photonic and Optical Technology: A Practical Perspective” on 10^th April 2018.
54. Dr. Navin Kumar has been invited as Chief Guest at the inauguration of IEEE Student Branch and Branch Chapter by St Joseph College of Engineering, Mangalore on 28^th April 2018. He also delivered an invited talk during the occasion titled -“ICT Role in Building Smart City with a Focus on Wireless Technology”.
55. Mr. Saliq Afaque, Mr. Dasari Vishal and Dr. T. K. Ramesh published a paper titled, “A Technical Survey on Underwater Communication”, in International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET), Science Publishing Corporation, Publisher of International Academic Journals, Vol. 7, No. 2.9 during February 2018
56. Dr. N. S. Murty has participated as a panelist in the panel discussion in the Design and Verification Conference, DVCon, held on 14^th September 2017 at Leela Palace, Bengaluru. The topic for discussion was “ESL in Modern Architecture and Design Flows: Where Should be the Focus (and What to De-Focus)”.
57. Dr. Navin Kumar delivered an invited talk titled, “mmwave Channel Model and Unifrom Coverage Area without Beam Steering”, at IEEE International SG Summit and 29^th Series Meeting of GISFI held at SOA University, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
58. Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick delivered an invited talk at CBIT Kolar district 27^th July 2017 on Research Methodology.
59. Dr. Navin Kumar and Mr. Sagar B were invited to attend 40^th Anniversary of IEEE Bangalore Section at Hotel Sterlings Mac on 16th July 2017. The event was organized by IEEE Bangalore.
60. Dr.  Navin Kumar delivered an invited on “How to Publish Paper” at  2-day Research Methodology workshop organized by IEEE ComSoc and VTU Belagavi and hosted by CMRIT, Banglaore, during 8^th to 9^th May 2017.
61. Dr. Navin Kumar and Mr. Sagar B. organized a Felicitation program for outgoing members of IEEE ComSoc. The event was conducted at Communication Research Lab on 15^th May 2017. Certificates were distributed in recognition towards their volunteering activities. Ms. Sneha and Ms. Priyanka who were Secretary and Treasurer were present and got felicitated. The event was precided by other IEEE volunteers and current Secretary and Co-Secretary.
62. RF workshop was conducted at Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri Campus, on 28^th  April 2017, Ms. R. V. Sanjika Devi conducted a hands on training session on “Introduction to Keysight Technologies ADS (Advanced Design System) CAD tool” and “Design of RF Power amplifiers in ADS tool using linear S-Parameter models and nonlinear transistor models”. Ms. Parul Mathur, Research Scholar funded by Vishweshwaraya Scholarship conducted hands on session on “Simulation of an open ended circular waveguide using Ansys HFSS (High Frequency Structure Simulator) tool”. There were about 40 participants and the participants were mainly M.Tech. students and Research Scholars.
63. Mr. Sagar B. has reported back during March 2017 after completing one semester at University of Trento, Italy. He went under Erasmus + International Credit Mobility Programme for his Ph.D Research.
64. Dr. Navin Kumar as a ComSoc Chair, Bangalore chapter organized one day workshop on “Advances in 5G Networks and HetNet” on 20^th March 2017 at IISc, Bangalore. The event was combined with a Distinguish Lecture (DL) Tour from IEEE ComSoc and a guest lecture by Prof. Lajos Hanzo from University of Santhamton, U. K. In addition, there were Industrial experts as speakers during the event. The workshop was attended by around 110 participants.
65. Dr. Navin Kumar chaired a session at GISFI on Future Racho Track on 18^th March 2017.
66. Dr. Navin Kumar was a invited as a speaker at 28^th Series meeting of GISFI (Global ICT standardization Forum for India) held at Kolkata on 18^th March 2017.
67. Mr. Sagar B. and Dr. Navin Kumar attended IEEE Bangalore Section – Branch Counselor’s Meet 2017 on 26^th March 2017 at PES University, Banashankari, Bangalore. The event was attended by Mr. Sunil, Student chair and Ms. Shaambhavi, Student Secretary of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
68. As part of “ National Mission Project on Education through ICT – Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-learning- Main Phase”, sponsored by MHRD, Government of India, the development of course titled “Telecom Transmission and Switching” has been successfully completed and has been released to IIT Kharghpur by Dr. Dhanesh G Kurup (Principal Developer), Ms. M. Vinodhini (Co-Developer) and Ms. R. V. Sanjika Devi (Co-Developer) from Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The course will be made available as an Open Education Resource.
69. Dr. N. S. Murty attended the IESA vision summit 2017 on 21^st to 22^nd February 2017 at The Leela Palace, Bangalore.
70. Ms. Vinodhini M. as Inventor and Dr. N. S. Murty as Co-Inventor, filed a Patent titled, “System and Methods of an Efficient and High Throughput Network-on-Chip Architecture”, on 14^th February 2017.
71. Ms. C.V. Giriraja registered for Ph.D. with Dr. T. K. Ramesh as Thesis Advisor in February 2017. His area of research is Wireless Communication.
72. Ms. Jeeva Priya registered for Ph.D. with Dr. Arpita Thakre as Thesis Advisor in February 2017. Her area of research is Spoken Language Processing.
73. Ms. Jayashri M. Oli registered for Ph.D. with Dr. T. K. Ramesh as Thesis Advisor in February 2017. Her area of research is Vehicular Networks-Data Link Layer.
74. Ms. Kavita N. Pillai registered for Ph.D. with Dr. R. Chithra as Thesis Advisor in February 2017. Her area of research is Antenna Systems.
75. Ms. Anjali registered for Ph.D. with Dr. Veeresh Kumar as Thesis Advisor in February 2017. Her area of research is MEMS and NEMS
76. The comprehensive oral examination of Ms.Sushmitha Vekkot and Ms. S. Lalitha for Ph.D. Research in Speech Processing was successfully completed under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi on 23^rd January 2017 and 31^st January 2017 respectively at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
77. Dr. Navin Kumar has been elected as Chair of IEEE ComSoc Bangalore Chapter, one of the biggest society chapter in Bangalore.
78. Dr. Navin Kumar attended One day workshop on “5G and Internet of Things Measurement”, on 24^th January 2017, organized by Keysight Technology at Bangalore.
79. Dr. Navin Kumar gave an invited talk on “Millimeter Wave: an Enabling Technology for 5G”, during Faculty Development Program (FDP) organized by MSRIT Bangalore during 16^th to 21^st January 2017.
80. Dr. Shikha Tripathi and Dr. Navin Kumar attended the IEEE Annual General Body meeting held on 8^th January 2017 at IISc, Bengaluru.
81. Dr. Navin Kumar as Steering committee Chair, Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick as Chair Technical Program committee & Stage committee and (Dr.) Sreenivasulu T.  as Technical Program committee member & Stage committee chair, were involved in the CRALT Conference 2016. The CRALT Conference 2016 dealt with recent advances in Lightwave technology and was organized internationally from 21^st to 23^rd September 2016. Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru was marked on the conference as supporter among IEEE etc., on CRALT website and via the conference, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru has been highlighted on the area of Photonics as well.
82. Dr. N. S Murty attended IEEE Blended Learning Program (BLP) booth at the DVCON India 2016 on 15^th to 16^th September 2016, held at the Leela Palace in Bangalore, India.
83. Dr. N. S. Murty arranged a workshop titled ‘SV based UVM basics and its prospects’ on 31^st August 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The workshop was delivered by Mr. Nagasundaram and Mr. Pranesh Sairam A. from CVC Pvt. Ltd. The workshop was arranged for faculty members and research scholars working in VLSI domain and I and III Semester M. Tech.  VLSI Design students.
84. Dr. T. K. Ramesh, Dr. Navin Kumar, Mr. C. V. Giriraja, Mr. C. Babu, Mr. P. Satishkumar and Mr. Sagar B from Department of ECE attended ‘The 50^th Anniversary Celebrations of the IEEE Region Ten or R10’ on 24^th August 2016 at The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru. The IEEE Region Ten or R10, also known as Asia-Pacific Region, which led to the formation of R10 on 1^st January 1967.
85. A lead technical talk on “Mobile and Wireless Technology Evolution and Challenges & Opportunity in 5G Cellular”, a key note talk was delivered by Dr. Navin Kumar during FDP at BMIT, Bangalore during 11-16 July, 2016.
86. Mr. Sinith M. S. under the research guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi, delivered the Second Open Seminar on research work titled as “Raga Recognition in Indian Classical Music using Signal Processing Techniques” on 20^th June 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
87. Ms. Sreeja Balakrishanan under the research guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi, delivered the Second Open Seminar on research work titled as “Techniques for Stability and Control of a Biped Robot Walking on an Uneven Terrain” on 3^rd June 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru
88. Ms. Mamatha I. under the research guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi, delivered the First Open Seminar on research work titled as “Architectures for Multi Transforms for Signal/Image Processing Applications” on 27^th May 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
89. Dr. Deepa Gupta (Department of Mathematics) as a PI and Ms. K. Jeeva Priya (Department of ECE) as a Co PI, together received the acceptance for their project proposal “Speaker-Independent Kannada  Speech Recognition Tool” sent to the Young Scientists for Research (SMYSR) Programme 2015-16, Government of Karnataka Vision Group On Science And Technology. The proposal will get a seed grant of Rs. 4 Lakhs for the duration of the project from May 2016 to April 2017.
90. In the framework of the Erasmus + International Credit Mobility agreement, Mr. Sagar Basawaraju has been selected for research in the field of 5G Cellular Communications and Networking at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer, University  of Trento from 12^th September 2016 to 11^th April 2017. This is a fully funded student exchange program.
91. The inauguration of IEEE ComSoc (Communication Society) Student Branch Chapter at Amrita School of Engineering was held on 30^th April 2016. It was inaugurated by Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S. G. and witnessed and supported by IEEE Bangalore section representative Dr Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM and IEEE ComSoc Chapter Chair Mr. B. N. Pal, CEO, Shristi ESDM and Dr. Navin Kumar, Secretary ComSoc  Bangalore Chapter and Advisor at ASE, Bangalore ComSoc Student Branch Chapter. The event coincided with 100th Birth Anniversary of “Father of Information Theory”, “Claude Shannon”. To honour the Scientist the inaugural talk by Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy focused on Communication History, Shannons Contribution and Basics of Information Theory. Dr. Ramesh from Raman Research Institute spoke about “Viewing the Cosmos”. Mr. Anand from C-DoT, EXCOM ComSoc, Bangalore, spoke about “Moore Law vs Shannon Law”.  The event was coordinated by Dr. Navin Kumar and assisted by Ms. Priya B. K. and Mr. Sagar B along with IEEE ComSoc Student Chapter’s Office bearer and representatives. On this occasion, there was a poster competition organized, “Portrait Shannon’s Life in A1 Poster and Win prize”. Mr. Kiran S. L. from M. Tech. (VLSI Design) won the contest.
92. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included in International Program Committee Member in 7^th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA 2016) to be held in Romania during 24th to 26th August 2016.
93. Mr. C. V. Giriraja participated in One Week Faculty Development Programme on “NBA Accreditation Process” organized by Mechanical Engineering Department in Association with “Contineo” from 29^th February to 4^th March 2016 at SJB Institute of Technology, Babgalore.
94. The comprehensive oral examination of Ms. Sanjika Devi for Ph.D. Research in RF Engineering was successfully completed under the guidance of Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup on 20^th January 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
95. Ms. Bhavana completed her M. Tech. with Distinction in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvarya Technological University in October 2015.
96. Dr. Navin Kumar delivered a keynote on “Optical Wireless Communications: The Recent Progress and Future”, at Faculty Development Program at SVJC, Bangalore in IEEE ComSoc Supported two days Workshop on ‘Optical and Wireless Networking’ on 14^th -16^th January 2016.
97. Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered a talk on ‘Wavelet Transforms and its Signal processing Applications’ at Workshop on ‘Recent developments in Signal & Image Processing with Applications’ at MSRIT, Bengaluru on 7^th to 9^th January 2016.
98. Dr. Navin Kumar chaired a session on Physical and Fundamentals at IEEE WPMC & WVITAE at GWS 2015 held on 13^th to 16^th December 2015 at Hyderabad.
99. Dr. Navin Kumar delivered a talk on “Spectrum & mmWave Technology for 5G Cellular System” at IEEE COMSOC – one day workshop hosted by Nokia, Bengaluru on 12^th December 2015.
100. Dr. Navin Kumar conducted a tutorial on ‘Visible Light Communication in Intelligent Transportation Systems for Road Safety’ on 13^th -16^th December 2015 at IEEE Global Wireless Summit, Wireless Vitae, Hyderabad, India.
101. Mr. Sagar and Mr. Nandivardhan Attended technical talk on ” 5G: Enabling technologies and standardization aspects ” organized by IEEE Communication Society at Alcatel-Lucent Manyata Embassy Business Park, Bengaluru, Karnataka. The event took place on 5^th November 2015.
102. Ms. Sunitha reviewed a paper for International Conference on Computing and Network Communications, CoCoNet’15.
103. Dr. N.S. Murty attended Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition India (DVCon 2015) on 10^th to 11^th September 2015 at Leela Palace, Bengaluru. The conference was sponsored by Accellera Pvt. Ltd.
104. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included in Technical Program Committee of Second International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS’2015). The symposium will be held on 16^th to 19^th December 2015 at Trivandrum, India.
105. Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended ‘IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) Bangalore Chapter’ inauguration ceremony on 12^th September 2015 at Center of nano Science & Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru.
106. Dr. Shikha Tripathi chaired a session on ‘Applications track’ in 8^th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC32015), 20^th to 22^nd August 2015, JIIT, Noida, India.
107. Dr. N. S. Murty reviewed two papers submitted to 2015 Eighth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2015) held on 22^nd to 23^rd August 2015.
108. Ms. Susmitha Vekkot reviewed 2 papers for Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI)-2015 held on 10^th to 13^th August 2015.
109. Dr. T. K. Ramesh delivered an invited technical talk on ‘Electronics Circuits’ at Alvas Institute of Engineering and Technology on 1st August 2015.
110. Mr. C. V. Giriraja delivered an invited technical talk on ‘Signal Processing and its Applications’ at Alvas Institute of Engineering and Technology on 31^st July 2015.
111. Dr. Navin Kumar addressed the faculty members and students about the “IEEE Awareness and Membership Drive” on 31^st July 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
112. Dr. N. S. Murty attended the Third International Conference on Emerging Research in “Computing, Information, Communication and Applications” ERCICA-2015 as the Session Chair, held during 31^st July to 1^st August 2015 at NMIT, Bengaluru.
113. Dr. Shikha Tripathi was part of the organizing committee to conduct the celebration of 150^th Year of the formation of ITU under the Bengaluru Chapter of International APT Foundation of India (IAFI). The event was conducted at IIIT, Bengaluru on 9^th July 2015.
114. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed a paper to 4^th International Conference on Advances in Computing Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) 2015 organized by SCMS School of Engineering and Technology which will be held in Kochi, Kerala, India during 10^th – 13^th August, 2
115. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included as Core Group Member, ITU-Asia Pacific Telecommunity Foundation of India (IAFI), Bangalore Chapter.
116. Ms. Bhavana V.  reviewed two papers submitted to Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2015) organized by SCMS School of Engineering and Technology which will be held in Kochi, Kerala, India during 10^th – 13^th August, 2015.
117. Dr. Navin Kumar is leading a segment of Intelligent Transportation System in SmartCity Initiative of Bangalore, an initiative by IEEE Bangalore.
118. Dr. N. S. Murty reviewed 5 papers submitted for 2015 International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT 2015) organized by IEEE Bangalore Section which will be held at IIIT-Bangalore, India during 10^th – 11^th July 2015.
119. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included as member of advisory committee in ‘Healthy World Conference 2015’ to be scheduled on 5^th to 8^th September 2015. The conference is organized by JNTU, Kakinada, India and HEID-VD, Switzerland.
120. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included in the advisory committee of International Conference on Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2015) to be held in Coimbatore campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in August 2015.
121. Dr. R. Karthikeyan organized and arranged Industrial Visit for VI semester EIE students during 7^th to 8^th March 2015. The visit was accompanied by Dr. R. Karthikeyan and Ms. Anajli. Around 36 students attended the industrial visit. The students visited Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant and Hydro Power Plant.
122. Ms. Sushmitha Vekkot reviewed a paper for IET Image processing Journal.
123. A technical talk was arranged by Dr. R. Karthikeyan on 23^rd February 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering. The talk was delivered by Shri. Vishnuvardhan. J, Managing Director, Trend Instrumentation and Automation Pvt Ltd, on “Role of Instrumentation Engineers in Core Industries”. The Speaker holds the award of “Youngest entrepreneur of the year 2014” in executing turnkey projects. The topics covered introduction to Industrial Instrumentation, scope of Work for an Instrumentation Engineer, roles of an Instrumentation Engineers, how a Core Industry Operates, expectations of Core Industries from Instrumentation Engineers, Job Opportunities available for Instrumentation Engineers. The talk was arranged for students and faculty members. Around 100 students of VI and VIII semester of EIE attended the talk.
124. Ms. Sreeja Balakrishnan under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered her Ph.D. Open Seminar-1 titled as “Stability and Control of a Biped Robot Walking on an Uneven Terrain”, on 14^th February 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
125. Ms. Suja P.  under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered her Ph.D. Open Seminar-1 titled as “Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions using Images”, on 25^th February 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
126. Dr. N.S. Murty attended the Board of Studies Meeting of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Alliance College of Engineering & Design, Alliance University on 21^st February 2015 at Alliance University.
127. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been invited to be in Technical Program committee of International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication, to be held at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida from 16^th to 18^th March 2015.
128. Mr. Ganapati Hegde delivered the research seminar for his Ph.D. titled “Efficient VLSI Architectures for Video Coding Algorithms” under the guidance of Dr. P.R. Vaya on 15^th December 2014 at ASE, Bengaluru.
129. The comprehensive oral examination for Ph.D. Research of Ms. Ponni M. was successfully completed under the guidance of Dr. P.R. Vaya, on 5th December 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru
130. Prof. S. Ravishankar under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi and Dr. K. V. V. Murthy (Professor, IIT, Gandhinagar) successfully completed Ph.D. Thesis defense on “Single frame image super-resolution: Some new approaches” on 24^th November 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
131. Dr. P. R. Vaya joined on Editorial Board of ICTACT Journal of Micro-Electronics.
132. Dr. Shikha Tripathi presided over event ‘Women Rock IT’ conducted by CISCO on 12^th November 2014. It was a global event to promote & inspire women to get iinto IT infrastructure jobs.
133. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed a paper for Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP) Journal published by Springer.
134. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included as program chair for 19^th International Symposium VLSI Design and Test, VDAT-2015 which is flagship event of VLSI Society of India
135. Mr. R. Karthikeyan under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi successfully completed Ph.D. Thesis defense on “Parallel Cascade Control Using Intelligent Techniques” on 20^th October, 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
136. Ph.D. Proposal Defense of Ms. Suja P. guided by Dr. Shikha Tripathi was successfully completed on 15th October 2014 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The title of the proposal is “Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression Using Images”.
137. Dr. N. S. Murty as a delegate attended Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition India (DVCon) at Hotel Park Plaza, Bengaluru on 25th to 26th September 2014.
138. Dr. N. S. Murty as a delegate attended User2User India 2014, The Mentor Graphics User Conference at Vivanta by Taj, MG Road, Bengaluru, on 31st October 2014.
139. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been invited to be a reviewer on the technical program committee for IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communications and Energy Systems 2015 (IEEE SPICES 2015) to be held at NIT, Calicut during 19^th to 21^st February 2015.
140. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has participated as an external examiner for  Ph.D. Scholar’s final defense at Mahalingam College of Engineering & Technology, Pollachi, Anna University, Tamil Nadu on 19th September 2014.
141. Dr. N S Murty has been invited to be a reviewer for Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering on line Journal
142. Dr. N S Murty has been invited to be a reviewer for 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (2015 IEEE ICECCT). The conference is to be scheduled during 5^th to 7^th March 2015 at Coimbatore by SVS College of Engineering.
143. Dr. N S Murty as a member of BoS of ECE Department of Alliance University participated in their BoS meeting on 6^th September 2014.
144. Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended an event called ‘A Day at NOKIA’ on 20^th August 2014, at NOKIA Siemens, Bangalore. Five Universities participated in this event which provided a platform for selected students to get exposure to work being done by NOKIA and latest technologies in Communication & Networking.
145. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been nominated as the woman of the year for 2014 by International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England on 2nd July 2014. This prestigious award is issued by way a Warrant of Proclamation or Medal of Recognition. Selection is made by Editorial & Advisory Board of International Biographical Center. Her biography has been selected for nomination among Tens of thousands of biographies reviewed by the committee.
146. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed a Ph.D. thesis from Anna University titled ‘Certain Investigations on Volumetric Medical Image Compression’ in July 2014.
147. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed a paper for ‘International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing’ by Springer Verlag in July 2014.
148. Ms Sushmitha Vekkot reviewed a research paper for IET Image Processing Journal in July 2014.
149. Dr. Vamsi Krishna Tumuluru served as a TPC member for IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS) to be held in Macau in Nov 2014. He reviewed 4 papers for the conference.
150. Dr. Vamsi Krishna Tumuluru reviewed a paper under IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
151. Dr. Vamsi Krishna Tumuluru reviewed a paper in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
152. Dr. N. S. Murty participated in the workshop titled “Key Highlights from the Industry – Academia” held on 21st June 2014 at BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
153. Dr. Navin Kumar presented a tutorial titled “Visible Light Communication in Intelligent Transportation Systems” during June 14 – 18 2014, at IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Sydney, Australia.
154. Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup arranged a short presentation on “ICA, Independent Component Analysis” on 7^th June 2014 at ASE, Bengaluru. Apart from classical applications such as Blind Source Separation (BSS) of Audio Signals, he outlined his research combining ICA based BSS on Radar Applications. ICA may also have other potential applications in RF circuits and Power Electronics.
155. Dr. Shikha Tripathi have been included in the Technical Program Committee of Second International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2014), to be held on 24^th to 27^th September 2014, Delhi, supported by IEEE.
156. Dr. Shikha Tripathi have been included in TPC of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics-ICACCI – 2014, technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society & IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Delhi to be on 24^th to 27^th September 2014.
157. Dr. Navin Kumar organized a workshop on “Visible Light Communication for Vehicular networks (VLCVN 2014)”, affiliated with IEEE VTC Spring, Seoul on 18^th to 21^st May 2014, Seoul, Korea.
158. Dr. N. S. Murty arranged a talk by Dr. Bibhu Datta from Amritapuri campus on “Robust Analog IC Design” for M.Tech. students on 10^th April 2014 at ASE, Bangalore.
159. Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup arranged a talk by Mr. Gandhiraj R, Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Coimbatore campus) on “Software Defined Radio” in association with ECI Forum on 4^th April 2014.The talk included introduction as well as live demonstration of SDR interfaced through Gnu radio.
160. Mr. Vignesh arranged hands on session on Cadence software for VI Semester B.Tech. students on 28^th and 29^th March 2014 at ASE, Bangalore.
161. Dr. Shikha Tripathi got included in the International Program Committee for 6^th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, 24^th – 26^th July 2014, Timisoara, Romania.
162. Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered an invited talk and chaired a session on Signal & Image Processing at National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Electronics & Communication Engineering organized by APS College of Engineering, Bangalore on 28^th – 29^th March 2014.
163. Dr. Navin Kumar delivered a keynote on “Emerging VLC in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) at National Conference on Advanced Communication Networks at RNSIT, Bangalore on 21^st – 22nd March 2014.
164. Dr. Navin Kumar reviewed a technical paper for VTC Conference to be held at South Korea, Seoul on 18^th – 21^st May 2014.
165. Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended the Summit on Higher Education, Innovation & Excellence and Relaease of QS World University Rankings by subject, 2014, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Ettimadai Campus held on 25^th February 2014.
166. Dr. N. S. Murty arranged a talk on System Verilog for M.Tech. (VLSI Design) students and for the faculty members of Department of ECE. The talk was delivered by Mr. M. Ramdas, Verification Engineer at Intel on 1^st February 2014 in E-learning, ASE, Bangalore.
167. Dr. Navin Kumar’s tutorial on “Emerging Visible Light Communication in Intelligent Transportation Systems” has been accepted for presentation at highly reputed IEEE International Conference on Communication (IEEE ICC 2014), Sydney – Australia, June 14.
168. Dr. Navin Kumar reviewed a technical paper for IEEE Transaction on Communication in February 2014.
169. Mr. Sinith M.S, Research Scholar, under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered his Ph.D.  First Open Seminar on “Wavelet based Signal Processing of Musical Signals” on 14th February 2014 at ASE, Bangalore.
170. Ms. Sreeja Balakrishnan, Research Scholar, under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi completed the Comprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. research topic “Few Techniques to Navigate Uneven surfaces by Biped Robots” on 13^th Feb 2014.
171. Ms. Susmitha reviewed a technical paper for the IET Image Processing Journal in February 2014.
172. Prof. S. Ravishankar arranged a visit to Indian Statistical Institutefor the students of VI semester on 27^th January 2014. About 35 students of VI semester ECE students went and participated in distinguished lecture talk organized by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) by Bangalore Section IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Chapter in collaboration with the Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre. The speaker was Lorenzo Brozzone, Professor Trento University Italy
173. Dr. Shikha Tripathi visited Kalasalingam University on an invite, to be part of interaction with delegates from “Aurel Vlaicer” University of Arad,Romania. President Prof. Lizica Mihut, Rector Prof. Ramona Lile, Prof. Gabriela Keeliman and Prof. Valentina E Berlas were the delegates. Discussion on research collaboration in area of Robotics and Control and Soft Computing were discussed.
174. Dr. Shikha Tripathi and Dr. N S Murty attended IESA Industry Academia Interaction at PESIT on 25^th January 2014.
175. Dr. P. R. Vaya reviewed a technical paper for Journal of Optical Communications
176. Dr. N S Murty attended Maxim Integrated University Reach Programme Interaction with B.Tech students at ASE, Bangaluru.
177. Prof. Tirumale K Ramesh (Department of CSE) delivered a departmental technical talk on, “Hardware Security in VLSI” on 18th January 2014.
178. Prof. S.Ravishankar briefed about the workshop he attended on 13^th – 14^th December 2013 at IIT, Guwahati on “Speech and Image Processing” in the department on 18^th January 2014.
179. Ms. Priya B. K reviewed few sample chapters of the proposed book on Satellite Communication by Oxford University Press. The book is aimed at meeting the requirements of undergraduate engineering students.
180. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed two papers for 2013 IEEE Conference on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC 2013), Malaysia, December 13 -14, 2013.
181. Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been invited to serve as technical program committee member for International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, IIIT M-K, March 13-15, 2014, Thiruvananthapuram.
182. A project idea submitted to Amrita TBI Innovation Contest TIDE by Nisha M (M.Tech., VLSI Design III Semester student), Dr. N. S. Murty, Dr. P. R. Vaya and Mr. Satish Kumar P. won the bright idea and seed funding award. The title of the project idea is “A Speetach Band Audio Recorder for Visually Challenged”.
183. Dr. Shikha Tripathi invited to be included as Advisory Board Member of International Conference on Innovations in Computer, Communications and Control Technologies conducted by Noorul Islam Center for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, India, April 2014
184. Ms Susmitha Vekkot reviewed a technical paper for Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Image Processing Journal with the Impact Factor of 0.895.
185. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed paper for International Journal on Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing by Springer. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS with impact factor of 0.982.
186. Dr. Shikha Tripathi evaluated a thesis for M.Sc. (Engg.) by research titled ‘Cognitive Radio for Civil Aircraft Communication’ submitted to VTU, Belgaum.
187. Dr. Shikha Tripathi’s profile has been included in “Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2014”, 31^st Edition by Marquis Who’s Who Publications, USA. This edition features biographies of more than 55,000 of the most accomplished men and women from around the globe and across all fields of endeavor.
188. Dr. Dhanesh G Kurup as the ‘Principal Developer’ and Mr. Alok Kumar Jha as the ‘Co-Developer’ have been selected as course developers in the prestigious National Pedagogy Project. The course is titled as ‘Telecom Transmission and Switching’ .This is one of the seven courses selected from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for National Pedagogy Project.
189. Prof. Braj Bhushan Jha delivered a talk on 21^st September 2013 on “Cyber Security in Armed Forces’ Networks – Vulnerabilities and Initiatives” in the Symposium on “Cyber Defence” held on 20th – 21st September 2013 at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. He also participated in the Symposium on 20^th – 21^st September 2013.
190. Mr. Sagar C attended and participated in a two-day International Summit of renowned scientists, social-leaders, academicians, entrepreneurs and administrators titled “Our Villages – Our World: What Can We Offer?” , on 25^th to 26^th September 2013 at Amrita School of Engneering, Amritapuri , Kerala. The summit was organized by Mata Amritanandamayi Math on the occasion of Amritavarsham 60.
191. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed the technical paper for IEEE Control & System Graduate Research Colloquium (ICSGRC) 2013.
192. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed the technical paper for International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.
193. Ms. Sushmita Vekkot reviewed the technical paper for IET Image Processing Journal.
194. Dr. Shikha Tripathi included in Technical Program Committee as a member in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing & Communication conducted by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP, December 12-14, 2013.
195. Dr. Shikha Tripathi reviewed a Ph.D. Thesis from Cochin University of Science & Technology in August 2013.
196. Team from Amrita Bangalore comprising of Dr.Shikha Tripathi, Dr.T S B Sudarshan(CSE),Ms.Sreeja Kochuvila(EEE) and Mr.A A Nippun Kumar(CSE) visited National University of Singapore(NUS),Nanyang Technological university(NTU) and Singapore University of Technology & Design(SUTD)for possible research collaboration and to know the research being carried out in these universities in the area of robotics,signal processing and architectures for signal processing. They met Prof. Prahlad(NUS),Prof. A P Vinod(NTU) and Prof. A P Mathur(Director,SUTD) to help them visit the labs & interact with faculty and research scholars over there.
197. A short Tutorial on writing, plotting and presentation tools was organized and delivered by Dr. Dhanesh G Kurup on 15^th July 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.  The presentation was based upon the following open-source tools, available for both Linux & Windows. Paper writing using Latex: Use of “TexMaker” a GUI program available for both Windows and Linux.
198. The training on Altium Nano boards was provided by Entuple Technologies Pvt Ltd. In the training the faculty got to know the tool & also understood the versatility of the kit for implementing various student/research projects. The training on Nanoboard was arranged exclusively for faculty members of ECE Department in IT Lab I on 17^th August 2013.
199. Mr. T.K. Ramesh successfully completed his Ph.D. thesis titled “Efficient Distributed and Centralized RWA Protocols for WDM Networks” defense viva, under the guidance of Dr. P.R. Vaya on 30^th August 2012 at ASE, Bangalore.
200. Dr. N.S. Murthy delivered an invited talk on “ARM Enabling Optimal Utilization of Solar Photovoltaic Power” at the event of ‘Workshop on ARM Architecture, Programming and Applications’ on 27^th August 2012 at NMIT, Yelahanka , Bangalore.
201. Dr. Shikha Tripathi and Dr. N.S. Murthy have been invited and have accepted to be the technical review committee member for the International Conference on Global Innovation in Technology & Science, ICGITS 2013, to be conducted during 4^th to 6^th April 2013. This conference is conducted by SAINGITS College of Engineering, Kotteyam, Kerala.
202. Prof. S. K. Manocha attended two days conference organized by M.I.T. Boston (USA) & Cyber Media: ” EmTech India 2011″ held on 22^nd and 23^rd March 2011 at Bangalore. The conference covered the research and innovations by faculty of MIT & Indian companies.
203. Prof. S. K. Manocha participated as an invitee by Karnataka Government, the ‘Bangalore Cyber Security Summit ‘held on 17^th and 18^th March 2011. He advised that by involving young Indians below 25 years with domain knowledge in various topics of cyber security to be supported with directions from experts & government guidelines and build better security. His suggestions formed major recommendation of the conference.
204. Prof. S. K. Manocha is reselected as Executive Committee member for year 2011 for ” ITU Foundation of India ” which is sectoral member of ITU-D and ITU-T . He is the founder member since year 2003.
205. Prof. S. K. Manocha is continuing as outside expert in ICT , for the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
206. Dr. Shikha Tripathi (Asso.Prof.) delivered an invited talk in National Conference on Advancements in Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN1011) conducted by Amity School of Engineering & Technology on 24^th -25^th February, 2011 at Noida. She chaired a session on Digital Image Processing Techniques and also judged the Poster Presentation.
207. Dr. Shikha Tripathi (Asso. Prof.) has reviewed 3 papers in January 2011 for the conference titled International Conference on Computer Communication and Electrical Technology (ICCCET2011) conducted by National College of Engineering, Tirunelveli on 18^th – 19^th March 2011 and sponsored by IEEE and IET.
208. The biographical profile of Dr. Shikha Tripathi has been included in the 2010 edition of “Who’s Who in the World?” This new edition will feature biographies of more than 50,000 of the most accomplished men and women around the globe and across all fields.
209. A paper titled “A DWT based Dual Image Watermarking Technique for Authenticity and Watermark Protection” authored by Dr. Shikha Tripathi was published in ‘Signal and Image Processing: An International Journal’. Vol.1, No.2, December 2010.
210. Prof. P. R. Vaya was the Guest of honour at International Conference on On Demand Computing organized by Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore from 2^nd to 4^th November 2010.
211. A technical paper titled A Proactive and Self-Regulating Protocol for WDM All-Optical Networks by T. K. Ramesh and P. R. Vaya ,is selected as one of the 40% of the best papers recommended by the juries of the various sessions of International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering and Technology ICIRET 2010 organized by Park College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore,in association with School of Computing, Information Technology and Engineering, University of East London, London. These selected papers will be considered for publication in CiiT International Journals.
212. Prof. P. R. Vaya is a Member of Advisory Committee of the international conference titled ‘International Conference on Computer, Communication and Electrical Technology-ICCCET 2011’ on 18^th and 19^th March 2011, conducted by National College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India.
213. Dr. P.R. Vaya is a Member of Advisory Committee in the conference titled’ National Conference on Innovations in Emerging Technolgy, NCOIET’11’ in February 2011, conducted by Kongu Engineering College , Perundurai.
214. Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended the conference titled ‘Amrita ACM-W Celebration of Women in computing’at Amrita School of Engineering, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, on 15^th to 17^th September 2010, as a resource person and to chair & judge the presented technical papers.
215. Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended Indo-Taiwan research meet on embedded systems at BITS, Pilani, Pilani campus on 24^th to 25^th September 2010, to explore possible collaboration with Taiwan universities to promote research on embedded systems in India.
216. Mr. R. Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor, completed his project as a Research Scholar at University of Turku, Finland under the “EURECA” programme, during August 2009 to May 2010.
217. Dr. Sreeja Kochuvila was a panellist for the panel discussion on “Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Workplace” conducted on 21st March 2022 during WIE week held at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The event was organized by IEEE student branch chapter and IEEE WIE student branch.
218. The IEEE ComSoc student branch, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized the technical talk on ‘The Age of AI and our human future’ on 3rd March 2022. The event was conducted on behalf of women’s day week organized by IEEE WIE student branch conducted at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The Session was presided over by Mr. Jayavarman, (Vice Chairperson, IEEE ComSoc, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru) who welcomed the Guest Speaker of the event Dr. N. Neelima, and the guest participants. Ms. Seshaayini, (Executive, IEEE ComSoc, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru) who introduced the Guest Speaker of the session Dr. N. Neelima. Dr. N. Neelima grabbed the attention of students by discussing and interacting interesting technologies like Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep learning. She further included how AI’s are transforming our day to day life, health care, and industries across verticals. She also mentioned the women’s equality in our society. The session ended with vote of thanks by Mr. Siddieswara (Web page coordinator, IEEE ComSoc, ASEB). The event was attended by 56 participants that involved the volunteers, students and faculty members.

• Dr. Navin Kumar, Dr. Sreeja Kochuvila, Dr. Kamatchi S., Dr. Praveen Jaraut, Dr. Ramesh Chinthala, Dr. C. Paramasivam Ms. Priya B. K., Ms. Anjana R., Ms. R. Arya, organized a Nationwide Roadshow in association with CDAC, IEEE India Council on “Digital India RISC-V VEGA Processors”, at Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore Campus, Karnataka, India from 17th to 18th November 2023.
• Ms. Kirti S. attended an online workshop on “VLSI to System Design: Silicon to End Application Approach”, organized by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), ARM Education and STMicroelectronics from 31^st July to 4^th August 2023.
• Ms. Sonali Agrawal attended an online workshop on “VLSI to System Design: Silicon to End Application Approach”, organized by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), ARM Education and STMicroelectronics from 31^st July to 4^th August 2023.
• IEEE VTS, Bangalore Section and ASE, Bangalor organized 3^rd IEEE International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology, and Applications (VLSI SATA 2022), on 16 – 17 December 2022, at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
• Ms. Pavithra P. attended workshop on “Application of Machine Learning in B5G Wireless Communication” at NIT Tiruchirappalli from 18^th to 24^th December 2022.
• Ms. Pavithra P. attended one-day virtual workshop on “Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Fundamentals and Applications” at IIIITB Comet Foundation in online mode on 21^st May 2022.
• Dr. T. K. Ramesh, Mr. C. V. Giriraja attended a 5-day FDP-SI UHV Online -AICTE Incorporating Universal Human Values in Education (An AICTE Initiative) through Online Zoom Meeting during December 8 – 12, 2021.

Orientation Program, for 1^st year ECE and EAC students

Department of ECE conducted an orientation program, for the 1st year ECE and EAC students on 8th August 2023 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The program was organised by Dr. Neelima N. and Dr. Sarda Sharma. The event started with prayer and welcome address by Dr. Navin Kumar (Chairperson, Department of ECE) followed by introduction of faculty of Department of ECE. Dr. Vinodhini M. and Ms. Kirti S. Pande delivered the Rules regulations, and general disciplines of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Dr. Sreeja Kochuvila gave a brief introduction to Course Curriculum. Dr. T. K. Ramesh presented the ongoing research activities in the department. Further, Dr. Navin Kumar highlighted the club information and importance of IEEE and ECCF club activity. At the end the Q & A session from the audience was kept for queries. The event was successfully completed with vote of thanks and fun activity.

3rd IEEE VLSI SATA 2023

3^rd IEEE International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology, and Applications (VLSI SATA 2022) is a revolutionary concept that aims to focus on innovations, knowledge sharing in theory and methodologies used in chip design, nanoelectronics, embedded electronics and electronic design automation communities. VLSI SATA conference started with an idea to promote knowledge building, engineering education, research and development activities and networking to established and to identify research groups and collaboration opportunities. VLSI technology is ideally suited to the demands of today’s embedded electronic devices and systems. With the ever-increasing demand for miniaturization, portability, performance, reliability, and functionality, VLSI technology will continue to drive electronics advancement. The latest technology in VLSI is the integration and application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The VLSI industry is fast approaching in being the future of applied fields of Data Science and AI. In a nutshell, VLSI has been an extremely fascinating domain for researchers and developers to be in.

The conference with a theme of “Embedded Systems in Autonomous Driving” is a forum for researchers, educators, and industry leaders to discuss all in automotive systems and other industry verticals. VLSI SATA has drawn significant interest from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in VLSI Design.

A total of 80+ papers were received for review. After plagiarism checks and rigorous double-blind reviews by experts from both academia and industry, 25% of papers were accepted for presentation.

3^rd IEEE VLSI SATA 2022 was conducted on 16th and 17th December 2022 in the beautiful campus of the Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. This conference was technically and financially sponsored by IEEE VTS, Bangalore section and technically sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Circuits and Systems Bangalore section and IEEE Bangalore. VLSI SATA 2022 is a two-day event.

Day 1 is devoted to tutorial and workshop sessions to provide a broader technical platform to discuss the recent advancement in the VLSI domain. The tutorial session was conducted by Dr. N. S. Murthy, Consultant to LeCo Consulting, Bengaluru with the title “VLSI Fab and Demystified” and the workshop session was conducted by Mr. Sharan A., CoreEL Technologies, Bangalore with the title “System Design Flow using Xilinx Vivado and Vitis on PYNQZ2 Board”.

Day 2 includes keynote addresses and one technical session with the track: VLSI Technology in the pre-lunch session. In the post-lunch session, parallel technical sessions in three tracks: VLSI Systems, VLSI Applications and VLSI Architectures with invited talks and contributed paper presentations.

Mr. Hemanth Mallapur, Co-founder & Exec. VP Engineering, Saankhya Labs was the chief for the inauguration. Dr. Manoj P., Director, of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore, and Dr. Sriram Devanathan, Principal, of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore were the guest of honor chief for the inauguration. The plenary session was on “DDR Memory overview” by Dr. Parthasarathy Ramaswamy, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. The other invited speakers were Mr. Prasanna Thyamagondlu, Director- Product Development, Capgemini and Mr. Vaibhav Pratap Singh
Principal Technical Officer, CDAC, Bangalore.

PhD Symposium Series
Industry Expert and PhD Scholar Talk

On December 10, 2021, the Departments of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru campus, collaborated to conduct the third lecture in the Ph. D. Symposium Series, where Industry experts and Ph. D. Scholar working in broad areas of engineering, science and language can present their work, meet with peers and experienced researchers, receive feedback, and learn from each other’s experiences. The talk was attended by more than 70 participants from various disciplines.

Dr. Abdullah Aamir Hayat, Research Associate, Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Mr. Vinod Kotebavi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru were the speakers for the day. Dr. Parul Mathur from Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering welcomed distinguished speakers from industry and academia, head of the departments, faculty members and Ph. D. scholars. Later, Dr. Shankara from Department of Mechanical Engineering introduced the speakers to the audience. The event continued with the presentation from the speaker, Dr. Abdullah Aamir Hayat on, “Research Thinking”. His talk motivated researchers to carefully organise their work and maintain high ethical standards throughout their academic careers. Mr. Vinod Kotebavi then gave a session on “Flow over elliptic cone in Hypersonic flow”. Dr. Parul Mathur delivered vote of gratitude to all the attendees and guests at the end of the event.

Ph. D. Symposium Series

Industry Expert and Ph. D. Scholar Talk (30 Oct, 2021, 10:40am -1:30pm)

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, has initiated a Ph. D. Symposium Series, where Industry experts and PhD Scholar working in broad areas of engineering, science and language can present their work, meet with peers and experienced researchers, receive feedback, and learn from each other’s experiences. The first talk in this series was held on 30th October 2021. The talk was attended by roughly 130 participants from various disciplines. Mr. Paramvir Singh Minhas, RAN Transport Product Line Management at Nokia, Bangalore, Dr. K. P. Gowd, Group Captain (Retd) from the Indian Air Force’s Aeronautical Engineering Electronics Branch, and Ms Sanjika Devi, Part-time Ph. D. Scholar and Assistant Professor in the Electronics and Communication department at Amrita University were the speakers for the day. Dr. Navin Kumar, Chairperson from Electronics and Communication department inaugurated the series and welcomed Principal, distinguished speakers from Industry and academia, Head of the Departments, faculty members and Ph. D. scholars. Dr. Sriram Devanathan, Principal of Amrita School of Engineering, spoke to the audience about the importance and impact of such symposium series. He suggested that Ph. D. scholars should take this opportunity to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the respective engineering community and develop the spirit of collaborative research. The event continued with presentation from the speaker, Mr. Paramvir Singh Minhas on, “Current Trends and Opportunities in 5G Backhaul and Fronthaul”, followed by the presentation from the second speaker Dr. Gowd on “Need for Technological Solution to Black Box Recovery Syndrome”. Finally, the last speaker Ms Sanjika Devi, presented her Ph. D. work on “Green Communications: Digital Pre-distortion of Wideband Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers”. Dr. Manoj Kumar Panda gave a vote of gratitude to all the attendees and guests at the end of the event. Dr. Parul Mathur hosted the entire event.

Webinar on Basics of Quantum computing and Communication

IEEE Communication Society Student Chapter in association IEEE Sensors Student Chapter had a webinar on Basics of quantum computing and communication on 7th October 2021. Mr. Anand M. (Senior Research Engineer at Centre for Development of Telematics Bangalore) delivered a talk on basics of Quantum computing and Communication. Mr. Anand M. has 12 years of experience in telecommunication industry. His area of interest includes Wireless Communication and Wireless Optical Communication. He has received numerous awards from C-DOT as author and inventor for his papers and patents. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Past Secretary for IEEE Communication Society Bangalore Chapter. He has given multiple lectures on Quantum Communication, Quantum Internet and Quantum Computing within his organization as well as in form of public lectures. He also won the best paper award for his paper on Quantum Communication in 2021. Mr. Anand M. grabbed student attention by discussing basic topics of quantum like Qubits, and quantum logic gates. He also mentioned the power of quantum computer and its reliabilities. At the end of presentation, there was a question-and-answer session. The event was anchored by Ms. Manogna, chair- IEEE Sensors Council. The event crops up with speaker’s introduction by Ms. Vyshnavi, Executive of IEEE ComSoc. The event ended with vote of thanks by Manogna. IEEE ComSoc and IEEE Sensors Council presented an online memento as a token of gratitude. At last, all participants were asked to switch camera for online selfie. On the whole, the webinar was very interesting and enlightened students about Quantum computing and its importance.

Online Quiz Competition

IEEE Communication Society Student Chapter has conducted an online Quiz -‘FUNCOGNITION’ on 7th October 2021, from 5–6 pm. The FUNCOGNITION is a technical quiz related to the topics from Communication and IEEE. Fourty six students participated in the event. Ms. Rithika, and Ms. Budi Preethi obtained first and second prizes respectively. The participants showed active participation throughout the event and accomplished the event graciously.

Green Communications: Digital Pre-distortion of Wideband Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers

Ms. Sanjika Devi delivered a talk titled, “Green Communications: Digital Pre-distortion of Wideband Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers” as a part of Department of ECE Research Talk, on 8th October 2021 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The abstract of the talk dealt about Wireless system design and manufacturing of then have ready become the fastest growing section of the electronics industry. However, the incremental demand of providing better wireless connection services in terms of higher data rates and more efficient solutions with wider bandwidth imposes several challenges in the design of wireless transmitters. In addition, use of spectral efficient modulation schemes also impacts the requirements of the wireless transmitters, which have been traditionally the most energy-consuming element of radio networks. The radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) being a crucial component in the wireless transmitters, accounts for up to 80% of the energy consumption. Surprisingly, over 60% of the power is wasted in the form of heat rather than transmitting data. The resulting need for highly linear and power efficient signal amplification across wide bandwidths has led in recent years, the development of various linearization techniques of RF PAs. Due to its high flexibility and excellent linearization performance, digital pre-distortion (DPD) has become one of the most preferred choice for linearizing RF PAs and tends to be a fundamental component in current and next-generation wireless communication systems. In this talk, the various linearization strategies, challenges, open issues and future directions of DPD would be discussed.

Research Talk on “Industry 4.0 – Concept, Technologies & Challenges

The Department of Electronics and Communications, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru campus, organized a research talk on “Industry 4.0 – Concept, Technologies & Challenges” by an invited guest Mr. Sivasubramanian S. (Quality & Reliability Engineer in the Global Supply Chain Organization of Intel Corporation, Bengaluru) on July 31, 2021.

IC Design from RTL to GDS-II” using Cadence EDA Tool

Department of ECE and IEEE Student Branch Amrita School of Engineering (ASE) Bangalore jointly with Entuple Technologies organized 5-day online faculty development program (FDP) on “IC Design from RTL to GDS-II” using Cadence EDA Tool from 26^th to 30^th July, 2021. The FDP included Invited talk, theory session in the morning slots and hands-on sessions in the afternoon. The FDP offered from Full-Custom IC Design using Virtuoso, for first two days, Semi-custom IC design Flow on the third & fourth day and PCB Design using OrCAD on the fifth day. The FDA was attended by 43 members which included 14 faculties, 11 scholars and 18 M. Tech students. The FDP was organized by Dr. Navin Kumar (Chairman, Department of ECE and Branch Counsellor IEEE ASE-B), Dr. C. Paramasivam (FDP Coordinator), Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran (Faculty Advisor IEEE Student Branch), Dr. Kamatchi S. (FDP Coordinator). The FDP was arranged through Cisco Webex Meeting platform. The summary of the event is as follows:

On 26^th July 2021 morning, Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran, Faculty Advisor, IEEE-SB, who formally welcomed the participants to the FDP and introduced them to Mr. Charudhathan Nagarajan, AE Director Cadence delivered invited talk about “Market drivers and Future trends in semiconductors and electronics”. Then Mr. Nitten, Application Engineer, from Entuple Technologies Pvt Ltd started the session introducing about Schematic Capture using Cadence Virtuoso. The afternoon session on hands-on was conducted to perform Schematic Capture using Cadence. Participants were also given assignment to practice. 27^th July 2021 morning Mr. Nitten, continued and briefed about the layout design. This afternoon, hands-on session was conducted to perform layout design using Cadence Virtuoso. On 28^th July 2021, Mr. L. V. Kedarnath, FAE Entuple Technologies Pvt Ltd explained about Overview of Semi-Custom Design Flow while in the afternoon, the hands-on session was conducted to perform RTL Synthesis using Genus EDA tool.

On 29^th July 2021 morning another invited talk by Dr. George Abraham, AE Director Cadence was arranged. He delivered talk titled “Cadence Digital Implementation and Signoff-A full flow overview”. Following this talk, Mr. L. V. Kedarnath continued to brief about Physical Design Implementation using Innova’s tool. In the afternoon, hands-on session was conducted to perform physical implementation using Innova’s EDA tool. On 30^th July 2021 morning Mr. L. V. Kedarnath gave a talk about Physical Design Implementation Estimation of Reports. After that Mr. Kamlesh Kumar Application Engineer Entuple Technologies talked about PCB Design using OrCAD. Afternoon, the hands-on session was conducted to perform physical implementation using Innova’s EDA tool.

The FDP concluded with very positive feedback from participants followed by Vote of thanks by Ms. Sreebha Bhaskaran by thanking the speakers, participants and organizers for arranging a very useful FDP. She also thanked the supporting faculty for providing the systems for the participants throughout the FDP and IEEE student branch for helping the FDP organized very professionally.

UBICNET 2021

UBIquitous Communications and NETwork Computing (UBICNET) is revolutionary concepts that aim to provide pervasive, reliable communication and computing services available anytime and anywhere. UBICNET has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. Ubiquitous communication and computing is the growing trend and became one of the requirements for most of the people around the globe. While ubiquitous communication ensures communication anywhere with anyone, ubiquitous computing devices are completely connected and consistently available. Ubiquitous network computing relies on the convergence of wireless technologies, advanced electronics and Internet and Internet of Things (IoT). This emerging technology is built upon a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, IoT, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security.

UBICNET 2021 was conducted on 13^th March 2021 virtually and organized by the team from Amrita Bangalore under the leadership of Dr. Navin Kumar (Steering Committee Chair), Dr. T. K. Ramesh (General Chair) and Dr. Abhilash Ravikumar (TPC Chair). The conference was supported by EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities. The conference had many papers submitted out of which 17 camera ready submissions were considered. Dr. Sriram Devanathan, Principal, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore was the guest of honour at the event. The plenary session was on “Future networks – A platform for convergence” by Mr. Subhas C Mondal – Chief Architect 5G, Wipro Ltd. The other invited speakers were Ms. Neha Sharma – Staff Engineering Manager, Samsung and Ms. Shital Bhatia – General Manager/Staff Engineering Manager Network Access & Core R&D, SRI India – Bangalore. The topics of the conference included Advanced communication and 5G, network sensing, communication protocols and applications and data analytics and its applications.

IEEE Student Branch jointly with Department of Electronics and Communication, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized one and half day hands-on workshop on RF and Microwave Circuit Design and Analysis using AWR Design Environment on 5th to 6th July 2019. The workshop was mainly arranged for M. Tech students, Ph. D. Scholars and faculty members to provide a platform for software development using this tool. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Pratik Mewada working for ICON Design Automotive Pvt. Ltd. His expertise is in RF and microwave measurement and also in the EDA technical support and development domains. The workshop began with the introduction to AWR Design Environment and a demo on MWO circuit design. The hands-on session was followed post lunch. On 6th July 20 at Communication Research and VLSI Lab by giving an overview to Visual System Simulator and design & analysis of LNA / VCO / PA. The participants appreciated the tool and the future works which could be carried out using this tool. The workshop was concluded with a positive note and a small token of appreciation for the trainer.

ACIP outreach program at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, conducted an event where in, those students who had been to various universities to pursue their project/internship/dual degree programs shared their experience. The event was organized for the third year and final year students of all branches. The first session was conducted on 1st July 2019 for the third year students by the Ms. Sritha Bandla of (M. Tech. S4, Department of ECE) and Mr. Saketh Ram Kunda (M. Tech. S4 Department of ME), who are still continuing with their Master’s program at KTH University, Sweden. The second session was conducted on 29th July 2019 for the final year students by Mr. Aaryan Oberoi (B. Tech. S8, Department of ECE), Mr. Raagul Tirupur Senthilkumar (B. Tech. S8, Department of ECE) and Ms. Roshni Maniraj (B. Tech. S8, Department of ECE), Mr. Garimella Krishna Sandilya (B. Tech. S8, Department of EEE) and Mr. Amandeep Singh Rajput (B. Tech. S8, Department of EEE) and Mr. Puranjay Mugur (B. Tech. S8, Department of ME). The session had a good participation from the students and was really appreciated.

1. Dr. Navin Kumar organized and acted as Workshop Chair in IEEE 5th International Conference on 5G and Future Wireless Technologies (5G-FWT) 2020 in association with 15th IEEE ANTS held from 14-17 Dec 2020.
2. Dr Navin Kumar was invited as a Panelist during IEEE ANTS panel session on “IIoT for Industry 4.0” and represented academia.
3. Dr Navin Kumar was invited as invited speaker at 6G Knowledge Lab Inauguration and 36th GISFI meeting held on 21-22 Dec, in Herlin Denmark.
4. Dr Navin Kumar was invited to deliver 3-4 hours session on “Defining a Problem and Writing quality technical paper under Research Methodology workshop” organized by Wipro and Samsung on 5th December.
5. Dr Navin Kumar organized half day workshop on “Open Source for Communication” in association with IEEE ComSoc and Samsung on 12th December 2020.
6. NI-AWR Design Environment (RF and Microwave Circuit Design Tool)
7. ACIP Activity
8. Department of ECE organized a two-day workshop on ‘FPGA Basics & Demo of various FPGA Boards’ from 27th to 28th June 2019, at M. Tech. VLSI Design Lab, Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering. The FPGA basics and demo on Virtex and Spartan boards was arranged and delivered by Dr. Ramesh Chinthala, Dr. Paramasivam, Dr. S. Kamatchi and Ms. Jalpa Shah on the first day of the workshop. On the second day of the workshop, the demo of ZedBoard Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC and Xilinx Zynq-7000-All Programmable SoC boards, was delivered by CoreEL Company. The workshop was arranged for M.Tech. VLSI Design students and faculty members.
9. A 3-day International Conference titled ‘2nd EAI International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication and Network Computing (UBICNET 2019)’ was organized by the Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru from 8th to 10th February 2019.
10. SkillThon’18, a hands-on Workshop on Internet of Things”, which was conducted on 27^th & 28^th of July, 2018, by IEEE- Student Branch (IEEE-SB) in collaboration with SkillIT India and Department of CSE & ECE, at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
11. A 2-day National workshop titled ‘System on Chip Architectures for Mixed Mode Applications (SoCAMMA)’ was conceived by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering from 23^rd to 24^th March 2018. The workshop emphasized on ‘Field Programmability for Rapid Prototyping’. Dr. N. S. Murty, Chairman of the Department of ECE was the driving force behind the workshop ably assisted by Dr. Navin Kumar as Program Chair and Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy as Workshop Convener.The Chief Guest, Dr. P. V. Ananda Mohan (Fellow, IEEE & Chair, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Bengaluru chapter & Technology Advisor, CDAC) who delivered the keynote address of the workshop covering all the essential blocks of analog and mixed signal design, also touching upon recent advancements of field programmability. Mr. Hitesh Garg (NXP Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.), talked about the three verticals of Analog Design namely Data Conversion, Power Handling and Timing & Reference Generation and presented automobiles as a target application where the philosophy followed was “sense, think and act”. Mrs. Swathi G (Texas Instruments Pvt. Ltd.) delivered information about the salient features and importance of Semiconductor Testing in the context of manufacturing defects. Prof. Subhajit Sen (IIIT-B), Dr. Ganesan Thiagarajan (MMRFIC) and Dr. Pratap Kumar Das (Achronix Semiconductor Corp.), spoke about Digital assisted Analog and Mixed Signal Design, Embedded RF Design and Embedded FPGA respectively. The workshop had two demo sessions on using MATLAB to interface to FPGAs, which was presented by Ms. Vidya Viswanathan (Mathworks Pvt. Ltd.) and Anadigm’s Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA) presented by Mr. Rajesh R (Oppila Microsystems Pvt. Ltd.). The workshop was registered and attended by 16 external participants, the faculty members and the students.
12. The Department of ECE and CSE organized a three days international conference on Ubiquitous Communications and Network Computing (UBICNET) on Aug 3-5, 2017. The conference witnessed delegates from different parts of the country. The UBICNET Conference commenced with three tutorial sessions.
13. In order to make the M. Tech. (VLSI Design) and M. Tech. (Embedded Systems) students aware of the Electronic System Level (ESL) Design and appreciate its value and opportunities, Dr. N. S. Murty organized a workshop on ESL on 17^th April 2017 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The speakers were Mr. Saurabh Tiwari, Manager, Product Architecture and Computer Vision and CPU Performance Architect at Intel and Mr. Prasanna Kesavan, Principal Engineer at Broadcom. They highlighted the benefits of ESL and shared information and experience on how this ESL is used in companies to do state of the art system designs.
14. Dr. N. S. Murty delivered a workshop on “VLSI Demystified” on 18^th March 2017 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.  During his talk, he discussed about the VLSI wafer fabrication, device assembly, testing, reliability evaluation and failure analysis with videos and pictures. He also showed physical samples of wafers, mask plates, devices under different stages of assembly etc. The talk was arranged for faculty members and students.
15. Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy attended a seminar titled, “Science & Technology in the Indic Tradition”, at IISc, Bengaluru during 3^rd to 5^th February 2017.
16. Following faculty members attended CMOS, Mixed Signal and Radio Frequency VLSI Design under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India)  conducted from 30^th January 2017 to 4^th February 2017  at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru
    • Dr. N. S. Murty
    • Dr. T K Ramesh
    • Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick
    • Dr. Srinivasa Reddy K
    • Mr. Giriraja C. V.
    • Ms. Vinodhini M.
    • Ms. Sonali Agrawal
    • Ms. S. Lalitha
    • Ms. Kavita Baliger
    • Ms. Bhavana V.
    • Ms. Sanjika Devi
    • Mr. Nandi Vardhan
    • Ms. Ponni M. Ms. Jeeva Priya
    • Ms.Sathish kumar
    • Ms. Jayashree M Oli
    • Ms. Nidhi Gangrade
    • Ms. Kirti S. Pande
    • Mr. Alok Kumar Jha
17. Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru was chosen as one of the remote centers for hosting ISTE Sponsored workshop on “CMOS, Mixed Signal and Radio Frequency VLSI Design”, under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India)  conducted from 30th January 2017 to 4th February 2017
18. IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter organized its first workshop on ‘Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT” for the even semester on 31st January, 2017. The objective of this workshop was to understand, use and configure wireless low power devices for IoT applications. The event was organized by Dr. Navin Kumar in association with IEEE Student volunteers
19. Dr. N. S. Murty arranged a workshop by Mentor Graphics Pvt. Ltd on VLSI Design on 13^th October 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The topics like VLSI Design industry, Digital FPGA and Analog Custom Design Flow were dealt by Mr. Vidhya Prakash Nagaraj (Applications Consultant PV), Design-For-Test by Mr. Shiva Kumar Revanna (Sr. Corporate Applications Engineer DFT). All VLSI Design faculty members and M.Tech. I and III Semester students attended the workshop.
20. Mr. Sagar B attended National Seminar on Seminar on ‘Curriculum Design & Development for Sustainable & Societal Development: A Road Map’ at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, organized by Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore and SPONSORED by NAAC on 12^th to 13^th  August  2016;
21. Mr. Sagar B attended a workshop on ‘Research Methodologies’ at Golden Jubilee Hall, Dept of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru, organized by IEEE Bangalore Section, on 8^th to 9^th August 2016.
22. Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Ms. Lalitha, Ms. Sushmitha Vekkot and Ms. Padmini P. Reddy attended a Summer School Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P) – 2016, Speech Source Modelling and its Applications on 4^th to 8^th July 2016 at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Ms. Sushmitha Vekkot’s Ph.D. abstract was selected for 5 minute Ph.D. thesis Presentation.
23. Department of ECE organized a three day Workshop on “5G IoT along with 25^th series of Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI) Meeting” on 21^st to 23^rd  July 2016. The event was supported by IEEE COMSOC. The workshop was conducted under the guidance of Organizing Chair Dr. Shikha Tripathi (Professor, Chairperson, Department of ECE) and Workshop Coordinators Dr. Navin Kumar (Associate Professor, Department of ECE and Dr. T. S. B. Sudarshan (Professor & Chair, Department of CSE).  The event was assisted by Mr. Sagar B. along with IEEE ComSoc Student Chapters Office bearers and representatives.
24. Ms. Ponni M. attended a Croucher Summer Course on Performaance Aware Programming with Application Accelerators from 18^th to 22^nd July 2016 at University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
25. Ms. Kirti S. Pande attended a seminar titled, “Maximize PPA and Reduce Risk on Next-Generation Designs” on 17^th June 2016 at Park Plaza, Marathahallli, Bengaluru. The seminar was organized by Cadence Pvt. Ltd.
26. The department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) and IEEE students branch at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus organized a workshop on Trends & Developments in Photonics and Optical Communications from March 28- 29, 2016.»»
27. Dr. Shikha Tripathi organized a National Workshop on “Trends and Development in Photonics and Optical Communication (TDPOC) 2016”, on 28^th and 29^th March 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru
28. International Conference on VLSI-SATA 2016 was organized on 10^th to 12^th January 2016 by Department of ECE in association with Department of CSE at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
29. Ms. Lalitha S. and Ms. Jeewa Priya attended National Workshop on, “Knowledge Discovery with Open Source Machine learning tools for Science & Engineering Applications”, on 6^th to 7^th November 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
30. Ms. Lalitha S., Ms. Sushmitha Vekkot and Mr. Swaminadhan Rajula attended a two days workshop on ‘Xilinx Vivado System Generator and Analog Discovery Kit’ on 21st to 22nd September 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore.
31. Dr. R. Karthikeyan organized a seminar on “Emerging Trends in Process Automation with DCS/PLC and SCADA” on 17th April 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The speaker for the seminar was Ms. Padma R. (Deputy Manager, Training – Customer Service Division, Yokogawa Pvt. Ltd. , India). The seminar was arranged for II, III and IV year EIE students. Around 150 students participated in the event.
32. Dr. R. Karthikeyan and Ms. Anjali organized a seminar on “Embedded System Design for IOT” on 25th April 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The speaker for the seminar was Mr. Gurjeet Singh (Managing Director Gill Instruments Pvt. Ltd., India). The seminar was arranged for II, III and IV year EIE students. Around 140 students participated in the event.
33. Ms. Sanjika Devi and Ms. Priya B.K. attended 2 Days FDP on “Recent Advancements in Antenna Design” using FEKO Simulation Software” , organized by Department of Telecommunication Engineering, CMRIT, Bengaluru in association with VTU Bengaluru on 21st to 22nd January 2015.
34. Following faculty members attended National Workshop on “Control Systems” sponsored by National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India) organized by Department of EEE at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
    • Dr. T. K. Ramesh,Dr. Karthikeyan,Mr. Giriraja C.V.,Mr. C. Babu,Mr. Satish Kumar,Ms. Lalitha S.,Ms. Priya B.K,Ms. Jayashree Oli,Ms. Jeeva Priya,Ms. Nidhi Gangrade,Mr. E. Chandramohan Gaud,Ms. Jeyanthi,Ms. Anjali,Ms. Bharati Pant,Mr. V. Vignesh,Mr. Sagar,Ms. Sanjika Devi,Ms. Priyadarshini v.,Ms. Sushmitha Vekkot
35. Mr. P.Satish Kumar attended Symposium titled “Synopsys University Symposium 2014” on 1^0th October 2014 at Hotel Fortune, Bengaluru. The symposium was organized by Eigen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
36. Mr. Kirti S. Pande Kumar attended Symposium titled “Synopsys University Symposium 2014” on 10^th October 2014 at Hotel Fortune, Bengaluru. The symposium was organized by Eigen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
37. Ms. Parul Mathur attended a workshop on “Practical Electromagnetics for Modern Antennas, RF and Microwave Designs” on 18^th – 22^nd August 2014 at Entuple Technologies, Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru.
38. Ms. R. V. Sanjika Devi attended a workshop on “Practical Electromagnetics for Modern Antennas, RF and Microwave Designs” on 18^th – 22^nd August 2014 at Entuple Technologies, Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru.
39. Ms. R.V. Sanjika Devi attended IEEE Authorship Workshop on “How to Publish a Technical Paper with IEEE” on 12^th August 2014 at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
40. Dr. Navin Kumar  presented a research paper titled “New & Effective Modulation & Dimming Control for VLC” at IEEE VTC 2014 – Spring Conference at Seoul, South Korea, held from 18 – 21 May 2014.
41. Amrita School of Engineering , Bangalore was chosen as one of the remote centers for hosting two week workshop on ‘ Signals & Systems’, under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) conducted from 2nd to 12th January 2014. Department of ECE took up the responsibility and executed it successfully with technical assistance from ICTS group and facility department.Around 15 faculty members from various engineering colleges within the state of Karnataka and 57 from ASE, Bangalore attended the workshop. The lectures were conducted through internet using A-View software across the country. The objective of the workshop was to train the teachers with effective teaching methodology for Signals and Systems using examples and highlighted the points that need to be stressed while teaching to students. Quizzes were conducted by IIT Kharagpur for the participants. Participants were also given the opportunity to have interactive sessions with the faculty at IIT Kharagpur and through the group assignments during this workshop. The workshop was executed under the guidance of Workshop Coordinator Dr. Prof. Shikha Tripathi along with the teaching assistance of Ms. Latha (Asst. Prof.), Mr. C.V. Giriraja (Asst. Prof.), Mr. Ganapathy Hegde (Asst. Prof.) and Ms. Sunitha (Asst. Prof.) and technical assistance of lab instructor Ms. Shanthi D.
42. Mr. Giriraja C V attended the workshop on Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education(QEEE) Training on 17^th – 18^th December 2013 at IIT,Madras. The workshop was organized by IIT,Madras and sponsored by Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development.
43. Dr. Shikha Tripathi attendee “One week Coordinators workshop on Signals and Systems” under Mational Mission on Education through ICT(MHRD), Government of India, at IIT Khragpur during 30th September 2013 to 4th October 2013.
44. A 2-Week ISTE Workshop on “Analog Electronics” was organized on 4^th to 14h June 2013 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The event was sponsored by Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore and National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. Around 30 members from outside and local together participated in the workshop.
45. The National Workshop on “Trends and Developments in Signal Processing and its Applications TDSPA – 13”was organized on 27^th to 28^th April 2013 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The event was sponsored by Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore and Cranes Software, Bangalore. Around 66 members from outside and local together participated in the workshop.
46. A 2-Week ISTE Workshop on “Basic Electronics” was organized on 28^th June 2011 to 8^th July 2011 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The event was sponsored by Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore and National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. Around 58 members from outside and local together participated in the workshop.
47. The National Seminar on “Trends and Developments in Sensors and Instrumentation TDSI-11”was organized on 08^th to 09^th April 2011 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The event was sponsored by Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Around 84 members from outside and local together participated in the workshop.
48. Mr. Ganapathi Hegde attended One Day Faculty Development National Level Workshop on “Latex & its Documentation for Research Scholars” on 14^th September 2013 at HKBK College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The workshop was organized by Department of CSE-HKBKCE- Bengaluru, in association with VTU-Belgaum, Karnataka and the CSI-Bengaluru Chapter @HKBKCE Campus.
49. Mr. Hemanth Kumar attended One Day Faculty Development National Level Workshop on “Latex & its Documentation for Research Scholars” on 14^th September 2013 at HKBK College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The workshop was organized by Department of CSE-HKBKCE- Bengaluru, in association with VTU-Belgaum, Karnataka and the CSI-Bengaluru Chapter @HKBKCE Campus.
50. Mr. Swaminathan R. attended One Day Faculty Development National Level Workshop on “Latex & its Documentation for Research Scholars” on 14^th September 2013 at HKBK College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The workshop was organized by Department of CSE-HKBKCE- Bengaluru, in association with VTU-Belgaum, Karnataka and the CSI-Bengaluru Chapter @HKBKCE Campus.
51. Mr. R Karthikeyan attended workshop on 18^th July 2013 to 20^th July 2013 at NIT, Trichy.
52. Ms. Sumathi S attended workshop on 05^th July 2013 to 06^th July 2013 at Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore.
53. Mr. P Satish Kumar attended workshop on 17^th June 2013 to 21st June 2013 at RMZ Infinity, Tower A, Benniganahalli, Bangalore.
54. Mr. C Babu attended workshop on 10^th June 2013 to 14^th June2013 National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.
55. Mr. P Satish Kumar attended workshop on 10^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.
56. Dr. N.S. Murty attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 ASE, Bangalore.
57. Mr. Hemanth Kumar attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 ASE, Bangalore.
58. Ms. R.V. Sanjika attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
59. Ms. Latha attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
60. Ms. Lalitha attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
61. Ms. Ponni M attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
62. Ms. Kirti S. Pande attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
63. Ms. Jayashree Oli attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
64. Ms. Vibha Mehrotra attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
65. Ms. Parul Mathur attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
66. Ms. Kavita Baliger attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
67. Ms. Bhavana.V attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
68. Ms. Nidhi Gangrade attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
69. Mr. Vignesh attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
70. Mr. Sagar B. attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
71. Mr. Swaminathan Rajula attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
72. Ms. Anjali B S attended workshop on 04^th June 2013 to 14^th June 2013 at ASE, Bangalore.
73. Dr. T.K Ramesh attended workshop on 01st May 2013 to 05^th January 2013 at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
74. Mr. Ganapathi Hegde attended workshop on 15^th March 2013 to 16^th March 2013 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
75. Mr. Alok Kumar Jha attended workshop on 27^th February 2013 to 28^th February 2013 at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin.
76. Ms. Anjali attended workshop on 07^th February 2013 to 08^th February 2013 at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore.
77. Dr. N S Murty attended workshop on 11^th January 2013 to 12^th January 2013 at BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli.
78. Mr. Giriraj C.V. attended workshop on 10^th November 2012 to 11^th November 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
79. Ms. Ponni M attended workshop on 23^rd July 2012 to 25^th July 2012 at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
80. Mr. R. Karthikeyan attended workshop on 25^th June 2012 to 04^th 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
81. Mr. N.V.S. Murthy attended workshop on 16^th May 2012 at R.V. College of Engineering
82. Mr. R. Karthikeyan attended workshop on 10^th March 2012 at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
83. Mr. R. Karthikeyan attended workshop on 18^th February 2012 to 19^th February 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
84. Mr. R. Karthikeyan attended workshop on 16^th December 2011 to 17^th December 2011 at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore.
85. Ms. Jeevapriya K attended workshop on 14^th December 2011 to 17^th December2011 at Amrita School of Engineering, Ettimadai
86. Mr. T.K. Ramesh attended seminar on 16^th Septermber 2011 to 17^th September2011 at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamilnadu.
87. Mr. Ganapathi Hegde attended workshop on 19^th September 2011 to 23^rd September 2011 at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
88. Mr. Ganapathi Hegde attended workshop on 19^th August2011 to 20^th August2011 at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
89. Mr. C. Babu attended workshop on 28^th June2011 to 8^th July 2011 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
90. Mr. Giriraja C.V attended workshop on 28^th June 2011 to 8^th July2011 at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
91. Mr. R. Karthikeyan attended workshop on 20^th April2011 to 21^st April 2011 at KLN College of Engineering, Pottapalayam
92. Ms. Kavitha N Pillai attended workshop on 08^th April 2011 to 09^th April 2011 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
93. Mr. Giriraja C.V attended workshop on 01^st March 2011 to 05 March 2011 at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
94. Mr. R. Karthikeyan attended workshop on 18^th February 2011 to 19^th February 2011 at Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi
95. Mr. T.K. Ramesh attended workshop on 10^th February2011 to 11^th February 2011 at The Kavery Engineering College, Salem.
96. Ms. M.S. Sankari, M. Vinodhini, Kusuma Keerthi, Mr. C. Babu, P. Satishkumar attended workshop on 09^th February 2011 to 10^th February 2011 at Nokia India Ltd., Bangalore.
97. Mr. Ganapathi Hegde attended workshop on 28^th January 2011 to 29^th January 2011 at CMR Institute ofTechnology, BangalorMr. R.Karthikeyan attended workshop on 22^nd Janauary 2011 at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore
98. Mr. R.Karthikeyan attended FDP on 22^nd January 2011 at Amrita School of Business, Bangalore
99. Mr. R. Karthikeya, Ms. K. Deepika and Ms. Deepa attended FDP on 13^th June 2010 to 19^th June 2010 at National Institute of Technology Calicut
100. Ms. R Jeyanthi attended Seminar on 18^th December 2009 to 19^th December 2009 MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai
101. Ms. R Jeyanthi and Ms. K. Deepa attended workshop on 14^th December 2009 to 24^th December 2009 Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
102. Mr. T.K. Ramesh attended workshop on 07^th December 2009 to 19^th December 2009 at National Engineering College, Kovilpatti
103. Mr. Giriraja C.V attended workshop on 23^rd Novermber 2009 to 28^th November 2009 at Indian Institute of Technology Madras
104. Mr. Ganapathi Hegde attended workshop on 13^th July 2009 to 22nd July 2009 at PES School of Engineering, Bangalore
105. Ms. Lalitha S & Ms. Vinodhini M attended workshop on 18^th May 2009 to 19^th May 2009 at Dale Carnegie Training and Wipro, Bangalore
106. Ms. Lalitha S attended workshop on 18^th May 2009 to 22nd May 2009 at PES School of Engineering, Bangalore
107. Dr. V Prithviraj delivered a Seminar on “Internet of Things” on 17^th August 2010 at E-Learning Center, ASE Bangalore.
108. A seminar titled ‘Fun in Verilog’ was conducted by Ms. Roopa Rangaswamy (Ex-Employee of Texas Instrument) on 30^th August 2013. The seminar was arranged by Mr. Satish Kumar for M.Tech. (VLSI Design) students in E-Learning center.
109. A technical demonstration of Ansys software suite which contain seven solvers useful for Wireless & communication system modeling and design, Passive RF and optoelectronic devices (antennas, waveguide components), Active circuits (including analog/RF mixers, amplifiers, oscillators as well as analog and RF integrated circuits), 3D and 2D electromagnetic modeling was arranged by Dr. Dhanesh G Kurup on 29^th August 2013 at e-Learning hall. Interested faculty and final year students attended the demonstration.

1. The project titled “A Gesture Vocalizer Translation System for Efficient Communication” , funded by AI & Robotics Technology Park (ART-Park), IISc. got selected for State Level Poster Presentation and Exhibition to be held at Sharnbasva University, Kalaburagi on 9th and 10th August 2024 as part of 47th series of Student Project Programme (SPP): 2023-24 by KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru.
   The project reference no. is 47S_BE_2035. The BTech students who worked on this project are Ms. C. G. PRIYA bearing Reg. no. BL.EN.U4ECE20036, Ms. ANANYA MURALIDHARAN bearing Reg. No. BL.EN.U4ECE20013 and Mr. GOUTHAM P. KEERIYAT , Reg. no. BL.EN.U4ECE20059. This project was carried out under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K., Senior Asst. Professor in Department of ECE.
2. The project titled “Landmine Detection Using Robotic Vehicle” with Reference No: 47S_BE_2554 is funded by AI & Robotics Technology Park (ART-Park), IISc. The above project is  selected for State Level Poster presentation and exhibition to be held at Sharnbasva University, Kalaburagi on 9th and 10th August 2024 as part of 47th series of Student Project Programme (SPP): 2023-24 by KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru – 560 012 The BTech students VADAPALLI CHIRANJEEVI SAI NITHEESH bearing Reg. no. BL.EN.U4ECE20173, Mr. VASIREDDI SRI VEERA VENKATA RAMGANESH bearing Reg. no.  BL.EN.U4ECE20176 and Mr. ACHIMSETTY BHARADWAJ with Reg. No. BL.EN.U4ECE20183 worked on this project under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K., Senior Asst. Professor in Department of ECE.
3. The project titled, “Advanced Deft Bin”, was declared as the runner up in the competition conducted by Pilot IEEE YESIST12 2019 (Youth Endeavors for Social Innovation using Sustainable Technology) at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The project has been selected for the final round Maker Fair 2019 to be held at Bangkok, Thailand from 7th to 8th September 2019. The project was implemented by Ms. E. Sahithi (B. Tech. S7, Department of ECE), Mr. Aman Surya (B. Tech. S5, Department of ECE), Mr. Shiva Rohith (B. Tech. S5, Department of ECE), Ms. P. Manasi (B. Tech. S7, Department of ECE) and was carried out under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K.
4. Mr. Anurag Chollangi (VIII Sem, ECE) has secured All India Rank 4 in National Creativity Aptitude Test (NCAT) 2019 in category 3 during June 2019 and have been qualified for round 2 of NCO 2019 under Individual Registration (code 901). http://www.ncat.co.in/Result_NCAT_2019.aspx
5. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, has sanctioned amount of Rs. 5000 to the project titled, “All in One Smart Health Checkup Device”, under 42nd Series of Student Project Programme: 2018-19. The project evaluation was held on 18th May 2019 at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The project evaluation was carried out by the professors of IISc, Bengaluru and the hardware prototype model was examined for its working. The project students Mr. Vivek K. R. (VIII Sem, ECE) and Mr. Vishruth Chawla (VIII Sem, ECE) demonstrated the hardware. The project guide Ms. Priya B. K. was also present during the evaluation.
6. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, has sanctioned amount of Rs. 6000 to the project titled, “Assistive Technology for Physically Challenged People”, under 42nd Series of Student Project Programme: 2018-19. The project evaluation was held on 18th May 2019 at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The project evaluation was carried out by the professors of IISc, Bengaluru and the hardware prototype model was examined for its working. The project students Mr. M. Sandeep Mohan (VIII Sem, ECE) and Mr. Akshay Kumar (VIII Sem, ECE) demonstrated the hardware. The project guide Dr. Neelima N. was also present during the evaluation.
7. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, has sanctioned amount of Rs. 7500 to the project titled, “Camera Based Powerline Inspection System”, under 42nd Series of Student Project Programme: 2018-19. The project evaluation was held on 18th May 2019 at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The project evaluation was carried out by the professors of IISc, Bengaluru and the hardware prototype model was examined for its working. The project students Mr. Saradeep Manam (VI Sem, ECE), Ms. Srinidhi Bulusu (VI Sem, ECE) and Mr. Anandsai Tunuguntla (VI Sem, ECE) demonstrated the hardware. The project guide Ms. Jalpa Shah was also present during the evaluation.
8. Team Razvitiye (Live-in-Labs) of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore was shortlisted to Regional Convention of the 2nd AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards 2018. The team members include, Harini M, Saurav Bhattacharjee, Subbrahmaniam and Aaryan Oberoi. The presentation was given by Harini M, Saurav and Subbramaniam. Harini M. Team Razvitiye presented their project on “Design and Development of Activity and Location Tracking Wearable Device and Classification of Skill Sets for Effective Work Monitoring”. The project was built around Arduino Microcontroller and was presented at an alpha stage. The goal is to technologize MGNREGA and help tackle rural unemployment. The project was supervised by Mr. Sagar B, Assistant Professor, Faculty from ECE Department. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, Engineering Council of India (ECI), and the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), jointly hold a competition “AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards-2018” for the students of AICTE approved Degree & Diploma level Technical institutions. The Awards are aimed at motivating young individuals, inspiring leaders and institutions/ organizations to raise their performance in their specific domains leading to significant contribution towards the growth and development of the nation. To recognize and honour innovative work of the students displaying exceptional skills by providing the innovative solution on the given theme. The participants need to provide an innovative solution to empower villages through Technology. The project was very well appreciated by all the Panel members from AICTE and received great recognition throughout the competition. All-in-all, the platform proved to be a great experience to the team where they competed with the best projects from all over South Region.
9. Mr. Aaryan Oberoi, an undergraduate student (VII Semester) from the Department of ECE at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, participated in the National Level Quiz on Mobile Robotics that was conducted through an online portal on 16th May 2018, where he was selected to enter the Practical Round (Track 2) held at MIT, Pune on 13th June 2018. He has been accompanied by Aditya Golawar, another ECE student from MIT, Pune for all the subsequent levels of India Skills 2018. Aaryan’s team was placed third in the Indian Skill Sector Level Mobile Robotics held at MIT, Pune where he competed with much more advanced robots. He was selected to represent the state of Karnataka in the Mobile Robotics Skill at India Skills South 2018 and competed with roboticists from Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Having performed extremely well in the Regional Level, he has been selected to the National Level of World Skills India 2018 in the skill, Mobile Robotics. Aaryan is the only student who has been selected from the state of Karnataka. The task was to pick and place a set of balls from one part in the arena to another. Various rounds were conducted to identify the decision making of the robot. Colours of different balls had to be detected in the arena and balls had to be placed in the respective slot after detecting the matched pattern above the slot. Complex Image Processing Algorithms were involved in identifying the colour and the pattern. The robot that was constructed by the team was built over Arduino MEGA for Mobility as well as Arm Movement and National Instruments myRIO for Autonomous Image Processing ability. This robot was funded by Module143, an Electronics Manufacturer and Reseller based in Bengaluru. The robot required to be built for the National Level is much more complex and Aaryan has received funding from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University, India. India Skills is a very large platform for students to exhibit their skills to the National and International Level. WorldSkills, India is an initiative of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. NSDC, through its WorldSkills India initiative, has been leading the country’s participation at WorldSkills International competitions since 2011. This year India Skills 2018 is being conducted at different levels to select the top performers in more than 50 skills across the country. Top performers in the National-level will represent the country at WorldSkills 2019, Khazan, Russia.
10. Shriya Nithyan (VIII Sem, ECE), Akhila S (VIII Sem, ECE), Sowmya C (VIII Sem, ECE) under the guidance of Ms. Priya B. K., got their project sanctioned during April 2018, under the 41st series of the student project programme 2017-2018, Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. The project is titled, “Design and Implementation of Automatic Miniature Indoor Plant Cultivator using Artificial Environment”, with sanctioned amount of Rs. 5000.
11. Ms. Musala Reddy Gari Sucharitha, Mr. Nagaraju Lohith Sri Sai Varma and Ms. Kalluru Divya received a grant from Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) for their project titled, “Design and Implementation of Automotive Cold Storage Unit for Potato Crop using GSM”, under the Student Project Proposal during March 2017 with a funding of Rs. 4000. The project is guided by Ms. Priya B. K. Students will be presenting the project to the KSCST committee during April 2017.
12. Ms. Hamslekha (IV Semester, M.Tech. VLSI Design) is offered an internship for the position of Intern-Technical Engineering at Synopsys India Private Ltd., Bengaluru from January 2017 to June 2017
13. Mr. Sahu Sai Vikram (IV Semester, M.Tech. VLSI Design) is offered an internship for the position of Graduate Intern Technical at Intel India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru from Oct 12th, 2016 to Oct 4th, 2017
14. Ms. Shaik Minhaaz (IV Semester, M.Tech. VLSI Design) is offered an internship for the position of application engineer at Maxim India Integrated Circuit Design Private Ltd., Bengaluru from December 14th, 2016 to June 30th, 2017.
15. Mr. Libin Babu (IV Semester, M.Tech. VLSI Design) is offered an internship for the position of Intern-Technical Engineering at Synopsys India Private Ltd., Bengaluru from June 18th, 2016 to June 17th, 2017
16. Mr. Sajith.S (IV Semester, M.Tech. VLSI Design) is offered an internship for the position of IC Design at Maxim India Integrated Circuit Design Private Ltd., Bengaluru from December 14th, 2016 to June 30th, 2017.
17. Ms. S. Kiruthika from VII Semester Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering, got selected for a fellowship program at NTU Singapore. This is an India connect research internship with a stipend of SGD 300 per month. Dr. Arpita Thakre is her internal guide.
18. Ms. Sanjana Jinasen V. from VII Semester Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering, has been offered an opportunity to do her final semester internship at Czech Technical University, Prague, under the guidance of Prof. Robert Bestak, Department of Electrical Engineering, CTU. Dr. Chithra R. referred her for the internship and is her internal guide.
19. Advaith S Pillai, BL.EN.U4ECE13006 of VII Semester got admitted to SKTH Masters Programme in Wireless Systems in Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm through Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Student Exchange Programme. It is 2 years full time course started in August 2016.
20. The KSCST project titled, “Effective Implementation of Automated Fertilization Unit using Arduino & Analog pH Sensor” has been selected for state level seminar & exhibition to be held at ‘BLDE Associations Vachana Pitamaha, Dr. P.G. Halakatti College of Engineering and Technology’, Bijapur on 19th to 20th of August 2016. The project was carried out by Ms. Antara Chakraborty (Student 2012-2016 Batch, Department of EEE), Ms. Anjali S. Nair (Student 2012-2016 Batch, Department of ECE), Mr. Prince Gupta (Student 2012-2016 Batch, Department of EEE), Mr. Nitish Nair (Student 2012-2016 Batch, Department of EEE) under the guidance of Mr. Sagar B from the Department of ECE and Ms. Lekshmi S from the Department of EEE.
21. MUDRA – The census in 2011 revealed that over 26 million people in India (2.1% of the total population) have some kind of disability. The speech impaired people account for 7.68% of the total disabled people. These segments of society suffer in their day to day life as they are unable to communicate or express effectively. The usual mode of their communication is through hand gestures and symbols which is often misunderstood or ridiculed by the general public as they are not aware of them. This devoid has certainly hampered speech impaired people of their normal life and are isolated with social insecurities.In a vision to bridge the gap between normal and speech disabled people; four B-Tech students under Amrita Robotics Research Lab (ARRL) have devised a wearable glove “MUDRA” upholding the social driven values of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. This team at ARRL has come up with the first working prototype and the demonstrator is as shown in the figure below. The glove converts the hand gestures to voice output. It’s economical with the cost of the prototype is approximately INR 7500 and the team has worked for over 4 months in this regard. The glove in its present form can recognise numbers from one to ten and “Indian Sign Language” gestures of words like morning, good, thank you, night to name a few. It is now in the advance development and refinement stage of its production cycle. The team has started to validate its social feasibility and the preliminary results have proven to be very encouraging. They are confident that it will be a reality in the near future catering to the needs of the speech impaired people and encourage them to have a normal life with more ease. Also, the team exudes that the glove is more versatile and can be; interfaced with medical instruments to benefit remote operation, used as input device in the gaming industry, robotics etc.
22. Ms. Nabanita Acharjee and Ms. Jhilick Ghosh, Bachelor students in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhash Engineering College (affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology), Kolkata, West Bengal are undergoing Summer Internship on “Photonic Applications” from 29^th June 2016 to 7^th August 2016 under the guidance of Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick.
23. Mr. Mohammad Wasil Malik, a Master’s student in Nanotechnology from Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) New Delhi, is undergoing Summer Internship on “Photonic Crystal Sensing Devices” from 7^th June 2016 to 7^th August 2016 under the guidance of Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick.
24. Mr. Pranav H.S, Bachelor student from R. V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, is undergoing Summer Internship on ‘How to reduce the run time of the automated transistor sizing tool for FPGA (COFFE) by optimising the circuits in FPGA by thorough design space exploration using circuit simulations’ from June 10^th to July 20^th 2016 under the guidance of Ms. Ponni M. and Dr. Madhura Purnaprajna.
25. Ms. Aishwarya Ganesan, Bachelor student from Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, is undergoing Summer Internship on ‘Transistor Sizing in FPGAs: Pass transistor vs. Transmission gates’ from June 1^st to July 2^nd 2016 under the guidance of Ms. Ponni M. and Dr. Madhura Purnaprajna.
26. Ms. Vandana Nimbalkar, a third year student from Dept of ECE has been selected for the 2016 Tech Top MIT Make in India Bootcamp to be held from 31^st July 2016 to 20^th August 2016.  She is among top 15 students selected for this program. The learning objective of this program are Making Skills, Problem Identification, Design Thinking (Solution Development), Team Working, Presentation Skills and Startup Skills. She also holds the award of Amrita Tide Innovation Contest through which she received Rs. 50000 as a seed grant. She has interned at NASSCOM to develop an IOT database and at the college start-up VOPO technologies for a duration of 6 months during her VI Semester.
27. Ms. Shruthi N. V. (IV Semester) of M. Tech. Communication Engineering & Signal Processing, Department of ECE, Bangalore campus, is selected to pursue her major project at University of Trento, Italy under student exchange program offered by Amrita Center for International Programs. Her course starts on 10^th February 2016. It is a fully funded offer.  A grant of 850 Euros/month will be provided for five months and a travel contribution of 820 Euros will also be given. The project work is titled as ‘Efficient Techniques for Baseband Detection of Linearly and Non-Linearly Distorted Multi-Carrier Signals in the Framework of 5G Multi-Gigabit Downlink Scenarios’. She is doing the project under the guidance of Dr. Navin Kumar (Internal Guide) and Dr. Claudio Sacchi (External Guide), University of Trento, Italy.
28. Ms. Dotty Johnson (VI Semester, Department of ECE) & Mr. Vamsi (VI Semester, Department of EIE) along with 5 students from Department CSE and Department of ME, won first place in One Act Play in 31^st Inter University-South India Youth Festival held at Mangalore University, Mangalgangothri on 18^th to 22^nd January 2016. Around 13 teams participated in the event. The students have bagged the Theatre championship in the event for Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
29. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE) was the only undergraduate student country to get selected to work as a Visiting Student Researcher at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore under the supervision of Prof. G. D. V. Gowda (Dean- TIFR) in summer 2014. His topic of research was Finite Difference Methods for Parabolic, Elliptic and Hyperbolic PDE’s.
30. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE) participated in the Advance Level workshop on Variational Analysis and Optimization conducted jointly by IIT Bombay an IIT Gandhinagar at IIT Gandhinagar from 2^nd to 8^th March 2015. He was the only undergraduate to get selected for the workshop. All other participants were either Ph.D. scholars, Post Doctoral Fellows and Assistant Professors.
31. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE) was among the five students who participated for the “Indo- European Study Group Meeting on Industrial Problems held at M. S. University of Baroda from 5^th to 9^th January 2015 in Vadodara. He was a part of Research team that worked on determining drag resistance of a moving body in water using Lattice Boltzman Method under the supervision of Prof. K. K. Vishwanathan (UTM, Malaysia) and Dr. Ajit Borundia (Larsen and Turbo, Mumbai).
32. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE) worked as a Visiting Student Researcher at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore under the supervision of Prof. G. D. V. Gowda (Dean- TIFR) in summer 2015. His topic of Research was Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws and Finite Volume methods for hyperbolic PDE’s
33. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE) was the only undergraduate who participated in the Conference on Computational PDE held at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore from 21^st to 23^rd December 2015.
34. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE), Dr. K. V. Nagaraja and Dr. V. Kesavulu Naidu presented a paper titled “Computation of cutoff Wavenumbers in Waveguides by the Finite Element Method” at the 59^th congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ( IIT Kharagpur), held at Alliance University, Bangalore from 18^th 20^th December 2014.
35. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VIII, EIE) was the only undergraduate student country who participated in Conference on Finite element method held at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore from 18^th to 20^th December 2014.
36. Mr. Subash (I Semester, EIE) has won first place in 13^th International Yogasana competition 2016 organized by Sri Panduranga Patanjali Yoga Sikshana Kendra, Hoyasala Karnataka Sangap, Mysore.
37. Dr. K.V. Nagaraja (Department of Mathematics), Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VII Semester, Department of ECE) and Dr. V.Kesavulu Naidu (Department of Mathematics) presented a paper titled “Optimal Subparametric Finite Elements for Computation of Cutoff Wavenumbers in Waveguides”, on 18^th to 20^th October 2015 in  2nd International Conference on Communication Systems at B. K. Birla Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pilani. The paper is to appear at American Institute of Physics and is indexed by SCOPUS.
38. Mr. Tattwa Darshi Panda (VII Semester, Department of ECE) and Dr. K.V.Nagaraja (Department of Mathematics) has published a paper titled, “Finite Element Method for Eigenvalue Problem in Waveguide Modes”, in Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 11, pp.1241-1251, 2015. (SCOPOUS Indexed)
39. As Mr. Prashanth Reddy is a strong contributor to Facebook internet.org platform through his application mKisan.in, he got a VIP invite for Mark Zuckerberg Town-hall  Q & A session at IIT Delhi on 29^th October 2015. It was exciting and great opportunity for him to personally meet the person who is connecting the world. Among around 40 invitees within India Mr. Prashanth Reddy was the only student. The mission of mKisan.in is to come up with a uniquely designed portal for farmers,Here farmers can get up to date information about weather forecast, market prices of  Various commodities and providing trust worthy agricultural information to farmers in their local language through mobile.Related Link: http://mKisan.in(link is external) mKisan.in is partnered with Facebook internet.org platform to bring information for free, to farmers who don’t have internet access.
    Media Coverage Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iDsc67ezJPgPZOUOzbTuiqgt0tbNPuWam9254LDZTvs/edit?usp=sharing(link is external)
    The number of awards that are to his credit:
    1. Selected in Top 20 in Facebook Internet.org Innovation Challenge
    2. Winner of Sequoia Hackathon 2014
    3. University Mobile Challenge, International Contest. One of the 14 finalists at Barcelona, Spain.
    4. Winner, App Idea Challenge 2014 by Synxious
    5. Developed 3 SMS apps and awarded as ‘One Time Developer of the Month’ & ‘3 Times Developer of the Week’ and won 4 contests conducted by txtweb.
    6. People Choice title for #Google SMS app
    7. Runner-up in In50hrs Hackathon by NASSCOM and Google for Entrepreneurship.
40. Mr. Prashanth Reddy  (VII Semester, Department of ECE), Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore stood out as the WINNER of Amrita TBI-TIDE Innovation Contest 2015. The award has been bagged by him for the mobile app ‘Startup Query’. This award brings with it a seed investment of Rs.5,00,000/- to facilitate the winner build a start-up.Related Link: https://www.amrita.edu/news/amrita-tbi-announces-tbi-tide-innovation-contest-2015-winner “Startup Query is a central hub for startup ecosystem and bring Startups together and  provide a place to discuss, engage, collaborate and learn and provide them resources to grow faster and stable.”
41. Mr. Nithin Anjaneya (VIII Semester, Department of ECE) has participated in the Male category in the 63.5 Kg division at IFMA Muaythai University World Cup March 2015 at Bangkok, Thailand under the patronage of FISU International university sports federation.
42. Mr. Nithin A. from VIII Semester, Department of ECE, participated as a contestant in 63.5 – 67 Kg weight category in the Senior and Cadet in the age group of 19-37 at the 5^th MTI PRO AM National Muaythai Championship.He secured Third place and won Bronze Medal in the competition. He is the only contestant selected from Karnataka. The Championship is organized as per the IFMA and MTI Rules and Regulations held at Jorethang – South Sikkim from 28th January to 5th February 2015. Muaythai India (MTI) National Federation is Sole National Governing Body of Muaythai Sport Recognized by the Indian Olympic Association Affiliated to International Federation of Muaythai Amateur (IFMA), federation of Amateur Muaythai of Asia (FAMA), Member of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). He was one of the few participants selected from institution.He has now been selected to represent India from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in the World University cup to be held in March 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand under the patronage of FISU International university sports federation.
43. Ms. Saakshi Singh( BL.EN.U4ECE11148) of final year, carried out a project titled ‘Photo-induced tunable zone plates for terahertz beam focusing’ under the guidance of Dr. Lei Liu, as part of Summer Research Fellowship at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Norte Dame,IN, USA during 2^nd June – 8^th August 2014.
44. Mr. Akanksh B. (VII Semester, Department of ECE) and Mr. Raghunandan N.V. (VII Semester, Department of ECE)  were selected at the institution level, to attend an event called ‘A Day at NOKIA’ on 20^th August 2014, at NOKIA Siemens, Bangalore. Five Universities participated in this event which provided a platform for selected students to get exposure to work being done by NOKIA and latest technologies in Communication & Networking.
45. Mr. Aditya Patial (VIII Semster, ECE), Mr. B. Druva Ram Narayana (VIII Semster, ECE) and Mr. B. Nikshith Kumar (VIII Semster, ECE) under the guidance Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup and Prof. Braj Bhushan Jha, published a paper titled “Simulation of Coastal Line Surveillance System and Comparative Study of Digital Modulation Techniques using GNU Radio” in International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 5, May 2014.
46. Mr. Tanoy Bose (VIII Semster, ECE) and Mr. Sasidaran K. (VIII Semester, ECE) under the guidance of Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup and Prof. Braj Bhushan Jha, published a paper titled “Simulation of a Combat Platform Identification System and Comparative Study of Digital Modulation Techniques using GNU Radio and Python in International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 5, May 2014.
47. Mr. Akash Kannegulla (VIII Semetser, EIE) and Mr. Venkat Sai Yeshwanth Gantasala (VIII Semester, ECE) received the acceptance letter for presenting their technical paper under the guidance of Mr. Alok Kumar Jha, titled ‘Transmission Spectra of 1D Grating Embedded in 2D Photonic Crystal: A Simulation Based Analysis’ at Seventh ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems 2014. The presentation is going to happen in the month of July 2014.
48. A paper titled “Performance of EPC Global Gen-2 RFID System Using GNU Radio” is published by by Mr. Kiran T (VIII Semester Student, Department of ECE), Mr. Venu Teja M (VIII Semester Student, Department of ECE), Mr.  Aditya M V (VIII Semester Student, Department of ECE)and Dr. Dhanesh G Kurup and Professor Braj Bhushan Jha in International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering , ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2014.
49.  The following students who had represented Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru at “UDBHAV”, the Cultural Fest of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology have bagged the FIRST position in the “Best Play” category.
    1. Mr. Jagananathan A M., VI, ECE
    2. Mr. H. Shishir, VI, EIE
    3. Mr. L. Tarun, IV, ECE
    4. Mr. J. Tarun, IV, ECE
    5. Ms. Sreya P., IV, ECE
    6. Mr. Sudarshan, IV, ECE
50. Ms. Anshika Upadhyay(VIII Semester) presented a paper titled ‘Shadow Filter for Orthogonal Modification of Center Frequency and Bandwidth with constant Q factor’ at UKSIM-AMSS 16th International Conference on modeling and Simulation , Cambridge University, Nottingham, UK 26^th -28^th March 2014. The paper is published in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.
51. Mr. Y.V. Harshvardhan (VI Semester Student) along with one student from Department of CSE presented a Hardware project titled ‘Mobile based Device Control –With Voice Acknowledgement’ at Pragati Engineering College, Kakkinanada on 10^th & 11^th of April 2014. They secured First position in the event.
52. Mr.  G. V. Sai Yeswanth (VIII Semester, ECE), Ms. Sakshi Singh(VI Semester, ECE), Mr.  Akash Kannegulla(VIII Semester, EIE) published a paper under the guidance of  Mr. R Karthikeyan, "The Modelling of an Autonomous Tripe Mode  Vehicle"in the proceedings  of the International  Conference on Advances in Mechanical and  Robotics Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, March 2014.
53. The following student team have secured First positions in the City-Finals Round (Bangalore) of National level Quiz Competition “Wizard of Maths” under the mentorship of Dr. V. Kesavulu Naidu, Department of Mathematics held on 8^th March 2014. The prize includes Certificates and a Cash Prize of Rs.15,000.
    1. Kiran Sai A., BL.EN.U4ECE10015
    2. Sai Venkatesh, BL.EN.U4ECE10146
54. Mr. Akash Kannegulla (VIII Semester, EIE) got admitted for Ph.D. in Oregon State University in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the field of Nano-Technology (Nano Photonics).
55. Mr. Akash Kannegulla(VIII Semester, EIE),  A.Salivahana Reddy (VIII  Semester, ECE), Mr. K V R Sai  Sudhir(VIII Semester, EIE),  and Ms. Sakshi Singh(VI Semester, ECE) published a paper titled “Thermal  Imaging system for precise traffic control and surveillance” in International  Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research”, Volume 4, Issue 11,November 2013.
56. Mr. Akash Kannegulla (VIII Semester, EIE) received the Nano Under Graduate Fellowship for the project work titled “ Photo Induced Reconfigurable Terahertz Circuits and Devices”, during May – August 2013 at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
57. Mr. Akash Kannegulla (VIII Semester, EIE), Z. Jiang, S. Rahman, P. Fay, H. G. Xing, L. -J. Cheng, L.Liu received the acceptance in February 2014 for their paper to be published titled “Coded-Aperture Imaging Using Photo-Induced Reconfigurable Aperture Arrays for Mapping THz Beams” in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology.
58. The 2 member team of Mr. Subramanian R. of Semester VIII from the Department of CSE and Mr. Prashanth Reddy K. of Semester VI from the Department of ECE has been selected for the final round of the prestigious ‘University Mobile Challenge 2014’ to be held in Barcelona, Spain between 24^th& 26^th of February, 2014.
59. Mr. R. Sivaraman, Mr. Shriram K. Vasudevan, Mr. Akash Kannegulla(VIII Semester, EIE) and Mr. A. Salivahana Reddy (VIII Semester, ECE) published a paper titled “Sensor Based Smart Traffic Regulatory/Control System” in Information Technology Journal, 2013, DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.
60. The 5-member team comprising Mr. Viswa Anoop, Mr. Sai Teja rishna & Mr. Ganesh Prasad from IV Year EIE and Mr. Y.V. Harsha Vardhan & Mr. T. Vinay Sai from III year ECE under the Mentorship of Mr. R. Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor (SG), has won the ‘Second Prize’ in the ‘Atmel India University Program Embedded Design Contest -AEDC 2013’ held at JNTU, Hyderabad on 26th February, 2014. The prize includes a Memento, Certificates and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.
61. The 5 member team comprising Mr. Shreyas Mohan, Mr. Bichu Vijay, Mr. Sunesh N.V., Mr. Mithun R. Chembra and Mr. Anil R. Pai belonging to M.Tech.(VLSI Design) under the Mentorship of Mr. P. Satish Kumar, Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr.), has won the ‘College Level Prize’ in the ‘Analog Design Contest’ organized by Texas Instruments India University Program in association with Cranes Software International Limited and Amrita School of Engineering for the UG & PG students between 24^th September to 31st October, 2013. The prize includes Certificates and Texas Instrument Watch with Embedded Development Board.
62. N.Viswa Anoop(4^th Year, EIE), Sai Teja Krishna(4^th Year, EIE), Ganesh Prasad(4^th Year, EIE), Harsha Vardhan(3^rd Year, ECE) under the guidance of Mr. R.Karthikeyan participated in Project competition by Atmel Corporation with the title of the project as “Multi Level Anti Theft System”. This project has been selected for the finals among top 10 teams of the Project competition by Atmel Embedded Design Contest-2013 (AEDC- 2013), Atmel India University Program Embedded Design Contest. The project has been selected in top 10 and has been invited for Grand finale which is to be held from Feb 24^th to 26^th‘ 2014 in JNTU, Hyderabad.
63. A technical paper titled “The Auto-Dim of Vehicle Head Light using RF-waves” is published by authors Nagadeesh N(4^th year, ECE), N.Viswa Anoop(4^th year, EIE), Midhun PM(4^th year, CSE), Yeswanth Golla(4^th year, ECE) and co-authors as Prof. S.Ravi Shankar, Mr. P.Sathish Kumar in International Journal of Scientific and Engineering    Research, Volume 4, Issue 10, October-2013, ISSN 2229-5518, DOI :- 10.14299/ijser.2013.10.001
64. S. Yogeesh (VII Semester , Department of ECE, ASE, Bangalore), along with 3 more students from Department of CSE, ASE, Bangalore and Coimbatore campus M.Tech.(Cyber Security) Engineering have been successful in getting into the Top 30 Best Programmers in the country under the program run by EMC Corporation, a cyber security conference called the EMC Defenders League. S. Yogeesh has scored the rank 5 in the contest. This contest was open for all those people who want to pursue a career and prove in the space of Cyber Security on Ethical Hacking.  This program had 3 online round challenges followed by an onsite challenge. It’s a single participant contest, which is run by the company. It is a proud moment for Amrita since in the First 10 participants, all the 4 fall in the Top 10 Performers.  The Top 30 participants from across the country are invited for an on-site event in Bangalore on 4^th December 2013. Except the 4 students, the rest 26 participants have been working in Industry on Ethical Hacking area in various organizations. This Hacking Challenge will be overseen from the Director of Security from their Global Office and the Directors from Bangalore Office too.
65. Following students from III Semester, secured 5^th position in a Robotic Competition AXIS’13 held at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. There were many events like Auto Bot, Aqua Doze, Robot-wars, Robot-lava, and Mechatryst. Their project was selected for the presentation in the event of Aqua-Doze (Rescue Robot). The event was held on 20^th – 22^nd September 2013.
    1. Venkata Sai Krishna Vallury – BL.EN.U4ECE12159
    2. K.V.S.Shabari Girish – BL.EN.U4MEE12048
    3. K.S.Sai Kiran – BL.EN.U4ECE12052
    4. A.Sailesh – BL.EN.U4EEE12006
    5. P.Sai Ganesh – BL.EN.U4ECE12101
    • Final year B. Tech. students Saurabh Rai (ECE), Anirudh M.M. (EIE) and Sai Kiran G.S. (CSE) stood second in the competition “Cisco India Net Riders 2011”, an online technical contest that tests the students’ knowledge of networking fundamentals.
    • Final year B.Tech. students Akshay Khurana, Kiran G., Pradeep M.M. and Supreeth G. Bharati developed a “Vertical Take-off and Landing Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTOL-MUAV),” working under the supervision of Dr. P. R. Vaya, Professor, Department of ECE and Mr. Satish Kumar, Assistant Professor of the same department.
    • Pranjal Kaustubh (BL.EN.U4ECE09099) and Nishank Vaish (BL.EN.U4ECE09510) presented a technical paper on “Self Charging Electric Vehicles” on 15^th to 16^th August 2012 in the International Conference on Industrial and Commercial use of Energy at Cape Town, South Africa. The conference was organized by Cape Peninsula University of Technology, The South Association of Energy Service Companies, The South African Institute Association for Energy Efficiency, Eskom Demand Side Management, Black Energy Services Company, The Central Energy Fund, IEEE PES SA Chapter. The paper got published in the proceedings of the conference. The Print ISBN is 978-0-981311-8-5. It will be published soon in IEEE Xplore.
    • Santosh Hariharan ((BG107EI044) published a technical paper titled ‘ A Novel Integrated Instrumentation Technique for Air Pollution Monitoring’ at the International Conference on Environmental Engineering & Applications, Singapore-2010(ICEEA-2010) on 10^th-12^th September 2010, Vol. 1, Pg. No. 142-145, ISBN No. -9178-1-4244-8620-5/10
    • Following student presented a technical paper titled Intelligent Systems in Engineering at X ISTE State Level Students Convention ,organized by Jayam College of Engineering and Technology, Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu on 24^th -25^th September 2010
      1) Akilashree S. (BG107EC013)
      2) Ramya R. (BG107EC084)
    • Ramesh Pakalapati (BG107EC090) made an instrument which creates electricity in home using air or water. The work was appreciated by District Collector of East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He also wrote a Science Data Book for students studying in rural areas of the district.
    • B. Sriram and R. Prashanth Iyer, travelled toHong Kong in August 2009 to present their paper titled, “Mark Sheet Authentication using 2D Barcodes and Digital Signatures”. The paper was presented at the Third International Conference on Anti-counterfeiting,Security, and Identification in Communication (ICASID 09) held at the City University of Hong Kong.
    • The following papers are published by the M.Tech. (VLSI Design) students, based on the part of the Mini-Project Work under the guidance of Prof. Satish Manocha.
      1. Title: ‘Minimization of Ternary Combinational Circuits -A Survey’ Author: A. Satish Kumar (BL.EN.P2VLD09017), A. Swetha Priya(BL.EN.P2VLD09001). Name of the Publication: International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 2(8), 2010, 3576-3589.
      2. Title: ‘Modeling of Combinational Circuits Based On Ternary Multiplexer Using VHDL’ Author: A. Satish Kumar (BL.EN.P2VLD09017), A. Swetha Priya (BL.EN.P2VLD09001). Name of the Publication: International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 2, No. 5, 2010, 1777-1791
66. Mr. Krishanan Rajesh Marar (B. Tech. ECE, II Semester) received a grant as the scholarship for undergraduate program (Engineering/Teaching) for academic course starting from 2021 to 2025 from Lila Poonawala (Padmashree Awardee and Chairperson of Lila Foundation) Foundation and Board of Trustees.

1. Mr. Ashrith Harith from Mentor Graphics delivered a training session on Tessent test tool on Thursday 23^rd March 2017 in VLSI Design Lab. The session was arranged by Dr. N. S. Murty and Dr. Srinivasa Reddy for faculty members and students.
2. Dr. Robin Augustine Assoc. Prof. Uppsala University, Sweden, delivered a talk about “Applied Bio-Electromagnetics” on 28^th February 2017 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The talk was arranged by Dr. Dhanesh Kurup for the faculty members and students.
3. A guest lecture by Prof. Arun K. Majumdar from University of Stanford, was organized by Dr. Navin Kumar in association with IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter (ICoN) on 6^th October 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The talk was on “Free Space Optics (communications) in Highly Turbulant Atmospheric Condition”. The was attended by B. Tech. (VII Semester) and M.Tech. students from the Department of ECE. Amrita School of Engineering IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter, a team known as ICoN (IEEE Communication and Networking) conducted and celebrated IEEE Week from 4^th to 7^th October 2016.During this week, various activities were performed as listed below:(i)On 4^th October 2016 – Mr. Sunil Kumar Vth Sem ECE and Vice Chair gave an Introductory information to attendees especially to first semester students. Dr. Navin Kumar, who is the counselor/mentor of this team, gave detailed presentation and importance of IEEE and about being member of world’s largest professional organization. This was followed by a talk on Mobile Networks by 3^rd year student P R K Manoj.(ii) On 5^th October 2016 -A talk was delivered by Mr. Sathya Narayanan of IV year ECE on Photonics and Laser. Towards the end of the talk, Dr. Navin Kumar elaborated the importance and applications of Laser, Infrared and Visible Light Communications.
   (iii) On 6^th October 2016 – IEEE Day celebration and Guest Lecture – A guest lecture entitled “Free Space Optics” was delivered by Prof. Arun K. Majumdar from University of California, USA. Few guests from various colleges including IISc were present during the talk. HiTea and Cake was arranged to celebrate the IEEE Week.(iv) On 7^th  October 2016 – A fun game (I-HUNT) was conducted. Over 100 students participated and 3-winners were chosen. The award of a total amount Rupees 3000/- was announced by mentor Dr. Navin Kumar.Details about the event can be seen on www.ase-student.chapters.comsoc.org/recent-events-2/ieee-week-2016/
4. An interactive session was delivered by Dr. K. Pathak on ‘Scopes of Transdisciplinary R&D Activities for Mining Industry and Possible Sources of Funds’ on 19^th August 2016. Dr. K. Pathak (HOD, Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur and Independent Director of Coal India Limited) holds wide experience in the mining sector of different countries of the world and Indian lignite, coal and Iron ore mining. He talked about few of the areas in Indian mining industry.  The session included Indian mining industry contribution to Indian economy and development in various ways.  There are number of research funding possibilities in India. However, placing our expertise of various fields into an industrial problem solving does not take place always.  The industry-Academic interactions are talked about, but very few innovative applications have developed over the years. With the new thrust of the Nation in “Make in India” it is necessary that industry experts bring industrial problems to the scientific and academic experts to evolve solutions. The session was organised by Dr. N. S. Murty at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
5. Dr. N. S. Murty arranged a talk by Mr. Anantha Bhat on Low Power VLSI on 15^th April 2016 for faculty and M.Tech.(VLSI Design) students.  Mr. Anatha Bhat holds 25+ years experience in VLSI Design and EDA including Synopsys in Singapore.
6. Dr. Dhanesh Kurup arranged a talk by Dr. K. J. Vinoy, Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISC (Indian Institute of Science) on 8^th March 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. He delivered a talk on “RF Energy harvesting for Internet of Things Applications”. The talk was arranged for faculty members and Research Scholars in the area.
7. Dr. Navin Kumar organized a distinguish lecture on ‘Internet of Things’ on 7^th January 2016 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Venkatesh Prasad (Professor, Delft University, Netherlands). It was arranged for students of M. Tech. (CESP), M. Tech. (Embedded Systems), M. Tech. (VLSI Design) and faculty members.
8. Department of ECE arranged a guest lecture by Dr. K.S. Mohanavelu (Retired Scientist from ISRO, presently working as consultant in the area of Satellite Communication), on “Satellite Communications-Discussions on Certain Technical and Regulatory Aspects”. The lecture was organized by Ms. Priya B.K. for VII Semester B. Tech. students, I & III Semester M.Tech. (CESP) students and faculty members. Around 70 students attended the talk.
9. A 3 day training programme on “NI Lab VIEW Hardware Interface” was conducted at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru during 15^th to 17^th October 2015. Resource persons from National Instruments conducted the training. Dr. R. Karthikeyan arranged the programme for faculty members. Around 20 faculty members attended the programme
10.  Dr. Jeremy from Avago, USA, delivered a talk on Current status of VLSI Verification at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, on 8^th October 2015. The talk was arranged by Dr. N. S. Murty for faculty members and M. Tech. (VLSI Design) students.
11. A one day training session on Synopsys Front End Tools was organized on 16^th September 2015 for all faculty members and students of M.Tech. (VLSI Design) at Amrita School of Engineering. The training session was organized by Mr. P. Satishkumar and Ms. Ponni M.
12. A lecture on formal verification by Prof. Subir Kumar Roy from IIIT-B was arranged for M.Tech. (VLSI Design) and M.Tech. (Embedded Systems) students and faculty members of the Department of ECE and Department of CSE, at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru on 21st August 2015. The lecture was arranged by Dr. Madhura Purnaprajna and Mr. C. Babu.
13. A seminar titled “Information Theory and Coding Techniques” was delivered by Mr. Sidharth, an Alumni of ASE Bengaluru (Batch 2009-2013), on 30^th July 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.  The speaker completed his Masters from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and has got admit for Ph.D. at University of Bergen, Norway. The purpose of the seminar was to give insight into the recent advancements in the field. The seminar was organized by Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Ms. Latha, Ms. Neeta Mishra and Ms. Nidhi Gangrade, for VII Semester students of the Department of ECE. 50 students attended the seminar.
14. A training session on Cadence tool was delivered by Mr. Yashu Vershney, Industrial Expert from PMC Pvt. Ltd, India, on 7^th March 2015. The training was arranged by Ms. Kirti S. Pande Lab for faculty members and students in M.Tech. (VLSI Design).
15. Dr. Dhanesh G Kurup arranged a demonstration and talk on “Software Defined Radio” on 22nd August 2014 at ASE, Bangalore. The event was conducted by Agile SDR Pvt. Ltd., a Bangalore, offering products competitive with similar NI products. The talk was arranged for Faculty members and Students.
16. Dr. V.K. Madan, Senior Professor, Kalasalingam University, delivered a talk on DSP: Past, Present and Future and spoke about INO: India- based Neutrino Observatory for possible research funding, on 4^th May 2013 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
17. Prof. Sankar Dasiga, Coordinator of Satellite StudSat Project, ECE department, NMIT, Bangalore, delivered a talk on “Project StudSat” on 20^th March 2013 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
18. Mr. Anantha Bhat, Founder Director Chowki Services Pvt. Ltd, Director Smartplay Technologies, delivered a talk on “Thinking on the feet, Why and How for Engineers” on 13^th July 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
19. Ms. Roopa Ramaswamy, Ex-Employee of Texas Instruments, DFT Domain, Bangalore, delivered a talk on “Design for Test (DFT) called as 3-Day Boot Camp on DFT” on 3^rd to 5^th October 2012 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
20. Lt. Col. (Retd.) A. M. Uniyal, GM (R & D – QA), delivered a seminar on ‘Management of Telecom Network Project’ 21^st March 2011 E-Learning, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
21. Mr. Ayonam Roy, Director, RR Logic Systems Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, delivered a Seminar on ‘Binary Transformation’ 9^th March 2011 at E-Learning, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
22. Mr. K.P. Singh, Mango Technologies, delivered a talk on Innovative Ideas in the field of ‘Mobile Communication & Wireless Technologies’ 29^th September 2010 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
23. Dr. V Prithviraj, Principal, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, delivered a seminar on “Internet of Things” 17^th August 2010, at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
24. Mr. S. Ramesh from Award Solutions delivered a Seminar on ‘Upcoming Trends in Wireless Communication Technology’ on 11^th August 2010, at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.

1. Dr. N.S. Murthy delivered a talk on “ARM Enabling Optimal Utilization of Solar Photovoltaic Power” on 27^th August 2012 at NMIT, Bangalore.
2. Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered a Keynote Address in National Conference “Progress in Electronics & Allied Sciences (PEAS – 2012)” 3rd to 4^th November 2012 Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar.
3. Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered a talk on “Wavelet Transforms and its Applications to Signal Processing: Research Perspective” on 03rd to 4^th March 2012 at ICITEC -2012, Bangalore.
4. Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered a lecture on ‘Multirate Signal Processing/ Wavelets of DSP’ 16^th to 27^th May 2011 at NITTTR, Chandigarh.
5. Dr. Shikha Tripathi delivered a talk on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks 24^th & 25^th February 2011 at Amity School of Engineering And Technology, Noida.

1. ECIF conducted “Circuit Hunt” on 20^th April 2022 under Pravidhi – Tech Fest at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The event required teams of three to four people to participate. There were eight teams who participated in the event. Each team had to search for Circuit components with the given clues. The final clue led them to the venue of the event. ECCIF executives verified if they had collected all the components and then allowed them to make the circuit with the same components on TinkerCad along with the hints from the program/code provided. Top three teams were awarded with the certificates.
2. Electronics, Communication and Instrumentation Forum (ECIF) organized its flagship 24 hours’ event, ‘Electronica 2k18’ on the 22^nd September 2018 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru with a participation of 285 students. The participants were introduced to the event by Mr. Poojith, Secretary of ECIF (III year, ECE) with a brief outline of the event. The introduction was followed by a small instruction session, where the participants were instructed and educated about the basics of electronics and the components used in electronic circuits, by the Executive Members and Office Bearers of ECIF. The ECIF members handed over the kits to the participants in the afternoon session. The first one was an LED fading circuit which employed the concept of time delay of 555 timers. Second one was the basic circuit applications on IR transmitter and receiver. The last one was AC-DC convertor using Voltage Regulator. The hands-on session prolonged till dinner and with all teams successfully implementing and testing their circuits under the able guidance of members of ECIF. Post dinner, the all-night competition was hosted, in which 2 circuits were given to all the teams. I year and II year students were given a light detector using Wheatstone bridge and a voltage quadrupler. III year students were given Doorbell using 555 timer and traffic light control. The finished circuits were to be submitted through a video in which the participants had to demonstrate its working. The participating teams were judged on the basis of their speed and accuracy. An additional round called the DIY (Do It Yourself) was conducted during the course of the competition, wherein the teams were to design new circuits using the components provided to them. The entire event was presided over and judged by Ms. Bhavana. V, Mentor, ECIF (Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE) and Dr. Ramesh Chinthala, (Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE). The winners were announced at 5 AM next day by Mr. Poojith, Secretary of ECIF (III year, ECE). On the whole, Electronica 2018 ended on a high note with the participants taking home sound knowledge on electronic circuits and witnessed high levels of competitive spirit.
3. ECIF, the departmental forum of ECE and EIE steered its first Videotronics session on 5^th September, 2018. The event focussed on on-going research and the latest potential for vast growth in the future of Nano Technology and Face Recognition Systems. The event was well received with over fifty tech enthusiasts attending. The session commenced with an attention-grabbing video on the efficiency and real time application of a face recognition system. Mr. Ashwin Kumar (III year, ECE) gave a brief introduction and explained the present scenario in the practical world by putting forward the techniques for face acquisition, applications, advantages and disadvantages. Then a Super Bowl advertise for Avengers: Infinity War, jam-packed with more than 20 Marvel Cinematic Universe superheroes and villains was played offering a tantalizing peek at Tony Stark’s new suit. Unlike previous models of Iron Man armor, Tony’s new suit seems likely to be based on nano-technology that could shapeshift. The armor’s capabilities and high-tech functions sure exited the crowd. Mr. Ghandharva (III year, ECE) took over and explained in detail the intricacies and complexities of Nano Electronics, with permutations involved. He concluded his presentation briefing the future of Nano Electronics. Following this, Ms. K. L. Praharshitha (II year, EIE) outlined the specifications of a Smart Dust particle highlighting its MEMS, advancements and applications. The event ended at 4:45 PM and saw an active participation from tech enthusiasts and succeeded in enlightening the students on various aspects relating technology.
4. ECI forum organized the event titled “Beyond Blackboard” on 3^rd August 2018. The main objective of the event was to introduce the ECE and EIE faculty members to the 2nd year students of Department of ECE and EIE. The joint secretary of ECI forum Ms. J. Charisma welcomed the Chairperson of the Department of ECE Dr. N. S. Murty to deliver the welcome address and brief about the importance of the event. He also shared his experience in numerous fields including teaching to the students. Dr. T. K. Ramesh, the Vice Chairperson of the Department of ECE and Dr. R. Karhikeyan, Vice Chairperson of the Department of EIE introduced the department to the students in various technical aspects. The ECI forum team shared the details related to the academic research interests of the teachers. Mr. M. Poojith, the Secretary of ECIF, concluded the event with the Vote of Thanks.
5. The ECI Forum conducted their much awaited event Videotronics on 21^st March 2018. The event was aimed at giving students the practical knowledge required through informative and educational videos. The rationale was to motivate the students into learning new technologies and increasing their interest towards the field of electronics. Mr. Sai Swaroop (IV Semeter, ECE) started the event with a talk on Notch Revolution. He started by introducing the first phones in the market that had a notch and discussed the various sensors that are arranged in it. The fingerprint scanning technology was explained in detail and more light was shed upon the proximity sensor and its function. The evolution of the notch was discussed in detail and the screen to body ratio of several phones was compared with each other. The iPhone X’s notch that went through much criticism in the market was debated as well. A video that comprised of the different kind of existing notches was display followed by a humorous video that mocked the iPhone X’s unsatisfying notch. Mr. Poojith (IV Semeter, ECE) took over the event with a talk on Stephen Hawking and his theories. The Hawking radiation, a famous theory was talked upon and portrayed by an interesting video that narrated the story of the big bang and how the universe was created. Gravitational waves were also discussed along with the history of black holes. The event concluded with Ms. Harini M, Joint Secretary, ECIF (VI Semester, ECE) addressing the audience and taking in questions from the audience for the speakers to clarify doubts.
6. ECI Forum conducted its second event “GADGETGEEK” on the 6^th September 2017. The main objective of the event was to educate the students on the latest and upcoming “Gadgets” that every upcoming engineer has to know. The session was started with Mr. Dhawal (Year III, ECE), who is a guest to take over the session; an introduction on the topic “TESLA MODELX” was given. The session was then taken over by the ECIF office bearers Ms. Charisma (Year II, ECE) and Mr. Pawan (Year II, ECE) who continued in explaining how the TESLA car is actually linked to the application i.e TESLA APP and its working and also, to the automation of the car, cameras in it and the various sensors in it which recognizes the objects around it. The session was both interactive and entertaining along with some learning in the field of advanced gadgets. The session also gave a good knowledge on SWAM Technologies. The session was concluded by Mr. Jashwant Raj (Year III, ECE) and was appreciated by all the audience.
7. ECIF, the departmental forum conducted its first event “VIDEOTRONICS “on 7^th of August, 2017. The main objective of the event was to educate the students on the latest and upcoming technological inventions that would make the world a better place to live in. Mr. S. Rishi Nandan (III Year, ECE) had given an introduction on how the world would exactly look in the year 2020 if the existing technology is made better. Various videos were played which mesmerized the audience into learning more about it. The videos conveyed its viewers a message that the world would be made easier with the technological developments in the fields of Transportation, Shopping, Education, learning etc. The session was then taken over by the ECIF executive members Ms. Soumya Dambal (III Year, ECE) and Ms. Adithi.R (III Year, ECE) explaining how exactly all these technologies would work and how it was all possible. The session was both interactive and entertaining along with some learning in the field of science with an amazing display of information about the different types of glass materials that would be an essential substance in this new era of science and technology. The session was concluded by Jt. Secretary Ms. Harini. M (III Year, ECE) and was appreciated by the students with a thundering round of applause.
8. The IEEE COMSOC in association with the ECIF Forum organized a talk on SLATE (Satellite Linked Affordable Tablet for Education) on the 27^th of July 2017 in Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. The Guest Speaker for the talk was Dr. V. Prithviraj, Principal of Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology, Chennai. Around 40 students from M.Tech. and B.Tech. attended the event . The major aspect of the talk was -‘YAZMI’-the Satellite enabled Tablet which instantly invoked utmost interest in the audience. The importance of these tablets is that, they can be used as an ideal source for e-learning at areas without electricity and internet access. The talk was concluded by encouraging all the students to indulge themselves in the field of Satellite Communication because of the bright future it holds.
9. ECI Forum conducted an event ‘Beyond the Blackboard’ on 26^th July 2017 for III Semester B.Tech. students and I Semester M.Tech. students. The purpose of the event is to introduce faculty members of the department to the students and to create the research interest among the students.
10. ECIF organized an industrial visit to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Satellite Centre (ISAC), on 1^st May 2017. The visit had 60 students from 3^rd year ECE accompanied by the faculty member Mr. Alok Kumar Jha. The students were addressed by Mr. Srinivas (Scientist at ISRO). The exhibition had more than 25 models of satellites right from when ISRO made their first satellite to the most recent one. PSLV (Polar Stationary Launch Vehicle), GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle), ARYABHATTA, Rohini were few of the notable achievements that were out for display. Heat Shields, Camera Modules, Antennas and there was so much more to see on the first floor of the exhibition hall.  Students visited “Clean Room” which are dust-free laboratories equipped with all the services required for the assembly of satellites. They also saw the ISRO’s ongoing project Chandrayaan-II, that will be launched next year and it will carry a rover to conduct experiments on the surface of the Earths only satellite, Moon. A short video about Chandrayaan’s success was shown to the students in the A/V room, after which they had a debatable Question and Answer session. The students also visited the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Museum. It was a huge park with most of India’s marvelous air giants put for display. Fighter jets, Fighter planes, Helicopters were in their actual massive size.
11. ECIF in association with IEEE ComSoc organized the annual project exhibition for ECE and EIE streams titled ‘Pradarshan’ on April 28^th April 2017. The event saw participation from reputed colleges across Bangalore with over thirty projects submitted with abstracts. Many students thronged the halls to view the projects on display. Vehicle identification, muscle control and robotics related projects were some of the projects displayed. The session had ample time for networking which fostered interaction among the students of different colleges. The chief guest for the valedictory session was Mr. Arun S. Nair, head of Saffron Ltd, Indian operations. The chief guest delivered a speech encouraging students to innovate further and emphasized on the importance of the practical approach to engineering. The third edition of Pradarshan was held with cash prizes upto Rs 40,000 and goodies worth Rs 20,000 at stake. The tagline for this year was ‘Unveil the innovations, dazzle the crowd’. Over 100 students from various colleges of Bengaluru participated  in Pradarshan 2017 with projects in fields ranging from communication to robotics and smart cities. The winning team was from Reva University.
12. ECIF conducted Decipher as a part of Prabidhi- the Tech fest held exclusively for students of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore on 11th April 2017. The event saw over 150 teams competing to decrypt the given ciphers in the shortest span of time. The event was a success and saw students participating from all years of engineering and across branches. Many returned to learn more about ciphers and to try their hand at decrypting secret messages.
13. ECIF in association with the Quiz club organized the selection for the TCS Tech Bytes Quiz on 6^th February 2017 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. A total of 10 teams have been selected to represent in the regional level. 7 teams have attended the regional level quiz held in SJBIT College on 21^st March 2017.
14. ECIF organized an industrial visit to one of the pioneers of aviation – Hindustan Aeronautics Limited,Bengaluru, on 16^th March 2017. The visit had sixty students of Electronics, Communication and Instrumentation branches accompanied by two faculty members Dr. R. Chitra and Ms. Kavitha N. Pillai. The students visited various research areas in the Helicopter Division in HAL. The Ground Test Centre, Rotary Wing Research and Design centre were few of the areas the students got to visit. The students also got a chance to interact with the people working there and were briefed on the work and function of each of the areas. The students were also taken to MRO Division (maintenance repair and overall). The students were treated to an exciting display of the testing of helicopters. They were also briefed on the working of a helicopter and its components. The event was exciting with a lot of learning involved.
15. The introductory session of the Maker’s Community was organized by ECIF on 15^th March 2017 to an audience of about 55 aspiring makers from different branches of engineering. The session started with a talk on purpose, ideals and future of the community by Mr. Manoj A. (Year II, ECE) and Mr. Aryan Oberoi (Year II, ECE). The principle behind DIY (Do It Yourself) was also discussed. The introductory session also dealt with a project based on persistence of vision. The audience was briefed on the concepts and working of videos and displays. The session was interactive with witty quips and humour. Mr. Rohit C.H (Year I, EEE) shed some light on the intricacies and challenges involved in making a PoV globe based on his experience. A challenge question was then posed to the audience where they attempted to recreate a smiley using persistence of vision. The session ended amidst cheers for the success of the first ever DIY community meet up in Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore.
16. Electronica 2017, ECIF’s magnum opus, started in the CP Lab at Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore, on 18 February 2017. The annual event was sponsored by Paytm, StudyOwl (studyowl.in), Module143 and SculpIt. The participants were welcomed by the Secretary, Tanmay Sharma, and the details of the event were outlined. They were divided in 73 teams, with 3 students per team. The introduction was followed by a small instruction session, where the Executive Members and Office Bearers of ECIF educated the participants about the basics of electronics and electronic components. This was followed by an extensive session on simulation, conducted by Mr. Nandivardhan H. R. (Asst. Prof, Dept. of ECE), and saw the students follow keenly as the circuits simulated on the screen were brought to life. Post lunch, the component kits were handed out to the teams and the participants started connecting units to build the Doorbell Circuit. This post lunch session extended till dinner and saw all teams successfully execute and test the working of their circuits. Post dinner, the teams gathered to learn the method to solder the components on an On-Hole Board, and learnt the complexities around it. The competition began with the challenge to all teams being to build 3 circuits on the breadboard in the shortest time possible – a Code Lock, a Traffic Signal circuit and a Digital Dice. The competition saw all teams working hard to realize the circuits on the breadboards.
17. ECIF in association with The Quiz Club organized the selections for the TCS Tech Bytes Quiz on 6^th February 2017 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. Students turned up in large numbers in teams of two to answer the questions in the given time. The questions were based on recent developments in the IT world as well as tech trivia. Ten teams qualified for the regional round.
18. ECIF conducted its first Gadget Geek session of the even semester on 12^th January 2017 with ‘Televisions and their Evolution’ as the theme. The event was well received with over 40 tech enthusiasts attending.
19. ECIF conducted its first Videotronics session of the semester on 25^th January 2017. The session started with Ms. Sritha Bandla (Year II, ECE) giving an introduction on modular robotics. Various emerging technologies in robotics were discussed in detail with the aid of audio-visuals. Advanced modular robots under development by researchers in MIT was a topic that fascinated the audience.
20. ECI Forum organized a Tech talk on 17^th November 2016. Mr. Gopal Krishna, Managing Director at Maxim India Integrated Circuits Pvt. Ltd. started off the seminar by inspiring the students to dream bigger and innovate. He spoke about the factors which help in innovation and success. The session covered topics which were of vital importance to the growth of the country and focused on the issues India faces as a nation. The event was well received and had over 350 students in attendance.
21. ECIF conducted three major events as a part of Aarohan from 10^th to 11^th November 2016 in two separate categories for seniors and juniors. The events included De-cipher, Laser tag, Tech Expo & Know Your Equipment. Decipher saw students participating in about 70 teams in each category trying to decrypt messages, participating in a treasure hunt and building circuits as per the problem statement. Laser Tag saw the highest footfalls with over 200 students attending. Tech Expo and Know your Equipment had students queueing up to learn more about electronic circuits, mobile communication and other technologies.
22. ECI Forum organized its second Videotronics session on the 7^th November 2016. The event emulated the success of its predecessor with topics like surround sound technology, driverless cars and wireless charging being explained with the help of interesting video clips.
23. ECIF organized a workshop on LT Spice on 24^th October, 2016 for V Semester students. The workshop was conducted by Ms. Ponni  Mohanakumari, Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE and witnessed a turnout of over fifty students.
24. ECIF conducted a session called Gadget Geek on 6^th October, 2016 for B. Tech. students. The event focused on the on-going research in Hybrid Vehicles with mention of the latent potential for vast growth in future. Around seventy students attended the session.
25. ECI Forum hosted first Videotronics session on 22^nd September 2016. The session had talks about Invisibility Cloaks, innovations in the field of VR headsets and a presentation about Mixed Reality and the Microsoft Holo Lens. About 130 students attended the session.
26. ECI Forum conducted the event ‘Beyond the Black Board’ on 11^th August 2016 at Amrita school of Engineering, Bengaluru. The event was organized to introduce the faculty members of Department of ECE and their respective area of research to the III semester B.Tech. and I Semester M.Tech. students.
27. ECIF arranged a talk on “Nanometer MOSFETs” on 20^th November 2015, for I year M. Tech. (VLSI Design) students and faculty members of the department. The talk was delivered by Dr. Chetan Parikh, IIIT-Bangalore. The talk was arranged by Dr. Purnaprajna Madhura and Ms. Ponni M. Around 32 students attended the talk.
28. ECI forum conducted an event ‘Quantum Quest’ on 5^th September 2015 in collaboration with SANKHYA. The event was conducted during KALAKRITI. The event was organized for I semester students. Around 200 students participated in the event.
29. ECI Forum conducted an event ‘Electronics for Beginners’ on 22^nd September 2015. The event was organized for I Semester students. Around 50 students attended the event.
30. ECI Forum conducted the event named “Beyond the Blackboard” on 12^th August 2015. The agenda of the event was to acquaint the second year students with the faculty members in the department. The event was concluded with the motivational address to students by Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Chairperson, Department of ECE.
31. ECIF organized an event named NicList. The event is a Video Presentation Series by ECIF, planned to be held every 2 weeks for the students of all years. The aim of the event is to introduce the students to modern technological advancements in the field of Electronics and Communication. The first session of the series, ‘Technology Today’ was conducted on 4^th February 2015, at the E-Learning Hall. The agenda for the day consisted of three presentations on-The implementation videos of these topics sparked an interest in the students to learn more about these technologies. The presentation was concluded with a video of a Voice Control System which was built by the members of ECIF. The event had an encouraging response from more than 90 students whose feedback showed that they want the continuation of the series. They also expressed an interest in a workshop for the Voice Control System shown during the event.
    • Bionics- The Future of Prosthetics
    • Circuit Scribe- Writing New Circuitry
    • Sound Visualization- A Relation Between Sound and Matter
32. ECIF conducted the first of four tutorial sessions on Hardware Descriptive Language titled ‘Intro to HDL’ on the 27^th of February 2015. The 2 hour session was presented by Sreenath CA and Krishnan A of 6th semester and was targeted towards an audience of both second and third year ECE and E&I students. The session focused on the design of digital systems, importance of HDL and its applications and also gave an introduction to Verilog and its modules. The event drew interest from a good number of students who were an active part of it on a Friday afternoon. The participants look forward to learning the Hardware language in greater detail that motivates us to conduct further sessions. Around 40 students participated in the session.
33. ECIF conducted the first of two sessions of the workshop on “Digital Signal Processors and Applications” on the 14^th of February 2015. The 2 hour session was presented by Mr. Akanksh B and Mr. Raghunandan of VIII semester and was targeted towards an audience of both third year ECE and E&I students. The participants look forward to learning the Processor in greater detail that motivates us to conduct the next session, which is scheduled on 6^th March 2015. Around 50 students participated in the first session of the workshop.
34. ECIF organized Quantum Quest (Laser Tag) on 30^th and 31^st of October as a part of Aarohan 2014. It was a great success with a participation of sixty five teams and each team consisting of three students. The Event was conducted at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The concept of this game attracted many school children who were engrossed in this gaming event. They were introduced to the fun world of electronics. Many students showcased an urge to learn about the circuits and its working principle. We received positive feedback, with wishes for even more next year. The event was well organized and proceeded systematically by the efforts put on by ECIF and SANKHYA.
35. Twisters, an event conducted by ECIF as a part of Aarohan 2014 for the school students in and around Bangalore. Over 51 teams (juniors and seniors), with a maximum of three students per team participated in the first round of this fun, yet informative event on 30th of October. The participants were expected to move forward through the tiles numbered from 1 to 30 by correctly answering the questions corresponding to the tile numbers within the given time limit. The students performed well despite the music and simultaneous game-play, that was designed to distract them. Out of the 51 teams, 6 teams, 3 from each category were selected on the basis of accuracy and time-taken to answer the questions. The teams were allowed to compete with stricter rules such as negative evaluation and tougher time constraints in their own respective categories. Out of the three teams in each category, the team with highest accuracy and the highest number of tiles conquered was pronounced winner and the second best team was awarded the runners up. The students from NPS, Koramangala, Bengaluru, were victorious in both the categories. However, students from DPS East were very competitive and won the runners up in Juniors’ category. The students were enthusiastic and were exposed to a very intellectual and entertaining event.
36. “Behind the black board” an event conducted by ECIF for the sophomores of the Department of ECE & EIE. Over 180 students along with 42 faculty members stepped away from their routine college work on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014, to take part in the groundbreaking event. The event host Akanksh B. did a splendid job by mixing facts with fun. The students were introduced to all the 42 faculty members of the department along with their areas of interest. In addition to this, students were introduced to the laboratories of the Department which provide them with the necessary facilities.  With the enthusiasm of the students rising to the occasion, an interactive platform to strengthen the student-teacher bond was created. The students were introduced to ECIF Secretary and made aware of the various activity conducted by the forum.
37. The game show attributed as ‘ECIF’ was conducted on 16^th August, as a part of Kalakriti 2014. Participants in a team of 3-4 were required to solve number puzzles and riddles within a stipulated amount of time. Two teams competed against each other and the team solving maximum number of puzzles was victorious. A total of 22 teams participated and enjoyed the event.
38. ECIF in collaboration with SANKHYA put forth ‘QUANTUM QUEST’ on 16^th August, as a part of Kalakriti 2014. ‘QUANTUM QUEST’, a gaming event for which the circuits were designed by the students of senior year received a huge response by the participants. A total of 51 students were part of this gaming event which can act as a substitute for shooting games in future.
39. ACE in partnership with ECIF organized a motivational talk by Mr. Gandharv S. Bakshi (CEO and Cofounder of Lumos), an alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore on 10^th April 2014. The speaker dwelled on some aspects of the products and technology of Lumos and also spoke about his journey as an entrepreneur.
40. ECI Forum organized two sessions on TINA software by Mr. Kiran Tej T. (VI Semester) during April 2014 at ASE, Bangalore.

• Praveen Jaraut, et al, published a paper titled, “Linearization of Load Mismatched Power Amplifiers using Reflection Aware Augmented Polynomial Model”, at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs on 11th March 2024. Impact Factor 4.4
• Susmitha Vekkot, Nagulapati Naga Venkata Sai Prakash, Thirupati Sai Eswar Reddy, Satwik Reddy Sripathi, S. Lalitha, Deepa Gupta, Mohammed Zakariah, and Yousef Ajami Alotaibi published a paper titled, “Dementia Speech Dataset Creation and Analysis in Indic Languages—A Pilot Study”, in IEEE Access with Impact Factor 3.9 on 20th November 2023
• Sarveswara Rao, K.Lohith, K.Satwik, N.Neelima, published a paper titled, “Qualitative Classification of Wheat Grains using Supervised Learning”, at Lecture Notes on data engineering and communication technologies July 2022, pp: 71-80, Vol. 111.
• Ms. P. Salija, Ms. B. Yamuna, Dr. T. R. Padmanabhan, Mr. Deepak Mishra published a paper titled, “A Generic Reliability Based Direct Decoding Algorithm for Turbo Codes”, in Wireless Personal Communications, on 18th March 2022. The impact factor is 1.671.

Privacy Talk – A talk show by Ziroh Labs on September 22, 2022.

The 4^th Thursday 22^nd September 2022 was a special one for the entire family of ECCF, as the club held its first event for the academic year 2022-23. The preparations for the same had been going on for a while. And the fact that the event was met with exhilarating response by the students of Amrita Bengaluru truly proves the saying, ‘hard work never goes to waste’. All the late hours put in by the entire team visibly bore its fruits on the event day when over 250 students, spanning across almost all the branches and years, gathered in Amriteshwari Hall to attend the talk show.

The event started on a wonderful note (pun intended) when Ms. Nityashree, one of the junior executives sang a beautiful prayer song for all the guests. The event then proceeded with an introductory speech by one of the guests of the evening,   Mr. Sumokh Rao. He enlightened the young audience on the topic of ‘Relevance of Data Privacy in 2022’. He carried on with the topic and let the audience know about the works of Ziroh Labs in the field of ‘Data Privacy’. Further, the audience got to know more about the blooming startup, that is Ziroh Labs, and as Mr. Rao continued to talk about the startup’s journey, as to how such a successful company first had its conception in a small lab in IISC, Bengaluru, the entire audience of dreamers was left startled and inspired. Mr. Rao concluded his speech by demonstrating the working of the flagship product of the startup, Ziroh Store. The second segment of the event consisted of a small quiz held by the Ziroh Labs’ speak-team based on- ‘data privacy awareness’. The quiz was also met with wonderful audience support. The winners were later on announced and presented with goodies on the stage, by the organizing team. The quiz preceded our second speaker of the event, Ms. Igneta D’souza, Director of Privacy Engineering at Ziroh Labs. Her speech was the most enthralling segment and perhaps, the highlight of the event. She talked about the role of data privacy, from the perspective of a woman, in the modern world. She kept her speech interactive as she answered several age-old questions on data privacy in the most eloquent way possible. Data security breach by various online sites, business of data brokers, role of social media in mass data leaks and how to survive amidst all of this- Ms. D’souza covered it all. She ended her speech as well as the event from the guests’ end on a very technical and intriguing note, as she gave an in-depth analysis of the startup’s works on encryption and protection of data. Her words were evidently met with wonderful reception, as she got off the stage amidst claps and loud applause by the student fraternity. The evening was celebrated by both the parties as the ECCF club’s head faculty, Mrs. Bhavana, felicitated the guests on stage and the warmth was reciprocated by the Ziroh Lab’s team as well, as they thanked the faculty head and the team for their efforts in organizing the talk show.

The absolute success of the evening leaves all eyes on ECCF team members for their future events, who will definitely look to top the day, but for the time being, they can surely be left proud and motivated.

Invited Talk

ECCF organized an invited talk on 12th May 2023 from 2.00pm to 4.00pm in Amriteswari Hall. The session was handled by Mr. Jayaram Jhadtheela, Technical Expert, Driver Experience Sensor SW Development, Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd., Adugodi, Bengaluru who delivered a mind-blowing session on the topic – Automotive Advanced Driver Assistsnce Systems, Sensors and embedded software development. The entire event was conducted under the guidance of Ms. Bhavana V, the club mentor and all the office bearers with a participation of 150 students.

Electronica 2k23, organized by the Electronics, Computers, and Communication Forum

(ECCF), showcased the potential and achievements in the field of electronics. The event was held at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, on 12th to 13th May 2023, brought together students, professionals, and enthusiasts to explore the latest trends, advancements, and opportunities in the ever-evolving world of electronics. The event commenced with a ceremonial lamp lighting ceremony, symbolizing the enlightenment and knowledge that electronics brings to the world. Chairperson of ECE Department Dr. Navin Kumar, along with Ms. Bhavana V and Dr. Sarada Jayan, had the honor of lighting the lamp, signifying the auspicious beginning of Electronica 2k23. Following the lamp lighting ceremony, the event kicked off with the club executives delivering their captivating presentations. The event was expertly hosted by Mr. Harsh Bhutra, Ms. Nimeshika, Mr. Aniket Dixit, and Ms. Krishna R Marar, who ensured a smooth and engaging flow throughout the day. The heart of the event revolved around the highly anticipated competition that featured four rounds: Preliminary Round, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals, and the Grand Finale.

The Preliminary Round tested the participants’ skills and knowledge with one problem statement assigned to each team. Two problem statements were divided alternatively among the teams, providing a challenging yet exciting platform for showcasing their abilities. All participants advanced to the Quarter Finals, where they competed in two different categories. The winners from the

preliminary round qualified as one category, while participants with no output or partial output qualified as the second category. The top 75% of teams, based on their performance in solving the problem statements, advanced to the Quarter Finals. The Quarter Finals raised the stakes, with winners from the Preliminary Round and participants from the other category competing against each other. Each category received one set of problem statements, which were divided alternatively among the teams. The top 50% of teams, considering their performance and ability to solve the problem statements, progressed to the Semi Finals. Winners and partial output students from the winning category of the preliminary round formed one category for the Semi Finals, while winners from the other category formed the second category. Only the winning teams from the Semi Finals would qualify for the highly anticipated Grand Finale. The top 25% of teams, based on their performance, advanced to compete in the Grand Finale. The Grand Finale was the pinnacle of the competition, featuring the most skilled and talented teams from the Semi Finals. Each team received one set of problem statements, presenting them with a final opportunity to showcase their expertise. The event concluded with the announcement of the top three winning teams, who were awarded cash prizes and certificates to acknowledge their outstanding achievements. The first prize winner received Rs. 10,000, the second prize winner received Rs. 5,000, and the third prize winner received Rs. 3,000. Additionally, all participating teams were presented with Arduino UNO boards, highlighting the event’s commitment to fostering hands-on learning and innovation in the field of electronics. Electronica 2k23 encompassed more than just the competition. It offered a comprehensive platform for participants to enhance their knowledge and skills through various activities. The event featured captivating workshop sessions, where participants had the opportunity to delve into the world of electronic components. Led by knowledgeable club executives, the workshop sessions provided valuable insights into the intricacies of electronic components and their working principles. The engaging and interactive sessions created a conducive environment for learning and fostering a deeper understanding of electronics.

Adding an element of creativity and enjoyment to the event, Mr. Aniket Dixit hosted a story writing event during the workshop sessions. Participants were encouraged to unleash their imagination and express their ideas through captivating stories. This fun-filled activity not only provided a break from the intense competition but also nurtured the participants’ creativity and storytelling skills.

In addition to the workshops, Electronica 2k23 featured a captivating tech talk by alumni, enriching the participants’ understanding of the industry’s current trends and future possibilities. Alumnus Mr. Krishna Sandilya Garimella had delivered an insightful talk on “Untangling Electronics,” providing valuable perspectives and inspiring the participants to explore new frontiers in the field.

Furthermore, the event highlighted the accomplishments of Mr. Krishna Sandilya Garimella, the First Electronica Winner. As a system validation engineer at Intel Corporation, Bengaluru, Mr. Garimella has made significant contributions in the domain of

SOC Power Delivery. His expertise and achievements in optimizing power distribution within integrated circuits serve as an inspiration for aspiring electronics professionals. The event culminated with a project demonstration session by Mr. Sanju Sajimon and Mr. Piyush S., who showcased their projects on “Parking System using Arduino” and “Collision Detection using Ultrasonic Sensor and Arduino.” The project demonstrations provided valuable insights into the practical applications of electronics, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world implementations. Electronica 2k23 witnessed exceptional talent and innovation showcased by the participating teams, with the winners leaving a lasting impression. The first prize was awarded to “The Mindless” team for their outstanding project titled “Safety Helmet.” The team, comprising Shashank R, Nikhilesh Chandrasekhar, Shrinandh, and Tappan Chengappa, impressed the judges with their innovative approach towards enhancing safety in industrial environments and won a whooping Cash prize of Rs. 10000. The second prize was claimed by the team “Automated Highway System,” consisting of Nikhil Tom Jose, Aniket Kumar, and Sahreevatsan S S. Their project on developing an “Automated Highway System” demonstrated cutting-edge technology and garnered appreciation for its potential to revolutionize transportation systems and won a cash rpize of Rs. 5000. The third prize was secured by the team “Victorious Secrets” for their project on “RFID Authentication.” Jyotish Vijay, Arjun Sankar, Kiran Krishna, and Sabareesh U collaborated to develop an efficient and secure authentication system using RFID technology, showcasing their expertise and problem-solving skills and won a cash prize of Rs. 3000. These winning teams showcased not

only their technical prowess but also their ability to apply electronics principles to address real-world challenges. Their projects exemplified the spirit of innovation and reflected the future potential of the electronics industry. Their achievements serve as an inspiration to aspiring engineers and highlight the endless possibilities that lie ahead in this dynamic and ever-evolving domain. Electronica 2k23 proved to be a resounding success, empowering participants with knowledge, inspiring innovation, and fostering a spirit of healthy competition. The event celebrated the immense possibilities and achievements in the field of electronics while providing a platform for learning, networking, and exchange of ideas. With its diverse range of activities, including workshops, tech talks, and a thrilling competition, Electronica 2k23 left a lasting impact on all participants, fueling their passion and curiosity for electronics.

• P. Lahari Kiran, K. S. Pratheek, Sathvika M, Kirti S. Pande presented a paper titled, “Current Mirror based Level Shifter aiding multitudinous conversion ranges”, at International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Communication Systems (ICICACS-2024) organized by Department of Electronics and communication Engineering, H. K. E. Society’s Sir M. Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Raichur held from 23rd to 24th February 2024.
• Ch. Jnana Ramakrishna, D. Bharath Kalyan Reddy, Priya B.K, Amritha P.P, Lakshmy K.V presented a paper titled, “Analysis of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms for IoT Gateways”, at International Conference on Innovative Data Communication Technologies and Applications (ICIDCA 2024) from 10th to 11th January 2024, organized by RVS College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. The paper will be published in Procedia Computer Science.
• G. Navya Chandana, G. Harish Varma, Janapa. VSRK Dheeraj, Sanjika Devi R.V. and Dhanesh G. Kurup presented a paper titled, “Modeling and Linearization of Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers Using Machine Learning Approaches”, at 7th International Conference on Electronics, Materials Engineering & Nano-Technology (IEMENTech 2023), from 18th to 20th December 2023, organized by Institute of Engineering & Management, Gurukul Campus Salt Lake, Sec V, Kolkata, India.
• T Vishwambari, Sonali Agrawal presented a paper titled, “Integration of Open-Source Machine Learning Operations Tools into a Single Framework“, at IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication, and Intelligent Systems (ICCCIS), 2023, Organized by Sharda University, Greater Noida, India from 3^rd to 4^th November 2023.
• Satya Sita Rama Sastry Iruvanti, Sonali Agrawal, Susmitha Vekkot presented a paper titled, “Design and Implementation of Optimized Binary Counters and Compressors“, at International Conference on Futuristic Technologies (INCOFT) 2023, organized by S. G. Balekundri Institute of Technology, Balagavi, Karnataka from 24^th to 26^th November 2023.
• Aditya Venkat Amancharla,Arjun Anil Shanbhag and Sunitha R presented a paper titled, “Analysis of EEG and ECG time series in response to olfactory and cognitive tasks“, at International conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering (ICMLDE-23) organized by  School Computer Science UPES, Dehradun, from 23^rd to 24^th November 2023.
• Y. Harsha Vardhan, A. Madhumitha, Dhanush P. Kumar, Kirti S. Pande, Kamatchi S. and Navin Kumar presented a paper titled, “Approximate Multiplier for Optimized Power and Delay“, at 19^th Edition of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), The IEEE Asia Pacific Conference On Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2023) Co-located with The Asia-Pacific Conference On Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIMEAsia 2023), FPGA Design Contest organized by CAS Society, India held at Raidurgam panmaktha Hyderabad Knowledge City, Serilingamaplly, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India, from 19^th to 22^nd November 2023.
• Lahari Kiran P, Kambam Sirisha, Vasavi Nuthalapa, Kirti S. Pande presented a paper on, “Robust Body Biased Level Shifter”, at 2023 IEEE international conference on distributed computing,vlsi, electrical circuits and robotics (2023 IEEE DISCOVER)IEEE Mangalore Subsection (R0011901) organized by Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, Adyar, Mangaluru, Karnataka from 13^th to 14^th October 2023
• Sahishna Mulagaleti, Visakha Ravikumar, Sonali Agrawal presented a paper on, “Low-Power and Area-Efficient M-Term Binary Polynomial Multiplier for Finite Field”, at 4th Global Conference for Advancement in Technology (GCAT), 2023 organised by Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore from 6th to 8th October 2023
• Noopura Parvathi A., Kirti S. Pande, Neelima N. presented a paper on “Test Pattern Generation in BIST Architecture using One-Hot Encoding“, at 4^th International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC) 2023, organized by Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India held from 20^th to 22^nd September 2023.
• Nischay, M. S. G. Sundeep , Rohith Reddy , R. Sunitha ,  Anand Jatti presented a paper on “Functional Connectivity Analysis of Neuronal Interactions“, at ICMLDE, 2022: 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering, UPES Dehradun,, India held from 7^th to 8^th September 2023.
• R. Vishal, P. Sri Vidyanidhi, R. Deepak, Sonali Agrawal presented a paper on “Design and Implementation of Low-power Area-efficient Flip-flop with Redundant Pre-charge Free Operation“, at 4^th International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC) 2023, organized by Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India held from 20^th to 22^nd September 2023.
• Peruru Laxmana Aravind Sharma, Pidugu Priyanka, Kanchumarthy Venkata Sreeram, Priya B.K. presented a paper titled, “Multimedia data transfer using NOMA”, at IEEE 2nd Smart Gencon 2022 organized by Ghousia college of Engineering, Ramanagara, Karnataka, from 23^rd to 25^th December 2022.