The Forum of Aspiring Computer Engineers (FACE), from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru campus, organized a 24-hour Hackathon event, SLAC, sponsored by Honeywell Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., on August 1, 2019.
The Amritapuri campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will soon launch a Technology Enabling Center (TEC) supported by the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST). The first Programme Advisory Group (PAG) meeting was held at Amritapuri campus on September 21, 2019.
To bring in the festive flavor into the campus during the season of Onam, Ganesh Chaturti, Deepavali and Dasara, a Cultural Synergy Day with an amalgamation of several folk art forms of different regions was celebrated at School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on September 18, 2019.
Represented by Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, (Dean of International Programs and Director of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Amrita joined the United Nations and other international organizations as the first group of 58 signatories of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (KLC2020), signed at UNESCO Headquarters at Paris on September 18, 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Mysuru campus celebrated its graduation day on September 15, 2019, at its premises in Bogadi 2nd stage.
The School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, organized its 7th Alumni meet under the aegis of Amritians Mysore chapter, at its campus on September 15, 2019, from 4.30. . .
Honorable Governor of Jharkhand, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, visited Amrita Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) special projects hub center in Jonha, Ranchi, Jharkhand on September 14, 2019. She took a keen interest in visiting Amrita’s AMMACHI Labs Skill Development Center when she heard about it during her visit to Women Empowerment event organized by the Sevabharathi campus.
Amrita student, Shiva Subbulakshmi (Student in Electrical Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India), collaborates with Penn State researchers to develop brain-inspired gaussian device.
An Amrita team, Jameer Babu (Semester 7 student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus) and Dr. Athi Narayanan S. (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus), have emerged as ‘Runner Up’ of NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Image Colorization for achieving best perceptual and objective quality.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham conducted the convocation ceremony of the outgoing students of various postgraduate and undergraduate courses of Allied Health Sciences 2014 (partly) and 2015 batches on September 5, 2019, at the Health Science Campus, Kochi.