Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education) was selected to be one of five finalist teams for the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation’s Adult Literacy XPRIZE in an awards ceremony on June 25, 2018, in New Orleans.
Mr. Jose James, Senior Researcher at AMMACHI (Amrita Multi Modal Applications Using Computer & Human Interaction) Labs’ Haptics team, and a Research Fellow at the University of Sannio, Italy, attended the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements & Applications 2018 (MeMeA2018) held at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, from June 11-13, 2018.
A twelve member delegation from Hunan Xiangtan University and Hunan Xiangtan Daonan Academy, located in the Hunan District in China, visited the Kochi and Amritapuri campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, on December 17-18, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has signed an MoU with Uppsala University, Sweden, for extending research and educational exchanges and joint activities between faculty members and departments in both institutions.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director and Professor at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) and Dean for Amrita Center for International Programs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, attended a one- day Technical Workshop consisting of the first batch of the Young Faculty Research Fellows (YFRF) of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on 28th July, 2017.