Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri, attended the “Regional Workshop on Mainstream Climate Change in Disaster Risk with Reference to Glacial Lake Outburst Flood(GLOF) and Forest Fire” at Sikkim, Himalayas, held at Gangtok from May 8-9, 2018.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications'(AmritaWNA) M. Tech. students: Anju Murali, Guru Prasad, Urmila M. S., T. Aishwarya Lakshmi, Athira Vinod and Harish Ravichandran, have secured internships at WABCO India, Ignitarium, Dell EMC, Oracle and Nokia respectively.
The three final-year B.Tech students, led by their professor, Dr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Director, have developed a self-driving wheelchair, “Self-E”, that can safely take a user from one point to another by navigating its own path and avoiding obstacles on the way.
A team of Professors from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham visited Ryerson University, Canada, on July 10, 2018. They met with Dr. Ali Miri, Graduate Program Director and Nadia Bello, Experiential Learning Strategist at the Ryerson campus.
Dr. Bipin Nair, Dean, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri campus, was invited to give a talk at University of Cambridge, UK, on his lab’s research on ‘Anti-Microbial Resistance’ studies, on July 8, 2018.
BA-MS students from Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, visited the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA (SUNY).
Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar, Associate Dean, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus and Mr. Manoj P, Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab. During the visit, Amrita faculty members met Dr. Bob Nanes, Executive director and instructor of D-Lab at MIT.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the 12th India Education Fair held at Kathmandu, Nepal, from July 6-7, 2018, and at Birat Nagar, Nepal, on July 9-10, 2018.
Prof. Sethuraman Rao, Associate Professor, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri Campus, presented a paper on “A Novel Solution for High Speed Internet over the Oceans” at the WCNEE 2018 Workshop held at 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (IEEE INFOCOM) 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, on April 16, 2018.
A team of professors from Amrita visited Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, on July 6, 2018.
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