Prof.(Dr.) Bhaskaran Pillai, Professor and Head, Medical Physics & Radiation Safety, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, has been elected as Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
Dr. Maya Mahajan, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, initiated a new sustainable development project. She has been working with tribal communities of Singampathy, Sarkarporathy and Kalkotipathy to make furniture from the forest weed, Lantana and thereby helping them create a sustainable livelihood in the modern world.
Dr. Sreekala C.O., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri, was selected as a research fellow by the Science Academies’ Summer Research Fellowship Programme for Students and Teachers (SRFP) 2017.
Dr. Chandrashekar Janakiram, Professor, Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, was awarded the Research Scholar Fellowship for Public Health Informatics at National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institute of Health (NIH), USA for one year starting from July 2017 to June 2018.
The research article titled, “A Comparative Study on Decomposition of Test Signals Using Variational Mode Decomposition and Wavelets” has been selected as Editor’s Choice of the year 2016 under the category of Information Technology by the International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics.
Dr. Govind D., Assistant Professor, working in the Center for Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has secured an outstanding grade of “AS” in the MHRD sponsored Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) course on the topic, “Advanced Sinusoidal Modelling of Speech and Applications”, organized at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati during December 2016.
Mr. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, has secured the following prestigious editorial assignments, Associate Editor, CSI Communications and Chair, Publications Committee and Editor, IEEE MAS Link, IEEE Madras section.
For this Women’s Day, the Kochi-based Eastern Condiments has chosen Prof. Shobhana Madhavan, Associate Professor, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, for the ‘Eastern Bhoomika 2017 – Iconic Women of Your Life’ award.
Dr. Sanjeev K. Singh, Medical Superintendent, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on February 15, 2017, was named one of the “100 Most Impactful Healthcare Leaders around the Globe” by CMO Asia at the two-day World Health & Wellness Congress Awards held in Mumbai.
Professors Avinash Shivdas and Sougata Ray from Amrita MBA Program, Amritapuri, received the best paper award for their paper titled “Resource Utilization by Pharmaceutical Companies in India: Emphasis on R&D, Labor and Capital”, that was presented at the International Conference for Data Management, Analytics and Innovation held at Pune during 24th-26th February, 2017.
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