Dr. Vijay Harish Somasundaram, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, presented a part of his doctoral work at the 15th annual ANMPI (Association of Nuclear Medicine Physicians of India) conference held in association with the ICC (Indian Cancer Congress) 2017 conference at Bangalore, from November 8th to 12th, 2017.
Amrita faculty members, Dr. Jayakumar M, Chairperson, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, and Prashant R. Nair, Vice Chairperson, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, have been elected as Fellows of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India.
Amrita faculty member, Dr. Arun Mamachan Xavier, Reader, Paediatric Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, received the “Young Pedodontist Research award 2017”.
Amrita faculty members, Mr. Prashant R. Nair, Vice Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, and Dr. K. V. Shriram, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Coimbatore, have authored a textbook, Software Project Management, published by the reputed publishing house, Narosa.
Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, has been appointed as the national editor for Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications.
Amrita faculty member, Dr. Shantanu Bhowmik, Head of the Research and Projects at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus, received the 8th Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Award from the Institute of Pulmocare and Research, Kolkata, on 26th August, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham faculty members was awarded a grant of Rs. 37.24 lakhs from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) for developing a novel electrochemical packed bed reactor technology for removing heavy metals from water.
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.
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