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.
Prof. P. K. Viswanathan, Professor, Department of Management, Kochi, co-edited a book titled, “Globalisation, Development and Plantation Labour in India”, published by Routledge India, with Prof. K.J. Joseph, Acting Director, Centre. . .
Prof. P. K. Viswanathan, Professor, Amrita School of Business, Kochi, co-edited a book titled, “Globalisation, Development and Plantation Labour in India”, published by Routledge India, with Prof. K.J. Joseph, Acting Director, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.
Dr. Manitha B. Nair, Assistant Professor at the Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has received the ‘Kerala State Young Scientist Award’ for the year 2016, in the Health Sciences category.