Ms. Vidhya Prakash (Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) won the prestigious ‘Best Young Researcher’ award at Biospectrum 2019, an international conference on Advances in Food and Industrial Biotechnology.
Dr. Hisham Ahamed, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Project Lead at the Amrita Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, underwent Advanced Cardiovascular MRI Training, with a focus on the imaging of cardiomyopathies, ischemic heart disease, cardio-oncology and heart failure and transplantation over the period of two weeks at the prestigious cardiac imaging program at the Heart Center, Red Cross Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal, during November 1-15, 2019.
Dr. Maya Mahajan (Associate Professor, Centre for a Sustainable Future, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore) was featured in the July 2019 calendar of Future Generali, one of the leading general insurance companies in India.
Dr. Sony Vijayan, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce and Management, of Amrita School of Arts and Sciences was invited as Speaker at World Maritime Conference 2019. The conference was hosted by China Institute of Navigation and Shanghai Maritime University in Shanghai.
The School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has been conferred the award of ‘Best Institution of the year – Tech & Innovation Eco-system’ at the Computer Society of India’s (CSI) TechNext India 2019 event at Mumbai, on September 28, 2019.
Prof. Prashant R. Nair, Chairman, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been elected to the Managing Committee of the Coimbatore Management Association (CMA) for the period 2019-2021, at the 64th Annual General Meeting, held on September 23, 2019.
An Amrita team, Jameer Babu (Semester 7 student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus) and Dr. Athi Narayanan S. (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus), have emerged as ‘Runner Up’ of NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Image Colorization for achieving best perceptual and objective quality.
Dr. N. Dinesh, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, has been conferred with prestigious ‘Doctors Day Award 2019’ (Indian Medical Association, New Delhi, South Zone Doctors Day Celebration) at Kanyakumari on July 20, 2019, in recognition of sustainable philanthropic contributions in health care delivery, exemplary role model life style, altruistic social service and enhancing wholistic well-being.
Dr. Saranya S. K., Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthodontics & Implantology and Dr. Vineetha K., Post Graduate Resident, Public Health Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Amrita Health Sciences Campus, Kochi, presented posters at the IADR/AADR/CADR General Session held at Vancouver, BC, Canada, from June 19-22, 2019.
Dr. Kalyani Suresh, Vice Chairperson, Department of Mass Communication, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, was awarded the Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leaders award on July 4, 2019, at the Taj Lands End, Mumbai.
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