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.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is the only university from India to be featured in the Times Higher Education Millennial Universities list. Overall, 36 universities from 23 countries featured in the Millenial list.
Dr. Prem Nair, Medical Director at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre at Kochi campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, gave an invited talk at the Harvard Institute of Global Health, USA, on June 27, 2018.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education) was selected to be one of five finalist teams for the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation’s Adult Literacy XPRIZE in an awards ceremony on June 25, 2018, in New Orleans.
Mr. Jose James, Senior Researcher at AMMACHI (Amrita Multi Modal Applications Using Computer & Human Interaction) Labs’ Haptics team, and a Research Fellow at the University of Sannio, Italy, attended the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements & Applications 2018 (MeMeA2018) held at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, from June 11-13, 2018.
The Center for Wireless Networks and Applications, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, signed a MoU with Italian prestigious research institutions, The National Research Council (CNR) IRPI. The National Research Council (CNR) is. . .
Dr. V. V. Pillay, Chief, Poison Control Centre, and Professor & Head, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, attended the 2018 Society of Toxicology’s 57th Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, from March 11 – 15, 2018.
A team of four students of the Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Department of Electronics and Communication, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, were selected to the elite team from selected countries to participate in the 29th edition of RoboCon International Design Contest (IDC) 2018 to be held at Tokyo Institute of Technology from August 6-18, 2018.
At RIKILT, Prof. Shyam Diwakar delivered a talk on “Modeling, OER, and Open Models – Work at Amrita” on March 26, 2018
Mr. Sivanand Devarakonda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus, has been awarded a scholarship to pursue the master’s programme at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The scholarship came after he bagged the first prize at the KTH Master’s Challenge 2018.