The Stanford University’s 2018 FabLearn Global Excellence Practitioner Award has been awarded to Akshay Nagarajan, Researcher at AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in recognition of his achievements and efforts to advance maker education and for his exemplary commitment to outreach, connecting communities and bringing equity to education in the rural communities in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.
Team Vision, a trailblazing student team of 2016-2020 batch of B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, has added another feather in its cap by securing a top 25 rank out of 40,000 teams worldwide, in the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) EngiNX 2018 contest.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications'(AmritaWNA) M. Tech. students: Anju Murali, Guru Prasad, Urmila M. S., T. Aishwarya Lakshmi, Athira Vinod and Harish Ravichandran, have secured internships at WABCO India, Ignitarium, Dell EMC, Oracle and Nokia respectively.
Three B.Tech. students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus, under the guidance of faculty members designed and developed a safety system in passenger cabs for women passengers.
The three final-year B.Tech students, led by their professor, Dr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Director, have developed a self-driving wheelchair, “Self-E”, that can safely take a user from one point to another by navigating its own path and avoiding obstacles on the way.
The ‘Team Vision’ from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, has been ranked among the top 15 out of 1177 teams that participated in N/Core Ideathon at Bangalore on June 23, 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.
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.
A team of six third-year students from the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, named ‘Cyber Sena’, won the top award at the Smart India Hackathon 2018, for developing a secure system for the Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
The 19-year-old patient from Jharkhand, leading an isolated life for the last ten years, underwent 14-hour surgery at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. Surgeons reconstructed his upper jaw using his leg bone. This is the largest ever reported upper jaw tumor of its kind. The hospital performed the surgery free of cost.
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