Volume : 7 Issue : 11 - May & June 2016

AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Bengaluru

NEWS LETTER

School Highlights

May & June 2016 PAGE 1

The Director & Staff of council of HCG and Amrita School of Engineering have arrived at an agreement for mutual co-operation in research, training and extension activities between the two Institutions for Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for the various academic and research works. Memorandum of Understanding was done between Health Care Global Enterprises Ltd., Bengaluru and Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru for facilitating collaborative research in Innovative Bio-Medical Engineering on 8th June 2016. MOU was signed by Dr. B.S. Ajai Kumar (Chairman & CEO). Health Care Global Enterprises and Dr TSB Sudarshan Head Research Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru in presence of Professor Ravi C. Nayar-Consultant Otolaryngologist, Dean, Center for Academic Research, Dr Vijay Agarwal- Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist, Dr Brindha Seetharam - Director, Department of Psycho-Oncology, Dr. Vishal Rao—Head and Neck Cancer Specialists, Dr. Raghavendra R., Consultant -Intragative Oncologist Dr. Shikha Tripathi Chairman, Department of ECE, Dr. Deepa Gupta from Department of Mathematics, Dr. J. Amudha and Dr. Tripty Singh from Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Following projects got Ethical Board and Reviewer Board clearancee from HCG Hospitals. Medical Image Fusion of MRI Team Members:

Dr Tripty Singh Ms. Rekha R. Nair [Ph.D. Scholar]

Medical Image Analysis of colon cancer Histopathalogical Images

Team Members:

Dr. Tripty Singh Dr. Deepa Gupta Ms. Tina Babu [Ph.D. Scholar]

Medical Image Analysis using Hyperspectral Colon Cancer Images

Team Members:

Dr. Tripty Singh Ms. Joshna C. [M.Tech Student]

Medical Data Mining on Breast Cancer Data

Mining Team Members:

Dr.. Deepa Gupta, Ms. Sangita Khare Ms. Gayatri C. [M.Tech. Scholar]

MoU Signing between HCG and ASE-B

School Highlights

May & June 2016 PAGE 2

An addendum to the MoU has been signed by Dean(Engineering) Dr. Sasangan Ramanatha, and Dr. J. S. Mathur, Head, KTMD, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru, which includes collaboration in research in the following topics: MAV Modeling, communication & coordination

With other MAVs and Mobile Robots UAV Positioning UAV channel model with CEM

Electromagnetics & Photonics Signal & lmage Processing Antennas and Radars

Dr. N. Rakesh being the person-in-contact with NAL initiated the process. This was followed by a meeting and discussion by Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. and Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup, with several scientists of NAL. NAL support includes using their laboratory for flight tests data analysis and simulation labs. Also Joint Project Proposals for funding.

MoU Signing between NAL and ASE-B

Department of CSE

May & June 2016 PAGE 3

Ms. Supriya M. reviewed two Papers for Journal of Computer Science titled: Implementation of New Improved Round

Robin (NIRR) CPU Scheduling Algorithm Using Discrete Event Simulation.

A Multimodal Firefly Optimization Algorithm Based on Coulomb’s Law for Journal of Computer Science.

Dr. Rakesh N. :

Chaired a session on ‘Wireless Communication and Network Security’ organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Sri Venkateshwara Col-lege of Engineering for the 4th National Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering & Technology (NCRASET-16) on 6th May 2016.

Invited as the member of the International/National Advisory Board of ICDECT-17 in Vignan’s University, Guntur, Andhra Pra-desh. The 2nd International Conference on ‘Data Engineering & Communication Tech-nology (ICDECT-17)’ is jointly organized by Department of CSE & IT during 20-22, January 2017 with the technical Co Sponsor-ship of Springer publishers.

Recognized as BRONZE partner faculty under Inspire - The Cam-pus Connect Faculty Partnership Model for year 2015.

Dr. Tripty Singh: Reviewed Journal paper (May 2016) Manu-

script Number: TELS-D-16-00038 for International Journal of Telecommunication Systems (publisher Springer) Title: Investigation on Energy Harvesting Enabled Cooperative Relaying Networks under Co-channel Interference.

Invited to be a Technical Program Committee member of the:

* 2016 Advanced Research in Engineering and Information Technology International Conference (AREITIC) held at Bandung, Indonesia from 31st May to 2nd June 2016.

13th International Conference on Concrete Engineering at Hotel UiTM, Shah Alam, Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia held during 31st May -1st June 2016

18th International Conference on Advanced Circuit Dynamics and Systems Paris, France June 20 - 21, 2016

Advanced Research in Engineering and Information Technology International Conference (AREITIC) Bandung, Indonesia 31st May to 2nd June 2016

Reviewed Research paper for IET Image Processing Journal

Reviewed Research paper for Manuscript Number:TELS-D-16-00038

Four students of S8 from the department won the FIRST position in the Microsoft National Col-lege Hacking Contest, "Build the Shield". It is first of its kind national-level hacking contest, hosted by Microsoft that provides students a com-petitive hands-on hacking experience coupled with real-life scenarios wherein the team defend and attack competitor’s servers to emerge as a winner. The team comprised:

Mr. Anirudh Rayabharam Mr. Sheik Al Farhan Mr. V. V. Bhaskaram Mr. Sandilya Jandhyala

These four students have been offered full-time placement in India Development Centre (IDC) / Microsoft IT Services (MSIT), with an annual salary package of Rs. 21 lakhs.

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Student Achievements

Department of ECE

May & June 2016 PAGE 4

Dr. Deepa Gupta (Department of Mathematics) as a Principal Investigator and Ms. K. Jeeva Priya (Department of ECE) as a Co-PI received the acceptance for their project proposal “Speaker-Independent Kannada Speech Recognition Tool” sent to the Young Scientists for Research (SMYSR) Programme 2015-16 of Vision Group on Science and Technology, Government of Karnataka. The proposal will get a seed grant of Rs.6.0 lakhs for the duration of the project (May 2016 to April 2017).

In the framework of the Erasmus + International

Credit Mobility Agreement, Mr. Sagar Basawaraju has been selected for research in the field of “5G Cellular Communications and Net-working” at the Department of Information Engi-neering and Computer, University of Trento from 12th September 2016 to 11th April 2017. This is a fully funded student exchange program.

Ms. Vandana Nimbalkar, a III year student from

Department of ECE has been selected for the 2016 Tech Top MIT ‘Make in India’ Bootcamp to be held from 31st July 2016 to 20th August 2016. She is among top 15 students selected for this pro-gram. The learning objective of this program are Making Skills, Problem Identification, Design Thinking (Solution Development), Team Working, Presentation Skills and Startup Skills. She also holds the award of Amrita Tide Innovation Contest through which she received Rs.50,000/- as a seed grant. She has interned at NASSCOM to develop an IOT database and at the college start-up VOPO Technologies for a duration of 6 months during her S6.

Ms. Aishwarya Ganesan, a UG student from

Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, is undergoing Summer Internship on ‘Transistor Sizing in FPGAs: Pass transistor vs. Transmission gates’ from June 1st to July 2nd 2016 under the guidance of Ms. Ponni M. and Dr. Madhura Purnaprajna.

Mr. Pranav H.S., a UG student from R.V. College

of Engineering, Bengaluru is undergoing Summer Internship on ‘How to reduce the run time of the automated transistor sizing tool for FPGA (COFFE) by optimising the circuits in FPGA by thorough design space exploration using circuit simulations’ from June 10th to July 20th 2016 under the guidance of Ms. Ponni M. and Dr. Madhura Purnaprajna.

Mr. Mohammad Wasil Malik, a PG student in

Nanotechnology from Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) New Delhi, is undergoing Summer Internship on “Photonic Crystal Sensing Devices” from 7th June 2016 to 7th August 2016 under the guidance of Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick.

Ms. Nabanita Acharjee and Ms. Jhilick Ghosh,

UG students in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhash Engineering College (affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology), Kolkata, West Bengal are undergoing Summer Internship on “Photonic Applications” from 29th June 2016 to 7th August 2016 under the guidance of Dr. Kaustav Bhowmick.

Ms. Kirti S. Pande attended a seminar titled,

“Maximize PPA and Reduce Risk on Next-Generation Designs” on 17th June 2016 at Park Plaza, Marathahalli, Bengaluru. The seminar was organized by Cadence Pvt. Ltd.

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Student Achievements

Other News

Department of EEE

May & June 2016 PAGE 5

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

NAME TITLE MONTH

& YEAR

NAME OF THE

PUBLICATION

M.K. Naik G.Buja M. Bertolozzo

“Analysis and Comparison of Two Wireless Battery Charger Arrangements for Electric Vehicles”

May 2016 Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering ISSN:2096-1529

Sumana T. Sudha Yadav J. Ramprabhakar

“Dual Active Series Resonant Bridge Converter for Energy Storage Systems”

April 2016 International Journal of Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ISSN: 2319-1058) Indexing: Thomson Reuters Impact Factor: 0.672

P. Vinoth Kumar A. Suresh M.R. Rashmi

“Optimal Design of Fused Chopper based Standalone Hybrid Wind Solar System”

June 2016 Indian Journal of Science and Technology Scopus indexed

Papers Presented

Dr. Kishore Naik Mude: Has been appointed as ‘Ambassador’ of the

Asian Council of Science Editors for the year 2016.

Biography included in Top 100 Professionals-2016, by International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, England.

Reviewed the following papers a) One paper for IEEE Transactions on

Industrial Electronics b) One paper for IEEE IECON 2016,

Conference

Dr. K. Deepa:

Chaired a session as judge for the International Conference on Power, Circuit and Information Technologies, held during 19th -21st May2016, SRM University, Chennai.

Reviewed the following papers: a) One paper for Scopus indexed journal

“Springer Plus” with h-index: 7 b) One paper for Scopus indexed journal

“International Journal of Power Electron-ics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)” with h-index: 6

Facutly Achievements/

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Presented By: K. Deepa Authors: Lakshmi Priya, (2014 M.Tech. student) K. Deepa

“100kHz High voltage power supply for travelling wave tube”

19th -21st May 2016

International Conference on Power, Circuit and Information Technologies, SRM University, Chennai. The paper will be published in the Scopus indexed journal ‘International Journal of Control and Application’.

Papers Published

Department of EEE

May & June 2016 PAGE 6

IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) student branch chapter organized a seminar on “New-age Transportation

Electrification and E-mobility: Opportunities and Challenges” by Dr. Sheldon S. Williamson (Member IEEE PELS) on 16th May 2016 in the campus. Dr. Sheldon S. Williamson is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Ontario, Institute of Technology, Canada. In accession, he is also the Chair of Research in Electric Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification. The presentations were focused on advanced power electronics solutions for Electric Vehicle, traction, batteries, ultra-capacitors, plugged and wireless charging and inductive power transfer technologies. Novel motor drive technologies and its controller designs for high voltage DC power on board electric mass transit, trains and trams were also presented.

PELS Chapter Activities

Seminar on “New- age Transportation Electrification and E-mobility:

Opportunities and Challenges”

Department of ME

May & June 2016 PAGE 7

Papers Presented

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE

CONFERENCE

Presented by: Smita Singh Authors: Smita Singh M.U. Ashwath Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, R.V. Ranganath BMS College of Engineering

“Durability of Red mud Based Geopolymer Paste in Acid Solutions”

2nd May 2016

International Conference on Civil Engineering and Materials Science (ICCEMS 2016) / SCOPUS / NTU, Singapore.

Dr. T. Srinivas Rao reviewed a paper for Sage Journal on Advances of Mechanical Engineering. He also reviewed 5 Papers for ICPEICES 2016 (International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems) organized by Delhi Technological University

. Dr. Veeresh Kumar G.B. delivered an invited

talk on “Graphene reinforced composite materials” at an International conference on Advanced Materials and Technology (ICMAT-16) held during 26th-28th May 2016 at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysuru, which was a TEQIP initiative too. He also chaired a technical session at the conference.

Mr. Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi was invited to deliver a hands-on session on 'Robotics Education Using RoboAnalyzer' at TEQIP Sponsored National Workshop on Robotics and Control, National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kozhikode, on May 27, 2016.

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

Mr. Vinod Kotebavi

Workshop on “How to handle your car when it breaks down”

11th June 2016

Organized by SAE India, Bengaluru at Navnit Motors, Bengaluru

Workshop on 'COMSOL for Teaching and Research'

15th June 2016

Hotel Royal Orchid, Bengaluru

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Attended

Department of Mathematics

May & June 2016 PAGE 8

NAME TITLE DATE VENUE

“Recent Advances in signed graphs and their applications, 2016”

6th -8th June 2016

S.I.T., Tumkur and Academy of Discrete Mathematics

Dr. Meera K.N. “Algebraic and Applied Combinatorics, 2016”

15th -17th June 2016

National College Trichy and Ramanujam Mathematical Society

Workshops / Conferences / Seminars Attended

Dr. K.V.Nagaraja: Reviewed a paper entitled “Numerical

Evaluation of Linear convex Quadrilateral Domain Integrals by use of Gauss Legendre Quadrature rule” for Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research.

Served as a General Chair-AMSM2016 (International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Simulation and Modelling), May 28th -29th , Beijing, China.

Selected as TPC (Technical Programme Committee) member for the International Conference on Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Transportation(ICMCT 2016) to be held during 4th -6th November 2016 in China.

National Board of Higher Mathematics has sanc-

tioned the project titled “Computer aided study of numerical methods and graph labeling problems” for a period of three years with grant amount of Rs.10.0 Lakhs. Dr. B. Venkatesh is Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. K. N. Meera.

Dr. Sarada Jayan reviewed a paper for the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, Physical Sciences (NASA).

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Department of Chemistry

May & June 2016 PAGE 9

Papers Published

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

NAME TITLE MONTH

& YEAR

NAME OF THE

PUBLICATION

Amrita Thakur S. Giridhar Reddy

“Biological materials: Green source towards silver nanomaterials synthesis”

June 2016 Oriental Journal of Chemistry Scopus Indexed Thomson Reuters Impact Factor : 0.53

Department of Chemistry

Mr S. Giridhar Reddy under the research guidance of Dr. Akanksha S. Pandit successfully defended his PhD thesis on 2nd June 2016 titled “Studies on the Swelling Properties of Biodegradable Sodium Alginate and Lignosulphonic Acid Blends for Controlled Drug Delivery”.

Facutly Achievements/

Participation/Recognition

Ms. Sreevidya B. Dept. of CSE

Ms. Kirti S. P ande

Dept. of ECE

Ms. Lekshmi S. Dept. of EEE

Ms. Mrudula Prashanth

Dept. of ME

Mr. H. Manjunath Dept. of Sciences

Dr. Neetu Srivastava Dept. of Mathematics

Ms. Deepa K. Narayan

Dept. of English

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Ms. Sangita Khare Assistant Professor

Dept. of CSE Editor

Ms. Vasanthi

ES to Associate Dean Editor

Mr. Shiju

ICTS Media Support

Editorial Board

Board Members

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