The Team Tateists of Astronomy Club won the first prize in an inter-college Astronomy competition organised by IIT Patna. The competition had three rounds – a quiz, a SpaceX simulator challenge to dock a shuttle to the ISS, and a challenge to identify habitable exoplanets from a database of 10,000 exoplanets. The team members Shreyas Badami, UG2-CND and Pranav Agrawal, UG2-CSE topped all the rounds of the competition and finished with a perfect score in the final round.
Team Blue Bird comprising Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya, Dhiraj Shanmukha, Shambhavi Ojha, Vinaya Gopi and Venkat Sai from M.Tech Product Design and Management and SERC qualified as top 20 teams globally out of 90+ teams that participated in the Student Service Design Challenge 2023, an international competition that encourages students to design services that promote both personal well-being and collective happiness.
Anis Fatema, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain received the Best women-owned business pitch and Best overall pitch award at the WiSe-YP Big Idea Pitch Competition and a prize money of $400 at the IEEE Applied Sensors Conference 2023 (IEEE APSCON 2023) held at Bengaluru on 24 January.
G V Ihita, MS student in SPCRC working on IoT security for smart cities under the guidance of Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, was selected as a representative of the Indian delegation and the Generation Connect initiative to attend United Nations agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-D Study Group-2 meeting at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 – 9 December 2022.
Research work by Dr. Nita Parekh and her students were awarded first prizes for their oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS – 2022), held from 22 – 23 December at Bengaluru, for their research work on:
1. Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Across Three Waves in India – Dr. Nita Parekh and her student Kushagra Agarwal.
2. Evaluating Generalizability of Deep Learning Models Using Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset – Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli.
Priyanka Kommagoun working under Prof. Anil Kumar Vuppala, from the Speech Processing Lab, LTRC won the best poster award in Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW-2023) as part of INTERSPEECH 2023 held in Dublin, Ireland on 19 August. The poster was on research work done on Unravelling Speech Disfluencies: A Novel Approach to Distinguishing Typical and Atypical Stuttering Patterns by Priyanka Kommagouni, Narasinga Vamshi Raghu Simha, Anil Kumar Vuppala.
Dr. Manish Shrivastava and Srija M, 3rd year CLD student were team leaders for the Indian contingent consisting of Faraz Ahmed Siddique, Anshul Bhagwat, Saumya Goyal, and Ujaan Rakshit at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL-2023): Celebrating Language Prowess and Problem Solvers held at Bansko, Bulgaria from 23 to 29 July.
M Satish Kumar supervised by Dr. Shaik Rehana, has been awarded the esteemed Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) travel grant. This award helped him to participate in the distinguished International Conference – Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2023, held in Singapore from 30 July – 4 August.
Team BlueBird members Shambavi, Anuj, Aniket, VenkatSai, Gopi (M.Tech PDM) and Dhiraj (MS SERC) won the Silver Award at the prestigious London Design Awards 2023 in the Service Design category. They designed a solution to enhance the well-being of patients and families navigating the challenging journey of terminal illness.