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IEEE ComSoc Bangalore Chapter Annual Report 2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS PAGE

ABOUT COMSOC CHAPTER & ANNUAL REPORT 2

EXCOM MEMBER 3

COMSOC BANGALORE CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP LIST 4- 8

CHAPTER EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 9-10

INDUSTRY CONNECT AND STANDARDIZATION PROGRAM 10

CONFERENCE SUPPORT AND NEW INITIATIVES 11

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS AND BRIEF DETAILS 12- 23

EXCOM OTHER ACTIVITIES 24-25

STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTERS REPORT 26-31

FINANCE REPORT/ 32-34


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COMMUNICATION SOCIETY CHAPTER BANGALORE

Formed in 2008 by an initiative from Prof T Srinivas, IISc, ComSoc Bangalore chapter has

evolved and currently enjoys around 280 members from academia and industry. Today, the

ComSoc Bangalore chapter is one of the most vibrant and dynamic chapters with a large

number of expert volunteers performing diverse tasks for the growth of the society and lives

of the people. ComSoc is well supported by Bangalore section. ComSoc Bangalore Chapter

is known for the quality event. A huge support is extended to ComSoc chapter and

volunteers by industry around.

ANNUAL REPORT

This is the first time that ComSoc Chapter Bangalore planned to have Annual general meeting (AGM). It is

planned to conduct alongside the Bangalore Section AGM. We are thankful to Section Chair Prof Debabrata

Das, the Secretary B N Pal and Vice Chair, Mr Puneet Mishra who agreed to our proposal and extended

space/facility at the venue to conduct the AGM.

The main objective of this meeting is the participation of each member. Taking inputs from Fellow and Senior

people to understand the working environment of the society. To know from them; how to work together, what

to be done to help the technology and society, how to contribute for better living and how ComSoc Bangalore

can play a role in doing better. Such inputs from senior people would encourage the young professional and

students to get involved and do better.

In this report, we present our achievements, our engagements and the financial status.

We are currently around 280 members out of which around 50 are student members and graduate student

members. We have currently 4- Fellow status who could be our guardian. We have many eligible people who

could be elevated to Fellow status and definitely, we would help them to apply. Section conducts FINE

program SIMPLE program to help all the members and eligible members to get elevated.

Our industry outreach program is also reasonably good. We would need more interaction and increase the

cooperation with Industry.

We have to work more on increasing awareness among students. This would be possible with having more

ComSoc Student Branch Chapters in the student branch.

We have started, let us continue to do better.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ComSoc extends the sincere and hearty thank to Bangalore Section ExCom members for their support and

special thanks to Chair, Secretary and Vice Chair. They open heartedly extended the support to chapter. We

also thank Munir, the IEEE office who is really always with us to support what ever we need. Last but not the

list, chapter is for all the members, let us thank each other.


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EXCOM MEMBERS COMSOC

BANGALORE 2018 Slate for COMSOC 2018

and Chair 2019

Name Affiliation Dr. Navin Kumar Chair Amrita School of

Engineering, Bangalore

Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy

Chair Elect IBM Research, Bangalore 2018-Chair Elect; 2019-Chair

Dr. Alok Nath De Vice Chair SRIB, Samsung

Mr. Sagar Basavaraju Treasurer Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore

Mr. Anand Mohandas Secretary C-DoT

Mr Shashidhara Member L&T Infotech Services

Mr. Ganesan Thiagarajan

Education Activities Coordinator

Dr. Manoj Choudhury Industrial Relation Coordinator

Samsung

Mr. A T Kishore Member UTL Technologies Mr. Prasad Mantri Member Semiconductor Dr. Sambit Patra Member Accenture

Mr. Syam Madanapalli

Member Dell Inc

Mr. RadhaKrishna Member ThingTronix

Ms. Sheeba Kumari M Member New Horizon

Mr. Samir Kanta Satapathy

Member Ericson

Mr. Irfan Baig Member TataPower SED

Mr. Rajanikanth AR Member Enterprenuer

Mr. Triveni C L Member Malnad College of Engineering Hassan.

Mr. Jomy Jose Dr A Paventhan Dr Venkatesha Prasad Mr. B N Pal

Member Member Member Immediate Past Chair

L&T Infotech ERNET Enterprenuer/DelfTU Srishti, ESDM


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CURRENT COMSOC SOCIETY MEMBER LIST

Last Name

First Name Middle Initial IEEE Current Grade Description

Last Name First Name Middle Initial IEEE Current Grade Description

Rajan B S Fellow Routray Sudhir K Senior Member

Hari K.V.S. Fellow Iyer Jayaraman K Senior Member

Kumar Anurag Fellow Varadarajan Sridhar Senior Member

Padmanabhan Venkata N Fellow Amarnath Narsipur S Senior Member

Kumar Pamela Senior Member

Sankaranarayanan

Ravishankar - Senior Member

Velur Indumathi R Senior Member

Agrawal Vinod K Senior Member

Yamujala Lakshmi V S Senior Member

Neogi Sandipto Senior Member

Sujatha D N Senior Member

Das Debabrata Senior Member

Lingappa Triveni Chitralingappa Senior Member

Chaudhuri Saptarshi Senior Member

M N Suma Senior Member

Sellamuthu Pillai Raja Senior Member

De Aloknath Senior Member

Choudhary Manoj Senior Member

Mantri Prasad W Senior Member

Kumar Jailendra Senior Member

Chockalingam Ananthanarayanan

Senior Member

Srivastava Gauraw Senior Member

Pal Bholanath Senior Member

Yellampalli Siva S Senior Member

Prabhu Sasindran M Senior Member

Gupta Virendra Senior Member

Seetharaman D R Senior Member

Gore Ashutosh D Senior Member

Krishnaswamy Dilip Senior Member

Murthy Chandra R Senior Member

Kumar G Rajendra Senior Member

Kumar Navin Senior Member

Mukherji Utpal Senior Member

Chavva AshokKumar R Senior Member

Sharma Vinod K Senior Member

Rama Swamy Kumara Swamy Senior Member

Jayasimha Sriram Senior Member

Paventhan Arumugam Senior Member

Srinivas Talabattula Senior Member

Amogh Niranth Senior Member

Srinidhi Saragur M Senior Member

Sunkara Ravi Prasad Senior Member

Singh Kanwar J Senior Member

Nair Jinesh p Senior Member

Sivarajan Kumar N Senior Member

Subramaniam Santosh Senior Member

Satyaranjan Mohan Senior Member

Gowda Kiran T Senior Member

Thiagarajan Ganesan Senior Member

Sen Sumit Senior Member

R Prakash Senior Member

Patra Dr. Sambit Kumar

Senior Member

Santhosam L Charles Senior Member

shailendra samar Senior Member

Tamhankar Prakash A Senior Member

Rustagi Ram Prakash Senior Member


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Sundaresan Rajesh Senior Member

shrivastava devanshu Senior Member



Mehta Neelesh B Senior Member

GL Ganga Prasad Senior Member

Karthik S. G. Senior Member

KG Nagaraj Senior Member

Viswanathan M S Senior Member

AR Rajanikanth Senior Member

Balasubramanian

Lakshmanan Senior Member

Niaz Mohamed Senior Member

Taneja Mukesh Senior Member

Ramanna Narendra Channapatna Senior Member

Bakre Ajay V Senior Member

Annam Kishore Thyagaraja Senior Member

Srinivasan Manivannan Senior Member

Mahadevan Adityapuram Sivarama Senior Member

Annaswamy Ravikiran Senior Member

Prasad Venkatesha Senior Member

Pramodh N Senior Member

Venkataraman Natarajan Senior Member

Kalele Girish A Senior Member

Chaturvedi Ashvini Senior Member

Krishna Giridhar M Senior Member

Kulkarni Muralidhar Senior Member

De Ateesh D Senior Member

Gonda Jora Mangala Senior Member

NASEER Dr. A. R. Senior Member

Parate Swapnil Member

DESHPANDE VINAY L Life Senior Prasan Vinuthkumar B Member

Pande Madan K Life Senior Dongre Shashidhara Member

S M Prasad Member Ramachandran Sivan Member

Bapat Jyotsna L Member Anandkumar Amod Jai Ganesh

Member

Singh Manogya Member Varghese Vinesh Member

Chandroth Roopa Member Parag Parimal Member

JATI PRAMA Member Das Sajal K Member

Trivedi Neeta Member M Anand Member

K M Sumaya Member Bhute Sarang S Member

P Eswaran Subha Member Mallapur Hemant Member

S. Kavitha Member Magadi Bhanuprakash R Member

Kumari M Sheeba Member Rao C S Member

ARUNACHALAM

PRIYANKA Member Goel Avnish Kumar Member

T K A C SNEHALATHA Member Mondal Subhas Chandra Member

Nimbalker Vandana Member P S Bhat Chandrashekhar

Thejaswi Member

Tengshe Richa Member Krishna B Avinash Member

B Rajeshwari Member Nandiraju Ravi Shankar Member

panda shobhashree Member Chaturvedi Deepak Member

Narayanappa B Member Azeez Abdul Member

Praturi Prasad Member Srivastava Abhishek Member

Ijari Nagaraj Member Kande Mallikarjun S Member


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BELADAKERE JAYARAM K Member DEV T S SHYAM Member

Sambukumar Sreedhar V Member Kumar Vnanda Member

Chandramouli Y Member JOSYULA VENKAT NARASIMHAM

Member

Satyan S Member Vadingadu Uday Shankar Member

Abranches Oscar A Member marupu krishnam raju Member

Phani Kumar B Sudheendra Member Datta Vikas Member

Lahiri Sandip B Member BIRENJITH P S Member

Kole Ashish Kumar Member Poojary Sudheer M Member

Prakash S Thanga Member RAO NIKHIL RAGHAVENDRA Member

Natarajan Muthukumar Member Thomas Tom Member

Kabra Lokesh Member Chikkam Rama Kishore Member

Mundkur Vishweswara Member Beldona Srinath Member

Joseph Ramesh Member Mohammed Muniruddin Member

Saha Kaustuv Member Venkata Prabhakar Tamma Member

Ramanna Nataraj C Member Gurugopinath Sanjeev Member

Abraham Rene Member Gopalakrishnan Prasanth Member

DuttaMajumdar

Kaushik Member Sudhakar Chapram Member

Hebbar Mohan M Member Hosamani Ravi Shivalingappa Member

Nagaraja Rao Sridhar K Member Koyram Shushrutha Sathyanarayana Member

NEELAGIRIYAPPA

ROHITH Member Gunda Ashok Member

DUBEY RAVI KUMAR Member Phadtare Milind Member

Karjee Jyotirmoy Member Kollimada Pushpavathi Pemmaiah Member

Malviya Pankaj Member J Sangeetha Member

Kulshrestha Avichal Member Ramannna Shobha Kanakanahalli Member

KUMAR JHA MAHESH Member Kadambi Ramanujan Member

Aradhya Naveen Member Shenoy Surendra Member

Dewal Sushant Mohan Member Das Subhra Kanti Member

Kulshrestha Vishal Member Natesan Murugan Member

Jose Jomy Member Vatedka Shashank Member

Raina Ankur Member Gupta Anindya Member

Baig Irfan Member Devareddy Raghavendra Member

B Ananthaprakash Member rao arun Member

REVANKAR SURAJ Member Agrawal Sandeep Member

Kumar Anil Member SATAPATHY SAMIR KANTA Member

Kayakal Biju Member Chitturi Narayana Murthy

Bala Naga Member

Rao Raja KN Member Atthimalla Rajesh Member


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Narayanan Sathya Member Viswanathan Thiagarajan Member

Subramaniam Karthikeyan Member Yerragudi Venkatanatha Graduate Student Member

Chandrasekaran

Vijay Member Das Dibakar Graduate Student Member

Lal Kunal Member Gadgil Aashish Anand Graduate Student Member

Ramasamy Venkatesan Member Krishnan Manu Graduate Student Member

Tumuluru Vamsi Krishna Member Thomas Anoop Graduate Student Member

basavaraju sagar Member GUNDE KIRAN Graduate Student Member

muchukota sai praneeth Member Mohan Avinash Graduate Student Member

C ANIL KUMAR Member Shetty Srinivas M Graduate Student Member

KUMAR NARESH Member Krishnan K S Ashok Graduate Student Member

Natarajan Ramesh Member bhavanam Srinadh reddy Graduate Student Member

Panghal Amit Member Bindiganavile Ramada

Vinay Kumar Graduate Student Member

Jose Blessy Member H R RAMYA Graduate Student Member

Nyamangoudar

Rahul P Member M A N S RAGHAVENDRA Graduate Student Member

Jahagirdar Gopal V Member Tiruvakadu Divya Sai Keerthi Graduate Student Member

Kumar Chandan Member Nadkarni Priya J Graduate Student Member

Peddanarappagari

Kumar Member J Geethanjali Graduate Student Member

Devareddy Raghavendra Member MYNAMPATI MEGHANA Graduate Student Member

rao arun Member Purohit Mansi Narsimha Graduate Student Member

Agrawal Sandeep Member MURUGAN KAVITHA Graduate Student Member


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SATAPATHY SAMIR KANTA Member Ambadi Niranjana Graduate Student Member

Chitturi Narayana Murthy

Bala Naga Member NEGI SWATI Graduate Student Member

Atthimalla Rajesh Member s sukruth Student Member

Viswanathan Thiagarajan Member Kulkarni Nikhil Student Member

s Pournamy Graduate Student Member

Rodrigues Jeevitha Student Member

Ambadi Niranjana Graduate Student Member

J Sreelakshmi Student Member

Tananki Rohit Student Member

Shanbhag Namitha Student Member

Menon Thanmay Sunil Student Member

Bandari Navya Satish Student Member

Pabbisetty Nikhil Sairama Student Member

Kini Ashish Student Member

Oberoi Aaryan Student Member

S Sindhura Student Member

MOHAN SHRAVAN Student Member

Shrivastava Shaambhavi Student Member

kanithi Sri Teja Student Member

Kusuma Gampala Student Member

Nikesh Sai Student Member

atmuri aishwarya Student Member

NIMMAGADDA SRIKANTH Student Member

Challa PHANI Affiliate

Ravikrishnan Nikhil Student Member

george koshy mohan Affiliate

VAADAKATTU V V SAI RAVI TEJA

Student Member

H Y Eshwar Affiliate

Arepalli Sai Teja Student Member

Murthy Keshav Affiliate

obillaneni venkata lakshmi narayana

Student Member

Bitragunta Sainath Affiliate

Vatturu Sindhu Student Member

Nune gopalakrishna Affiliate


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2017 COMSOC CHAPTER EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Since the reformation of ExCom from March 2017, ComSoc has been doing exceptionally

well. We have the members very rich in experience from both Industry and academia. In

fact, good in number as well, but they are all very active. ExCom agreed to take some new

initiatives apart from doing things which are necessary and required. Some of the new

initiatives like organizing events outside Bangalore (completed two this year), Research

methodology workshop series, nomination for distinguished award worldwide etc. are taken

by the team. Though some of these exercises are not only expensive but time consuming as

well. But, team agreed to do and did very well in the first year.

ComSoc account via NetSuite has been brought to use after lot of updates with IEEE HQ

Finance and now being updated regularly. NetSuite is now in operation and well balanced.

One of the other significant initiatives of formation of ISCAT (IEEE Smart City Advisory

Team) and signing of MoU with Smart City India Forum (SCIF) should be appreciated.

Reaching out to student branch (SB) to start student branch ComSoc chapters, offering

support for this resulting in two new student branch chapters (SBCs). Industry collaboration,

visibility to global level is another milestone on ComSoc this year.

ComSoc started its Bi-annually NewsLetter and first edition was circulated on 1st May, is yet

another new initiatives. Very rich in contents starting from our events, achievements, future

events, some very informative invited articles job information both national and

internationals were included. In addition, we also got advertisement page on paid basis.

Mathworks requested to print half a page advertisement inside the newsletter.

Another important initiative pushed forward by Chair and well supported by previous chair

and all members is the conduction of international workshop on 5G Wireless Technology in

association with IEEE ANTS. With last year 10th ANTS edition, a proposal was submitted to

ANTS organizing committee to include some workshop in association with it. The discussion

came out with 5G Wireless Technology Challenges and Opportunities (5G WiTCO). It was a

huge success and well accepted by audience as well as organizers. They asked us to take it

forward. However, a fresh proposal with a slight name change with new title as 5G and

Future Wireless Technologies (5G-FWT 2017) is being conducted on 19 December at

Bhubaneswar (http://ants2017.ieee-comsoc-ants.org/workshops/5gfwt/) .We made

significant progress with call for papers and 5 of the reviewed and accepted papers have

been registered. This workshop is being organized by ComSoc Chair, Dr Navin, his working

colleagues Dr Arpita and Dr Ashutosh, IEEE 5G Initiative Co-Chair.

http://ants2017.ieee-comsoc-ants.org/workshops/5gfwt/


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Our ExCom member‟s standard development proposal on ROOF Computing has also been

accepted and working group is already formed. In addition, standards on Power Line

Communication (PLC) is being evaluated by ComSoc members here in Bangalore (worth to

mention this).

In one other measure and initiative to meet the quality of conference being conducted and

the quality of papers being accepted, ComSoc decided to screen properly the application for

technical sponsorship for the conference and support them to get skilled by taking active

part as TPC Co-chairs and Publication Co-Chairs. We did this with 3 conference requests

from 3 different colleges.

We are also progressing as Student Branch Chapter. This year, we have formed at least two

new SBCs. Coming year, we may plan 2-3 more. We welcome the initiative by faculty

advisor at Institution to start ComSoc student branch chapter.

With advancements to social media, chapter has invested time and resources to keep its

website updated and started Facebook feeds which is active now. This has enabled many of

our members to stay connected.

INDUSTRY CONNECT & STANDARDIZATION PROGRAM

INDUSTRY CONNECT PROGRAM

There's a Industry Connect program that has been started on Power Line Communications

(IEEE 1901) in Bangalore. This is being led by Dr. Mohankumar and has been now

supported by ST Micro and BESCOM. Some of the ComSoc members are part of this

program. Interested person can visit the link and get in touch to know more.

https://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/powerline/index.html

STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITY

Mr. Syam’s proposal on ROOF Computing has been accepted by IEEE standardization and

he is leading this group. He has over 60 contributing members globally. Anyone interested

to participate and contribute, please contact.

CONFERENCE SUPPORT AND TECHNICAL SPONSORSHIP

Chapter is very keen and concern on quality of conference and especially the papers being accepted in the conference and published. The quality needs to be improved. At the same time, we have to promote and encourage colleges/industry/organizations to conduct and

https://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/powerline/index.html


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organize events. To balance the two and mostly check the quality, chapter decided to take active part in technical sponsored conference. Therefore, it was decided that ComSoc will technically sponsor the conference of colleges provided at least tow of the ExCom members are in the organizing team especially TPC Co-Chair and Publication Co-Chair. With this condition, we have approved 3 requests that came forward this year. One at RNSIT, Reva University and One at Vemana Institute of Technology. However, the last one is yet to get clearance from the Section.

(I) Technical Sponsorship for the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Computers and Communication (ICAECC 2018) to be organized by Reva University, 9-10 Feb, 2018, Bangalore

(II) Technical Sponsorship for Second International conference on Circuits, controls and communications” (CCube 2017) on December 15-16, 2017

NEW INITIATIVES

This year, the chapter has taken few new initiatives and some of them found to be of great

use. The followings are the highlight:

Formation of IEEE Smart City Advisory Team (ISCAT) and MoU with Smart City India

Forum.

Organizing event outside Bangalore – Two successful events conducted this year;

one at Mysore and other at Devanagere.

Launching of ComSoc Newsletter, bi-annual newsletter is brought and circulated as

soft copy to IEEE members and non members

Nominations of our national and local achiever at IEEE Global – We have also

initiated and started nominating our local achievers at global level. This year, we did

for 3 of our members. Hope, we get some global recognition.

Workshop on 5G and Future Wireless Technologies (5G-FWT) in association with

reputed and portfolio events of IEEE , i.e IEEE ANTS.


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SUMMARY OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES

ComSoc is known for quality workshop/event organizers. We could organize 10 major

events of repute. Additionally, there are number of events like guest lecture, keynote

outreach program, etc, which are not listed here. Below the summary of major events is

listed followed by highlight and very brief details about them.

(Most recent first)

S.No Event Name Date Venue

1 2nd Int‟l Workshop on 5G-FWT in

association with IEEE ANTS 2017

19 Dec C V Raman College of Engr

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

2 Green Smart City Workshop Training

(one week, 1 day ComSoc)

10 Oct Vikaasa Soudha, Govt. via SCIF

3 One day workshop on Big Data

Analytics

23 Sep SJCE Mysore

4 One day workshop on Software

Defined Connectivity and Analytics

9 Sep Nokia, Manayata park

5 One day workshop on Smart City

Conclave

1 Sep BMIT, Davanagere

6 Two Days Workshop on Research

Methodology (Jointly with Section)

8-9 Jul Amrita School of Engr Bangalore

7 Two days workshop on Research

Methodology (jointly with VTU)

8-9 May CMRIT, Bangalore

8 Half day workshop on Insights into Cloud Security and Creating and Managing Cloud Infrastructure

29 Apr Avaya India Pvt Ltd.

AMR Tech Park Bangalore

9 One day workshop on Workshop on

Advances in 5G and HetNet

20 Mar IISc, Bangalore.

10 One day workshop on Global 5G

tutorial Series

9 Jan Taj by Vivanta, Bangalore


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BRIEF DETAILS

5G-FWT 2017

2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON 5G AND FUTURE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES

(5GFWT 2017)


ORGANIZERS

Dr. Navin Kumar, Amirta School of Engineering, Amrita University, Bangalore -INDIA

([email protected])

Dr. Arpita Thakre, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University, Bangalore – INDIA

([email protected])

Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, A T & T New Jersey- USA ([email protected])

The workshop was scheduled was on 19th Dec. from 9am to 6pm. The works attracted over 15

papers out of which 5 were selected for the presentation and all 5 registered for the conference.

http://ants2017.ieee-comsoc-ants.org/files/2017/08/5GFWITCH2017_Ants_Final.pdf

http://ants2017.ieee-comsoc-ants.org/files/2017/08/5GFWITCH2017_Ants_Final.pdf


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We had 5 invited speakers and a panel discussion. The speakers include: Prof Debabrata Das,

IIIT Bangalore, Prof K V Srinivas, IIT Varanasi, Prof Jayshree, SoA University, Bhubaneshwar, Dr

Navin Kumar, Amrita University, Bangalore, and Mr Samir Satapathi from Ericsson.

Additionally, Munir also talked about IEEE 5G Initiatives. They spoke on various expects of 5G

and what is happening in Industry as well as academia in this area. Dr Navin also gave a

highlight of future wireless communication era (2020-2050) where he talked about human

bond communication and transmitting and receiving all the senses in future. The panel was also

interesting where the panelist highlighted India’s stand and research scope on 5G. The panel

was moderated by Dr Arpita, Amrita University. Over 40 audiences attended the workshop and

they appreciated the schedule, the quality of talk.

SMART CITY WORKSHOP PARTNERING WITH SCIF AT VIKASH SAUDHA, GOVT OF

KARNATAKA

One day of 5 days workshop/training was

given by ComSoc representatives on 10th

Oct 2017 to the Smart City working group

from Karnataka Govt. People from

different proposed smart cities like

Davangere, Belagavi, Hassan etc. took

part in the training program.

Different aspects of methodologies and

testbed designs were discussed by Dr

Aloknath De, Dr Navin Kumar, Dr Dilip K,

Mr Syam M, Mr SriChandra. Munir and

few more witnessed the workshop on 10th

Oct. While Dr Dilip spoke in detail about

the the framework of Smart City, Dr Alok

talk about how to leverage IoT effectively

and solution for IoT based management.

And, Dr Navin explained how different

wireless technologies can help building

and designing smart cities.


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BIG DATA ANLAYTICS ONE DAY WORKSHOP AT SJCE MYSORE

This is the second event outside Bangalore conducted by ComSoc. A well established university

SJCE organized this workshop. Dr. Niranjan led the event as host organizer. ComSoc took the

responsibility for the speakers/experts and we travelled all along from Bangalore to Mysore. The

director of the university and faculty also discussed about the how IEEE or ComSoc expert can help

them to develop post graduate level course on data science and analytics. The workshop was well

appreciated by host institution. Over 100 students and faculties attended the workshop. Speakers

include Dr. Shivaram, Curl Analytics, Bengalore; Prof Navin Kumar, Chair ComSoc and Amrita

University, Bangalore, Mr. Chetan from Cisco Systems, Bengalore and Dr Dilip K, IBM, Bangalore.

They covered many topics and use cases of data analytics available opportunities.


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SOFTWARE DEFINED CONNECTIVITY AND ANALYTICS WORKSHOP AT NOKIA

The early morning hours of 9th September, 2017 saw unbridled enthusiasm and curiosity in

the participants from various companies who came to attend one day interactive seminar on

„Software defined Connectivity and Analytics‟ in Nokia, L5 building, Manyata Tech. Park.

The seminar witnessed more than 150 participants who came to attend the six diverse

sessions.

The seminar commenced with Mr. Sridhar, Nokia formally welcoming the gathering and

Shaambhavi Shrivastava, IEEE ComSoc Bangalore Chapter introducing the first speaker,

Mr. Samir Satapathy, NPO Ericcson. Other speakers include Mr Salil Agarwal, Nokia; Dr

Aloknath De, CTO Samsung; Mr Tarun Gupta from National Instrument; Dr. Madhan Kumar

Srinivasan, Accenture; and Mr. Rajaraman Subramanian (Giri;). Bangalore Section

secretary Mr B N Pal, Dr Navin Chair, Mr Kishore, Munir and many from ComSoc and

Section were present during the workshop.


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SMART CITY CONCLAVE

The one day workshop was hosted by Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology,

Davangere. This was the first event conducted by ComSoc outside the Bangalore. Our

target is to get associated with prospective smart city in the list of government. We are

targeting to closely work with them to ensure good productivity. The speakers include Prof.

Y. Vrushabhendrappa Director, Mr Gireesh Rao, Mr S.Srinivas; Mr Hanumanthappa, Dr

Dilip K, IBM; Munir, IEEE; Srichandra, Director Standardization IEEE; Mr Kishore, Mr

Radhakrishna, Mr Lovlesh . They talked on various aspects of smart city, the road map,

govt. plan and towards the end, there was demonstration of hardware for some use cases

by thinkTronics PLC, Mr Radhakrishna and Lovelesh. The workshop was well

acknowledged and appreciated by participants of over 100.


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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY TWO DAYS WORKSHOP JOINTLY WITH SECTION

ComSoc initiated this workshop series with an objective to conduct at least 3 workshop in a

year with 2 in Bangalore and one outside to improve the research activity.

An intensive workshop on Research Methodology, sponsored by IEEE Bangalore Section

and ComSoc Chapter, Bangalore was hosted by IEEE Student Branch, Amrita School of

Engineering Bangalore on 8th and 9th of July, 2017. The event was well planned with an

aim to improve Research and Paper Publication ability for all the participants. More than 160

participants attended the workshop. The objective of the workshop was to introduce the

audience to some basic concepts of research and its methodologies, identifying appropriate

research topics, selecting and defining appropriate research problem and parameters ,

preparing a project (thesis) proposal (to undertake a project/thesis), organizing and

conducting research (advanced project) in a more appropriate manner, writing a research

report, article/paper and thesis and reviewing articles and submitting the report (peer review

process).

Workshop Objectives:

At the end of this workshop, the audience should be able to:

• understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies

• identify appropriate research topics

• select and define appropriate research problem and parameters


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• prepare a project (thesis) proposal (to undertake a project/thesis)

• organize and conduct research (advanced project) in a more appropriate manner

• write a research report, article/paper and thesis

• write a research proposal (grants)

• Review an article and submit the report (peer review process)

4-long session was dedicated to 4-modules in which workshop was planned. Module-1

discussed to answer the basic questions like what, who where, when etc. In3-hours of

session, the speaker (Dr G S Javed) tried to define the problem definition of one of the

research scholar as the use case. The next session of Module-2 was on how to do the

research, was well taken by Dr Kanmani from BMS. Module-3 was about publication and

publishing, writing papers and report. This was handled by Prof Saroj Meher, Indian

Statistical Institute, Bangalore. The session, the module-4 was dedicated on Peer Review

and review process, how to review and how valuable the process is, etc was discussed by

Dr Navin Kumar, from Amrita university. Prof Debabrata Das, the section chair delivered an

hour overview on writing the quality paper to all attendees. The workshop got huge

response and well acknowledged.


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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP JOINTLY WITH VTU

Organized jointly by the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, CMRIT, Bangalore;

IEEE Bangalore Section; IEEE Communications Society, Bangalore; and Visvesvaraya

Technological University, Belgaum

A two-day workshop on research methodologies was organised by the Department of

Telecommunication Engineering, CMRIT, Bangalore; IEEE Bangalore Section; IEEE

Communications Society, Bangalore; and Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum

on 8th and 9th of May 2017. The workshop was attended by More than 100 participants.

The speakers include Dr Navin Kumar, Amrita University; Dr T. Srinivas, IISc; IEEE

Bangalore Section Treasurer Dr Y. V. S. Lakshmi . Dr S. N. Sridhar delivered three talks on

research methodologies.


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CLOUD SECURITY AND CREATING AND MANAGING CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

Avaya network closely works with ComSoc. Like Nokia, we have very understanding and

collaboration with Avaya Networks. Previous year, we organized 3-hald days workshop

(meet up). Avaya Networks in conjunction with ComSoc organized half day workshop in the

form of meet up to increase the awareness on Cloud security. Two of the industry speakers

spoke on security aspects while another two discussed about cloud infrastructure

management, the challenges and scopes.

ADVANCES IN 5G NETWORKS AND HETNET

The event was successfully organized along with Distinguished Lecture visit of Dr Ashutosh

Dutta and Special guest, Prof Lajos Hanjo, University of Southampton, UK. The event was

attended by over 100 participants from industry and academia. The main focus of the

workshop was a details session on HetNet with Prof Lajos. Lot of challenges were put on

table and discussed. In addition, Dr Aloknath De, discussed on key 5G development,

landscape and Samsung 5G drive and testbed.


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Other speakers included Mr Prasad from TIETO, Mr Santosh who spoke on architecture and

physical layer part respectively. While, Dr Ashutosh gave a detail explanation of security

aspect of 5G.


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GLOBAL 5G TUTORIAL SERIES

ComSoc Chapter hosted 5G Tutorial and jointly organized the first event of 2017 on 5G at

Taj Vivanta Bangalore. The Global IEEE 5G Learning Series is designed to demystify 5G

and train technology and industry teams with the knowledge of current 5G technologies and

developments. The following topics will be presented at the tutorial:

● Introduction to 5G

● Technology Evolution, Performance Requirements, and Metrics

● Conventional and Massive MIMO including mmWave Communication

● IT and Telecom Convergence Driving 5G

● Frugal 5G for India

● SDN-NFV

● OSS/BSS Impact

● 5G Applications

● 5G Security

The tutorial will feature speakers from industry and academia covering various topics:

● Sudhir Dixit, CEO and Co-Founder of Skyoot, Inc

● Abhay Karandikar, Institute Chair Professor in the department of electrical

engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

● Daya Kamath, Principal Engineer in the SDN Systems & Technology group at

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd, R&D division

● Devadas Pai , CEO Nanocell Technologies

● Rajesh Banda, Leading 5G Applications at Nokia

● Ashutosh Dutta, Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T‟s Chief Security Office

● Ravikiran Annaswamy, CEO of Innohabit Technologies

“5G is not only evolutionary, providing higher bandwidth and lower latency than current-

generation technology; more importantly, 5G is revolutionary, in that it is expected to enable

fundamentally new applications with much more stringent requirements in latency and

bandwidth," said Ashutosh Dutta, Lead Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T‟s Chief

Security Office and distinguished speaker at our first IEEE 5G Learning Series - Bangalore

Edition.


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EXCOM OTHER ACTIVITIES

EXPERT LECTURE

ComSoc ExCom members have been doing a lot of invited talks. Perhaps we, the ComSoc

experts lead and giving invited speech. Dr Dilip, Dr Aloknath De and Dr Navin, Mr Syam and

many have been pioneer in this. In addition, for many conferences and workshops, our

team members worked as General Chair, TPC Chair and so on.

Over 38 technical talks have been delivered by ComSoc ExCom members at different

platform be it at International conference, workshop, 5G Summit, Guest lecture, Invited and

Keynote. This is one of the mere achievements and commitment by ComSoc members.

Few of them are listed below:

Shashidhara Dongre Vice Chair ComSoc L&T Infotech Services

“Master Class on IoT” during the Industry – University partnership event organized by Zinnov.

Talk on “Digital in Manufacuturing”at Indian Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Chennai on

Dr Sambit Kumar Patra, Member Talk on “Insights into Cloud Security and Creating and Managing Cloud” infrastructure at workshop on Building Smarter and Safer India - Empowering Next Generation Tax Payer Radhakrishnan, Member thingTronics team conducted hands-on one day workshop at Amrita College of Engineering.

Jomy Jose, Member

Talk on “5G: Standardisation Status and Pre Standardisation Activities” at 5G Summit organized by ComSoc Kerala Section as part IEEE 5G Summit held in Trivandrum on 1st July 2017, which was hosted by IEEE ComSoc, Kerala Chapter. This was part of the IEEE ComSoc high impact one day Summits worldwide series in emerging technology areas like 5G.

Invited talk “Industry perspective on AI & IoT” at the National Level Student Research Symposium(SRS) at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore on August 31,2017 organized by IEEE Student Branch.


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Dr A. Paventhan, Member - Director (R&D), ERNET India, Bangalore

1. Panel member during Electronic Makers 2017 event during July 1-2, 2017 at

NethajiSubash Institute of Technology, New Delhi. The panel discussion was on the

theme of “Project based engineering education for Make in india” and presentation

was made on the topic of

“Executing complex Software projects – Industry‟s expectations from students and

how DIY projects will help in bridging the gap.” More details of the event at

http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/elecmak-july17.html

2. Participated as a Chief Guest at the 10th Annual day functions of Dr NGP Institute of

Technology, Coimbatore on April 1, 2017 and delivered a talk on “IoT opportunity to

engineering graduates”.

3. Presented on the topic of “IoT applications for intelligent electrical grid” during the

GIAN course on “Intelligent Electrical Power Grids” on December 1, 2017 organized

at Dept. of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, NIT

Tiruchirappalli.https://www.nitt.edu/home/EEE-GIAN-Intelligent-Electrical-Power-

Grids-v2.pdf

4. Invited talk presentation on “IoT Network Layers & Protocols” as part of the “One day

workshop on IoT for renewable energy” organized by Central Power Research

Institute,

Bangalore.http://www.cpri.in/events.html?task=single&cid[]=1005

http://ieee-cas-bangalore.org/reports/pics/elecmak-july17.html

https://www.nitt.edu/home/EEE-GIAN-Intelligent-Electrical-Power-Grids-v2.pdf

https://www.nitt.edu/home/EEE-GIAN-Intelligent-Electrical-Power-Grids-v2.pdf

http://www.cpri.in/events.html?task=single&cid%5b%5d=1005


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In addition, Dr Dilip K (Vice Chair), Syam M (Member), Dr Navin (Chair), Mr Kishore (Secretary) have delivered number of talks (close to 30) and chaired, TPC chaired and contributed in reputed conference in India and abroad.

STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER ACTIVITY REPORT

It has been a very eventful year for ComSoc Bangalore where Student activities were at its

relatively best compared to previous years‟.

AMRTIA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING COMSOC STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER

Amrita school of engineering (ASE) has developed and maintained a good and attractive website for student branch. Kindly visit the site and navigate to know more … https://ieee-amrita.firebaseapp.com/ ASE SBC has around 25 Student members with ComSoc Society membership. Faculty Advisor: Prof Sagar B, Asst Prof (SG), ECE Dept. Student Chair: Nikhil Pabbisetty, VI Semester Vice Chair: Shravan M, VI Semester Secretary: Ms Geethanjali J, VI Semester They have done some very good events during

Amrita School of Engineering has worked very hard in all fronts. They have not only increased the number of counts of graduate and undergraduate student members but also outperformed in different kinds of activities. Some of the important worth mentioning are listed below.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO CISCO – 19TH JANUARY 2017

The Industrial Visit to Cisco Campus, Cessna SEZ, Bangalore, organized by Amrita Networking Club on January 19, 2017 in collaboration with IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter exemplified the fact that seeing is believing.

The Industrial Visit concluded with a question and answer session after lunch, with students enthusiastically posing their queries to the leaders of technology from San Jose.

https://ieee-amrita.firebaseapp.com/

https://ieee-amrita.firebaseapp.com/


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HANDS- ON WORKSHOP ON ‘WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS AND INTERNET OF

THINGS’ 31ST JANUARY 2017

IEEE Comsoc Student Branch Chapter organized its first workshop on „Wireless Sensor Networks

and IoT for the even semester on 31st January, 2017. The guest speakers were Mr. Radhakrishnan

Arvapally and Mr. Lovelesh Patel, from „ thingTronics Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru‟. here were 83

participants including undergraduates, post-graduates, PhD. Scholars as well as faculties and the

event was a huge success. The event ended on a positive note with the award of memento to the

guests and a vote of thanks by Dr. Navin Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE.

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE- FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH

27TH-29TH MARCH 2017

IEEE ComSoc student branch chapter conducted its series of events for three consecutive days. The series of events began on 27th

March, 2016 with membership drive and awareness campaign. The objective behind this was to introduce the students, especially

freshers to IEEE and IEEE ComSoc. The drive helped in creating curiosity among the students who got to know about the benefits of

being an IEEE member and encouraged them to join as IEEE student members.

The next day witnessed an introductory session on „HOW TO PUBLISH AN IEEE PAPER‟ by Dr.

Navin Kumar, Asso. Professor, Department of ECE. The session proved to be very informative and

useful for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and they look forward for more such

sessions. It all started with a brief introduction to IEEE and IEEE


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TECH FEST- PRISON BREAK

For the Tech -Fest of Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore; IEEE Student Branch

chapters- ComSoc, PES, PELS and WIE along with the departmental forum of Electronics

and Communication Engineering organised a series of events cum competitions titled

„Prison break‟. The event took place on April 11th, 2017. Prison break consisted of three fun-

filled technical rounds.

MINI-WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN

Organized by ECE Department and IEEE ComSoc chapter

in Amrita school of Engineering

on Monday 17th

April, 2017 2 PM to 4 PM

Electronic System Level (ESL) is a new methodology of designing very complex multifunctional systems which comprise of diverse functional blocks both in hardware and software. This is SystemC based and thus can be done by both hardware/VLSI and embedded software engineers. This methodology saves lot of design time by making Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) and Virtual Prototyping available for designers to perform hardware-software codesign and co-verification. Almost all core companies like


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The workshop was attended by about 30 masters students and faculty and concluded with a lively discussion.

PRADARSHAN’17- 28TH APRIL 2017 ECIF in association with IEEE ComSoc organized the annual project exhibition for ECE and EIE streams titled Pradarshan on April 28, 2017. ECIF believes that the torch of innovation in technology is carried forward by these ambitious, enthusiastic students who offer their unique solutions to problems, and these innovations often start out in the shape of small projects. To give these engineers the launchpad to exhibit their projects and get the valuable feedback from the audience, ECIF conducts Pradarshan annually and awards the best projects of the exhibition. Over 100 students participated presenting a total of thirty projects in fields ranging from communication to robotics and smart cities. There was also a steady crowd of students who were keen to view to projects and learn more about the innovations. The event started at 9 am and went on till 4 pm giving the students ample amount of time for networking and exploring. There was a lot of interaction between students of various colleges leading to exchange of ideas and a greater understanding of various technologies.

FELICITATION OF OFFICE BEARERS AND EXECOMS: 2016-17, 15TH MAY 2017 To felicitate the committee members for the academic year 2016-17, a meet up was called organised

on 15th May, 2017. The session was taken by Dr. Navin Kumar, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE

and IEEE Student Branch Counsellor. He appreciated and acknowledged the committee members

for their contribution in various forms for IEEE. After giving a brief recapitulation of events conducted


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during the entire year, he discussed about few other upcoming events that ComSoc has planned to

host. He also elaborated upon the changes that should be brought about in the publicity and

management strategies in order to make ASE a better and more prosperous student branch.

All committee members received the certificates. The event ended on a positive note with high tea

and snacks.

R.V. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING BENGALURU

(Autonomous Institution affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Chapter Name: RVCE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter (Inaugurated on July 2016).

Faculty advisor - Dr S Ravishankar , Professor in the Dept. of ECE

[email protected] )

Faculty Coordinator- Dr. K S Shushruth Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE

([email protected])

RVCE Student Chair - Prakhar Jain, Student, Dept. of ECE ([email protected])

In 2017 the RVCE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter has organized five technical talks and a two day workshop related to various streams of communication.

THE BRIEF OUTLINES OF THESE EVENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS Sl. No Title of the Event Details of Trainer Date No. of

Participant

s

1 Technical talk on “Artifical

Intelligence”

Mr. Pharth Sharma,

Founder and CEO

KnightsRobo CORP

23/8/2017 26

2 A Technical Talk on “Opportunities

in Microwave and its Applications”

Dr. P Raghavendra RAO

scientist G[retd] and

Associate director [retd]

14/7/2017 25





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List of technical events conducted by RVCE-IEEE ComSocStudent Chapter in year 2017 is as follows

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE (IISC), COMSOC SBC,

BANGALORE

Faculty Advisor: Prof T Srinivas

3 Technical talk on ”Career

Guidance”

Vishwaniketan UG

Fellowship

4/4/2017 72

4 Technical talk on “Semiconductor

Technology ”

Mr.ShreedharVajpaye

Oracle USA

14/3/2017 42

5 Technical talk on “Career

Awareness Program”

M/s CoreEL Technologies 10/2/2017 27

6 Network on Chip Dr. John Jose, IIT

Guwhati

18-12-17 to

19-12-17

135


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FINANCIAL DETAILS

ComSoc operates a bank account and maintains the details. The NetSuite reporting is also done. Some of the transactions are highlighted. Current balance is approximately:

SUMMARY

Opening Balance (01-01-2017) : INR 1,63,993.83. Closing Balance ( 31-12-2017) : INR 201918.34. The above balance is as FD INR 1,80,000 and INR 21918.34 in Savings Account.

Bank Details

Date Remarks Debit Credit

Pass Book Entry

Balance as per IEEE FD

01-01-2017 Opening Balance 163993 18993.83 163993 145000

09-01-2017

NEFT from Bangalore Section 5000 23993.83 168993

09-01-2017 To CLFD 5000 18993.83 163993

01-02-2017 Interest from Bank 183 19176.83 164176

10-03-2017

Explara Registration 5G Workshop 11296.32 30473.15 175472.32

10-03-2017

Cash Withdrawal for 5G Workshop. (Prof Lajos Travel cost is paid to Jaybee INR 4450, Remaining in Cash reserve) 25000 5473.15 150472.32

10-03-2017 DRSN 5036 10509.15 155508.32

10-03-2017 DRSN 5068 15577.15 160576.32 135000

20-03-2017 Cheque Book Issue 100 15477.15 160476.32

23-03-2017

Explara Registration 34230.19 49707.34 194706.51

06-05-2017 DRSN 25797 45187.34 190186.51

06-05-2017 To CLFD 30000 15187.34 160186.51

12-05-2017 DRSN 51408 66595.34 211594.51 120000

12-05-2017

Regal Enterprises (5G Workshop Materials)- Cheque to Munir 21576 45019.34 190018.51

12-05-2017 To CLFD 30000 15019.34 160018.51


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24-05-2017

Nesara DD (5G Workshop)- Cheque to Srinivas sir via Lakshmi 28000 -12980.66 132018.51

24-05-2017 DRSN 28037 15056.34 160055.51

25-05-2017

Cheque to srinivas sir (for DLT and 5G) 19052 -3995.66 141003.51

07-06-2017

MATHWORKS NEFT (CosBin advertisement) 5500 22323.34 167322.51

14-06-2017

NEFT from Signature Technologies 38200 60523.34 205522.51

14-06-2017 To CLFD 40000 20523.34 165522.51

15-06-2017

ANAND M Cheque for ComSoc Dinner 14925 5598.34 150597.51

15-06-2017 DRSN 10000 15598.34 160597.51

12-07-2017

Explara Registration-Research Methodology WS 19600 32880.34 177879.51

12-07-2017 To CLFD 10000 22880.34 167879.51

13-07-2017

Explara Registration-Research Methodology WS 21800 44680.34 189679.51

13-07-2017 To CLFD 20000 24680.34 169679.51 159000

20-07-2017

Navin Kumar -Amrita SB support-(CHQ No. 879181) 13985 -4004.66 140994.51

20-07-2017 DRSN 19015 15010.34 160009.51

26-07-2017

Manikandan Chidambaram -Research Methodology WS Reimbursement-(CHQ No. 879180) 620 14390.34 159389.51

26-07-2017 DRSN 1001 15391.34 160390.51

01-08-2017 Interest from Bank 171 15562.34 160561.51 139000

06-11-2017

Cheque to Amrita University (CHQ No. 879184) 74534 -55316.66 89682.51

06-11-2017

Sweep from FD (DRSN) 10000 -45316.66 99682.51


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06-11-2017

Sweep from FD (DRSN) 40000 -5316.66 139682.51

14-11-2017

Cheque to A T Kisore (CHQ No. 879186) 2694 17637.34 162636.51

16-11-2017

Cheque to Munir Mohammad (CHQ No. 879185) 15453 2184.34 147183.51

16-11-2017

Sweep from FD (DRSN) 5000 18184.34 163183.51

30-12-2017

Bangalore Section Reimbursement Cheque 126680 141918.34 286917.51

31-12-2017

Sweep to FD (CLFD) 120000 21918.34 166917.51

01-01-2018 180000

697871 695795.5


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