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B.Tech. First Year Orientation Programme

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Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru held the Orientation Programme, which

marked the beginning of a new journey for young Engineering aspirants on the 31st of July,

2015. This was one of the most anticipated events by parents and students alike.

The newcomers and their parents were welcomed by Ms. Jyotsna, Assistant Professor &

Vice-Chair of Amritadhara. She also introduced the dignitaries present on the occasion. The

ceremony started with the lighting of the lamp by Poojya Swami Amritageetanandapuri.

Director Br. Dhanraj delivered the welcome speech. He stressed on the importance of being

focused while maintaining equanimity of the mind. Poojya Swami Amritageetanandapuri

continued by illustrating AMMA‟s magnanimity with riveting anecdotes and enlightened the

audience with his wisdom and vast knowledge of the intricacies of the human mind. The

Associate Dean Dr. Rakesh S.G. gave a bird‟s eye view of the activities of the School and

administered the oath to the new entrants. The Chief Guest, Mr. Prabhu Eshwarla, Director &

Head at HP Enterprises, Service Division, HP India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru encouraged the students

to make best use of the opportunity at hand and come up with innovative business ideas. After

the Vote of Thanks, which was proposed by Ms. Deepa K. Narayanan from the Department of

English, the Student-President of Amritadhara, Ms. Rachana Murthy, extended a hand of

welcome on behalf of all the seniors. Poojya Swami Amritageetanandapuri distributed the

Prasadam to the gathering, which was followed by a sumptuous meal arranged by the School for

all the parents and their wards.

B.Tech. First Year Orientation Programme

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IEEE - Women in Engineering

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IEEE is the world‟s largest association of technical professionals with more than

400,000 members in chapters around the world. Its objective is the educational & technical

advancement of electrical & electronic engineering, telecommunication, computer

engineering and allied disciplines.

In the Asia Pacific global region of IEEE, the Karnataka chapter has been recognized to

have the maximum number of members. One of the most significant component of the IEEE-

Karnataka chapter is the IEEE-WIE (Women In Engineering).

The various activities performed by the IEEE-WIE in the recent years are as follows:-

Encourage women to take up various career in the field of engineering.

Provide education and schooling to the underdeveloped strata of the society.

Provide opportunities to engineers of various fields to meet with the real world demands

by using their practical knowledge.

Guide and submit many projects and publications contributed by women authors.

The event „Women in Engineering‟ was held on 23rd of July, 2015 in Amrita School of

Engineering, Bengaluru. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Chair,

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, ASE-B. Dr. Lakshmi V.V.S., the

Chairperson of WIE-Karnataka Chapter proceeded on to give an exploratory speech. She

enlightened the gathering on how the WIE mainly functions and what are its major goals.

Dr. Preetha Sharan, Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication

Engineering, Oxford College of Engineering and also the supporter & mentor of all IEEE events

gave a brief technical explanation on the investigation of photonic-crystal based biosensor chip

and a non-invasive technique for sugar test.

The vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Mamatha I., Assistant Professor in the

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. The next upcoming event organized by the

IEEE-WIE will be the IEEE WIECON-ECE2015.

IEEE - Women in Engineering

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Papers Published

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Deeksha Vimmadisetti Tushar Sharma Ashwini Bhaskar Kavitha C.R.

“Data Security on Cloud: A survey, researchissues and challenges”

July, 2015 International Journal of Applied

Engineering Research(IJAER) Volume 10, Number 11 pp: 28875-28887

Anisha K.K. M. Wilscy

“Impulse noise removal from colour images usingfuzzy genetic algorithm”

July, 2015 International Journal for Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2015

T. Sasikala K. Vimal Reddy

“Matrix Approach of Apriori Algorithm using Subset Count Technique”

July, 2015 International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Research India Publications, ISSN 0973-4562, Vol.10, No.12 (2015) pp. 32149-32157 (Scopus indexed)

Kiran Teja Settipalli Rohit Polisetti Pradeep Kavitha C.R.

“Using Advanced Security on Location Privacy & Location Based Social Applications”

May, 2015 IJSETR (International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology Research) ISSN 2319-8885 Volume 4, Issue 11, May 2015, Pages:2055-2059 Impact factor: 2.916

Papers Presented

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT

Radhakrishnan G. Deepa Gupta Sindhuula Shrey Khokhawat Sudarshan T.S.B.

“Experimentation and Analysis of Time Series Data from Multi-path Robotic Environment”

10th - 11th July, 2015

IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE CONECCT 2015), Bangalore.

D. Nalineswari N. Rakesh

“Enhancement of Speech compression Based On Various Wavelet Transform, Run length Encoding and Thresholding”

24th - 25th July, 2015

International Conference on Computing Paradigms, Don Bosco College, Guezou Nagar Yelagiri Hills, Vellore District, India. Integrated Intelligent Research, Chennai, India.

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Dr. Tripty Singh:

Reviewed paper titled “An Improved Approach for Automatic Denoising and

Binarization of Degraded Document Images Based on Region Localization” for IET

Image Processing Journal.

Served as „Technical Program Committee Member‟ at International Conference on

“Signal Processing & Data Mining” held at Istanbul, Turkey during 26th-28th July,

2015.

Completed editorial assignment for STME Journal as Editorial Board Member in

July 2015.

Dr. Rakesh N.:

Invited to serve as „Technical Program Committee Member‟ for:

2015 International Conference on “Control Theory and Its Application

(CNTIA)” to be held during 15th - 17th December, 2015 in Vietnam

International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications

2015 to be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during October 14th -16th,

2015.

IEEE Eighth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 -

2015) which will be organized during 20th-22nd August 2015, Noida, India.

Invited to serve as „Designated Reviewer‟ for:

2015 International Conference on Machine Learning and Signal Processing

(MALSIP) to be held during 15th - 17th December, 2015 in Melaka, Malaysia.

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences attended

NAME TITLE NAME OF

THE

ORGANIZER DATE VENUE

Dr. Tripty Singh Ms. Sangita Khare

Workshop / Summer School on ‘Machine Learning and its Applications’

M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore

13th - 17th July, 2015

M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore

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2015 Advancement Research on Biotechnology, and Biofuels International

Conference (AR2BIO2015), will be held in Medan, Indonesia during 8th - 10th

December, 2015.

Mr. Ullas S. upon invitation gave a talk on “Etherchannel and Layer2 Redundancy” during

a workshop on Communication networks held in IISc., on 18th July 2015.

Forum Activities

Inter Community 2015

The Internet Society (ISOC) which is an international non-profit organization, is trusted

as the world‟s independent source of leadership for Internet Policy and Technology Standards.

The ISOC took up the initiative to conduct a global seminar named „Inter Community 2015‟.

With attendees from more than 141 countries and 15 regional nodes, it was an inter-continental

meeting of the Internet Society, on the Internet, for the Internet. The Bangalore Chapter which is

one of the regional nodes of the Internet Society administered this international conference in

the Bangalore Campus of Amrita School of Engineering on the 8th of July, 2015.

The highlight of the day was the panel discussion on the trending topic-“Net Neutrality”.

The eminent panelists who presided over the seminar voiced their opinions on the same. The

panel moderator for the day opened the deliberation by discussing the impending pros & cons of

implementing Net Neutrality in Indian society and the global markets as well.

Among the panelists were Ms. Vidhushi, Dr. Mahesh, Mr. Rajesh and Mr. Parmendar

Singh. The panelists were from varied sectors of IT, Private and Government Organizations. The

discussion included the introduction of the concept of Net Neutrality and Zero Rating, views on

the regulations of Net Neutrality and its ISP perspective in the present Indian market. The panel

discussion was followed by a two hour long international video conference which exposed the

audience to global views on Net Neutrality.

The alumni trio of ASE-B Mr. Suhas S.G., Mr. Arjun Abhinav and Mr. Subramanian

Ramviji orchestrated the events for the day under the guidance of the Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B.,

Chair, Dept. of CSE and coordination of the Departmental Forum FACE. The event was an eye

opener on the current scenario of Net Neutrality.

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Other News

150th Anniversary Celebrations of ITU

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) celebrated its 150th Anniversary

which also coincided with the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention 150 years

ago. As the United Nations' specialized agency for information and communication technologies

(ICT), this is a momentous year for all chapters of this organization.

To mark this occasion, the Bangalore Chapter of the ITU-Asia Pacific Telecommunity

Foundation of India (IAFI) has organized an event on the theme of „ICT for

Innovation‟ on Thursday, 9th July, 2015 at the premises of the International Institute of

Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B). The event was co-sponsored by Amrita School of

Engineering, Bengaluru Campus.

Dr. Sudarshan T.S.B. and Dr. Shikha Tripathi have been inducted as core members of

ITU-APT, Bangalore Chapter.

The event was attended by many senior professionals from industry and senior faculty

from academia. Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-B was the Guest of honor. Speakers included

Mr. P.K. Garg: Ex-Chair, Radio Regulation Board ITU, Dr. P.V. Anand Mohan: Advisor

CDAC, Dr. P.R. Kumar: Professor & College of Engg. Chair in Computer Engg. Texas A&M

University, USA.

The program had an auspicious beginning with lighting of lamp by the guests followed

by invocation song rendered by Ms. Priyadharshini, Asst.Professor from Department of CSE,

Amrita School of Engineering. Welcome address was given by Prof. Satish Manocha, Chairman

& Convener-IAFI, Banglore Chapter, he also spoke about the basic purpose and mission of ITU

and also put forth the message of Malcolm Johnson from Geneva.

Prof. S. Sadagopan in his address expressed that he was proud to be a part of the

celebrations and also spoke about the inventions of HP Pen drives and apple Computers. He

encouraged the youth to plunge into innovations as he stated that innovation is not expensive

and thereby making many expensive utilities available in more reasonable rates.

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P.K. Garg, gave the audience an insight about History & Role of ITU which is

headquartered at Geneva. He also spoke about various organs of ITU (International

Telecommunication Union) and how the Board is managed by Elected Officials.

P.R. Kumar briefed about the oncoming challenges in Cyber Physical Systems, the push

of technology comprising of Amplifiers Usage, Analog Control to Digital Control and pull of

applications like Resource Aware System, Automatic System for avoiding traffic and ensuring

safety. He also spoke about the historical view of Communication. A clipping of Zero Collision

Traffic using Cyber Physical System was also presented to audience.

P.V. Anand Mohan spoke about ITU committed to connecting world and how ICT

(Information Communication Technology) promotes development, importance of ICT

in today's era for E-government, E-Retail, E-education and so on. He was also for empowering

the farmers with the innovation.

Ganesh Jayadevan briefed about the innovation of Terra, a product used for money

transfer through various countries.

Followed by talks from various senior professionals was Vote of Thanks. Vote of

Thanks was proposed by Dr. V. Sridhar, Professor at IIIT-B.

The event ended with a high tea and networking which helped in close communication

with all the speakers and the learned.

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Mr. Louis Rapet from CPE Lyon Engineering School, Image processing and IT

department, France, who had joined Amrita Robotic Research Center (ARRC) as

an “International Student Intern” under the Global Internship Program of

Amrita University during March 2015 has successfully completed his

internship in July 2015. His intern project was on “Emotion Recognition from

4D videos”. He worked under the guidance of Dr. Shikha Tripathi (Chairman, Dept. of

ECE) and Ms. Suja P. (Dept. of CSE).

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Dr. Shikha Tripathi was part of the organizing committee to conduct the celebration of 150th

Year of the formation of ITU, which was coordinated by the Bengaluru Chapter of

International APT Foundation of India (IAFI). The event was conducted at IIIT, Bengaluru

on 9th July, 2015.

Dr. N. S. Murty attended the Third International Conference on Emerging Research in

“Computing, Information, Communication and Applications” ERCICA-2015 as the „Session

Chair‟ held on 31st July & 1st August 2015 at NMIT, Bengaluru.

Dr. Navin Kumar addressed the faculty members and students about the “IEEE Awareness

and Membership Drive” on 31stJuly, 2015 at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.

Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition

Papers Published

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Ganapathi Hegde Amritha Krishna R.S. Pukharaj Vaya

“Conservative Approximation-Based Full-Search Block Matching Algorithm Architecture for QCIF Digital Video Employing Systolic Array Architecture”

August, 2015 ETRI Journal Vol. : 37, No. : 4

A seminar titled “Information Theory and Coding Techniques” was delivered by

Mr. Sidharth, an Alumni of ASE Bengaluru (Batch 2009-2013), on 30th July, 2015 at Amrita

School of Engineering, Bengaluru. The speaker completed his Masters from Chalmers

University of Technology, Sweden and has got admit for Ph.D. at University of Bergen,

Norway. The purpose of the seminar was to give insight into the recent advancements in the

field. The seminar was organized by Dr. Shikha Tripathi, Ms. Latha, Ms. Neeta Mishra and

Ms. Nidhi Gangrade for VII Semester students of the Department of ECE. Around 50

students attended the seminar.

Other News

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Following faculty members attended the celebration of 150th Year of the formation of ITU

which was coordinated by the Bengaluru Chapter of International APT Foundation of India

(IAFI). The event was conducted at IIIT, Bengaluru on 9th July 2015.

Dr. N. S. Murty

Dr. Navin Kumar

Ms. Vinodhini M.

Mr. C. Babu

Mr. Satish Kumar

Ms. Ponni M.

Ms. Sonali Agrawal

Ms. Kavita Baliger

Ms. Neeta Mishra

Ms. Kirti S. Pande

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Workshops/ Seminars/ Conferences attended

NAME TITLE NAME OF THE ORGANIZER

DATE VENUE

Ms. Deepa K. Ms. Syama S.

Faculty Development Program on “Power System Lab”

ASE - Ettimadai,

Coimbatore 9th - 10th July, 2015

ASE - Ettimadai,

Coimbatore

Papers Published

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Athira S. Deepa K.

“Modified Bidirectional Converter with Current Fed Inverter”

June, 2015 “International Journal of Power

Electronics and Drive Systems” (IJPEDS),

Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2015, pp.396 – 410

Papers Presented

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Madusuthanan V. Rashmi M.R.

“Bi-directional Soft Switched Quasi Z-Source DC-DC Converter with Buck and Boost Capabilities”

24th July, 2015

International Conference on Soft Computing in Applied Science and Engineering-ICSCASE-2015

Sajina K.R. Rashmi M.R.

“Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Based D-STATCOM using Goertzel Algorithm”

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Dr. Kishore Naik Mude joined the department as Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) on 21st

July, 2015. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sri

Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India in 2008 and his M.Tech. degree in Electrical

Engineering from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India in

2010. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Lecturer at Amity University, Noida, India. He obtainted

his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy in March

2015. His current research interests include wireless power transfer for electrical vehicles

and power electronics. He has been the recipient of:

CARIPARO fellowship from Cash savings foundation of region Veneto, for

Doctoral Program, in University of Padova, Italy (2012-2014).

Guest Researcher Fellowship from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of

Padova, Italy to pursue three months research work in the area of Wireless power

Transfer under Professor Giuseppe Buja (Life fellow IEEE) at University of Padova,

Italy in the year 2011.

He has 1 international journal publication and 5 international conference publications to his

credit.

Other News

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Papers Presented

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Sadanand R.O.M. Chittawadigi R.G. Joshi R. Saha S.K.

“Virtual Robots Module: An effective visualization tool for Robotics Toolbox”

2nd - 4th July 2015

2nd International Conference on Advances in Robotics (Air 2015) organized by Robotics Society of India at BITS, Goa.

Sadanand R.O.M. Sairaman S. Sah P.H.B. Udhayakumar G. Chittawadigi R.G. Saha S.K.

“Kinematic Analysis of

MTAB Robots and its

integration with

RoboAnalyzer Software”

Mr. Sandeep Koundinya joined the department as „Assistant Professor‟ on 8th July,

2015. He has completed M.E. in Heat Power Engineering (2012) from Coimbatore Institute of

Technology, Anna University. He has completed B.E in Mechanical Engineering (2010) from

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Anna University. He possesses an Industrial

Experience of 3 years as a senior design engineer at WEG Industries Pvt. Ltd., Hosur. He has

worked in various fields such as Quality Control Circle Member, developer of spread sheet for

determining exact load on the bearings in the enquiry stage and preparation of technical spread

sheet to speed up the existing process.

He has filed an Indian Patent for “A New Simple and Compact Gear Box for adding the

Power of the two sources”. He has 1international journal publication, 1

national journal publication and 1 international conference publication

to his credit. His achievements include “The Best Outgoing student” for

overall performance (2006-2010) with a gold medal at BIT. His areas of

Interest are Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and

Refrigeration & Air Conditioning.

Other News

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Ms. Divya Sharma S.G., joined the department as „Faculty Associate‟ on 15th July,

2015. She has completed B.E. from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru in Industrial

Engineering & Management and M.Tech. in Engineering Management from Dayanand Sagar

College of Engineering, Bengaluru.

She possesses an industrial experience of 3 years. Her areas of interest include Supply

Chain Management, Project Management, Manufacturing Process/Technology etc.

Mr. Basavaraj Noolvi joined the department as „Assistant Professor‟ on 18th July, 2015.

He has completed B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from BDT College of Engineering,

Davanagere, M.Tech. degree in Machine Design from R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru

and he is pursuing his Ph.D. in the area of Smart Materials at R.V. College of Engineering

affiliated to VTU.

He possesses a total teaching experience of close to 10 years in various institutions such

as Basava Academy of Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, East West Institute of

Technology and Acharya Institute of Technology, Bengaluru in various capacities.

He holds two international conference publications and a national conference publication

to his credit. His areas of interest are Smart Materials, Micro and Smart Systems.

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Papers Published

International Journal

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Tattwa Darshi Panda K.V. Nagaraja

“Finite Element Method for Solving Eigenvalue Problem in Waveguide Modes”

June, 2015 Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 11(3), 1241-1251 (Indexed: Scopus)

Narahari N. B. Sooryanarayana Geetha K.N.

“Open Neighborhood Chromatic Number of Antiprism Graph”

May, 2015 Applied Mathematics e-notes (Indexed: Scopus)

Dr. Sarada Jayan conducted a faculty development programme in “Linear Algebra” for the

faculty & research scholars in the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science of

Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi on 16th July, 2015.

Other News

Papers Presented

International Conference

NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

Amrita Thakur Giridhar Reddy S.

“Greener approach towards the synthesis of silver nanoparticles by biological methods-A Review”

8th -10th July 2015

International Conference on “Recent Advances in Nanoscience and Technology” RAINSAT-15 held at Sathyabama University

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Placements Update

The second phase of Mu Sigma placements was held in Coimbatore campus on 3rd

July, 2015. In total 18 students from Bengaluru campus have been hired by Mu

Sigma, where 8 students are from ECE, 6 students from CSE, 2 students from EIE, 1

student from EEE and 1 student from ME.

Three students were placed in Zoho Corporation which was conducted on 15th and

16th July.

Charge Bee Solutions conducted Placement Drive on 24th and 25th July, 2015 and

one student - Mr. Siva Reddy - from the department of CSE got placed.

Internships Update

Four students were placed and nine students were selected for Internship by CISCO.

Wipro conducted an Internship Drive for the M.Tech. students and 2 students from

Bengaluru Campus got selected.

It is a matter of prestige that Ms. R. Snigdha of 2nd year CSE, secured 2nd rank in the

National Creativity Aptitude Test-2015 (NCAT). She received a cash prize of Rs.15,000

and attended a 1 week course on Creativity and Innovation at IIT- Delhi from 13th -18th

July, 2015.

Freshers World conducted a Campus Assessment Test on 29th July, 2015 which was

facilitated by CIR, Bengaluru.

T.I.M.E. (Triumphant Institute of Management Education) initiated a one-day GATE

Technical Workshop for the 2017 POB on 30th July, 2015.

A two day FDP that explored dynamic meditations on personal energy system &

emotional health was conducted by Mr. A.D. Balakrishnan for the CIR team on 13th and

14th July, 2015.

Dr. Rakesh S.G. Associate Dean & Head

Chief Editor

Mr. Rajesh M. Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Sangita Khare Assistant Professor

Department of CSE

Editor

Ms. Vasanthi ES to Associate Dean

Editor

Board Members Ms. Sreevidya B. (Department of CSE) Ms. Kirti S. Pande (Department of ECE) Ms. Lekshmi S. (Department of EEE) Ms. Mrudula Prashanth (Department of ME) Mr. H. Manjunath (Department of Physics) Dr. Neetu Srivastava (Department of Mathematics) Ms. Deepa K. Narayanan (Department of English) Mr. Shiju Kumar (ICTS)

“It’s better get worn out than rust away.”