Jan-Feb

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Research

IIIT-Delhi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS Delhi) to jointly address the challenges facing India’s healthcare sector through digital health innovations.

Space Systems Laboratory at IIIT-Delhi (headed by Dr. Sanat K. Biswas) has received a research grant from ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation for their project titled "Multisensor data fusion and Orbit determination with nonlinear estimation for space debris RADAR".

Dr. Mrinmoy Chakrabarty (Faculty, SSH-IIITD) has received the Core Research Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board - SERB, Govt. of India.

Dr. Debarka Sengupta (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi, and Head of Infosys Center for Artificial Intelligence, IIIT-Delhi) received the Core Research Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board - SERB

Prof. Vivek Bohara (Professor and Head, ECE Department, IIIT-Delhi) has received the prestigious CHANAKYA Faculty Fellowship from Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) IoT in IIT Bombay

Awards and Recognitions

Vivek Ruhela (SBILab, IIITD) and Ashutosh Vaish (SBILab, IIITD), under the supervision of Prof. Anubha Gupta, presented two individual posters at IEEE SPS Conclave (Delhi Chapter) and secured second and third positions respectively for the presentations at IEEE SPS Conclave (Delhi Chapter)

ScrapUncle- a start-up by IIITD Alumni Mukul Chhabra (Founder & CEO) and Ashutosh Kumar (CTO), bags itself a deal from Shark Amit Jain at Shark Tank India.

𝐃𝐫. 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐘𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐯, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃., 𝐈𝐈𝐈𝐓-𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐡𝐢, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 shares the 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐂𝐌 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 for her dissertation titled "𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚"

Dr. Angshul Majumdar has been elected as member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning.

Dr. Gaurav Ahuja (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) has received the INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2022.

IIITD Team from Algorithms to Architecture lab, ECE department won second prize in VLSID 2023 Design Contest.

Academic Events

Alumni Talk titled "Applying for higher education in the USA" by alumna Prerna Singh (B.Tech ECE, Class of 2017)

Center for Design & New Media IIIT Delhi in collaboration with the Department of Human Centered Design - IIITD, organised "Painting Demonstration."

Public keynote lecture by Professor Gerd Gigerenzer on 'How To Be Smart In A Smart World.'

I𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 on the topic ‘𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬: 𝐀 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬’ (Professor at the University of Delaware).

Other Key Events

IIIT-Delhi’s annual cultural fest, Odyssey 2023

Library and Information Center at IIIT-Delhi conducted a Two Days' Annual Book Exhibition on campus

Annual Alumni Meet, Retrace

ECO Club at IIIT-Delhi conducted a clean-up drive

Book Exchange Week

ECE Department, IIIT-Delhi organized INDUSTRY DAY on campus

Library and Information Centre recently organized a webinar on 'Birdwatching' wherein the speaker, Mr. Saurabh Sawant (Naturalist, Wildlife Photographer & Filmmaker)

Publications

Paper titled An Energy Efficient Dual IRS-aided Outdoor-to-Indoor Communication System by Mohd Hamza Naim Shaikh, Prof. Vivek Ashok Bohara, Prof. Anand Srivastava & Dr. Gourab Ghatak is accepted in IEEE Systems Journal.

Paper titled "A Sense Amplifier Based Bulk Built-In Current Sensor for Detecting Laser-Induced Currents" authored by Debjit Batabyal, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Rajnish Kumar Mishra, Dr. Anuj Grover has been recently presented at the 36th International VLSI Design & Embedded Systems conference (VLSID 2023).

The work titled ANROL: Autonomous Navigation based on ROS and Laser Odometry by students Akshat Vikram Singh and Yash Agrawal (under ECE labs) mentored by Dr. Rahul Gupta and Mr. Abhishek Kumar and guided by Prof. Vivek Ashok Bohara has been accepted in IEEE COMSNETS 2023. The work was shortlisted for both poster and demo presentations.

Book titled “Remaking Cities- Urban Reforms in Ahmedabad and Kanpur, India” by IIITD faculty Dr. Praveen Priyadrashi gets published by Routledge in Europe and North America. A South Asia edition will be published shortly.

Paper entitled "Reliable and Cost Effective All Optical Wireless Architecture for Broadband Access Network" by Priyanka Singh, Dr. Vivek Ashok Bohara, and Dr. Anand Srivastava has been accepted for publication in IEEE/OSA Journal of optical communication and networking (JOCN), 2023.

Growing IIIT-Delhi Community

Dr. Anmol Srivastava has joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design - IIITD

Invited Talks

Dr. Ganesh Bagler (Faculty at Dept. of Computational Biology, IIIT-Delhi) is delivered a talk at tedxiiserpune on the topic “Computational Gastronomy: Making Food Computable”

COMBIZ - The Commerce Academic Society at Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University, recently organized a Guest talk by Prof. Pankaj Vajpayee (Professor of Practice, IIIT-Delhi)) on the topic 'Opportunities and risks associated with numerous investment options'.

Student Aniket Gupta (B.Tech ECE, 3rd year), delivered his third TEDx talk at TEDxDME Noida themed "Climate Champions: Localising the net zero agenda".

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