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Under the Innovation Awards program, currently following mentors are supporting IITR students:
Prof. Ajay Pandey, Finance, IIM Ahmedabad
Mr. Alok Kansal, Principal Executive Director, Railway Board
Mr. Anand Prakash, CEO & Founder, Farm for Full Potential LLP
Mr. Anil Joshi, President, GSPC LNG Limited
Mr. Atul Srivastava, Principal, Intueor Consulting, Inc.
Dr. Hari Srivastava, Director, DRDO
Prof. Manjit Yadav, Head of Marketing, Texas A&M University
Mr. Sanjay Nagi, Founder and MD , Market Insight Consultants
Mr. Sudhir Gupta, MD, Smart Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Vivek Varma, Service Delivery Executive (EU & US), The Nielsen Company
Out of around 55 entries, eight projects were selected for final presentation under the program for the year 2020.
Eight teams/participants presented their projects that were finally selected for jury :
Development of antimicrobial fabrication strategy for surgical instruments to control surgical site infection
Algorithmic Level Approach for Imbalanced Data Classification
Smart Navigation System for Visually Impaired
Increasing Stevia yield and Steviol Glycosides content
Image-to-Image Translation using GANs
The Production and Optimization of Amylase by Isolated Rhizopus Oryzae in Novel Solid-State Fermenter
Unpaired Video-to-Video Translation Using Adversarial Networks
Smartphone based detection of Synthetic Milk.
Jury of six judges evaluated the projects. Jury consisted of judges from IITR faculty and 1983 alumni (India and USA):
Prof. M. K. Pathak, Electrical Eng., IITR
Prof. Vishal Kumar, Electrical Eng., IITR
Prof. Shri Ram Yadav, Bio-Technology, IITR
Prof. Manjit Yadav, HOD Marketing, Texas A&M University
Mr. Anil Joshi, President, GSPC LNG Limited
Prof. Ajay Pandey, Finance, IIM Ahmedabad
Atul Srivastava (1983 Alumni Coordination Committee), and Anand Prakash, Dr. Hari Srivastava, and Harpal Singh (all mentors/sponsors) supported organization of the jury and presentations.