Congratulations to the Winners!!!

The final round of Professional Development & Innovation Awards 2020  has been completed.

The high quality of all the presentations was appreciated by the jury as well as observers. The decision to select the top innovators was not easy due to technical depth of the topics and their potential impact to the society in long term. Visit  Jury and Final Presentation page for more details.

After detailed evaluation and deliberations, jury unanimously decided on the awards...

And the award goes to...

1.    Best Innovation

“Smart Navigation System for Visually Impaired” by Diviya Singh, Kishan Kumar, Muskan Mittal  

Supervisors:  Prof(s) G N Pillai and P Sumathi

Mentor: Mr Sanjay Nagi 

 2.    Judge’s Choice 

Co-winners are

a.    “Algorithmic Level Approach for Imbalanced Data Classification” by Harsh Patel

Supervisors: Prof(s) G N Pillai and  Alex Kot

Mentor: Dr Hari B Srivastava

b.    “The Production and Optimization of Amylase by Isolated Rhizopus Oryzae in Novel Solid-State Fermenter” by Rajan Patel

Supervisor:  Prof Sanjoy Ghosh

Mentor: Mr Anand Prakash

Current Mentors (Year 2020)

Under the Innovation Awards program,  currently following mentors are supporting IITR students:

1. Prof. Ajay Pandey, Finance, IIM Ahmedabad

2. Mr. Alok Kansal, Principal Executive Director, Railway Board

3. Mr. Anand Prakash, CEO & Founder, Farm for Full Potential LLP

4. Mr. Anil Joshi, President, GSPC LNG Limited

5. Mr. Atul Srivastava, Principal, Intueor Consulting, Inc.

6. Dr. Hari Srivastava, Director, DRDO

7. Prof. Manjit Yadav,  Head of Marketing, Texas A&M University

8. Mr. Sanjay  Nagi, Founder and MD , Market Insight Consultants

9. Mr. Sudhir Gupta, MD, Smart Holdings Pvt. Ltd. 

10. Dr. Vivek Varma, Service Delivery Executive (EU & US), The Nielsen Company

Thanks to the jury for their time!

Congratulations also to Project Supervisors and mentors!!

Thanks to all involved from IITR and 1983 Class for their support!!!