Jury and Final Presentation

Jury and final presentations for the awards were held on Saturday June 27, 2020 from 8-10 AM IST.  

Besides the IITR students (presenters), Project Supervisors, Mentors, and other IITR alumni attended the presentations. There were about 25 people on the WebEx session used for bringing people together that were spread from IITR campus, to students homes in India, and jury, mentors and alumni from India to USA. Prof. Rajat Agrawal and Dr. Vivek Varma coordinated the jury and final presentations.  

Major highlights are given below:

• Eight teams/participants presented their projects that were finally selected for jury :

1. Development of antimicrobial fabrication strategy for surgical instruments to control surgical site infection

2. Algorithmic Level Approach for Imbalanced Data Classification

3. Smart Navigation System for Visually Impaired

4. Increasing Stevia yield and Steviol Glycosides content

5. Image-to-Image Translation using GANs

6. The Production and Optimization of Amylase by Isolated Rhizopus Oryzae in Novel Solid-State Fermenter

7. Unpaired Video-to-Video Translation Using Adversarial Networks

8. 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):

1. Prof. M. K. Pathak, Electrical Eng., IITR

2. Prof. Vishal Kumar, Electrical Eng., IITR

3. Prof. Shri Ram Yadav, Bio-Technology, IITR

4. Prof. Manjit Yadav,  HOD Marketing, Texas A&M University

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

6. 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.

IITR Students Presenting Their Projects on June 27th

Out of around 55 entries, following projects were shortlisted under the program for the year 2020. Currently, following projects are participating in the program and heading for final presentation in June 2020: