Achievements in WorldQuant’s International Quant Championship ’24:

QuantnumQuant, in WorldQuant’s International Quant Championship ’24. In the first stage of the competition, we achieved remarkable results:

• University Rank : 1
• India Rank : 14
• Global Rank : 23

Out of 40,000 teams worldwide, our university also secured an impressive 2nd place globally among more than 1,000 participating universities.

Our team members are:

• Vivek Gautam [22BLC1158]
• Krish Bagga [20BAI1044]
• Ratneshwar [20BAI1192]
• Sampanna Salaya [23BCB0141] (Vellore Campus)

STM32 Contest 2024 Winners

Students from Third Year ECE have secured 3rd place in the recently conducted STM32 Innovation Fair 2024 conducted by ST Microelectronics, Noida which took place in Greater Noida, and their work was selected after several rounds of competition with more than 60 teams nationally.  The project title is “Solar Coastal Trash Collector”. They have been awarded with a prize amount of $250.

Team

Faculty mentor – Dr Sofana Reka S

Students

21BEC1311 – K Gokul Prasad
21BEC1302- J Threvikram
21BEC1455 – Sreyas G S
21BEC1703 – Ashwanth M
21BEC1415 – Kavali Durga Divyasri Sai

First Prize in Kashi Tamil Sangam:

Our student Vidhyashree S (22BEC1173) has received the 1st prize in the experience sharing competition of ‘Kashi Tamil Sangam’ jointly organized by IIT-M and Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

It is truly remarkable to also share that she received an award, certificate, books and a Cash prize of ₹10,000/-  from the Hon’ble Governor of TN, Shri RN Ravi on 21st March 2024 at Raj Bhavan, Guindy.

Winner Data Analytics Hackathon:

Our student, S. Mithilesh (22BEC1482), has won first place in the Data Analytics Hackathon held at Vashisht: NexusAeon Techfest at IIITDM Kancheepuram.
Mithilesh’s winning project focused on “Improving Road Safety through AI-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)”.

Winners – Vimarsh 2023 5G Hackathon

Our students team Innoventures consists of Lighittha P R (22BLC1236), Sundara Srivathsan (22BLC1060), and Prithivraj (22BLC1120) emerged as winners at the Vimarsh 5G Hackathon National Finals, under Problem Statement 5: Develop a Data Analytic using 5G Metadata for Predictive Policing, Hotspot Detection, Crime Mapping, and Geo Fencing.

Faculty Mentor : Dr. S. Markkandan  Assistant Professor – SENSE

The team received the prize from the esteemed Home Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, at the prestigious ceremony held in New Delhi. The presence of distinguished personalities, including MOD-2 Director (Modernization) BPR&D, Director (R&CA) BPR&D, DG, BPR&D, Director, IB, Union Home Secretary, Secretary, DOT, DG, Telecom, DDG, (SRI)ITS, CEO(I4C), and JOINT SECRETARY (BM-I/CIS), added to the significance of the event.

1^st Prize at IEEE Yesist Prelims

Our students have won 1st prize at IEEE Yessit (Maker Fair) Preliminary round held at Sri Sairam Institute of Technology on 1st March 2024.

Team Members 

1. SHWETANK SHEKHAR(22BEC1204) – Team Lead
2. HARSHIT KUMAR SINGH (22BLC1079)
3. UTKARSH ROUNAK (22BLC1392)
4. SHASHWAT MISHRA (22BEE1264)

Faculty Mentor – Dr. Sheena Christabel Pravin

First Place in Pragyan ’24 Ingenium Inter-College Hardware Hackathon

A team of first-year students from SENSE, Team NAMO NIRVANA, has secured the First Place in the Ingenium Inter-College Hardware Hackathon at Pragyan ’24, organized by NIT Trichy on 24th February 2024.

The team members, Harsh Yadav (23BLC1140), Thakur Akshaykumar Raj (23BLC1120), Avishkar Jaiswal (23BLC1174), and Aqeeb Akeel (23BLC1040), showcased their exceptional talents with their project, “Terrain Scout: A multi-operational defense rover for the defense technology problem statement.” The team’s work not only demonstrates their technical expertise but also their commitment to solving real-world challenges.

Faculty Mentor : Dr. Saurav Gupta, Assistant Prof Sr – SENSE

Outstanding Achievement – Worldwide inter Collegiate Chess League – CCL

VIT students represented division 5 among 25 teams worldwide in the recently concluded annual World Wide Inter-Collegiate Chess competition hosted by Chess.com from September 23 to November 19, known as the “Collegiate Chess League- CCL”. Against cut -throat competition involving over 200 colleges from 100 universities globally, our team won the second place.Our team achieved victory over nine international teams, including prestigious institutions such as the University of Texas (Dallas), Boston College, and the University of South Florida

Team Members:

1. Sai Krishna (21BEC1804)

Adit Pushan K (22BCE1493)

1. Rohan Kailash (21BRS1373)

Student participation and interaction with our PM in Kashi Tamil Sanghamam

Our student 22BEC1173 Vidhyashree S was selected by the Ministry of Education to participate in Kashi Tamil Sanghamam. She also interacted (in Gujarati) with our honourable prime minister Shri Narendra Modi on 17.12.23 at Namo ghat, Varanasi.

Her interview has been featured in the following:

1. Official Facebook page of the ministry of education.
2. DD News live on 15th December.
3. Official Instagram, Facebook and X pages of Kashi Tamil Sanghamam.

Selected in NXP WIT Program:

Ms. S Sruthi Priya (22BLC1069), B.Tech Electronics & Computer Engineering, VIT, Chennai has been selected for the prestigious Women in Tech program by NXP.

The WIT Program is a unique and exciting opportunity for women engineering students . The WIT program received more than 8500+ students registration across India where in 750+ were shortlisted for aptitude test, further 151 were called for interviews and finally top 60 were selected.

Project Presentation at Military College of Telecommunication Engineering:

Kamakhya Bhatnagar, a third-year student of the ECM program presented her project at AVINA 2023, an event organized by the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering in Mhow. This event witnessed participation from prestigious institutions in India, including IIT and MCTE, featuring students pursuing M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees.

Kamakhya’s project, focused on the transformation of engineering into military applications, received notable recognition during the presentation ceremony. Her certificate was awarded by Major General Dy. Comdt & CI, Sanjay Sajjanhar. As one of the youngest female presenters and an intern under the guidance of Col. Makam Kumar, the Head of Informatics at MCTE, she underwent extensive training in areas such as NLP,

Gold medal winner in NCC TSC Delhi camp

Our NCC cadet Almaz Komath 21BEC1027 participated in TSC Delhi Camp 2023 representing the Tamil Nadu NCC contingent and won the Gold medal in the Health and Hygiene competition held at New Delhi.

Best Paper Award:

Our student (20BLC1096)Pyla Ratan has received the “Best Paper Award” with his Mentor Dr. Logesh R. (Centre for Advanced Data Science, VIT-Chennai) for their research paper titled “PHSRS: The Privacy-preserving Healthcare Service Recommender System” in the International Conference on Recent Trends in Data Science and its Applications (ICRTDA 2023) (IEEE Proceedings and SCOPUS Indexed) held at SRM University, Kattankulathur-Chennai on 31st  March, 2023.

• Boggarapu Lokesh(20MVD1016) bagged third prize in the design competition organized by SATHISH DHAWAN SPACE CENTRE SHAR (SDSC), Sriharikota during the world space week-2020.He designed the Tunnel Field Effect Transistor(TFET) in the satellite Communication.

• DIPAN POLLEY(18BLC1017) of third year won in the software edition of Smart India Hackathon 2020 under the Team Name of TechnoBuilder
  

• Congratulation  Nikhil Thomas John(17BEC1092).  He secured “All India Rank 1 at the National Engineering Olympiad 2020”.NET is an educational aptitude competition and assisting the development of competitive spirit among the young engineers in India

• V.Swetha(19BEC1340) represented her NCC Directorate at the Annual NCC Republic Day camp,held at NewDehli

• Our students Yogeeshwar S(18BEC1343) and Vishwath Kumar B S(18BEC1289) in the name of team intelli SENSE representing India for the 2021 Microsoft Imagine Cup – World Finals. Intelli-Sense, a cross-functional team of four innovation inspired minds, striving to bring up a solution to an unattended field of Visual Impairment. They providing solutions to help visually challenged people to perceive their surroundings in real-time with a higher emphasis on foreground, colour, and vibrancy of the surrounding, providing insights from the passage with multilingual support in their native language and providing a better and facile solution to cruise through life in a new shape.
  
• Shwetha.S(18BEC1232), A.R.Mirunalini(18BEC1035), S.Varsha Sri(18BEC1243), Roshani Anil Narkhede(20MVD1013) ,and Nasim.K(20MVD1019) were selected for the semi-finals as one of the 100 semi-finalists from among 1200 Quarter-finalists in the swadeshi-microprocessor-challenge and received a cash prize of 1,00,000 and the FPGA Board ported with Swadeshi Processor to showcase the proof of concept(POC) and a Minimum viable prototype(MVP)
• Surya sivaram(18BLC1124), Maalolan kannan(18BLC1077) ,and Jacob Jebaraj V(18BEC1107) won second place and Rs.20000 worth of tablets in the event of Cisco Webex Virtual Hackathon. COVIT-A novel campus protection system is the outstanding innovation, modelled by our students
• Rudra Patil(18BLC1104) bagged first runner-up of the EY-Toycathon #iSolve4aBillion challenge. His team created a solution to prioritize #COVIDVaccine delivery using AI/ML

• Abhav Thakur(18BLC1087) and Yashi Srivastava(19BLC1065) were the winners of Digital Edition in Toycathon 2021.They created a innovative conceptualize novel Toy and Games based on Bharatiya civilization with their innovative minds
• Nandini Sachan of team MAPATHON3817 recognized as a WINNER in the IITB-ISRO-AICTE Mapathon, an initiative of the FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Education) Project, IIT Bombay in association with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)and AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education)
  

• Nikil Thomas John

• Ridhi Samavedam:

• Congratulations to our 2nd year B.Tech Electronics & Computer Engineering student Mr.Shoham Sengupta (Regno: 16BLC1001). His idea has bagged the 1st prize “Google Pixel 2” in the WiFi ThinkFestv2.0 contest conducted by Mojo networks & Nanocell networks. He has won the 1st prize for his innovative idea contributing to BharatWIFI among 500+ registrations and 70+ ideas from across the globe. A panel of jury screened the idea and shortlisted 5 ideas. Those ideas got a chance to present at 5th WiFi Knowledge Summit and top 3 winners were announced.
• Soham Sengupta II Year ECM has made us all proud with his award-winning idea that featured in the following media report coverage in DT Next basis. About DT Next: DT Next is a part of Dina Thanthi, which is the largest circulated newspaper in Tamil Nadu, and is also the 5th largest read newspaper in the country.

• Dr. Srikanth, Chief Knowledge Officer, Nanocell Networks presenting the prize “Google Pixel” to the WIFI ThinkFest v2 Contest Winner Mr.Shoham Sengupta during the National Level Seminar Event “WIFI Knowledge Express” conducted in our VIT Chennai Campus on March 24, 2018 (Saturday).
• The Optical Society of America (OSA), Student Chapter VIT Chennai is happy to share that Mr. Mayur Sonthalia (16BLC1059 – II Year B. Tech ECM, SENSE), Chapter Secretary represents our Chapter in the Student Leadership Conference (SLC) and Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2018, held in Washington Hilton, Washington D.C, USA during 14-20, September 2018. The VIT Chennai OSA Student Chapter has been sending student representatives to SLC in last four consecutive years since its inception.
• Mr. Mayur Sonthalia is awarded with full travel grant to represent the VIT Chennai OSA Student Chapter in the SLC, Washington D.C, USA. The travel grant sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA) Student Leadership Council, includes roundtrip air fare, Housing, complementary registration to Frontiers in Optics (FiO)/Laser Science 2018.
• The OSA VIT Chennai Chapter was founded in our campus in November 2014. The chapter provides information and inspiring interactions that power achievements in the science of light, to our budding engineers. Students thereby get an opportunity to network amongst their international peers, facilitating their professional and personal success, instilling the best practices to drive their career forward.

Past recipients of the OSA SLC travel grant from VIT Chennai

Year 2017:

• SLC and FiO/LS, Washington Hilton, Washington D.C, USA (September 2017)
• Mr. Parmar Harshdeepsinh (16BEC1185) B. Tech ECE, SENSE)

Year 2016:

• SLC and FiO/LS, Rochester, New York, USA
• Mr. Srivatsa Rajesh, B.Tech, ECE, SENSE

Year 2015:

SLC and FiO/LS, San Jose, California, USA

• 1. Ms. Sonika Oberoi, B.Tech, ECE, SENSE
• 2. Mr. Praveen Phinehas M, Research Scholar, SENSE

Dr. Anith Nelleri(Associate Professor) 

Faculty Advisor, Optical Society of America (OSA), VIT Chennai Chapter.School of Electronics Engineering | VIT Chennai

• Sonikha Oberoi — Awarded the Best student award for her achievement by the OSA Foundation. Nominated as Executive Committee Officer of the prestigious Polarization Technical Group at Optical Society of America (OSA), Washington D.C, USA. She has won GV special achiever award in 2016

• Arikatla Sanjay— “Smart E-Meter”-This project has been selected for “Driving Innovation: HACKATHON 2016” conducted by “Make In India” which was held in IIT Bombay. This event has been live streamed in official Make in India Youtube channel. He was interviewed by CNN-IBN.

• Purushottam Gupta — The first ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineering) Innovation Contest which drew entries from around the world, with practitioners, project managers, educators, researchers, and students attracted to the challenge of developing and submitting their most creative and innovative ideas for reshaping infrastructure. Our student is one of the top 15 Winners in two awards categories  Best Value
• Best Student Innovation (tie)
  Title:“Advanced Drone Technology to Handle Disaster in Underground Construction and Mining Sites”

• Pawar Bhaskar Bhanudas, Nikhil M N and Desai Nitin Sadashiv — Winner of Microsoft competition [Hackathon Openness Day 2016] held at Hyderabad. Their project is selected in top 10 best projects.

• S.Vetrivel (M.Tech by Research) — Won III prize in the International Conference on Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology, 7-10 Dec 2015 for his paper entitled “Design & Simulation of a doubly clamped Accelerometer with Integrated silicon nanowire piezoresistors” held at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode in association with World Class University, GiST, South Korea.

• The Team “Airavata” participated and won Fourth Rank in University CanSat Challenge 2015-16 conducted by the Applied Research and Development Laboratories (ARDL), Bangalore.
  Team members:
  Ketan Gupta (Team Leader), Yashvardhan , Amarendra Rout and Manmeet Singh with Dr.M.Jagannath as faculty advisor.

• Kothareddy Charan Thej Reddy secured 93rd rank in All India level in GATE-2016.
• Ishwarya Rajkumar III Year Student (2016-17) of School of Electronics Engineering VIT Chennai has been selected for the ACM Student Research Competition 2016 to be held at Houston Texas USA during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing organised by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery. The Competition is sponsored by Microsoft Research USA and is scheduled on October 19, 2016. The research work “Smart Fabric for Foetal Monitoring” – a sensor based approach to detect abnormality in foetal movements in real-time was guided by Dr. Susan Elias Associate Professor School of Electronics Engineering VIT Chennai. ACM’s SRC Travel Award of 500 USD has been granted for the travel expenses.

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She represented the Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar (TNP & A) Directorate. The selection process began in July 2019 and Ms. Swetha successfully completed all her missions to get selected to the prestigious NCC contingent representing TNP & A Directorate. At New Delhi, she was part of the Directorate’s cultural team and was MC and in charge of briefing of Flag Area. Dr. Sekar Viswanathan, Vice President, VIT, congratulated Swetha for her meritorious performance.

III-year B.Tech(ECE) student Aylmer Britto R (16BEC1079) along with co-Authors Swastika Palit(16BME1218) and Shreya Sinha (16BLC1069) attended 2nd ICIRSTM in National University of Singapore (NUS) on 29.09.2018 and 30.09.2018 to present our research paper titled as “Design and Analysis of a Novel IOT Controlled Biomimetic Robotic Fish” and won the Best Student Paper award in that conference.

B.Tech (ECE) student Vikas Yadav (15BEC1081) won Outstanding Performance  on achieving First Place in Linear Integrated Circuits (Winner Certificate) by Texas Instruments held on 10^th June 2018.

ABHISHEK VERMA (16BEC1075), PIYUSH SINGH(16BEC1120) under the guidance of Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex presented  a paper titled on ”Modified Convolutional Neural Network Architecture Analysis for Facial Emotion Recognition” in 26th  International conference on systems, signals and image processing (IWSSIP-2019), 5-7 June 2019,Osijek, Croatia

IONS Manipal 2019: (January 11th – 14th, 2019)

Name of student – Utkal Pandurangi (Reg No – 16BEC1094)

Poster presentation on ‘Fabrication and Characteristical Analysis of Metal-Oxide Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cells for Power Optimization’. Utkal Pandurangi, a member of VIT Chennai OSA Student Chapter presented a poster based on work done under Dr. John L Kennedy of VIT Chennai’s School of Advanced Sciences (SAS) in IONS Manipal 2019 conference, India. Utkal received a partial travel grant of INR 500 and his accommodation was fully sponsored by the conference organizers.

IONS Orlando 2019: (March 10^th-13th, 2019)

Oral presentation on ‘Digital Fresnel Holographic Encryption using Circular Harmonic Key’

Utkal Pandurangi, a member of VIT Chennai OSA Student Chapter gave an oral presentation based on his research work done with B.Lokesh Reddy under Dr.Anith Nelleri (SENSE) in IONS Orlando 2019 conference organized by The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) of The University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.

A team comprising of Dwij & Mehul (B.Tech ECM) have won the first prize in national IoT challenge 2018 held at IIT Bombay . The title of their project is ‘TrackPAD’. The device helps in detecting the early signs of diseases like ‘P’ Parkinsons, ‘A’ Alzheiemers & ‘D’ Dementia using gait analysis to find the walking abnormalities that are an healthy indicator for onset of these disease. The competition saw a participation of 800 teams from all over India out of which 50 teams were selected for the finale.

B.Tech ECM Students namely Sundar Anand, Priyanka Mathikshara, Annie Johnson were guided by Prof Karthik R were invited to present their research paper titled “Low Power Real Time GPS Tracking Enabled with RTOS and Serverless Architecture” at the 4^th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS) held from February 23-25, 2019,  NTU @one-north, Singapore.

Ms. Priyanka Mathikshara (B.Tech ECM) was selected to attend the Summer Semester at Stanford University during Summer 2018. She did the courses ‘Probability for Computer Scientists – CS109’ by Prof. Lisa Yan and ‘Data Mining and Analysis – STATS 202’ by Prof. Rajan Patel (Google). During her stay there she was selected for an internship at the all famous NASA Ames    Research Centre at Palo Alto. She worked for an open source satellite team called ‘Kick Sat – 2’ as the team lead for GPS.

Mayur Sonthalia (B.Tech ECM) was awarded with full travel grant to represent the VIT Chennai Optical Society of America Student Chapter in the Student Leadership Conference 2018, at Washington D.C, USA. Student Leadership Conference was sponsored by Optical Society of America along with the American Physical Society. It is a worldwide annual conference organised to develop skills in student representatives participating. This conference is an ideal platform for student representative to get the exposure of what it takes to be an influential leader and it is an integrated part of Optical Society of America which whole heartedly organise this conference

Harshitha (B.Tech ECM) received Best Paper award at ICATEM -2019 held at Management Development Institute of Singapore, organised by Taylor’s School of Engineering, Malaysia, for her paper titled ‘An automated CPR’

Open house Exhibits: 

As an evaluation component for different project based courses, open house exhibition is organized in the school for showcasing their projects. The students demonstrates their projects executed with respect to their course and a panel of experts evaluate and provide constructive feedback to it. This culture drives the students to develop practical exposure on the concepts taught as part of their theory course.

Makeathon:

Makeathon is an event where participants build solutions for challenging problems from the scratch in a time span of 24 hours. All projects must have an embedded hardware platform connecting directly or indirectly to the internet to store and analyze data and receive decisions. An expert panel with resource persons from different companies evaluate these projects and provide feedback to the respective teams. SENSE actively conducts Makeathons/Hackathons/Codeathon every year and different versions of IoT Makeathon, VLSI Makethons, Microwave and Photonics, Signal Processing, AI based etc with sponsorship and joint collaboration with industry. Some of the photos of the various events conducted are presented.

16BEC1085 – RAHAT KATARIA and team worked on a Healthcare Model in which they built a website portal and a ChatBot in order for patients to ensure what symptoms they have and what can be the precautions (ChatBOt work). And the website offered people to click and a picture and upload it on their server (where the trained dataset is stored, we did it specifically for Skin Diseases since photos of the skin can easily be taken and uploaded.) This was the healthcare model they presented in Hackathons at KALASALINGAM UNIVERSITY and VIT CHENNAI and bagged 1st Prize in both the competitions.

MTech Students Achievements

Publications in Reputed Journals

1. Thapaswini (Reg. No: 14MVD1018)  of M. Tech VLSI Design Program, has published a research article titled, ” Modification of electrical properties of Au/ n- type InP Schottky diode with a high-k  Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 interlayer,” in  Superlattices and Microstructures (2018 Imp. factor -2.385)
2. Jyothi Leelavathi (Reg. No: 14MVD1027) of M. Tech VLSI Design Program,  has published a research article titled, “Performance comparison of a single element piezoresistor with a half-active Wheatstone bridge for miniaturized pressure sensors,” in Measurement (2018 Imp. factor -2.791)
3. A student, Aswathi Nair (Reg. No: 14MVD1019) has published a research article titled, “Experimental Investigations on the Electrical and 2D Machining Characteristics of an Electrochemical Discharge Machining  Process”, In Microsystem Technologies (2018 I{mp. factor – 1.513)

Paper presentations in Conferences

K.N.Hitesh (18MVD1014) presenting paper in 201^st International Conference on Future Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology, New Delhi, March 2019. Paper titled “A NOVEL ARCHITECTURE FOR VEDIC MULTIPLIER USING 3:2 ENHANCED COMPRESSOR´, authored by K.N.Hitesh, Jarugula Vamsikrishna, Umadevi S.

3. Verilog Code-a-thon 2018
Winners of the 12-Hrs Event

The winners of the event are trained by CoreEl Technologies, Balgalore in Xilinx Vivado and 7 series FPGA & its Applications for two days.

4. INTEL AWARDS
Our Mtech students have received recognition certificates during their internship period for their excellent and committed work.

Students who have got the INTEL certificates in 2018-20 batch

1. 1. Jarugula vamsikrishna –  18MVD1008
   2. Prithwiraj Das – 18MVD1016
   3. Gracin D – 18MVD1020