School of Computer Science and Engineering
March 2025
Students’ Research paper publication
Amish Kedia – 21BCE5354
Manmeet Singh – 21BCE5361
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ research paper titled “MathCrypt Secure Algorithm” has been published in IEEE Xplore.
Students’ Research Publication in IEEE Xplore
A J Dazzle – 21MIA1119
Shashank Singh – 21MIA1110
Dishant Niket Naik – 21MIA1127
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ research paper, “Advancing E-commerce Recommendations: A Comparative Study of BERT-Enhanced
Collaborative Filtering and Alternative Approaches,” has been published in IEEE Xplore which was presented at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Quantum Computation-Based Sensor Applications (ICAIQSA-2024) held on December 20th-21st, 2024, at G H Raisoni College of Engineering and
Management, Nagpur.
Student’s Research Publication in IEEE Xplore
Gokul Ram K – 23BAI1462
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student’s paper, “Enhancing Sentiment Analysis of Customer Reviews Using Deep Learning, Data Augmentation
and Explainable AI,” has been published in the 2024 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (ICUIS) and has been
added to IEEE Xplore on 13 February 2025.
Student’s Research Publication in IEEE Xplore
Kartik Choudhary – 22BCE1095
Atchaya M – 22BCE1545
Harshini R – 22BCE1198
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student’s paper, ” An Integrated Framework for Real-Time Disaster Data Acquisition, Processing, and Resource
Optimization in Crisis Management Systems” has been published in the 2024 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent Information
Systems (ICUIS) and has been added to IEEE Xplore on 13 February 2025.
IBM Champion 2025
Ramana Sree K V – 23BCE1735
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student Ramana Sree K V has been recognized as an IBM Champion for 2025! This is a globally selective program that recognizes top innovators, thought leaders, and technology advocates who contribute significantly to the IBM ecosystem through knowledge sharing, advocacy,
and leadership. The IBM Champion Program selects only a limited number of experts worldwide.
SRM R MUN WINNERS – THE DEBATE SOCIETY OF VITCExecutive Board
UNSC – Co Chairperson- Narender Senthil (21BPS1195)
UNGA
Samhith (24BAI1588) – Best Delegate
Achievement: The Debate Society of VIT Chennai sent a Delegation to Stella MUN,conducted by Stella Maris College on February 22nd and 23rd. We are elated to announce that the delegation has won the above awards.
Students IEEE Conference Paper Publication
Sivakumar P – 21BAI1691
Arun Baalaji T M – 21BAI1708
Ebin Joe – 21BAI1828
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students have published a research paper in IEEE Xplore, which was presented at the 2024 3rd International Conference on Modelling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing (MoSICom 2024) at BITS Pilani Dubai Campus.
Paper Title: Revamped Lane detection in hazy environments using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model
Research Publication in IEEE Access with international collaboration
Kreet Rout – 21BCE1482
Shreyash Hatkar – 21BCE5673
Achievement: We are happy to share that our BTech (CSE) students have successfully published their research paper titled “Cybersecurity Deployment in
Smart Grids: Critical Review, Applications, Protection, and Challenges” in IEEE Access, a journal with an impact factor of 3.4.
Team Technocrats Robotics Achieves a Perfect Score in Stage 1 of DD Robocon 2025 Robot Basketball Challenge
Project Leads:
Vallari Ashar – Captain (22BRS1289)
Sarthak Bansal – Management Lead (22BRS1275)
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that Team Technocrats Robotics has secured the highest score in India in Stage 1 of DD Robocon 2025 – Robot
Basketball Challenge, achieving a perfect 100/100.
Stage 1 involved the submission of a comprehensive design document detailing the robot’s dimensions, weight, working principles, and safety measures, along with a
video demonstrating its simulation and functionality. The team now advances to,Stage 2 – Proof of Concept Submission as part of the competition’s next phase.
Achievements of Team Dromos at the Global Hyperloop Competition
Team Members:
K U Shashanth (23BAI1585) – Team Lead
Parth Dobhal (23BCE5069) – Team Lead
Dhruv Vivek Gadre (23BCE5132) – Thermal Engineer
Vardhman Bengani (23BCE5082) – Levitation Engineer
Ranvir Amit Deshmukh (23BAI1472) – Levitation Engineer
Anchit Deshpande (23BCE1944) – Mechanical Engineer
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that Team Dromos, a multidisciplinary,student-led initiative founded in March 2024, has been making remarkable strides in the field of sustainable transportation through hyperloop technology. A team of fifteen students from Team Dromos proudly represented VIT Chennai at
the Global Hyperloop Competition 2025, held at IIT Madras from 21st to 24th February 2025. This prestigious competition, hosted by IIT Madras, introduced the
Hyperloop to India, providing a global platform for innovation in futuristic transportation. The event aimed to showcase and promote hyperloop concepts
worldwide, fostering a transformative spirit among young minds. The competition featured two primary categories:
POD Demonstration
Design X Blueprint
With over 300 participants initially, the competition was highly competitive. After the first round in September 2024, only 10 teams were shortlisted. Team Dromos
successfully progressed through subsequent rounds in December 2024, leading to the final round in February 2025 at IIT Madras.We are thrilled to share that Team Dromos secured the Overall 2nd position in the “Design X Blueprint” competition! Additionally, we achieved: 1st place in the Levitation Subsystem category
Award of Excellence in the Electrical Subsystem
Recognition of Our Students’ Paper at International Conference
Ayush Rathi – 23BCE1509
Saksham Anand – 23BCE1529
Abhiram Sharma – 23BDS1093
Vasu Arya – 23BCE1535
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students paper, titled “Automated Classification of Diabetic Ulcers and Ordinary Wounds Using YOLOv7 for Medical Diagnosis” has been recognized with the 1st position in Scientific Abstract Presentation Award at the International Conference of Innovations in Biomechanics
and Footwear Development: Shaping the Future of Movement, organized by Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health Sciences, Galgotias
University, in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence (CoE), Footwear Design & Development Institute (FDDI), Govt. of India on February 21-22, 2025 and the paper
has also been accepted for publication in Springer, which is indexed in Scopus.
Student’s Publication of Book Chapter in Taylor & Francis
Siva Adithya M.J – 20BAI1246
Achievement: We are happy to share that one of our students contributed to a Routledge – Taylor and Francis Group book chapter.
Title : “Integration of AI and IoT in Digital Twins for Personalized Healthcare”
Students’ Patent Publication
Keerthi AJ – 21MIS1055
Kalyanasundaram V – 21MIS1028
Achievement: We are happy to inform you about the successful publication of an utility patent by our students, titled “AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) -ENABLED WEARABLE DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING MOBILITY AND SAFETY” on March 7, 2025, Application No: 202541014357.
Students’ Research Publication in IEEE Xplore
Pratheep V – 21BCE1093
Dhanush S R – 21BCE1204
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ research paper for project 1 (BCSE497J), “Developing Scalable and Fault Tolerant Distributed Architecture for Big Unstructured Data Systems,” has been published in IEEE Xplore.
Students PAPER PUBLICATION IN IEEE Xplore
Atchaya M – 22BCE1545
Harshini R – 22BCE1198
Kartik Choudhary – 22BCE1095
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in IEEE Xplore, presented at the 2024 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (ICUIS)
Paper Title:
An Integrated Framework for Real-Time Disaster Data Acquisition, Processing, and Resource Optimization in Crisis Management Systems
Students PAPER PUBLICATION IN IEEE Xplore
Harshavardhan S – 21BCE1925
Kirthana B – 21BCE5129
Shreya V – 21BCE1894
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student’s research paper, “Privacy-Preserving Employee Attrition Prediction using Deep Learning and Fully
Homomorphic Encryption” has been published in IEEE Xplore.
3rd Place in FIFS GAMEATHON 2025 with 5 Lakhs Cash Prize
Shivanshu Vipul Kumar Baraiya – 24BAI1557
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students, P. Shreyas and Shivanshu Vipul Kumar Baraiya have secured 3rd place in the prestigious FIFS GAMEATHON 2025, winning a ₹5 lakh cash prize. Competing against 160 teams from premier institutions across India, they showcased exceptional AI/ML modeling skills in this high-stakes competition. The FIFS Sports Data Gameathon is a premier challenge where India’s top technological minds develop winning strategies for a season-long Fantasy Sports Contest.
Best Paper Award at EMPOWER25 Conference
Manthena Rishit Varma – 22BAI1089
Achievement: We are delighted to inform you that Mr. Manthena Rishit Varma (22BAI1089) has received the Best Paper Award at the EMPOWER25 Conference
held on 25-26 February 2025.
Paper Title:
Efficient Traffic Scene Segmentation for Enhanced Autopilot Systems using Hugging Face’s SEGFORMER-B0
Students’ Research Publication in IEEE Xplore
Surya Prakash R – 21BPS1282
C Sivaranjini – 21BPS1243
Ashwin S – 21BPS1135
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student’s paper “Enhancing Nutrient Regulation in Aquaponics Using CatBoost and LightGBM” has been published in the 2024 International Conference on Emerging Research in Computational Science (ICERCS) and has been added to IEEE Xplore on 27th February 2025.
BNY Code Divas Challenge 2025 – 2nd Runner-up
Pulaparthi Penchala Deepthi Sri – 21BCE5464
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student Pulaparthi Penchala Deepthi Sri, (21BCE5464) secured the 2nd Runner-Up position in the BNY Code Divas
Challenge 2025.
Students Research Paper Publication in IEEE Access
Agniv Ganguly – 21BCE1094
Shivansh Sharma – 21BCE1907
Ashesh Banerjee – 21BCE1039
Keshav Kejriwal – 21BCE1001
IEEE ACCESS-Research Paper publication
Armaano Ajay – 21BPS1049
Aryan Saji – 21BPS1015
Harsh Agarwal – 21BPS1464
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in IEEE ACCESS.
Paper Title: An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Sorghum Weed Classification Using Multi-Scale Feature Enhanced DenseNet
Research Paper publication in IEEE Xplore
Subhadeep Chell – 21BCE1288
Sainath Chakare – 21BCE5291
Pinnarwar Sohan – 21BCE1202
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published the following paper.
Paper Title: Real-Time Threat Detection and Mitigation in Web API Development
IEEE Conference Paper Publication
Divyansh Bhandari – 21BLC1488
Devesh Kumar Jaluka – 21BCE6185
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ published a research paper in IEEE Xplore, which was presented at the 2024 3rd International Conference on Modelling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing (MoSICom 2024) at BITS Pilani Dubai Campus.
Paper Title: Predicting Land Cover Changes with Convolutional LSTM Networks: A Case Study of Chatham, Massachusetts
State AI Lead, Tamil Nadu for BlackBox AI!
Giridharan R.E – 23MIA1128
Achievement: We are delighted to share that Giridharan R.E has been selected as the State AI Lead – Tamil Nadu for BlackBox AI under the prestigious Mavericks Program!
As a State AI Lead, he will play a key role in fostering AI awareness, mentoring students, and leading innovative AI initiatives across Tamil Nadu.
February 2025
Students’ Conference paper publication in IEEE
Aakash Kumar – 21BAI1618
Harsha Vardhan – 21BAI1619
Rajaratnam Prasanth – 21BPS1555
Pindi Punith Sai – 21BCE5901
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in IEEE Xplore. Paper Title: Classification of Healthy and Unhealthy Leaf Disease Using Modified MobileNetV2.
Student winning prize at RIT Dubai campus
Shriya Sanjay Narikutty Kollery – 21BCE1018
Achievement: We are happy to share that one of our students Ms. Shriya Sanjay Narikutty Kollery (Reg. No. 21BCE1018) received the Second Prize in the Zaintech Data Challenge partnered with RTA, held at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dubai on 01.02.2025. Challenge titled in the final round: Effective Optimization of the given dataset.Out of the 16 student teams for the final round, our student Ms. Shriya bagged the second prize
Students’ IEEE Xplore Research Paper Publication
Anuj Dhar – 21BCE1997
Shalini Gupta – 21BCE1005
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in IEEE Xplore.
Paper Title: A Comprehensive Review of Explainable AI Applications in Healthcare
Students Book Chapter Publication in Chapman and Hall/CRC Publication
Saad Faheem Khan Pattan – 22BPS1216
Vaibhav Divakarla – 22BPS1032
P. Sujith – 22BPS1193
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a book chapter in Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Book Title: Digital Farming and Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Future
Chapter Title: Data-Driven Harvests: Navigating Modern Agronomic Technology for Sustainable Smart Agriculture
Students’ IEEE Xplore Research Paper Publication
N U Praneeth Reddy – 21BAI1500
Depatla Hemika Reddy – 21BAI1538
Tulasi Kanish – 21BAI1785
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in IEEE Xplore.
Paper Title: Vision Beyond the Haze: Advancements in Cataract Detection and Diagnosis
Winner at notJustHack!
Aswin Raaj P S – 22BCE1621
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student Mr Aswin Raaj P S (22BCE1621) secured 3rd place in the notJustHack international hackathon with his
AI study app, Prepy!With 2,500 developers signed up and 60 teams making it to the finals, it was a tough competition, and he represented our university on this global stage. He also won a $250 cash prize!
Students Book Chapter Publication in Taylor & Francis – CRC Press
G Hariharan – 23BAI1001
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a book chapter in Taylor & Francis – CRC Press
Book Title: Interactive and Dynamic Dashboard
Chapter Title: Scaling up the business with the aid of power query tool
Students’ Conference Proceedings Published -ICMBLDA 2023-NIT Arunachal Pradesh
Avala Sri Karthik – 20MIA1032
Simran Bohra – 20MIA1024
M. Sanjay – 20MIA1031
Pillaram Manoj – 20MIA1117
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students have published 2 papers in the conference ICMLBDA 2023, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, India, held on May 29-30 in Advances in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics I, published by Springer.
Conference Proceedings
a) Chapter Title: Medical Diagnosis Prediction using Deep Learning
b) Paper Title: Human Stress Detection in Sleep Mode Compared with Non-sleep
Mode Using Machine Learning Algorithms
2nd Runner Up Position in WabTec’s EXCEED 3.0 Campus Challenge
Kumar Shivam – 22BCE1804
Saahil Ahmad – 22BRS1023
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our students’ team, Hedge-Z, proudly represented VIT Chennai in the WabTec EXCEED 3.0 Campus Challenge Final
Round and secured the 2nd Runner-Up position. The competition spanned four months and consisted of three rigorous rounds, with participation from over 80+ top
colleges and universities across the country. They received a cash prize of ₹50,000, exclusive goodies for all team members, and PPI opportunity with Wabtec Corporation.
Students’ Research Paper Publication in IEEE Digital Library
R Srivats – 21BCE5064
Kalyanasundaram V – 21MIS1028
Abhiram Sharma – 23BDS1093
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ research paper presented at the IEEE First International Conference for Women in Computing (InCoWoCo) has been published in the IEEE Digital Library.
Paper Title: An Enhanced Computer Vision and Clustering Approach for Agricultural
Produce Classification
IndiaAI Fellowship Achievement
Sushmetha S R – 21BAI1162
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our student has been awarded the prestigious IndiaAI Fellowship under the IndiaAI Mission, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India for her research project titled “Domain Penalization for Out-of-Distribution Generalization.”
This fellowship provides funding and mentorship to drive impactful AI research, and Sushmetha’s work aims to enhance the generalization ability of deep learning
models across diverse domains.
Students Published a book chapter
Ankit Kumar – 21BPS1148
Anurag Kumar Kanojiya – 21BRS1155
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students got a chapter published in a
book.
Book Title: Networked Sensing Systems
Chapter Title: Introduction to Network Sensing Systems in Society 5.0 : Issues and
challenges.
Journal Paper Published by B. Tech Student
M. J. Emmanuel Allan – 21BCE1999
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student M. J. Emmanuel Allan (Reg No.: 21BCE1999 – B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering) have published journal paper.
Paper Title: X-ray absorption near edge structure of bulk and two-dimensional
Na2Po: A testbed for scientific research
Journal: Solid State Communications
Student’s Conference paper publication in ELSEVIER
Aakash Kumar – 21BAI1618
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student published a research paper in ELSEVIER book chapter series named Procedia Computer Science.
Paper Title: Yawning Detection for Cognitive Distraction in Drivers Using AlexNet: A Deep Learning Approach
2nd runners up at NTPC ELECTRON QUIZ SOUTH REGION
Anshuman Panda – 22BCE1730
Mohammed Challawala – 22BCE5017
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our students’ team secured 2nd Runner-Up position in the NTPC ELECTRON QUIZ SOUTH REGION. The
competition spanned a full day and consisted of six rigorous rounds and a prelims, with participation from over 100+ teams across the south zone. They received a
cash prize of ₹10,000 each, exclusive goodies for all team members, and Certificates of Merit.
Students PAPER PUBLICATION IN IEEE Xplore
Bhenedix Paul – 23BAI1383
Joshnavi Pokala – 23BAI1376
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in IEEE Xplore, presented at the 2024 3rd International Conference on Automation,Computing and Renewable Systems (ICACRS)
Paper Title: A Comprehensive Analysis of Object Tracking in UAVs using Computer
Vision
Student’s Paper published in Springer
Karthik V – 22BCE1204
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student’s research paper has been published by Springer.
Paper Title- Enhancing Education through Technology: A Critical Review of
Computer-Assisted Learning
International Project Competition Winners
Kausik Ganapathy Hari – 24BCE1328
Rithik Raju – 24BCE5395
Pavan Kumar Kora – 24BCE1126
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that our students won first place at the International Project Competition held at VELTECH University today. They were
awarded a trophy and a cash prize of 8,000 rupees.
January 2025
Students’ Publication of NEHA Research Paper in IEEE Access
Abhiram Sharma – 23BDS1093
P. B. Krishna – 23BCE5138
Rudra Raj – 23BRS1272
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ project,“Network Efficient Hierarchical Authentication – NEHA Algorithm for Secure Communication in IoT and IoE”, has been published in IEEE Access Journal, with Impact Factor (IF) of 3.4.
Students Conference proceeding published in Springer Book series
Jasleen Kaur – 21BPS1056
Nilesh Tiwari – 21BPS1064
Nikhil Nair – 21BPS1122
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ conference paper titled “Isogeny-based Security for Marine Genomic Insights”, presented in the international conference, and got published in a Springer Book Series: Innovations in Sustainable Technologies and Computing ((ISTC)).
Patent Publication Achievement
Aditya Venugopal Nair – 22BRS1237
Kushagra Singh Gaur – 22BCE5242
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students have published a patent titled “WINDOW SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF,” on 03/01/2025.
Victory at Techfest IIT Bombay
Devesh Somani – 22BRS1334
Aditya Gorasia – 22BLC1012
Achievement: We are very happy to inform you that E-Cell VIT Chennai has participated in ESG-INVEST (stock analysis and portfolio management competition)
held at Techfest-IIT BOMBAY from 17 to 19 December’24 and is delighted to share that the team has secured 1st position with a cash prize of ₹50,000 from SBI Mutual
Funds.
Research Publication in EPJ Quantum Technology (5.8 Impact factor)
Shivanya Shomir Dutta – 23BAI1424
Sahil Sandeep – 23BAI1405
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ research paper titled “Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Harnessing Dressed Quantum Circuits for
Enhanced Tsunami Prediction via Earthquake Data Fusion,” has been published in EPJ Quantum Technology (Springer Open), a Scopus and SCI Q1 indexed journal.
Students’ Journal Publication
Ameiy Acharya – 21BPS1104
Saket Gupta – 21BPS1611
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ research paper, titled “Leveraging Momentum Clustering and PID Control for Enhanced Portfolio
Management” has been published in Cogent Economics & Finance. This journal is indexed in both Scopus and the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index
(ESCI).
Student conference paper published
Vaishnav Sudhish – 21BCE1697
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student’s conference paper titled “Machine Learning-Based New Model Release Car Price Prediction” has been
presented in the IEEE International Conference -ICSPCRE, 2024, organized by NIT-Rourkela, and is published in IEEExplore.
Students conference paper published
Shravya Munugala – 21BCE5305
Atharva Prashant Marathe – 21BCE1558
Rahul Vijayakumar – 21BCE5278
C.V.Roshan Balaji – 21BCE6144
Shaman. KR – 21BCE5890
V.Pritham Raj – 21BCE1607
N.Nithish Kumar – 21BCE5273
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students have published papers in IEEE xplore conference proceedings.
1.Alzheimer’s Disease Classification Using CUDA-Accelerated DenseNet201 and VGG16″, presented in 2024 International Conference on IoT Based Control
Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICICNIS), got published in IEEE Digital explorer.
2.High-Performance Computing for Efficient Transaction Processing: A Comparative Study of Parallel and Sequential Execution using SQLite”, presented in 2024
International Conference on IoT Based Control Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICICNIS), got published in IEEE Digital explorer.
Research Paper Publication by B.Tech Students
Sparsh Karna – 23BDS1172
Achievement: We are happy to share that B.Tech student Sparsh Karna (Regd. No:23BDS1172) has published his research paper in IEEE Xplore. The paper is titled “Enhanced State of Charge Estimation for Lithium-ion Batteries using Polynomial Voltage Approximation”.
Dramatics Club Wins Best Direction Award at IIT Madras
Aryaman Kochhar – 23BRS1047
Srinjoy Deb – 23BPS1160
D.siddharth – 24BCE1583
Arav B – 24BRS1368
Dhananjai – 23BCE5001
Colin K Thomas – 23BRS1376
Shreenidhi Saaradha S – 22MIS1162
Aadya Srivastava – 23BCE1332
Achievement: We are happy to share that our Dramatics Club’s -The Stage Play Team was honoured with the ‘Best Direction’ award at Saarang’25, the cultural
festival hosted by IIT Madras from 10th to 13th January, 2025.
December 2024
Achievement in IIT BOMBAY TechConnect ’24
Kaarthikeyan D – 22BAI1343
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that the third year students of B.Tech.EEE, SELECT, have won the 7th place in the “RESCON: Achar Research Poster
Presentation Competition” held at IIT Bombay in the technical symposium “TechConnect ’24 on December 17, 2024. Out of various teams from India, 50 teams
have been selected in the first round and 10 in the final round.
Students’ Publication of Research Paper in Springer
Kartik Goyal – 22BCE1638
Wilson Vidyut Doloy – 19BCE1603
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students published a research paper in the Springer Nature : Innovations in CyberSecurity and Data Science.
Yi YUVA Young Indians in association with Confedration of Indian Industry (CII) and AICTE
Shakthivel R – 21MIS1065
Monish S – 21MIS1063
Dharun R – 22BAI1342
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that the annual event of Yi YUVA Young Indians in association with Confedration of Indian Industry (CII) and AICTE happened at Velachery Chennai, Our Yuva Club, VIT Chennai, have been awarded with best upcoming chapter award for the year 2024 among 28 Yuva Institutions among with four different categories of award.
- Abhiram Sharma – 23BDS1093
- B. Krishna – 23BCE5138
- Rudra Raj – 23BRS1272
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ project, “Network Efficient Hierarchical Authentication – NEHA Algorithm for Secure Communication in IoT and IoE”, has been published in IEEE Access Journal, with Impact Factor (IF) of 3.4
Winners Sanrakshan Hackathon at IIT Bombay Techfest ’24
Govardhan A R – 23BCE1771
Sourabh Pramod – 23BCE1778
Durvank Gade – 23BAI1311
Aryan Mehesare – 23BAI1307
Achievement: We are pleased to share that our students have secured first position in the prestigious Sanrakshan Hackathon held at IIT Bombay.
Humanoidx club team – grand finale of ROBOFEST 4.0
Tashadhur Rahman – 22BRS1304
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our students from HumanoidX club have got selected for the grand finale of ROBOFEST 4.0 under hexapod category. They have been awarded with a funding of Rs. 2 lakhs.
Patent Publication Achievement
R Srivats – 21BCE5064
Saimirra R – 21BCE1656
Muskaan Siddiqui – 21BCE5083
Kalyanasundaram V – 21MIS1028
Harsha Jackson – 21BCE1196
Achievement: We are happy to inform you about the successful publication of patent by SCOPE students, titled “A DEVICE, A SYSTEM TO GENERATE ONE OR MORE MEAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND A METHOD THEREOF,” on November 29, 2024 with DOI: 202441092366.
Students Best Paper Award- ICRTAC’24
- Abhiram Sharma – 23BDS1093
- Srivats – 21BCE5064
- Krishna P B – 23BCE5138
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students paper, titled “Comparative Evaluation of ResNet50, Xception and EfficientNetB3 for Lung Cancer Classification and Explainable AI-based Tumor Localization,” has been recognized with the Best Paper Presentation Award at the 7th International Conference on Recent Trends in Advanced Computing (ICRTAC’24), organized by School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCOPE), VIT Chennai in association with Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bureau of Indian Standards & UIPath Academic Alliance on November 14-15, 2024 and the paper has also been accepted for publication in Springer, which is indexed in Scopus.
Student Design Patent Granted
Harinee J – 21BAI1156
Achievement: We are happy to share that our student Ms. Harinee J B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in AI/ML, has been granted a design patent for her research project titled “Waste Water Reuse Indicator.”
November 2024
Students Publication of Research Paper in Springer Nature
- Jayanth Gurajada – 20MIA1013
- Anu Keerthi – 20MIA1160
- Gollapalli Santhandeep – 20MIA1010
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that our students published a research paper in Springer Nature. Title of Paper: An Efficient Framework for Student’s Club Recommender System Using Machine Learning Models.
IamNeo In-House Code Contest
Singh Harsh Narendra
Kore Vedang Pravin – 22BCE1137
Pradhi Raj – 23BAI1025
Achievement: We are happy to share you that the following students won the top 3 positions on the IamNeo In-House Code Contest held at VIT Chennai on 9th November 2024.
1st Prize Winner: Singh Harsh Narendra – awarded a smartwatch.
2nd Prize Winner: Kore Vedang Pravin – awarded a keyboard and mouse.
3rd Prize Winner: Pradhi Raj – awarded a Bluetooth speaker.
Music club- Battle of Bands – II Prize at JIPMER
Rheminth – 22BRS1045
Surya – 22BCE1394
Anshul – 22BCE5117
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that the students from our music club participated in the Western Battle of Bands at Spandan ’24, organized by JIPMER Medical College on 8th November, and proudly secured 2nd place.
In addition, we are delighted to mention that three of the band members received individual honors, Rheminth awarded Best Drummer, Anshul awarded Best Guitarist, and Surya awarded Best Keyboardist.
Research paper published in Springer Journal with 3.8 Impact factor
Rajat Mishra – 20BCE1251
Santhosh Raminedi – 20BCE1477
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our students’ capstone project works have been published in the Scientific Reports journal by Springer, which has an Impact Factor (IF) of 3.8.
Students Research Paper Publication in Springer Nature Journal
Aditya Kumar Singh – 20MIA1088
Sakshi Chauhan – 20MIA1164
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students research paper titled “Efficient Complex Event Processing in Intrusion Detection System Using CNN-BiLSTM Model” has been published in the Springer Nature Journal under the book Innovative Computing and Communications.
Student Project work published as Patent
Pradheep. J – 21BRS1018
Achievement: We are happy to share that the project works of our student Pradheep J has been published as an Indian patent on 04.10.2024.
Students Publication in Springer Nature
Shashannk S – 21BRS1241
Vishal G – 21BRS17176
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that our students’ research paper titled “A Comprehensive Survey on Cutting-Edge ECC and PUF Algorithm to Enhance Security in Internet of Drones” has been successfully published in Springer Nature under the book Innovations and Advances in Cognitive Systems.
Students’ Patent Publication
R Srivats – 21BCE5064
Saimirra R – 21BCE1656
Muskaan Siddiqui – 21BCE5083
Kalyanasundaram V – 21MIS1028
Harsha Jackson – 21BCE1196
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students have published a patent, titled “A SHELF, A SHELVING SYSTEM, AND A METHOD THEREOF,” by Intellectual Property India, Government of India, on November 22, 2024. The patent is registered under the Digital Object Identifier (202441087747).
Students’ research paper published in Springer Journal with 5.8 Impact factor
Akash P Videsh – 21BAI1296
Achievement: We are glad to share that our students’ research paper was published on October 28th in Springer- EPJ Quantum Technology with an impact factor of 5.8. Title: A computational study and analysis of Variational Quantum Eigensolver over multiple parameters for molecules and ions.
Students Paper Published in IEEE Access
Kushal Agrawal – 22BPS1141
Aviral Srivastava – 22BAI1187
Kanishk Sharma – 22BCE1416
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that our students’ research paper has been published in IEEE Access, a journal with an impact factor of 3.4. Title: SafeRoutes: Charting a Secure Path – A Holistic Approach to Women’s Safety Through Advanced Clustering and GPS Integration.
Battle of Bands Winners at MMC
Rithwik – 24BCE1133
Shreyas – 24MIS1174
Ruchir – 23BCE1950
Achievement: We are thrilled to announce that members of our VIT Chennai Music Club participated in the Revivals ‘24 Battle of the Bands competition, hosted by Madras Medical College on 7th and 8th November, and secured an outstanding 1st place victory.
GitHub Universe 2024 Conference in San Francisco, California, USA
Deepthi B – 21BCE5601
Achievement: We are excited to inform you that our student Deepthi B attended the GitHub Universe 2024 conference in San Francisco, California, USA, from October 27-30, 2024. This opportunity was fully sponsored by Microsoft and GitHub, including her travel, accommodation, and conference passes.
VIT Chennai Table Tennis Men Team Players Secure Winner Position in IIT Madras Sports Fest Inter Collegiate Invitation Table Tennis Tournament
G.Varun – 24MCA1064
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that our VIT Chennai Table Tennis Men Team participated in the IIT Madras Sports Fest – 2024 and won the Winner Position.
October 2024
VIT Chennai Men & Women Athletes Won the Medals in the IIT Madras Sports Fest
Vandhana .S – 21BPS1172
Prem Sundaresan – 22BAI1325
Achievement: We are happy to share that our VIT Chennai Men & Women Athletes participated in the IIT Madras Sports Fest – 2024 and won the silver Medals.
Bronze Medal in CM Trophy State-Level Swimming Tournament
Krishna Pranav Sarvepalli – 23BCE1382
Achievement: We are thrilled to share that our student Krishna Pranav Sarvepalli has secured a Bronze medal and a cash award of Rs. 50,000 in the CM Trophy State-Level Swimming Tournament held at SDAT Velachery on 22.10.2024.
- John Raj .I – 20MIS1055
- Jayant Nayal – 21BRS1360
- Siddharth Dahiya – 23BCE1757
- Jayanth – 22BAI1177
- Lalitya Yadav – 23BAI1425
- Aakash Sudhi – 21BAI1904
- Ashmit Sangtani – 21BAI1539
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that our VIT Chennai Basketball Men Team won Runner Up position in the IIT Madras Sports Fest – 2024.
Student Publication in IEEE Access Journal
Shravan Venkatraman – 21BCE1200
K S Jayasankar – 21BCE1290
T Pranay Jiljith – 21BCE1476
R Jashwanth – 21BCE1206
Best Paper Award at the International Conference
Thriam bakesvar B – 21BRS1528
Subash Saajan J – 21BRS1532
Eniyavasanthan R – 21BRS1260
Achievement: We are glad to share that our B Tech students Research Paper has received the Best Paper Award in the paper presentation at the International Conference on Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security – ASCIS 2024, held at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, from October 16, 2024, to October 18, 2024. The paper title “VANET Security through Blockchain-based Location Verification: Innovation and Challenges.”
Congratulations to winner
Neelam Samrat.S – 21BAI1498
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that one of the our student Mr.Neelam Samrat.S has won the Gold Medal in the Rink 5 (500m+D), Rink 6 (1000m) and silver medal in Rink 7(Dual TT) event held at Puducherry on 18/10/2024 to 21/10/2024 and also got selected to represent Tamilnadu team in National that to be held at Mysore during December 2024.
Team 1
Project Title: AudioVision
Pranjal Mishra – 21BCE5088
Ishaan Sharma – 21BCE5019
Mohammad Abbas – 21BCE1717
Gaurav Beswal – 21BRS1555
Prajwal Parashar – 21BCE5076
Team 2
Project Title: Colourizing Sequential Content – ColorNet
Shyam Venkatraman – 22MIS1031
Akhil Prabananth – 22BCE1312
Snehil Chatterjee – 22BCE5237
Achievement: We are excited to inform you that two of our teams have secured third place in the prestigious Global Pervasive AMD AI Developer Contest. The announcement of winners was held in San Francisco, USA. Both teams travelled to the US on complete sponsorship by AMD. Each team has won a prize of a $3,000 gift card and AMD hardware worth ₹3 lakhs. It is a proud moment for VIT as we are recognized globally for our achievements.
Govardhan A. R – 23BCE1771
Sourabh Pramod – 23BCE1778
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our students, Govardhan A. R. (23BCE1771) and Sourabh Pramod (23BCE1778), have achieved the Runner-Up position at the Fetch.ai Hackathon held during Techniche ’24 at IIT Guwahati. This prestigious event witnessed participation from top talent across the country, and our students’ performance is a testament of creativity, and innovation.
Paper Published in IEEE Access
Raina Saxena – 21BCE5986
Sai Sahiti Rachiraju – 21BCE5569
Shashvi Shah – 21BAI1656
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that our student’s work titled ‘State-of-the-Art of Voice Assistance Technology, Mitigating Replay Attacks: A Comprehensive Discussion’ published in IEEE in May 2024 as an outcome of the Capstone project during winter semester 2024
Team VIT-US Secures 4th Position at Intel Gen AI Hackathon 2024
Nancy Saxena – 21MIS1024
Aakarsh Mishra – 21MIS1025
Ansh Pandey – 21MIS1073
Utkarsh Mishra – 21MIS1074
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that our team, VIT- US from VIT Chennai, recently secured the 4th position in the prestigious Intel Gen AI Hackathon 2024, held on the 4th and 5th of October at KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. The event saw participation from over 217 teams, comprising more than 1000 students from 10 different states.
Publication in IEEE Access
G K Santhosh Ram – 20BCE1091
Achievement: We are happy to inform you that our student’s work titled “Visistant: A Conversational Chatbot for Natural Language to Visualizations With Gemini Large Language Models” got published in IEEE Access as an outcome of the Capstone project during winter semester 2024.
Team Binary Bats Secures 2nd Position at Intel GEN AI Hackathon 2024
Akshat Majila – 23BCE1091
Mishti Mattu – 23BCE1067
Satyam Jha – 23BCE1139
Achievement: We are happy to share that ‘Team Binary Bats’ from VIT Chennai, secured 2nd position in the prestigious Intel GEN AI National Hackathon 2024, held on 4th and 5th of October at KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. The event saw participation from over 217 teams, comprising more than 1000 students from 10 different states. The team was awarded a prize of Rs. 30,000 for their achievement.
Yashwant Balaji – 22BRS1007
Rohit Vikas Kedar – 22BCE1127
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that our students Yashwant Balaji secured 1st place, and Rohit Vikas Kedar secured 2nd place in the National Level Coding Competition organized by Anna University.
Best Paper Award for students at Internatioenal Conference
Yajur Khanna – 21BPS1621
Daniyal iqbal – 21BPS1193
Akshat Srivastava – 21BRS1120
Achievement: We are happy to share details regarding the conference presentation of the project work of our undergraduate SCOPE students. Their work titled “Multimodal Dual Track MobileNetV3 and Swin-Unet Based Deep Neural Network for Classification of Skin Lesions” has received Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Engineering & Technology, organised by Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research from 23.09.2024 to 25.09.2024.
CDSCNC-2024 Best paper Award
Navaneetha Krishnan S – 21BCE1729
Mohnish Karthikeyan B – 21BCE1371
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students paper, titled “A Secure Multi Factor Authentication Framework Using Efficient ChaMac Algorithm,” has been recognized with the Best Paper Presenter Award at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Systems, Computer Networks and Cyber security ICDSCNC 2024, organized by Sri Krishna Institute of Technology, Bangalore on September 20-21, 2024. Furthermore, the paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Digital Library, which is indexed in Scopus.
September 2024
Design Patent 2024
Atharv Agarwal -23BCE1173
Behara Krishna Priyadarshan -23BCE5138
Achievement: We are happy to share that our design patent involving our students Mr Abhiram Sharma, Mr Atharv Agarwal and Mr. Behara Krishna Priyadarshan and Dr.G.Venkatachalam – Professor SMEC. titled “LUMI DISSECT LIGHT PIPE” was granted on 17/07/2024. It is a collaborative work with “ARVIND EYE HOSPITALS, Tirunelveli”
Prize Winners in Russian Consulate Science Olympiad
Sanmay Anand- 24BPS1017
(1st Prize Winner in Maths Olympiad)
Hayagreev Narayanan- 24BCE1218
(2nd Prize Winner in Chemistry Olympiad)
Achievement: We are thrilled to announce that our students have secured three prestigious prizes in the Finals of the Science Olympiad, held on September 6, 2024, organized by the Russian Consulate. The VIT Alumni Association played a crucial role in organizing the preliminary rounds, with exceptional support from the Event Management team.
First Prize at CryptoShield Hackathon 2024
A Harsha Kumar – 22BCE1728
N Saran – 22BCE1592
Preetham Venkatram C – 22BCE5133
Achievement: We are delighted to share that our team secured First Prize at the CryptoShield Hackathon 2024, organized by the Amrita Cyber Nation (ACN) Chapter at Amrita School of Engineering, Chennai. We competed in the Blockchain Track and received a prize of $450 (38,000 INR).
Best Paper Award at International Conference 2024
Yajur Khanna (21BPS1621)
Daniyal iqbal (21BPS1193)
Akshat Srivastava (21BRS1120)
Achievement: We are happy to share details regarding the conference presentation of the project work of our undergraduate SCOPE students under my guidance. Their work titled “Multimodal Dual Track MobileNetV3 and Swin-Unet Based Deep Neural Network for Classification of Skin Lesions” has received Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Engineering & Technology, organised by Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research from 23.09.2024 to 25.09.2024.
First Runner-Up Prize at Shell.ai Hackathon 2024
Pranjal Mishra 21BCE5088
Gaurav Beswal 21BRS1555
Achievement: We are thrilled to share the exciting news that our team has won the First Runner-Up prize at the prestigious Shell.ai Hackathon 2024, held on 9th September at KTPO, Bangalore. Our team was awarded a prize of $2200 for their remarkable contribution to the Fleet Decarbonisation Challenge.
Best Paper Presentation Award
Srivats R -21BCE5064
Kalyanasundaram V -21MIS1028
Padmaja V -19BAI1107
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ paper, titled “Enhanced Interpupillary Distance Identification for Children Using YOLOv5 and YOLOX Object Detection Models,” has been recognized with the Best Paper Presentation Award at the International Conference on Integration of Emerging Technologies for the Digital World (ICIETDW24), organized by RMD Engineering College on September 13-14, 2024. Furthermore, the paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Digital Library, which is indexed in Scopus.
Special Recognition in Bengaluru Mobility Challenge 2024
Prenitha R – 21BCE1430
Abhijith Ganesh- 21BRS1200
Pardheev Krishna- 21BCE1406
Achievement: We are pleased to inform you that students from VIT Chennai, have secured Special Recognition (4th place overall) in the prestigious Bengaluru Mobility Challenge 2024. The team was awarded a ₹25,000 cash prize. This event, organized by the Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), FSID, CiSTUP (IISc), and the Bengaluru Traffic Police brought together participants from across the country to develop innovative solutions for urban mobility.
District-Level CM Trophy Swimming
Sarvepalli Krishna Pranav (23 BCE 1382)
400m Freestyle: Silver
200m Freestyle: Gold
Achievement: We are delighted to announce that our student has excelled at the District-Level CM Trophy for Swimming, bringing home several medals.
Winners of Samsung PRISM Generative AI Hackathon Voice technology program
Team Pythonic
Aman Gupta(20BRS1075)
Subhranshu Pati (20BRS1064)
Samik Saraswat(20BRS1205)
Team UnderGod
Akash Mondal (21BPS1292)
Shrestha Singh(21BRS1686)
Achievement: The Samsung PRISM Generative AI Hackathon Voice technology program focuses on developers creating innovative solutions using Samsung’s AI technologies. The event saw enthusiastic participation from 39 students of VIT Chennai, with 13 team submissions. Out of these, 6 teams were shortlisted for the final implementation and app development stages.
We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Samsung PRISM Generative AI Hackathon Voice technology program have been declared with two teams from VIT Chennai featuring in the final list of winners awarded a reward of INR 20,000 each (Total INR 40,000 for two teams).
Winners of the Samsung PRISM Metaverse Ideathon
App Name: FuturaForge
B Jayant (22BEC1265)
Kalyanam Karthik (22BEC1268)
Salokya Srichandan (22BEC1262)
Swayam Pattnaik (22BEC1228)
App Name: Samsung Meta Store
Shival Gupta (21BRS1408)
George Mathew Paul (21BAI1272)
Sivaraghavi U. R. (21BRS1412)
Trisha Bhavini (21BCE6110)
App Name: Tutori.AI
Shlok Kamath (21BAI1844)
Shreyash Shripati More (21BPS1332)
Ojas Patil (21BAI1106)
Achievement: We are happy to inform you about the successful completion of the Samsung PRISM Metaverse Ideathon program, held across leading institutes between 11th January 2024 and 19th June 2024.The Samsung Metaverse Ideathon focused on cutting-edge technologies such as AR vision engines, 3D rendering, and gesture recognition, aimed at creating immersive human-centric interactions. The event saw enthusiastic participation from 61 students of VIT Chennai, with 33 team submissions. Out of these, 11 teams were shortlisted for the final implementation and app development stages.
We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Samsung PRISM Metaverse Ideathon have been declared, with three teams from VIT Chennai featuring in the final list of winners.
August 2024
Best Paper Award
Meshal Nayim – 21BCE1112
Achievement: Our student Meshal Nayim has received the Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Detection of Leading CNN Models for AI Image Accuracy and Efficiency” at the International Conference on Intelligent Algorithms for Computational Intelligence Systems (IACIS 2024), organized by Navkis College of Engineering, Hassan,sponsored by IEEE, Bangalore section
CDSCNC-2024 Best paper Award
Navaneetha Krishnan S (21BCE1729)
Mohnish Karthikeyan B (21BCE1371)
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students paper, titled “A Secure Multi Factor Authentication Framework Using Efficient ChaMac Algorithm,” has been recognized with the Best Paper Presenter Award at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Systems, Computer Networks and Cyber security ICDSCNC 2024, organized by Sri Krishna Institute of Technology, Bangalore on September 20-21, 2024. Furthermore, the paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Digital Library, which is indexed in Scopus.
Achievement in ROBOFEST 4.0 – Rover and Hexapod Bot Categories
Team Rover
Suhani Panda – 23BAI1064
Team Hexapod
Tashadur Rahman – 22BRS1304
Achievement: We are pleased to inform that our teams from the HumanoidX Club have achieved outstanding success in the first round of ROBOFEST 4.0. Competing in the highly challenging fields of Rover and Hexapod Bot, our teams showcased exceptional skill and innovation, emerging victorious in both categories.
This prestigious competition, conducted by the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology, saw intense competition from various institutions across the country. Our teams’ dedication and hard work have been rewarded with a cash prize of INR 50,000 per team.
Achievement Team Aviators International for Advancing to Level II in ROBOFEST Competition
Ankit Kumar- 22BRS1130
Achievement: We are delighted to inform you that Team Aviators International has been successfully selected to Level II in the prestigious ROBOFEST Competition. Their innovative approach and technical expertise have earned them this significant recognition. In addition to advancing to the next level, the team has been awarded a cash prize of Rs. 50,000.
Humboldt Research Internship
N.P. Prerna (21MIA1035)
Achievement: We are delighted to share the commendable achievement of Ms. N.P. Prerna (21MIA1035), who recently completed an elite internship under the Humboldt Internship Program at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. The internship took place from 22nd May to 9th August 2024. This highly competitive international internship selected approximately 30 students worldwide for a three-month research stay, providing hands-on experience in cutting-edge projects.
During her internship, Ms. Prerna conducted advanced research in pharmacokinetics data curation and had the privilege of presenting her findings at the prestigious “Student Research in Practice” symposium held at Humboldt University. In recognition of her efforts and to support her stay in Berlin, Ms. Prerna was awarded the Santander Scholarship, amounting to €2,250, which covered her maintenance expenses during the internship.
Publication in IEEE Access
Kurupati Sai Charan-21MIA1017
Palla Venkata Sai-21MIA1051
Omtri Vijaya Krishna-21MIA1095
Achievement: We are delighted to inform you that the following students have demonstrated exceptional dedication and hard work in the Project Component Course, Predictive Analytics with Case Studies during the Winter Semester of 2024. Their collaborative efforts have culminated in the successful publication of their project work in the prestigious journal IEEE Access.
Participation in Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)
Vishnu Achyut Managoli 23BAI1437
Achievement: We are delighted to inform you that our student Vishnu Achyut Managoli participated in the Quiz Show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) Season 16, hosted by Shri. Amitabh Bachchan. He managed to get to the hot seat, and played the magnificent quiz show as well upon clearing the FFF round. Along with this achievement, he has been declared as one of the Youngest Contestants in the show.
International recognition by UPM, Malaysia-Carlo Rino, Malaysia @ VIT Chennai
Team Genesis:
Jayashankar KS – 21BCE1290
Pranay Jiljith – 21BCE1476
Team Thamiz Designerzz:
GIRIDHARAN R E -23MIA1128
Samuthyka – 23MIA1162
Mohammad ashik – 22MIA1155
Achievement: We are delighted to share the stellar performance by our students in the recent International User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) design competition hosted by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) for Carlo Rino. Showcasing an impressive turnout, VIT Chennai contributed 45 successful submissions from 75 registered teams, representing nearly 50% of the total 91 teams from six countries. Our student team led by Jayasankar KS secured the second prize of 5000 Ringgits (Rs.92,903.75/-), and another team led by Giridharan RE, received 400 Ringgits (Rs.7,434.20/-) for their outstanding technical prowess. The enthusiastic participation of VITians was widely praised by evaluators and event hosts.
Winner – American Express Campus Challenge 2024
Amritansh Sharma (22BCE1479)
Achievement: We are pleased to share that one of our students, Amritansh Sharma has been declared one of the winners of the prestigious American Express Campus Challenge. This competition, which featured nearly 1,400 participants from esteemed institutions such as BITS and NSUT, was held in three rigorous rounds.
The theme of the event was Data Analytics, where participants were tasked with utilizing advanced techniques to derive actionable insights and solve various challenges based on that information. Amritansh’s outstanding performance and innovative solutions have earned him a well-deserved place among the winners.
July 2024
Victory at Hack4Bengal 3.0 by our Students
Team BongO(n):
Mainak Chattopadhyay (21BAI1217)
Parthiba Mukhopadhyay (21BAI1168)
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students participated in Hack4Bengal 3.0, Eastern India’s largest hackathon, which was a 36-hour long event held from June 28th to June 30th, 2024 and out of the 3000 applications submitted, our students’ project, PAW-sitive, emerged as the winner and our team will receive a prize money of INR 50,000.
Best paper award
Swati Sucharita 23MCB1011
Achievement: We are glad to share that our student Ms. Swati Sucharita, 2 year MTech CSE (Big Data Analytics) guided by Dr.G.Malathi, Professor, SCOPE, received Best Paper Award in International Conference on Innovative Trends in Electrical, Electronics and BioTechnology Engineering (ICITEEB-2024), held on 3rd and 4th July 2024, in Chandigarh University, Punjab.
1st Runner-up Position at Finnovate Hackathon 2024
Aran Agarwal (21BCE5443)
Achievement: We are delighted to share that Aran Agarwal (21BCE5443) & team secured the 1st runners up position in the prestigious Finnovate Hack 2024 which took place on July 7-8, 2024, at IIT Gandhinagar. They were awarded with a prize amount of ₹75,000, along with several fintech internship opportunities provided by IIEC Gandhinagar. Additionally, we have been granted incubation opportunities by IIT Gandhinagar and a ticket to upcoming projects and hackathons by the RBI.
Finnovate Hack 2024 was a fintech-based hackathon that brought together 50 top innovators from all across India. Out of over 1,000 applications from across India, our team was selected to participate in the prestigious Finnovate Hack 2024, which is sponsored by the RBI, RBI Innovation Hub, IIM Ahmedabad, IIEC Gandhinagar and GIFT City with support from the Government of India.
Best Research Project award in Abu Dhabi at MBZUAI
Jaskaran Singh Walia (21BCE1089)
Achievement: We are happy to share the remarkable achievement of one of our very own students, Jaskaran Singh Walia (21BCE1089). Jaskaran was selected for a fully funded research internship this summer, with an impressive stipend of 3 Lakhs per annum (LPA) per month.
Not only did he excel in his internship, but he also presented his research with such excellence that he, along with his team, was awarded the “Best Research – Team” award. This is a significant honor, considering the competition included students from prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, former NASA interns, and many other top universities worldwide. This recognition is a testament to Jaskaran’s hard work, dedication, and exceptional research capabilities.
June 2024
AICTE-The Inventor Challenge 2024
Sairam Peddigari, 21BRS1086
Naveen Shankar, 21BRS1113
Abhishek Chhabra, 21BRS1037
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ project “Vocalysis” has been shortlisted in ‘AICTE-The Inventor Challenge 2024’ out of 2000 ideas submitted.
The Inventor Challenge 2023 is an endeavor towards nurturing the capabilities of faculty members and students in semiconductors and technology innovation. The Inventor Challenge 2024 themes will focus on G20 and Sustainability goals.
IEEE YESIST12 2024 Grand Finale in Tunisia
Adithiyaa D (23BAI1038) – Team Lead
Akshay Ramesh (23BAI1015)
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students’ project ” Mitigating Water Scarcity through an Intelligent Ecosystem: Integrating AI, Deep Learning, and IoT for Sustainable Water Management” under the track Innovation Challenge – Innovation Challenge – Direct Entry has been selected for the final round of IEEE YESIST12 2024 Grand Finale.
Their project stood out among 1000+ entries due to its exceptional creativity, innovation, and academic merit, impressing the judges. The Grand Finale of YESIST12 will take place during September in Tunisia.
Achievements in WorldQuant’s International Quant Championship ’24
Krish Bagga [20BAI1044]
Ratneshwar [20BAI1192]
Achievement: We are thrilled to share the recent accomplishments of our team, “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. As a result of our stage-1 performance, we received a prize of $1,500 from our university’s prize pool. We are now eagerly preparing for stage-2, aiming to secure a global rank and represent India on the international stage in Singapore.
Winners – Sophrosyne VIT
Michelle Ellen Joseph (23BCE1381)
Shaahid (21BAI1087)
Achievement: We are thrilled to share that members of Sophrosyne VIT Toastmasters Club have achieved remarkable success at the Area Level Speech Contests held at PayPal Chennai.
IEEE YESIST12-2024 Team Selected for Grand Finale 2024
Dev Agarwal (23BCE1727)
Pulkit (23BCE1690)
Meghana (23BCE1719)
Achievement: We are thrilled to announce that our team’s submission, MAARG-Darshan under the track Innovation Challenge, has been selected for the prestigious international hackathon YESIST12 finale, out of over 1000 teams in the Innovation Challenge track.
Second Place in International Underwater Robotics Competition held at Norway – Dreadnought Team
We are delighted to inform you that Dreadnought Robotics has secured second place in the TAC Challenge Norway 2024, conducted by the Tau Autonomy Centre (an R&D organization focused on developing underwater vehicles). The competition took place from June 10th to June 14th, 2024. Thirteen teams from across the globe competed in various tasks during this event.
We are proud to mention that we were the only team to complete the Subsea Docking task fully autonomously and the first Asian team to secure a top-three position in this competition. This remarkable achievement was made possible due to the extensive planning and hard work put in by the members of the special team DREADNOUGHT ROBOTICS.
Our efforts were appreciated by the Indian Ambassador to Norway, Dr Aquino Vimal and the Indian Honorary Consul General to Stavanger, Norway Mr Prem Prakash.
The team members who contributed to this success are:
- Aaliya Alam (22BRS1325)
- Aaron D’Costa (22BRS1129)
- Adithya Ajai (22BRS1024)
- Asad Hadi (22BCE1700)
- Atman Kikani (22BRS1253)
- Ayush Upadhyay (22BRS1031)
- Benaiah Saju Joseph (21BRS1300)
- Chirag (21BRS1573)
- Gunturu Shasank (21BRS1141)
- Hemanth Vasu (21BEE1037)
- Janhavi Chaurasia (22BCE5091)
- Kunal (22BRS1201)
- Lakshya Sajjan Agarwal (22BRS1310)
- Prabal Khare (22BRS1351)
- Rasika Suresh Phutane (22BCE1322) )
- Siddhant Arora (21BRS1702
- Sumukh Shrote (21BRS1154)
- Yash Suhas Jawale (22BCE1014)
May 2024
Selected for IEEE YESIST12 2024 Grand Finale via IEEE RAS VIT CHENNAI 2024
It’s with great pleasure that we extend our heartfelt congratulations to the 10 exceptional teams who have secured their positions in the Grand Finale of the IEEE YESIST12 2024 INTERNATIONAL HACKATHON which will take place in TUNISIA by submitting via IEEE RAS VIT Chennai Direct entry. The teams have demonstrated exemplary innovation, determination, and collaborative spirit, standing out among the 5000+ entries. The teams were supported and motivated at every step by the team at IEEE RAS led by IEEE YESIST12 Ambassador Shiv Kumar D (22BCE5030) and the faculty Coordinators Dr. Sucheta M and Dr. Balaji V R.
Let’s celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of each team !!!
1. Scrappy Kats:
– Lead: Aansh Sahni (22BCE1429)
– Members: P. Abbas Khan (22BCE5004), Mohit Anand P (22BCE1049)
2. Eco Chain Innovators:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karthik
– Team Lead: Thirumurugan (22BEC1473)
– Team Member: Aditi Mishra (22BCE5240)
3. ECOGROW:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Premanand S
– Team Lead: Vidushi Agnihotri (22BLC1387)
– Team Members: Aditya Kumar Jha (22BEC1074), Shikhar Burman (22BLC1335), Sakshi Biyani (22BLC1385)
4. Team Trailblazers:
– Team Lead: Emir Husain (22BCE1184)
– Team Members: Om Aditya (22BCE1142), Shreyas Mohanty(22BCE1335),Saumya Gupta (22BCE1293)
5. Neophytic Techies:
– Team Lead: Vignesh Prabhu S (22BMH1086)
– Team Members: Hariharan K (22BMH1052), Naveen N G (22BMH1121),Sivarish Kosalram M B (22BMH1013)
6. Tech Quad:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yogeeshwar S
– Team Lead: Jeswanth S (23BCE1424)
– Team Members: Surjith Khannan R (23BCE1405), Lohita Lakshmi L.S.(23BCE1178), G Vishnu Swaroop (23BCE1129)
7. App Crafters:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Usha Devi T
– Team Lead: Lohithaa K M (22BCE1311)
– Team Members: Sanjana Sudarsan (22BCE5000), Swetha Sriram (22BCE5032)
8. Pregathi:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sakthivel V
– Team Lead: A Harsha Kumar (22BCE1728)
– Members: N Saran (22BCE1592), Disha Daniel (22BEE1016)
9. GenLearn:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Vijay Kumar
– Lead: Rudresh Pandey (22BCE1182)
– Members: Shashwat Mishra (22BCE1853), Aditya Mukati (22BCE1310), Yash Rathi (22BCE1892)
10. Wemace:
– Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kumar R
– Team Lead: Venkatesan M (22BAI1259)
– Team Members: TVL Bharathwaj (22BAI1349), Rahul Ashok (22BAI1082),Pritham Devaprasad (22BAI1070)
Best paper award by 2021 B.Tech Students in an International Conference
- Jasleen Kaur (21BPS1056)
- Nilesh Tiwari (21BPS1064)
- Nikhil Nair (21BPS1122)
Achievement: We are happy to share that our 2021 batch students (Jasleen Kaur, Nilesh Tiwari and Nikhil Nair), participated and presented their paper in an international conference and bagged the best paper award.
Title of the Paper: Isogeny-Based Security for Marine Genomic Insights
Name of the Conference: 4th International Conference on ICT for Digital, Smart and Sustainable Development held at Jamia Hamdard Delhi India
Selected for IEEE YESIST12 2024 Grand Finale
- Varshini Subramanian (21BCE1015) – Team Lead
- Shivanya Singh (21BCE1231)
- Charvi Upreti (21BCE1440)
- VK Harini (21BCE1664)
Achievement: We are excited to share that our students’ team “Team pregAthI” is shortlisted for the IEEE YESIST12 2024 Grand Finale. The project stood out among 1000+ submissions, demonstrating exceptional creativity, innovation, and scholarly merit and it impressed the judging panel. The Grand Finale of IEEE YESIST12 will take place in Tunisia in September 2024.
April 2024
Winning IEEE YESIST12 Prelims
- Venkatesan M (22BAI1259) – Team Lead
- TVL Bharathwaj (22BAI1349)
- Rahul Ashok (22BAI1082)
- Pritam Devaprasad (22BAI1070)
Achievement: We are excited to share that our students’ Wemace project, which was presented at the Maker Fair track at Panimalar Engineering College and PIT, has achieved first place in the IEEE YESIST12 Prelims. They have been chosen to participate in the IEEE YESIST12 2024 Grande Finale. Their project stood out among 1000+ entries due to its exceptional creativity, innovation, and academic merit, impressing the judges. The Grand Finale of YESIST12 will take place in Tunisia in September, with the closest airport being Tunis-Carthage International Airport.
Winners – Grand Finale (stage II) of NCIIPC- AICTE PENTATHON 2024
- Aditya Dutt 21BCE5884
- Kartikey Subramanium 21BCE6069
- Saini Meetesh Devisahay 21BCE1258
- Abhishek Kumar 21BCE5139
Achievement: We are delighted to announce the remarkable success of our team PEN-TM-025 0xdeadbeef in the Grand Finale (stage II) of the NCIIPC-AICTE PENTATHON 2024, hosted at Amity University NOIDA. Among the 5000 participating teams from across the nation, only 25 were chosen for the Grand Finale, which unfolded from April 2nd to 4th, 2024.
Throughout the intense 48-hour duration, our team demonstrated exceptional talent and teamwork, culminating in our proud victory. They have secured the first position and been awarded a cash prize of Rs 2,50,000 for their outstanding performance.
NIT Trichy _Pragyan Hackathon Runner
- Kartikey Patel (22BCE1260)
- Kushal Agrawal (22BPS1141)
- Tannishtha Nair (22BCE1200)
Achievement: We are happy to share that our students participated in the Pragyan Hackathon organized by NIT Trichy and sponsored by Virtusa Consultancy Services, Larsen and Turbo, and Pathway. From a pool of over 500 applicants, they were selected to compete in the hackathon final round. The team delivered outstanding performance, securing the Runner up position in their track.
National Hackathon Winners- March 2024
- Marushka Rita Fernandes – 22BRS1255
- Aswin Raaj P S – 22BCE1621
Achievement: Our student team consisting of Marushka Rita Fernandes, Mohamed Shamil A I and Aswin Raaj P S competed against some of the brightest minds in the country. Out of a staggering 1250 participants, only 85 were selected for the final round, and our incredible VIT team emerged as one of the top 4 finalists!
2nd Prize at the IEEE YESIST12 24 Prelims (Special Track)
Yeddula Hemanth Reddy (22BCE5074)
Dhanush Varma (22BCE1057)
Hrishikesh Prakash (22BRS1017)
Sai Puneeth Balaji (22BCE1478)
Achievement: Our team – BEYOND INFINITY finished as Runners-up in the Special Track Category in the recently concluded IEEE YESIST12 24 prelims held at Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology on 1st March, 2024. Their abstract has also been selected for the next round which gives a potential opportunity to attend this year’s upcoming Finale in Tunisia.
1st Prize -1 Lakh in Digital Deception Short Film Competition
G Sai Tharun Srinivas (21BRS1368)
Achievement: Our student G Sai Tharun Srinivas has secured the 1st prize Rs 1 Lakh in the Digital Deception Short Film Competition organized by the Greater Chennai Police. The competition aimed to raise awareness about Cyber scams, a topic of critical importance in today’s digital age.
His short film, crafted meticulously on the theme of “Online Part-Time Job Scam,” not only resonated with the audience but also garnered recognition from esteemed judges. The award and prize were presented to him by Mr Sandeep Rai Rathore, IPS, Commissioner of Police – Chennai City.
We believe that this achievement not only reflects his dedication to his art but also highlights the value of utilizing technology for social awareness and community empowerment.
JENESYS SAARC-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo, Japan
Ashwanth Kannan (21BRS1579)
Achievement: Our student Ashwanth Kannan (21BRS1579) was selected by The Bharat Scouts and Guide and fully sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to participate in the JENESYS SAARC-Japan Exchange Program held from March 4th to March 13th, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan.
Under the thoughtful organization of Japan International Cooperation Centre and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the program seamlessly blended education, culture, and social dimensions of environment and sustainable development. Throughout the program, Ashwanth engaged in discussions, workshops, and collaborative activities aimed at addressing pressing environmental issues across SAARC countries.
2023 Technology Infusion Grand Challenge Winners – Centre for Technology Infusion, La Trobe University, Australia
Reuben Manoj Thomas (20BCE1985)
Achievement: Our team TSARS from VIT Chennai has won the grand title – Overall Winner of the 2023 Technology Infusion Grand Challenge organized by Centre for Technology Infusion, La Trobe University, Australia.
The following students Tamilmynthan Senthilyogan (20BMH1084), Shakthi Magender N (20BMH1094), Suseth Menon S (20BMH1088), Reuben Manoj Thomas (20BCE1985) and Vaishnavi Tripuraribhatla (20BMH1090) won this award for their Smart City concept titled DUI (Drinking under influence) prevention out of 67 submissions from different countries.
The award is presented by the Vice Chancellor of La Trobe University, Australia at the Award Ceremony held on 20th March 2024 in New Delhi. The winning team has received an all-expense paid 2-week Mentorship stay at the La Trobe University campus in Melbourne, Australia.
Vimarsh Hackathon Winners
Tarun Gopinath – 20BCE1934
Anirudh CP – 20BCE1394
Achievement: Our team Tarun Gopinath (20BCE1934), Anirudh CP (20BCE1394) and Dr. Rajakumar Arul, Assistant Professor have been adjudged winners for the VIMARSH HACKATHON under Problem Statement 6: “App for Emergency Response Vehicles Embedded with 5G CPEs for critical voice/video/data Communications”.
The hackathon was jointly conducted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Bureau for Police Research and Development BPRD), Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Telecom Centers of Excellence (TCoE) India.
The award ceremony is scheduled to take place at The Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi and our team will be travelling to participate in the same.
Project Shortlisting and Presentation at Google’s Build for AI
Amritansh Sharma – 22BCE1479
Shourya Pratap Singh – 22BPS1181
Yash Rathi – 22BCE1892
Shivam Raj – 22BCE1145
Achievement: Our project “Nyaya Sahaya” was shortlisted to be demoed at Google’s Build for AI event. Only 3 student built projects across India were displayed on the event floor. 2 Members from our team were invited on a fully funded visit to Bengaluru to showcase the project and interact with industry leaders.
Qualification for ICPC Asia West Championship
Jeevan Alexen Kavalam (21BCE5436)
Aadrito Datta (22BAI1407)
Nikhil Iyer (21BPS1006)
Achievement: The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an annual global programming competition where the best teams from universities all over the world participate.
Our team, postesters, has achieved a remarkable 33rd rank in the ICPC Asia West Regionals, securing a spot in the Asia West Continent Final Contest Championship at GLA University, Mathura, India. This prestigious competition will see our team compete with the best teams from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The ICPC is an annual global programming contest featuring multiple rounds, and our team has successfully navigated the preliminary online round and the ICPC Asia Amritapuri Doublesite Regional Contest to reach this stage. The team members, Jeevan Alexen Kavalam, Aadrito Datta and Nikhil Iyer were mentored by Professor Dr. Janaki Meena M. We look forward to showcasing our skills and competing at the highest level in the Asia West Continent Final Contest.
Hackathon Demonstration at IIT Madras
Tarun Gopinath (20BCE1934)
Anirudh C P (20BCE1394)
Achievement: Our students mentored by Dr. Rajakumar Arul cleared the first two rounds of the Vimarsh 2023 5G Hackathon and invited to showcase the demo at the 5G testbed in IIT Madras.
Best Team Coordination Award by UOY Foundation
Jayanth Muthukuru (20BPS1113)
Achievement: The NSS volunteer Mr.Jayanth Muthukuru (20BPS1113) has been conferred with Best Team Coordination Award 2023-2024 by UOY Foundation (Unity of Youth) on 13th January 2024 at Salem.
Medal Winner in Tamil Nadu State NICHE Athletic Meet
Krishnaroop.S (21BPS1284)
Achievement: Our student Krishnaroop S won the silver medal in Athletes (200 Mts /400 Mts) in Tamil Nadu State NICHE Athletic Meet-2024 organized by Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kanyakuamri.
ACM Women’s chapter received Best Emerging Chapter Award
Prenitha R – 21BCE1430
Pardheev Krishna Tammineni- 21BCE1406
Achievement: VIT Chennai ACM Women’s Chapter received the “Best Emerging Chapter Award” and a cash prize of Rs. 40,000/- among 46 student chapters across India. The event is organised by ACM India in the Flagship Annual Event of the ACM India Council 2024, held by the National Institute of Science, Education, and Research (NISER) in Bhuvaneshwar on February 10, 2024. On behalf of the ACM Women’s Chapter, R. Prenitha, the chair and tech lead, Pardheev Krishna Tammineni, received this award along with faculty sponsor Dr. R. Suganya, SCOPE.
Ideathon Winners – Bagged Rs.2.25 Lakh Prize Money
Jefferson David Kingston (21BCE1882)
C V Santhosh (21BCE1830)
Bharat P (21BCE1802)
Achievement: We are thrilled to announce the outstanding achievement of three of our 3rd year B.Tech. CSE students, Jefferson David Kingston, C V Santhosh, and Bharat P. They recently participated in the TCS & SBB CFF FFS Ideathon, held on November 30th, 2023, at the TCS Siruseri Campus in Chennai.
This prestigious event challenged participants to address real-world problems faced by the SWISS railways using AI and Gen AI technologies. Out of a total of 15 teams in the Grand Finale, 12 consisted of experienced TCS employees, making the competition even more impressive.
Our students tackled the complex problem statement of “How to use AI, Co-Pilot for SAP” and presented their innovative solution to a panel of distinguished executives from both TCS and SBB CFF FFS. Their
VITCC at Space Hackathon 2023 by ISRO & NIF
Manav Guduguntla (21BPS1257)
A Jey Pradeep (22MIS1225)
Thameemul Ansari U (22MIS1140)
Achievement: Manav Guduguntla, A Jey Pradeep, Thameemul Ansari U of SEDS Antariksh student chapter have represented VIT Chennai Campus in Space Hackathon, in India International Science Festival 2023 held at DBT-THSTI, Faridabad.
The event was organised in association with ISRO and National Innovation foundation. In this 4-day event, the students worked on Augmented reality problem to bring heritage monuments of the country to life. Their project included the development of an interactive and engaging game within the app’s user interface. The VITCC team was one of the 53 teams who qualified for the finals among the 1000+ applicants across the country. Our students did make a mark at this national event and deserve appreciation.
YLGC MUN 2024 Winners from VITC – The Debate Society of VITC
Executive Board
Akash P Videsh (21BAI1296) – UNSC – Vice Chairperson
UNSC
High Commendation – Narender Senthil (21BPS1195)
SOCHUM
High Commendation – Kartikey Prasad (21BRS1251)
Honourable Mention – Puvanesh YA (22MIA1180)
IPC – Journalism
High Commendation – Kishore Raj M (21BCE5851)
Achievement: We are delighted to inform you about the remarkable success achieved by the students of ‘The Debate Society of VIT Chennai’ at the YLGC MUN 2024, hosted by PSG College of Technology from February 2nd to 4th.
We are happy to announce that our students were awarded the esteemed Best Delegation award, in addition to several other prestigious accolades.
Winner of Hackathon, NIT
Nirajit Pramanik(22BAI1347)
Achievement: Our student Nirajit Pramanik participated in the Hackathon “Silicon Maze ” conducted by National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. There were three categories, namely:
- Systems and Algorithms
- Machine Learning
- API and Development
It was a team event. Over the 24 hours, they competed in the three categories and ended up 2nd in category 1 and 1st in category 2, thus ending up 2nd overall in the competition.
Worldwide Inter Collegiate Chess League – CCL
Adit Pushan K (22BCE1493)
Rohan Kailash B (21BRS1373)
Achievement: Our 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.
Best Poster award in IIT
Jaskaran Singh Walia (21BCE1089)
Achievement: Our student Jaskaran Singh Walia (21BCE1089) was shortlisted for IIT Kanpur’s SURGE research program where he got to work on his funded research project titled “Spatially Resolved Multi-Omic Data Integration using Graph-Attention Variational Autoencoder”. After working on this for 3 months he presented his project’s poster along with all the other 300+ participants and he received the BEST POSTER AWARD for the same.
First Prize in District Level Kalaingnar century essay writing competition
Madhumitha D (21MIS1148)
Achievement: Our student D.Madhumitha participated in the Kalaignar Century Essay Writing Competition held in Kanchipuram district. She secured the first prize with Rs 10000 cash award, and the award was presented by the honorable Minister for Rural and Small Industries of Tamil Nadu, Thiru T.M. Anbarasan.
IBM Hackathon Winners
Srinidhi Gopalan (21BRS1133)
Achievement: Our students clinched 1st place in the global IBM Z hackathon 2023.
IIT Bombay Techfest Winners
Adithya Ajai (22BRS1024)
Kunal (22BRS1201)
Achievement: Our team Dreadnought Robotics won first place in the Cozmoclench competition conducted by IIT Bombay Techfest on 28th October 2023 held in Bangalore zone. They were awarded first place with 1 lakh prize pool.
Student Published an article in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature IF: 4.996
Shubhadip Chakrabarti (19BAI1113)
Achievement: Our B.Tech final year student Mr Shubhadip Chakrabarti has published an article based on his capstone project in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature. (having ImpactFactor: 4.996) under the guidance of Dr. U. Srinivasa Rao.
Star Performers at Sophrosyne VIT Toastmasters
Evaluation Speech Contest Winners
2nd Place: Shaahid (21BAI1087)
3rd Place: Varun Umapathy (23BCE1094)
Achievement: Our Toastmasters club students participated in evaluation speech contest and showcasing their incredible communication and public speaking skills and won the prizes.
Design Odyssey – E-Summit’23 Winners
Gourav Jena (20BCE1233)
Abhay Arora (20BRS1224)
Achievement: Our students Gourav Jena and Abhay Arora representing Team, “Just Placed” participated in the competition ‘Design Odyssey’ organized by IIT Indore as a part of their annual E-Summit on 7th October, 2023. The team emerged victorious and clinched the top spot Design Odyssey 2023.
Intel Unnati Challenge
Shivam Kumar Thakur (22BPS1014)
Kumar Shivam (22BCE1804)
Manvi Agarwal (22BRS1015)
Achievement: Our students’ team participated in the Intel Unnati Challenge and secured a spot among the top 10 teams. During this challenge, they presented their innovative idea at IIIT Hyderabad, alongside esteemed professors and the Intel team. In recognition of their achievement, they received a cash prize of Rs. 10,000, and Intel covered all their trip expenses. Additionally, they were granted exclusive passes to attend the two-day Mobility Day Summit at IIIT Hyderabad. The team was guided by Dr. Sourabh Paul.
Intel Unnati Grand Challenge
Madeti Venkata Sudiksha (21BPS1385)
Kamkanala Keerthi (21BAI1097)
Joshita das (21BRS1228)
Achievement: Our students participated in the Intel Unnati Challenge and secured a spot among the top 10 teams. During this challenge, they presented their innovative idea at IIIT Hyderabad, alongside esteemed professors and the Intel team. In recognition of their achievement, they received a cash prize of Rs. 10,000, and Intel covered all their trip expenses. Additionally, they were granted exclusive passes to attend the two-day Mobility Day Summit at IIIT Hyderabad. The team was guided by Dr. Shridevi S.
CII Gold Award for Dreadnought Robotics Team Captain
Sacchin Sundar (20BRS1053)
Achievement: Our student Mr Sacchin Sundar (20BRS1053), the Captain of the Dreadnought Robotics Team, received the Gold Award, for the underwater Robot developed by the Dreadnought Team from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) during 8th CII National Competition on Digitization, Robotics and Automation held at Gurgaon on 27.10.23
CXO Cywayz Hackathon Winners
Abhishek Kumar – Team Leader (21BCE5139)
Aditi Rai (21BCE1972)
Aditya Kushwaha (21BCE6104)
Sai Charan Guntupalli (21BAI1472)
Achievement: Our students won the cyber security Hackathon at the CXO Cywayz Hackathon Grand Finale on September 12, 2023, in Bangalore. There were three rigorous rounds of selection and elimination. Out of 120 batches participated all over India, three winners were announced and our team Encryption Elite was one among them and also honoured with a cash prize of ₹25,000 and a trophy. The team was guided by Dr. R. Vedhapriyavadhana.
India Hackathon Winners
Shivam Akhouri (20brs1095)
Ritika Lakshminarayanan (20BRS1106)
Alabhya Sharma (20BRS1150)
Vidhi Bhagwandas Ajbani (20BRS1174)
Achievement: Our team (VIT Team Cloud 404) emerged as the second place winners with prize money of 2.5 lakhs at the solving for India Hackathon at Google I/O Connect in Bengaluru.
Tamil Debate Competition
SHAKTHIVEL R (21MIS1065)
Achievement: Our student Sakthivel R won the second prize and received a well-deserved medal shield and a cash prize of Rs. 5000 from the Honourable Minister K. Anbarasan at “Dr. Kalaignar Nootrandu Vizha”.
Indian Karting Race Season 8 Winners
Varun Kumar A (21BAI1791) – Team Captain
Arun Baalaji T M (21BAI1708) – Team Vice-Captain
Aditya Saran S (21BAI1035) – Team Manager
Dhivyadharshini S (21BAI1875)
Vaishnavi S (21BPS1588)
Krishnaroop S (21BPS1284)
Deepesh Sai K (21BCE5398)
Vshva Poorani L (21BRS1613)
Achievement: Our team (Team Marshall) have cleared the technical inspection and raced on Buddh International Circuit and placed third in the endurance race and second in the innovation round at Indian Karting Race Season-8 conducted by the Imperial Society of Innovative Engineers. In recognition for the achievement, our students received a generous cash prize of Rs. 10000 and Intel graciously covered all our expenses for the trip to Hyderabad, totalling Rs. 20000. Additionally, our students were granted exclusive passes to attend the two-day Mobility Day Summit at IIIT Hyderabad, and Intel further showed their support by gifting some goodies as a token of appreciation.
Brighter India Hackathon Winners
Faiz Abdul Rahim(22BAI1468)
Mohammed Zunnoon Aamir(22BCE5197)
Achievement: Our students developed Ai-powered application that analyses long political speeches, identifies impactful areas of the speech and creates small social media reels kind of videos.
Google’s DSC Solution Challenge 2023
Amritansh Sharma (22BCE1479)
Arin Yadav (22BCE5043)
Achievement: our students Amritansh Sharma & Arin Yadav represented VIT and India at Google’s Solution Challenge 2023. The contest had participation from 110 countries and 1900+ Universities and they were selected as a part of the Global Top 10. They were featured on Google for Developer’s YT Channel (YouTube Video) and have been awarded with a Cash Prize of ₹1, 65,000.
Kavach 2023 Winners
Madhur Singh (20BAI1321)
Swaifa Haque (20BAI1027)
Hari Baskar (20BCE1380)
Krishna Kumar S (20BCE1425)
Riyasshri J S (20BCE1836)
Civanesh C (20BCE1002)
Achievement: KAVACH’23 is a National level Hackathon organised by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Home Affairs, All India Council for Technical Education and IC4. It had 20 problem statements ranging in different sectors of cyber security and had over 4000+ teams participating in total. Our team won the Hackathon in grand finale round over the other teams that hailed from all over India. The team was guided by Dr.Anusha K and Dr. Suseela S
Brighter India Hackathon Winners
Adith Sagar Gowda (21BAI1928)
Ankith SR (21BPS1387)
Achievement: Our students secured second position in the Brighter India Hackathon conducted by Brighter India on 5th and 6th of August 2023 at (Howard Johnson by Wyndham), Bengaluru Hebbal. The Hackathon involved development of innovative ideas for the improvement of Election management with the help of AI. Our team developed a Machine Learning model based on Sentiment analysis that classifies social interactions by the public based on their view for each candidate standing.
Article published with Impact Factor: 24.83
Shourya Pratap Singh (22BPS1181)
Devika Iyer (22BAI1281)
Aishwarya Shaji (22BAI1384)
Ananya Tripathi (22BAI1273)
Achievement: Our B.Tech students published a review article in ‘Coordination Chemistry Reviews’ with Impact Factor: 24.83. Guided by Dr Pritam Ghosh.
International Sub-Sea Robotic Challenge – TAC Challenge – NORWAY
- Sacchin Ganesh Sundar (20BRS1053)
- Shibani (21BAI1821)
- Anirudh Malhotra (21BRS1597)
- Sumukh Shrote (21BRS1154)
- Shamsudeen Saleem (20BRS1241)
- Siddhant Arora (21BRS1702)
- Kiran Prasath D K (20BRS1028)
- Hari Prasad P (21BRS1116)
- Aaditya Bagaddeo (20BRS1089)
- A Abinaya Sri (20BRS1001)
- Yash Ulhas Ambre (20BRS1107)
- Aniket Kulkarni (20BRS1038)
- Chirag (21BRS1573)
- Haroon Muhammed (20BRS1029)
- Varenya Pathak (21BRS1567)
Achievement: Our student team Dreadnought Robotics guided by Dr. K. Karunamurthy participated in the international sub-sea robotics challenge (TAC Challenge) conducted by TAU Autonomy Center, Rogaland, Norway during June 9-13, 2023.
The team obtained the following results:
Presentation – 4th Place
Subsea pipeline inspection – 5th Place
Docking – 6th Place
Sub-sea Object Identification – 7th Place
Our team is the only debut team that participated in the international event and was appreciated for their outstanding participation with a Diploma Certificate.
A total of 13 teams (200 participants) from various countries registered for the sub-sea drone competition.
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Internship – Selected
BELESWAR PRASAD PADHI (20BRS1017)
Achievement: Our student Beleswar Prasad Padhi III year B.Tech CSE with specialization in AIR got selected in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Internship 2022 and also in 2023. The number of submissions to GSoC2022 is 7089 from 108 countries where 1024 students were selected. The number of submissions to GSoC 2023 is 7723 proposals from 160 countries where 967 students were selected.
In addition to his GSoC internship completion after 2022, he has taken efforts to motivate the VIT Chennai students and trained them to submit proposals to GSoC 2023. Under his guidance, 30+ students have registered and 5 students have submitted the proposal with three months of training from Feb to April 2023.
Selected for Google Top 100 and Best Project in IEEE Bangalore
Amritansh Sharma – 22BCE1479
Arin Yadav – 22BCE5043
Shourya Pratap Singh – 22BPS1181
Achievement: Our students’ project “Femunity” has been selected as the “Best Project – 2023” in YESIST12 organised by IEEE Bangalore.
The project has also been selected to be in the Global Top 100 by Google. The contest had 1000+ applications from the 1900 GDSCs across 110 countries. Our students will be representing our college and country at the International Finals, which is going to be held at Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt.
R² Data Labs Responsible Growth Hack || 2nd Position
Dennis Sagayanathan – 19MIS1125
Saladi Kalyan Sai Govind Anjan – 19MIA1056
Danish Arshad – 19MIA1068
Achievement: Our students secured the 2nd position in the R2 (Rolls Royce) Data Labs Responsible Growth Hack, which was a hackathon held globally, and had 1504 teams competing.
They will be invited to the Rolls Royce office, where they will be awarded with their prizes, after which Rolls Royce will constantly work with them on their idea to bring it to life.
Data Science Internship at Assurant and Machine Learning Internship at IIT, Kanpur
Jaskaran Singh Walia (21BCE1089)
Achievement: Our second year student Jaskaran Singh Walia got the data science internship at Assurant (which is a US-based Fortune 500 company and one of the biggest companies world-wide for data science interns). He is one of only four students selected from India for this internship. Similarly he got another internship in the field of machine learning at SURGE, IIT Kanpur. He is one of four students (non IIT students) selected in the entire country in the field of CSE to perform research directly under their resources.
University Day Meritorious Award
PIYALI SAHA (20MIA1066)
Achievement: Our student Piyali Saha is awarded 4th rank / 5th rank and appreciated for her academic achievements during the year 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Cyber Security Researcher and Ethical Hacker
RUPACHANDRAN S (20MIA1132)
Achievement: Our student Rupachandran S has ethically hacked the below listed companies and reported to them through their vulnerability research program and got appreciation and monetary rewards from them officially.
The Companies and The rewards are,
- Optimizely- 1000$ (I was Rewarded with 80,000 ₹ From The Company and a Hall Of Fame In My Name)
- Monash University Australia – 125 $ (10000 ₹ From The University and A Hall Of Fame In My Name)
- Databricks – 100 $ (8000 ₹ From The Company and A Hall Of Fame In My Name)
- Payoneer – 100 $ (8000 ₹ From the Company and A Hall Of Fame In My Name )
- Secured More Than 50 Indian Government Websites Which Includes Madhya Pradesh Police Department and Kerala Forest Websites and Many More
2nd Runner up WaiDatathon 2021
Saumya Bhardwaj – 19BCE1067
Azam Siddiqui – 19BCE1092
Nitika Verma – 19BCE1060
Kinshuk Dua – 19BCE1048
Achievement: Our students participated in WaiDatathon in 2021 and secured a place of 2nd Runner up with a cash prize of USD 750.
Best Capstone Project
SHREE VARSHAN V (19BCE1648)
Achievement: Shree Varshan V (19BCE1648) won “Best capstone project” for the school of computer science and engineering.
Technical Content Writer
Balakrishnan R (20BCE1035)
Achievement: Our student, Balakrishnan R, has recently done a Remote Internship as “Technical Content Writer” at GeeksForGeeks from 15 OCT 2022 to 15 FEB 2023. He has written many technical articles and published on Computer Science topics like Data structures and Algorithms, Deep Learning, C++ and got published.
Highlights Activities:
- Author for 16 full-fledged articles.
- 16 Major Improvements in articles by providing an optimized approach.
- The “monotonic stack gfg”keyword leads to his article on top of Google Search and Bing Search. (SEO Ranked 1).
- From 16 Self-published articles, he has received almost 2K (46,219) Cumulative Views and 463 Cumulative Likes.
Selected for IDE Bootcamp
Aran Agarwal (21BCE5443)
Kushal Agrawal (22BPS1141)
Achievement: Our students got selected for the AICTE boot camp under the guidance of Dr. V. Sakthivel. Bootcamp will be conducted by the Government of India at NITTTR College, Chennai.
Selected for Grand Finale of YESIST12 2023
ABHISHEK KUMAR (21BCE5139)
ADITI RAI (21BCE1972)
JESHER JOSHUA M ( )
ANKITH MOTHA (21BAI1284)
Achievement: Our students got selected for the Grand finale of YESIST12 2023 to be held at Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt on September 2 & 3, 2023.
1st Prize at IEEE Yessit prelims (Innovation challenge)
Kushal Agrawal (22BPS1141)
Ansh Sharma (22BCE1338)
Ansh Vahinipati (22BCE1094)
Aditya Shaw (22BRS1145)
Achievement: Our team (Hail Alan) has won 1st prize at IEEE Yessit (Innovation Challenge) preliminary round held at Sri Sairam Engineering College on 31st March 2023, and have been selected to attend the grand finale being held at Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt.
NASSCOM TAIM Grand Academic Challenge
Neeraj J Manurkar(20BRS1269)
Aravind P(20BPS1053)
Aneesh Aparajit(20BRS1054)
Pratik Garai(19BAI1025)
Achievement: Our team consisting of Neeraj J Manurkar, Aravind P, Aneesh Aparajit & Pratik Garai won 2nd place at the National Level and have received a prize money of 2.5 Lakh Rupees.
The Hackathon was a 2 month long event with over 7,500 teams from all over India. The theme was to find an expectation of what the weather and AQI would be later and to predict the heat waves of Telangana, Our Team provided a fully functional end to end solution and won second place.
National Level Project Competition
RAMINEDI SANTHOSH (20BCE1477)
Achievement: Raminedi Santhosh has bagged Second Prize in the National Level Project Competition (NSPC) 2023 organized by the Computer Society of India (CSI), Chennai Chapter on 28th February 2023.
Winners – EthIndia ETHForAll (Asia’s largest Ethereum blockchain hackathon)
Sabari Ganesh – 21BPS1209
Gautham Krishna- 21BRS1032
Chiranjeev Mishra – 21BCE1747
Ameiy Acharya-21BPS1104
Achievement: Our team “ETHERNALS” participated in “ETHIndia ETHForAll Ethereum Hackathon” which had around thousands of developers across the world with all proficiency and hundreds of leading projects built on Ethereum !!
IoThinc Club on winning Double Slash 2.0 : IEEE Jadavpur
Hariket Sukesh Kumar Sheth (20BCE1975)
Sagar Mondal (21BCE1913)
Achievement: Our team, Inspire Coders, from IoThinc Club has emerged as winners of the second prize overall and the first prize in the IoT category in Double Slash 2.0, a national level hackathon organized by IEEE Jadavpur University. Our students Hariket Sukesh Kumar Sheth (20BCE1975), Sagar Mondal (21BCE1913), competed against 30+ colleges from across the country, and numerous participants took part in the hackathon. As a recognition of our victory, we have been awarded a cash prize of 10,000/-, certificates, and swags.
Prize winners at App Frenzy 2.0 National-level Hackathon
Aadhithya D (21BPS1236)
Adithya S (21BPS1223)
Sanjaii V (21BRS1021)
Thiruvikraman A (21BRS1013)
Achievement: our student team ‘Dev Daredevils’ secured Third place in the App Frenzy 2.0 National-level Hackathon, organized by Sri Sairam Engineering College with the objective of developing mobile applications that are innovative and useful in real life.
Winner – International Space Science Challenge
Ashna Verma (20BEC1083)
Rohan Murali (21BMH1214)
Kalyani Patra (21BRS1229)
Hemanth Vasu (21BEE1037)
Jesher Joshua M (21BAI1925)
Jeshma Ullas (21BCE6197)
Achievement: our team ‘Quarky Quasars’ has achieved the position of ‘Winner’ in the Space Robotics Category in the International Space Science Challenge 2022, organized by Spaceonova with an objective to induce problem-solving skills, design thinking, and solution-oriented mindset among students in the fields of space technology and exploration.
Cyber Hackathon 2022 Winners
Shiva Gurunath – 20BPS1028
Kuralamuthan B – 20BPS1082
Achievement: The team of SCOPE faculty and students Dr. Vallidevi K, Associate Professor, SCOPE, Shiva Gurunath – 20BPS1028, Kuralamuthan B – 20BPS1082 won the I Prize in the finals and awarded the gifts and trophy by Mr. Shankar Jiwal, Chennai Police Commissioner, Selvi. Kiran Shruthi, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ms. G.Nagajothi, Deputy Commissioner of Police& Dr. R. Velraj, VC, Anna University.
Internet 2.0 – Outstanding Leadership Award in the field of Technology
Anirudh Vasudev 19MIA1100
Achievement :our student 19MIA 1100 Anirudh Vasudev has won the Outstanding Leadership Award in the field of Technology at Internet 2.0 Conference held at the Intercontinental Hotel Dubai Festival City, Dubai.
Finalist in all Girls Hackathon – CHALAANG
B N Shrikriti – 19MIA1037
Achievement: Part of the finalist team at Chalaang Hackathon which was conducted by Passion Connect in the Microsoft Office on 9th of December in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Lumos Metaverse’s Build for Web3 Hackathon
Sabari Ganesh – 21BPS1209
Gautham Krishna- 21BRS1032
Achievement: Our team “Green Genesis participated in “Lumos Metaverse’s Build for Web3 Hackathon” which had around 7700+ developers across the world with all proficiency and 14 winning tracks by sponsors !! Our students’ team won Pool Prize in Polygon Track.
Tamil Computing 2022
Susindhar A (20BCE1973),
JayaganeshVelayutham (22MIA1177)
Navtej S Nair (22MIS1122)
Achievement: Our students won the first prize with cash award Rs. 50000 /- in Hackathon on Tamil Computing 2022 jointly organized by Tamil Virtual Academy and VIT Vellore.
QUIZ PRO QUO
AadityaKannan – 21BPS1353
Soumitya Pareek- 21BPS1408
Achievement: Our students won the fourth place in quiz pro quo (intercollegiate quiz competition) conducted by Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College.
November 2022
Optum Stratethon Season 4 – APAC Hackathon Winners
Joyeeta Dey – 19BCE1243
Apoorv Singh Chauhan – 19BCE1055
Achievement: Team “BYTEMAGIC” – Winners of E-Track were awarded prize money of $6700
Jyotika Jaiswal 19BPS1034
Arpan Ghosh – 19BCE1009
Achievement: Team “OPTUMIZERS” – Runners Up of E-Track were awarded prize money of $3000
Best Outgoing Student Award
Jayit Saha 18BCE1071
Achievement: Jayit Saha(18BCE1071) was facilitated with the Best Outgoing Student
Award for the year 2021-22.
October 2022
IIT Madras Sports Fest
SRINIDHI K 21BAI1479
VANDHANA S21BPS1172
HANNAH GRACELYNE S21BCE1078
Achievement: Srinidhi won the third prize in the women’s 800-metre category while the women’s relay team, consisting of Hannah, Vandhana, and Srinithi also bagged the third position.
SRINIDHI ARUN KUMAR21BPS1354
ASMI AGNIHOTRI21BCE1404
Achievement: Srinidhi Arun Kumar and Asmi Agnihotri won the silver medal in women’s table tennis.
YUTHISH KUMAR V21MIA1023
Achievement: Yuthish Kumar won the bronze medal in men’s table tennis.
YASH ARYAMAN20BCE1877
VIJAY M19BCE1388
SUPRAV BHATTACHARYA19BCE1130
C LANSTON DAVIS20BCE1613
DHANANJAY S21BRS1580
DAWN S CHACKO21BRS1446
TANISHQ MAHAPATRA21BAI1002
ADITYA CHOUDHARY21BAI1566
YAKESH S21BAI1692
PRANAV JAYARAJ21BRS1190
Achievement: The football team, consisting of Yash Aryaman, Vijay M, Suprav Bhattacharya, C Lanston Davis, Dhananjay, Dawn S Chacko, Tanishq Mahapatra, Aditya Choudhary, Yakesh, and Pranav Jayaray also bagged the third position.
September 2022
Asian International Youth United Nations Conference
PUVANESH Y.A 22MIA1180
Achievement: Puvanesh Y A bagged the first prize in the Asian International Youth UnitedNations Conference which was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 29thSeptember 2022 to 4th October 2022.
Gold Medals in Power lifting and Bench Press Championship
ISHA GUPTA21BCE5557
Achievement: Isha Gupta won gold medals in the junior and senior under 84kg categories in the District Level Powerlifting championship and the State level Bench Press Championship.
HackWithInfy 2022
KASHVI ANKITBHAI SHETH 21BCE5329
ARCHIT DUBEY 21BAI1582
Achievement: Kashvi Ankibhai Sheth and Archit Dubey have been selected as the Campus Ambassadors for Infosys based on their performance in HackWithInfy in September 2022.
ICIoT-2022 held at SRM Institute of Science & Technology
Prasad A 19BAI1061
Sruthi Srinivasan 19BAI1046
Vedang Sawarkar 19BCE1303
Saumya Bhardwaj 19BCE1067
Jaiveer Singh Rathore 19BLC1181
Achievement: Our students won two best paper awards in ICIoT-2022 held at SRM.
Binance Ideathon(Blockchain Based) June 2022
Delano Oscar Do Rosario Lourenco 20BAI1158
Vishal Singh 20BLC1054
Sinojia Meet Chandreshbhai 20BCE1234
Eshan Das 19BCE1575
Achievement: Binance Ideathon June 2022 shortlisted four of our teams. The below students headed the team.
Hack for Sport Finalists
Mohit Madhukar More 19MIA1005
Bhamidipati Naga Shrikriti 19MIA1037
Sayantan Nandy 19MIA1049)
Hanchate Samyuktha 19MIA1080
Gitansh Saharan 19MIA1060
Achievement: Our students were the finalists in India’s first gaming and sport Hackathon by Sporjo – June 2022
ET Campus Stars 5.0 Award Holders
Anshul Harish Khatri 19BAI1071
BHARGAVI K 19BCE1269
BHARGAVI K 19BCE1591
DIVYANSHI THAPA 19BCE1367
GODUGOLLA KARTHIK 18MIS1070
GYANADIPTA MOHANTY 19BCE1224
JIGYASA SARASWAT 19BCE1706
JOYEETA DEY 19BCE1243
JYOTIKA JAISWAL19BPS1034
KINSHUK DUA19BCE1048
MUVVA DURGA SAMHITHA19BCE1486
SHAIK MOHAMMED SAIF 19BCE1225
SHAUNAK SUNIL DESHPANDE 19BCE1310
SHOURYA GUPTA 19BCE1704
SHRAVANI SWAROOP URALA 19BPS1019
B N TEJASRI 19BAI1032
SAWARKAR VEDANG SANDIP 19BCE1303
Achievement: Our students participated in ET Campus Stars 5.0 and won the award for winners.
Rakathon 2022 Global Hackathon – Global Winners
JAYIT SAHA- 18BCE1071
JYOTIKA JAISWAL- 19BPS1034
ARPAN GHOSH- 19BCE1009
Achievement: Our students are the global winners of Rakathon 2022
Binance Ideathon Winners, Runners and Best SPOC Award
DELANO OSCAR DO ROSARIO LOURENCO- 20BAI1158 (TEAM LEADER)
MEHTA AARYAN URMIL- 20BAI1108
KEVIN GANDHI- 20BCE1377
M V H SAI SRIRAJ- 20BAI1224
Achievement: Our students have been awarded the Binance Ideathon Winners, Runners and Best SPOC Award for the project titled “PS4-Creation of a platform for local artisans to promote their products using NFT” under the guidance of Dr.V.Sakthivel.
Binance Ideathon Winners, Runners and Best SPOC Award
SINOJIA MEET CHANDRESHBHAI 20BCE1234 (TEAM LEADER)
VADGAMA DARSHIT NIRAVBHAI- 20BLC1004
RISHANK SHARMA- 20BCE1783
MEGHA NATH- 20BCE1581
Achievement: Our students have been awarded the Binance Ideathon Winners, Runners and Best SPOC Award for the project titled “PS6-Decentralized EV Charging Infrastructure” under the guidance of Dr.V.Sakthivel.
DAIMLER INDIA COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (DICV) Hackathon’2022
THRISHA B19MIA1011
GONUGUNTLA ANJANA CHOWDARY-19MIA1017
SUBHIKSHA S-19MIA1087
GAURAV TRIVEDI- 19MIA1077
Achievement: Our students were shortlisted for Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) Hackathon’2022.
Smart India Hackathon 2022 – Team Aquasol
ARAN AGARWAL-21BCE5443 (TEAM LEADER)
AANCHAL SINGH 21BCE5447
IPSIT MAURYA 21BCE5390
ISHITA AGARWAL 21BCE5317
SAURAV SINGH 21BCE5384
SAMBHAV JAIN 21BRS1403
Achievement: Our students received the runner up award for Smart India Hackathon 2022 – Team Aquasol – August 2022 under the guidance of Dr. Sakthivel.
ARAI TechNovuss Mobility Hackathon
Ishita Agarwal (21BCE5317) : Team Leader
C S Aditya (21BCE5493)
Aanchal Singh (21BCE5447)
Saurav Singh (21BCE5384)
Achievement: The students got selected for the grand finale of ARAI TechNovuss Mobility Hackathon.
Dare2Compete Awards 2022 Winners
Kinshuk Dua – 19BCE1048 awarded rank 1
Jayit Saha – 18BCE1071 awarded rank 2
Achievement: Our students achieved first and second rank in Dare2Compete Awards 2022,an event of a National Prestige
Second Place in a Hackathon “Innerve”
Date: 8th April 2022
Students:
Ayan Sadhukhan (19BCE1872), Aniket Bansal (19BCE1869), Ronit Kumar Sarkar (19BEC1236)
Achievement: The students won the 2nd position in the Innerve 6.0 National Hackathon at Army Institute of Technology, Pune. This event witnessed participation of over 1000 teams from colleges across India.
Selected for the WE Program Supported by Google
Date: 28th March 2022
Student:
Rujuta Prajakt Kulkarni 21BCE5196, Vaishnavi Dixit (21BCE5108)
Achievement: Our students have been selected for the 4th Cohort of the TalentSprint WE (Women Engineers) Program, supported by Google to receive a cash scholarship of ₹1,00,000.
Precision Health Challenge 2021-22 – 2nd Runner Up
Date: March 18, 2022
Students:
Shourya Gupta (19BCE1704) , Ridhika Sahni (19BCE1697)
Achievement: The won the 3rd position (2nd runner up) in the Precision Health Challenge 2021-22 organised by General Electric (Ranked 38 in Fortune 500 companies). This event witnessed the participation of over 1112 competitors from colleges across India.
1st Prize in Engineering at Track Optum Stratethon 2021 Season 3 International Hackathon.
Date: 14 February 2022
Students:
Jayit Saha – 18BCE1071, Kinshuk Dua – 19BCE1048,
Achievement: The students won 1st Prize in Engineering at Track Optum Stratethon 2021 Season 3 International Hackathon. The students got rewarded with prize money of $6,700 along with PPIs from Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group.
After gruelling rounds of competing with over 17,000+ participants, the Top 12 finalist teams were shortlisted from campus rounds and wild card entries across 150+ colleges from 5 countries. The Grand Finale saw two rounds, first was presenting to the National jury from where the Top 3 teams were selected, followed by a presentation to the Global Jury post where the Winners were announced.
Winner Researcher Discovery Platform (RDP) Competition
Date: February 9, 2022
Student and Faculty:
Anirudh C P, 20BCE1394, Assistant Professor
Achievement: The student and the faculty member secured the first place in the contest among 12 teams by representing VIT Chennai in the Researcher Discovery Platform contest conducted by IIT B, sponsored by Tata.
First Runner Up In Reign Track 1
Date: January 27, 2022
Students:
Vaibhav Agarwal(19BCE1413), Varun Menon(19BCE1438), Gautam Sanjay Wadhwani(19BCE1209)
Achievement: The students won 2nd position ( First Runner Up) in Kotak Mahindra Bank REIGN Challenge Track 1: Reimagine Banking with Conversational AI and won the prize money of INR 50,000.
Won the 3rd prize in the enter the travel-verse hackathon
Date: 13 January 2022
Students:
Aravindan TR – 19MIA1061, Anirudh Vasudev – 19MIA1100, Lokesh L – 19MIA1010, Govind Anjan – 19MIA1056
Achievement: Our students won the 3rd prize in the enter the travel-verse hackathon conducted by Airlines Reporting Company (ARC America) on the hacker earth website/platform. The competition was held in the month of November 2021 and over 1250 teams across the globe participated in the hackathon. The students have been awarded with a prize money of 500$ and an incentive of 25$ by ARC America.
Best Girls Team” and “Top 5 Teams” at the Hack4Bengal 2022 hackathon
Date: 8th April – 10th April 2022
Students:
Pritika Kannapiran (21BAI1172), Anjali Kedia (21BAI1130), Srijena Guin (21BAI1161), Anushka Agarwal (21BAI1194)
Achievement: The students won “Best Girls Team” and “Top 5 Teams” at the Hack4Bengal 2022 hackathon. They also received prize money and other perks from sponsors and partners. They also won an opportunity to pitch our business idea at an offline event held at Kolkata. The event witnessed participation from over 1000+ teams from around the nation.
Code to Care challenge 2021
Students:
Smridhi Verma(19BCE1550)
S Deeksha (19BPS1090)
Jigyasa Agarwal (19BPS1056)
Achievement: Won the 2nd position (runners up) in the Philips Code to Care 2021 Challenge. This event witnessed the participation of over 1350 teams from colleges across India.
4th Edition of Economic Times Campus Stars
Students:
Ananya Sajwan: 18BCE1355
Ishita Dasgupta: 18BCE1351
Jayit Saha: 18BCE1071
Mansi Parashar: 18BCE1048
Shreya Shrivastava: 18BCE1188
Utkarsh Bhardwaj: 17BCE1111
Achievement:
Over 40,000+ students from more than 2000 universities competed, from which top 87 finalists made it to the “ET Campus Stars Class of 2021” throughout the nation. Above mentioned students were among the top 0.0025 percent of the total candidates who appeared in the program.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/spotlight/campusstar_v4.cms
BorderHacks 2021, organized by the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Students:
Rajashri Mahato(19BPS1130)
Saadhikha Shree S.(19BPS1075)
Achievement: People’s Choice Winner for the project titled “Wearable Tracker for Disasters”
Ideathon Winners:
Ideathon was organized by VIT Business School and Industry Partnership Cell The same was sponsored by a company from the USA.
Students: Amogh Singh and Harisha. S, 2nd year CSE with AI & Robotics
Acheivement: Students of SCOPE have won the 1st Prize ( Rs. 25,000/-) US company has expressed interest, to work with them.
National Winners | Manthan Hackathon 2021, organized by MoE, AICTE, and BPR&D under the category “Event detection in CCTV footage”
Students:
Team Leader: Amit Kumar 19bce1281
Member 1: Rishabh Singh 19bce1500
Member 2: Pratham Jangra 19bce1318
Member 3: Anuttam Anand 19bce1285
Team Mentor: Dr. Gayathri R (Scope)
Acheivement: Winner Manthan Hackathon 2021
Travel-verse hackathon conducted by Airlines Reporting Company (ARC America) on the hacker earth website/platform
Students:
1. Aravindan TR – 19MIA1061
2. Anirudh Vasudev – 19MIA1100
3. Lokesh L – 19MIA1010
4. Govind Anjan – 19MIA1056
Acheivement: The students won the 3rd prize with prize money of 500$ and an incentive of 25$ by ARC America.
Student: Vijay – 19BCE1388
Achievement: Secured 1st place in the IBM Z DATATHON (and bagged 1000USD along with mentorship from IBM Z and access to IBM Z Cloud) competition organized by Shooting Stars Foundation and IBM.
Student: Mohit Madhukar More – 19MIA1005
Student: B N Shrikriti – 19MIA1037
Student: Sayantan Nandy – 19MIA1049
Student: Gitansh Saharan – 19MIA1060
Student: Hanchate Samyuktha – 19MIA1080
Student: Kiran Benny – 19MIA1091
Achievement: Won third Place in IBM-Z Datathon conducted by Shooting Stars Foundation and IBM, with prize money and mentoring too, to the team members.
Student: Mr. G O Narendra (19BCE1082)
Student: Ms. Vaishnavi V V (19BCE1497)
Student: Mr. Aravinda B (19BCE1190)
Student: Ms. Shalini A (19BCE1005)
Achievement: Achieved Special Jury Award in the IBM Hack Challenge 2021
Student: Prithvi Seshadri (19BAI1105)
Student: Abishek Mahesh (19BAI1143)
Achievement: Students participated in Ford Cyber Security Awareness Month, call for papers – ” Role of AI/ML in cyber security” and have won the paper presentation. [The competition was conducted by FORD INDIA for the cyber security awareness month sticking to a domain of “Role of AI/ML in cyber security”. The competition had three rounds starting from the month of September, After gruelling rounds of competing with over participants from 300 colleges, the top 5 teams were selected to the Finale Event which happened on 29-10-2021]
Student: Tejasri B N (19BAI1032)
Student: A R Arvindh (19BAI1106)
Achievement: Jury’s Choice Award – Accenture Innovation Challenge 2021.
Winners of Toycathon 2021 – Digital edition in the Learning, Education, and Schooling categories. One of the winning teams among 117 teams. Winners will be honored with a cash prize worth Rs.50 lacs overall.
Interaction of VIT Chennai students with Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi during TOYCATHON 2021 DIGITAL EDITION
Our NSS VIT Chennai Victory at 3rd Position in Sankalp Festival 2020-2021:Here we have a set of students who have excelled in a competition held at National Level “Sankalp”, an Inter NSS unit competition that involved Presentation and Case Study rounds in Jaagriti 2021, on 12th and 17th April 2021, respectively.
Congratulations on winning 3rd Position at the National Level !!! And We Wish them to carry on the brilliant work!
19BCE1535
18BCE1045
Congratulations to our B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering student Mr. D.Dhaxina Kumar from VIT University, Chennai. He has won “More number of World Records in Mathematics made in Single day” on the 24th day of August 2020 certified by CHAMPION WORLD RECORDS.
Congratulations to our students Neelesh Ranjan Jha, Naman Agarwal, and Abhishek Soni have been commended by the Superintendent of Police, GRP, Prayagraj, UP for an app developed by them. This app generated daily and weekly Duty Charts for the Government Railway Police, thus helping the SP Office in maintaining transparency and impartiality, while reducing the time taken to do so manually from 2 hours to 2 minutes. Hats off to their noble contribution to society!
Mr. Sainath Ganesh & Mr. Siddharth, COVID ‘19 AR Challenge Contest – CSIR – CEERI & Elixar Systems, Ministry of Commerce and Trade, GOI and NVIDIA — Symptom Visualizer (AR based COVID symptoms Visualisation using X-Rays)
Fenil Patel & Prastut Kumar B.Tech (CSE) Winner, First and Second Prize, SwellRT Software Contest is an open-source platform for developers to create a real-time, Decentralized Apps 
Mr.Sahil Sheikh, Mr.Siddhant Varyambat of B.Tech Students along with Mr.Akshath Varugeese from MS(SE) have participated in the hackathon “HACK2BUILD” conducted by ICANN and NASSCOM conference at III-T, Hyderabad. 
Shreyans Sheth was awarded a fully sponsored trip by Google along with a stipend of 2400 USD to the Google Code-in summit in San Francisco and Google HQ, Mountain.
Rahat Kataria and his team got first prize in the Digital Dream 2019 Hackathon conducted at Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, they got certificates, trophy and cash prizes in reward.
KG Nithesh, Jacob Jebaraj V, Sruti Verma got Second winner position in ” Cisco Webex Virtual Hackathon ” and each student is been gifted a Tablet worth Rs 20000/- as a prize.
Swaraj Rajendra Phadtare and Dhanush Ram won the National Winner – 5th Place with a Cash Prize of Rs.20,000/- in Startup Eco System Development, NIC, Open Gov. Data Hack during November 2018 at IAMAI, New Delhi.
Mr. Siddharth Singha Roy, (18BCE1065) who has participated and won the First Price (USD 2700/-) in the inaugural version of the ASEAN-INDIA Hackathon 2021
Venkat Ragavan S, Tarun A H VIT Chennai students of Team Intelli-Sense are the World Runner-up in the Healthcare Category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup – India Champions – Intelli Sense
Saumya Bhardwaj, Nitika Verma, Kinshuk Dua, Azam Siddiqui got Second Runner up and was awarded a cash prize of $750 in WAIDatathon 2021- Asia Pacific (APAC)
Anshul Khatri, Vedant Rokde ,- Abhishek Vijay Kumkar VIT team “AZURA” among winners of 2021 PALS ANALYZE EVENT WINNER
Sruti Verma, Nitesh Guruda and his team got selected as one of the joint winners of innoWAH Challenge Competition by PALS IIT, Madras
The student members of the team Vax India Tech team: Ankita Duraphe, Pranav Motarwar, Preethi
Chandirasekeran, Vedant Rokde , Rudra Patil got first Runner-Up in the EY Techathon 2021. This event started with 1500 teams from 600 colleges in India. The prize includes a cash award of Rs 2,00,000 and internships at EY
Akash Manish Lad got first prize in “Brain Fizz” an annual individual hackathon competition organized by Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi)
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering has been selected as a “Member of Independent expert committee for evaluating the solutions / courses under NEAT 4.0 (National Educational Alliance for Technology), constituted by AICTE, Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India” – and has received appreciation from AICTE, NEAT cell, and Ministry of Education (MoE) Govt. of India for her effective contribution in evaluating the products and courses.
Dr. D. Jeya Mala – is selected as an “Evaluator” by MoE’s innovation council, Govt. of India – Under AICTE – MIC – AIM – UNICEF by AICTE, Govt. of India, for School Innovations Marathon 2025.
Dr. Sandosh S – Assistant Professor, SCOPE has mentored the following B.Tech students:
- Thriam bakesvar B (21BRS1528)
- Subash Saajan J (21BRS1532)
- Eniyavasanthan R (21BRS1260).
The Research Paper has received the Best Paper Award in the paper presentation at the International Conference on Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security – ASCIS 2024, held at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, from October 16, 2024, to October 18, 2024. The paper title “VANET Security through Blockchain-based Location Verification: Innovation and Challenges.”
The following team members have secured third place in the prestigious Global Pervasive AMD AI Developer Contest. The announcement of winners was held in San Francisco, USA. Both teams travelled to the US on complete sponsorship by AMD. Each team has won a prize of a $3,000 gift card and AMD hardware worth ₹3 lakhs.
Facilitator:
Dr Kanthimathi S., SCOPE
Team 1
Project Title: AudioVision
Pranjal Mishra (21BCE5088)
Ishaan Sharma (21BCE5019)
Mohammad Abbas (21BCE1717)
Gaurav Beswal(21BRS1555)
Prajwal Parashar(21BCE5076)
Team 2
Project Title: Colourizing Sequential Content – ColorNet
Shyam Venkatraman (22MIS1031)
Akhil Prabananth (22BCE1312)
Snehil Chatterjee (22BCE5237)
The research paper presentation under the guidance of Dr. Anita Christaline. J, by the final year SCOPE students Yajur Khanna, Daniyal Iqbal, Akshat Srivastava has received Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Engineering & Technology, organised by Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research from 23.09.2024 to 25.09.2024.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, on 02.10.2024, received the “Legend Award – 2024” from the SEVE Record Holder Forum in Puduvai Tamil Sangam (புதுவைதமிழ்ச்சங்கம்), Puducherry and it is also listed in the All India Book of Records.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering is now recognized as one of the Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA and was felicitated in the TechnoVIT’24 valedictory function by Dr. T R B Rajaa, Hon’ble Minister for Industries, Investment Promotions and Commerce in the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Dr. Maheswari S and Dr. Reena Monica have been awarded the prestigious Mitacs Globalink Research Award for their project titled “Hybrid Quantum-Classical Image Processing by Merging Enhanced Flexible Qubit Representation for Quantum Images equipped with Probability Distribution (EFQRQI-PD) and Machine Learning for Enhanced Accuracy.”
A grant of $6,000 has been secured to fund the internship of Nandan Parimal Patel, covering eligible expenses from January 13, 2025, to June 11, 2025. This funding supports collaborative research with Algoma University, including provisions for travel expenses related to the project.
A medical research challenge, traditionally addressed through manual procedures that incurs inaccuracies at times, has been identified and guided to automate the process with higher accuracies by Dr. Sandhya P., Professor at SCOPE. This work was awarded Best Paper Presentation at the International Conference on Integration of Emerging Technologies for the Digital World (ICIETDW24), held on September 13-14, 2024. The paper, titled “Enhanced Interpupillary Distance Identification for Children Using YOLOv5 and YOLOX Object Detection Models,” is set to be published in the IEEE Digital Library, which is indexed in Scopus. This research introduces an innovative approach to measuring interpupillary distance in children, effectively tackling challenges in paediatric ocular care.
The presentation was delivered by R. Srivats.
Co Authors:R. Srivats (21BCE5064), Kalyanasundaram V (21MIS1028)and Padmaja V (19BAI1107)
Dr. Subbulakshmi T. had the opportunity to represent VIT in two events held at IIT Bombay as a part of two nationally important projects called FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial. They are given equivalent weightage like NPTEL and Swayam.
Event 1: Workshop on NAAC Accreditation using Spoken Tutorials
Date: 14/09/2024, Saturday
Venue: VMCC auditorium @ IIT Bombay
Role: Keynote speaker
Recognition: Letter of Appreciation from IIT Bombay
Attendees: around 100 faculties from various institutes across India.
Event 2: National GeoSpatial Awards sanctioned in Open Source GIS day
Date: 15/09/2024, Sunday
Venue: VMCC auditorium @ IIT Bombay
Role: Represented and received the award on behalf of VIT for the QGIS training offered to VIT Chennai students.
Award: Best Spoken Tutorial Institution award promoting GIS technology
Attendees: ISRO, Survey of India, NRSC (ISRO), Hyderabad, NESAC (ISRO), ISRO SATNAV programme, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software, Government of Kerala, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, , Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Government of Tamil Nadu, Interdisciplinary Centre for Geoinformatics, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, Remote Sensing lab, Anna University, Chennai.
Dr. Suganya R, Associate Professor-Senior at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, received the “Best Presenter Award” from India, for her paper titled “Forecasting Extreme Weather Events: A Novel Approach Using Predictive Analytics and Attention-Based Hybrid LSTM-FCN Architecture” at the World Engineering, Science, and Technology Congress (ESTCON 2024)- ICEM 2024. ESTCON is one of the world’s largest conferences and was organized by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). The event took place on September 10-11, 2024, at the Sabah International Convention Centre in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, under the theme “Future Positioning through Sustainable Energy, Digitalisation, and Smart Community.” It covered key topics such as energy transition, sustainable living, and digital transformation. The event was inaugurated by YAB Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor, Chief Minister of Sabah.
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, has received the “Best Faculty of the year 2024 award” (Under specific Innovation – manifest in prototype, patents etc.) from Computer Society of India (CSI), Mumbai Chapter on 30/08/2024.
Dr. S.Pavithra, Assistant Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering Awarded in the “Best Faculty – Specific Innovations – manifest in prototypes, patents” category CSI-TechNext India 2024 – Awards to Academia Honored at the CSI-TechNext, August 30th & 31st, 2024.
Dr. D. Saraswathi and Dr. Praveen Joe I. R. have published a book in the month of August 2024 titled, “Fundamentals of Database Management System” by Charulatha Publications, Chennai.
ISBN Number : 978-93-6260-116-2
It is indexed in https://isbn.gov.in/
Dr. Trilok Nath Pandey, has received the Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Detection of Leading CNN Models for AI Image Accuracy and Efficiency” at the International Conference on Intelligent Algorithms for Computational Intelligence Systems (IACIS 2024), organized by Navkis College of Engineering, Hassan,sponsored by IEEE, Bangalore section.
The paper was presented by the student Meshal Nayim (21BCE1112)
Dr. GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering has delivered 15 Hour Corporate training on the basics of Linux, YAML, PERL Programming to the employees of AVO Carbon India Limited, Chennai.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering has delivered 18 Hour Corporate training on Management Information Systems (MIS) during weekends to the Managerial employees of Carisma Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Chennai.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering has delivered a 9 Hour online corporate training in the USA time zones on the topic Data Visualization tools (Power Query, power BI and Tableau) to the International employee participants of Steoasis (OPC) Pvt. Ltd., USA
Dr. R. Ashoka Rajan, Assistant Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, received the compiler design NPTEL exam certificate conducted in April 2024. He was one of the toppers (topper 1%) among the total 658 participants.
Dr. Praveen Joe I R, Assistant Professor and his student C P GAUTHAM KRISHNA (21BRS1032) have developed a website for the Tamil Nadu Engineering College Faculty Welfare Association (TNECFWA). The website is up and running at https://tnecfwa.org
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering was part of a Tamil Online talk show in Hindu Tamil Thisai.The talk show was related to “Career Enhancement through Higher Education” – “உயர்வுக்கு உயர் கல்வி”.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering gave two continuous talk series in Raj News Television Channel for the talk series titled, “Enna Padikalaam” – என்ன படிக்கலாம் wherein the entire talk show is also freely available in their website for the viewers to relish.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering along with two of his students, Mr. A V Rishi Rengnathan and Ms. Shweta Sridharan has received the Certificate of Registration of Design Patent Granted from the Patent Office, Government of India on 13.06.2024.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior has received a successful Course Completion Certificate from Infosys Springboardby attending an Online course for a duration of 30 hours and 55 minutes titled, “Agile Scrum in Practice”by taking up the Certification examination on 21.02.2024.
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, ACM Women’s chapter, Faculty Sponsor, received “Emerging Chapter Award” in ACM Annual Event meet held on Feb 10, Bhubaneswar, Orissa for VIT ACM Women’s Chapter and cash prize Rs.40,000/-
Dr. Ganesan R., Dr. T. Subbulakshmi and Dr. R. Suganya, School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT Chennai received an award from University of Jaffna, Srilanka for delivering the tech talk on “Current trends in Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and Natural Language Processing” held on Feb 6, 2024 as a part of Google Research Seminar Grant.
University of Jaffna weblink: https://www.csc.jfn.ac.lk/index.php/google-research/
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, Associate Professor Senior, SCOPE has received “Top Computer Science and Software Development Voice Badge” from Linked In for People on LinkedIn found D Jeya Mala a noteworthy contributor to collaborative articles in the following skills.
- Computer Science
- Software Development
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, Associate Professor Senior, SCOPE has received “Screening Evaluator Certificate” from AICTE, Govt. of India for being an Evaluator of Smart India Hackathon-2023, organized by AICTE, Govt. of India, 19th Jan 2024.
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, act as a session chair in GECOST 2024, Curtin University Malaysia, Jan 17 –Jan 19, 2024.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senior has received a Certificate of Completion from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) – Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradunby attending an Online course for a duration of 79 hours and 30 minutes titled, “Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Navigation Satellite System” held between 28.08.2023 and 17.11.2023.
A research talk was presented at Kasi Tamil Sangamam, on December 20, 2023, by Dr. Suguna M, Assistant Professor Senior Grade, from SCOPE, VIT, Chennai campus, in collaboration with Dr. Porchelvan, Professor from VIT, Vellore campus. The research topic explores how artificial intelligence can be utilized to preserve and promote cultural heritage. Additionally, it aims to engage school students and college-level researchers in contributing to this field. The award was received from Dr. Velraj R, Vice Chancellor of Anna University, Chennai, and Dr. Upendra Tripathi, Director of Hindustan Banaras University, Varanasi. The event was organized by IIT Madras in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Government of India, as part of the Prime Minister-initiated scheme.
Dr. V. Maria Anu and Dr. K. M. Monica are the faculty members for the team “Tarnished” that participated in SIH Grand Finale 2023 conducted at GIET University, Gunupur, Odisha on 19th-20th December, 2023.
Dr. Maria Anu V., SCOPE has a received certificate from AICTE, Govt. of India for exceptional contribution as a Mentor in Smart India Hackathon-2023, organized by AICTE, Govt. of India, 19th – 20th December 2023.
Dr. Monica K. M., SCOPE has a received certificate from AICTE, Govt. of India for exceptional contribution as a Mentor in Smart India Hackathon-2023, organized by AICTE, Govt. of India, 19th – 20th December 2023.
Best Paper Award: December 2023 (First and Corresponding Author)
Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, Nuthalapati Rahul, Ponvignesh C, SaiAashish, “Pluralistic Face Completion For Masked Face Based on 3D Priors”, ICIT, ACM, Scopus, Dec, 2023. (Received SERB ITS for this travel)
Dr. K. Vallidevi acted as a session chair for one of the sessions in the 11th International Conference on Information Technology: IoT and Smart City (ICIT 2023) held in Kyoto University, Japan during Dec 14-17, 2023.
Dr. K. Vallidevi received the travel grants from SERB for presenting her research work in the international conference held at Kyoto University, Japan.
Dr. K. Vallidevi delivered a keynote talk in the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Smart Computing and Information Security (ASCIS 2023) organized by Faculty of Computer Applications, MarwadiUniverisity, Rajkot, Gujarat. The recorded session is available in the YouTube link below.
https://youtu.be/0tsB7RbstQw?si=GE8vF3uRfdQYJ0nr
Dr. K. Vallidevi acted as a session chair in the same conference ASCIS 2023 for which she delivered a keynote talk in the morning and acted as a session chair in the afternoon.
Best Paper Award: December 2023 (Corresponding Author)
Pooja Ramesh, Rahul Kumar S, Kumar Rishi, Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, Multiplatform Mobile App For Multilingual OCR Based Translator For Tamil( MMOT), ASCIS 2023.
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, is serving as a Mentor in Women in BigData (WiBD), International Women’s Chapter, 2024.
www.womeninbigdata.org/mentors
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, ACM Research Facilitation Committee Member, ACM India, delivered a Tech Talk on “Transform your vision AI through Transformer” at IIIITDM, Kanchipuram, Nov 10, 2023 to final years UG, PG and Research scholars.
Best Paper Award: October 2023(Corresponding Author)
Varshini Balaji, Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, “Enhancing Cryptanalysis of DES Encryption Using Neural Networks and Firefly Algorithms”, International Conference on Evolutionary Algorithms and Softcomputing Techniques, EASCT 2023, IEEE. This was organized by R.V Institute of Technology and Management, Bengaluru.
Dr. N GANESH, Associate Professor – Senioris awarded the designation “Certified Scrum Master” from 30th July 2023 by Scrum Alliance®.
Best Paper Award: July 2023 (First and Corresponding Author)
Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, R. Sujithra @Kanmani, SurendiranBalasubramanian, S. Srividhya, JaladiDeepika, G. NarayaneeNimeshika, Endoscopic Surgical Operation and Object Detection Using Custom Architecture Models, International Conference on Human Centric Soft Computing, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST), Spinger, July, 2023.
Dr. K. Vallidevi worked along with her students for developing an easy solution to track the status of all the complaint reports in all the police stations from the SP office at Chengalpattu District. She received the appreciation certificate for her dedicated work in guiding the student team to complete the work in an agile manner.
Happy to inform you all that, myself K. Vallidevi and my student team were able to technically assist Thiruvannamalai District Police department in the ATM theft burglary case which happened in March 2023. We were able to provide results that were very close to the original and hence the Police officers were able to narrow down in their investigations with ease.
I thank the department in giving us this opportunity which helped us to work on real life problems associated in CCTV footage analysis. I thank my students Hritobroto Sanyal, Anas Ahmad, Kuralamuthan and Aastha Bansal who had put their sincere efforts tirelessly in providing the results whenever I called them for this project. I thank my School Dean Dr. Ganesan R and VIT Management in encouraging me in taking up such socially relevant projects.
We faced a great challenge in working in this project as it was highly time bound with so many test cases to be sorted out.
Dr. K. Vallidevi, delivered a Talk on “Mobile Information Security & Data Privacy” based on a request from Chengalpattu SP, Dr. Pradeep, IPS.
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, Associate Professor Senior, SCOPE, has granted a Design Patent (No. 395284-001), on 25/10/2023 for the product design “VSMART SHOPPING TROLLEY” by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Govt. of India with two students Mr. Utkarsh Mishra (21MIS1074) and Mr. Aakash Mishra (21MIS1025) with certificate serial no. 146733.
Dr. Renjith P N received Best Paper award for his paper titled “Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: An Extensive Review of Advancements in Machine Learning Mechanisms Using Ensemble and Deep Learning Techniques” in International Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Engineering (RAiSE – 2023) held at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai Campus held on 4th – 5th October 2023.
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, Associate Professor Senior, SCOPE, has received recognition from Udemy for being a MOOC course instructor of Udemy with more than 2450 learners enrollments during October 2023.
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering received a Rs 2 lakh travel grant from the India Sri Lankan Foundation on September 13, 2023.
Objective: The objective of the travel grant is to be used for teaching purposes and to share research experiences in Information Security and Block Chain Technology with academics and scholars in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Professors:
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor, SCOPE
Dr. R. Ganesan, Professor and Dean, SCOPE
Dr. T. Subbulakshmi, Professor, SCOPE
Dr. B. Lakshmi Priya was awarded with APHPBA 2023 Bursary Award valued at USD165 by Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, a global network of medical professionals specializing in the liver, pancreas and biliary system for her contributions on translational research on Technology Assisted Liver Surgery Planning.
Dr. N GANESH received the “NalamValarNallasiriyar” Award during Teachers Day 2023 (05.09.2023). This award was given by ThamizhAmuthu Trust, Ariyalur.
Dr. V. Maria Anu, Associate Professor, SCOPE is the mentor for the project “Femunity” showcased in the IEEE YESIST’12 Grand Finale conducted by Arab Academy of Science, Egypt
AICTE, along with Brain-O-Vision, conducted a one-week online faculty development programme on cloud infrastructure (AWS) on August 21 to 25, 2023. Around 20,000+ faculty members participated across India from different colleges. This mega event is recognized and recorded in the India Book of Records. Our institution is one of the top 20 institutions, with huge participation. As the coordinator of this grand event, we have been recognized as the best institution and facilitated the award on September 2, 2023 at Hyderabad.
Coordinator: Dr.T. Subbulakshmi, SCOPE; Dr.R. Suganya, SCOPE Dr.Sanjit Das, SAS
The second Indian Patent of Dr. Kaviya Elakkiya M has been granted by the IPR, India for the invention of the device ‘201641043187 – A NON-INVASIVE NAADI PARISOTHANAI DEVICE FOR PROGNOSIS OR DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES FROM THE AFTER-EFFECT OF ELECTRICAL IMPULSE AT THE HEART IN THE RADIAL ARTERY ‘ on August 2023. The details of the granted patents have been published in the newspaper “The Hindu: English” titled ”IPI gives patent for non-invasive nadi parisothanai device”.
Dr. N GANESH is identified to act as the Convener for the University Inspections for the select institutions that are affiliated to University of Madras.
Dr. S. Anubha Pearline, Assistant Professor (Sr. G.), SCOPE has successfully qualified in the UGC NET examination for the role of Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Applications.
Dr. V. Maria Anu, Associate Professor, SCOPE received SWAYAM NPTEL Domain scholar certificate in Data Science Domain.
Dr. D. Jeya Mala, Associate Professor Senior, SCOPE, was selected as “Expert Evaluation Committee Member” by AICTE-NEAT Cell based on her outstanding performance in R&D and Academics, to evaluate the education software products of Ed-Tech Companies during Feb’2023.
Dr. R. Suganya, Associate Professor Senior, School of Computer Science and Engineering, received a certificate of appreciation for being a mentor for the Industrial Internship – HPE CTY programme in 2023. Only one team has been selected from the whole VIT Chennai.
National Award for VIT Chennai faculty and Students from the Government of India
VIT Faculty has got the following awards from IIT Bombay. Three people from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCOPE) represented VIT in the Spoken Tutorial award function held on 4th March 2023 at Victor Menzez Convention Hall @ IIT Bombay.
Mr. Krishna Dayanidhi – 2018 batch B.Tech. CSE Alumni got the STAR (Spoken Tutorial Alumni Resource) award.
Dr. R. Maheswari, Professor, SCOPE got the MASTER (Most Accomplished Spoken Tutorial Educator Resource) award.
Dr. T. Subbulakshmi, Professor SCOPE got the MASTER (Most Accomplished Spoken Tutorial Educator Resource) award & award of honour for outstanding contribution as a panel speaker during the award ceremony.
All these awards are sanctioned for VIT students and faculty for their consistent contribution towards Spoken Tutorial – A Government of India Project.
National Award for VIT Chennai from the Government of India
VITians has got two awards at the National Conclave on Spoken Tutorial Teaching – Learning Best Practices & Award Ceremony held @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. There are 113 institutes from India who have been nominated for the award. 22 awards for the Zonal and Regional categories and 4 awards for the National category were given. One for Engineering, One for Arts and Two for NGOs is the split up in the National level. Out of 113 nominated institutes, VIT got the top National level award under the Engineering category on 27th August 2022 at Victor Menzez Convention hall @ IIT Bombay. The ceremony is hosted by The Spoken Tutorial project, funded by the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and launched by the Ministry of Education, erstwhile Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.
Award for Institution :
The name of the award : Spoken Tutorial National Academic Excellence Award 2022
Presented to : Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
Purpose : Outstanding Contribution in organizing training and spreading awareness on FLOSS/MOOCs among Engineering Students
Award for faculty :
The name of the award : Award of Honor
Presented to : Dr. T. Subbulakshmi, Professor, SCOPE, VIT Chennai.
Purpose : Outstanding Contribution as a guest speaker
Title of the talk : Inputs to Institutions for Accreditation through Spoken Tutorials
Dr. D.JEYA MALA received Expert Member for AICTE-NEAT 3.0 Evaluation Committee received recognition for her outstanding performance in Research and Academics from AICTE-NEAT Cell on Evaluating the educational software products from EdTech Companies for AICTE –NEAT Cel1 date 22/08/2022 and evaluation done on 21/02/2023.
Mail from AICTE-NEAT on Expert Member in the Evaluation Committee:
Dr. A. Balasundaram received Best Paper award for his paper titled Industry 4.0 Inspired Automation for Anomaly Detection in Machinery Parts using Machine Learning in International Conference on Internet of Things 2022 (ICIoT 22) held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology held on 5 – 7 April 2022.
Dr. A. Balasundaram received Best Paper award for his paper titled Artificial Intelligence based Pest Detection and Pesticide Recommendation System in International Conference on Internet of Things 2022 (ICIoT 22) held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology held on 5 – 7 April 2022.
Dr. R.Vedhapriyavadhana received Best Paper award for her outstanding performance in International Conference on Recent Trends In Computing ICRTAC 2021 for the paper titled “A Relative Investigation of Various Algorithms for Online Financial Fraud Detection Techniques” from Sanjivani College of Engineering,Kopargaon on 22nd May 2021.
Dr. S.Geetha received IEEE Madras Section, Publication Award, presented during IEEE Day Celebration 2021, IEEE Madras Section, at the Savera Hotel October 31,2021.
Dr. S.Geetha received Woman Researcher in Science and Technology Award, JNTU. Kakinada, 2021 in the Springer 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision,High Performance Computing, Smart Devices and Networks (CHSN-2021).
Dr. S.Geetha received Best Paper Award, Springer Fire Technology, 2021 for her paper Machine Vision based Fire Detection Techniques : A Survey , Springer — Fire
Technology, Vol. 57, pp. 591-623, March 2021, DOI :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-01064-z. (SCI – Impact Factor : 2.239), which has got 30 citations in less than a year.
Dr. S.Geetha received Best Paper Award, Springer Fire Technology, 2021 for her paper Machine Vision based Fire Detection Techniques : A Survey , Springer — Fire
Technology, Vol. 57, pp. 591-623, March 2021, DOI :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-01064-z. (SCI – Impact Factor : 2.239), which has got 30 citations in less than a year.
Dr S. Geetha has won the Best Indian Golden Personalities award from Friendship Forum, 2019
Dr S. Geetha has won Leading Educationist of India award from Friendship Forum, 2019
Dr S. Geetha has won Bharat Excellence award from Friendship Forum, 2019
Dr S. Geetha has been appointed as Convener, Institution’s Innovation Council, MHRD, Govt. of India, 2018-19.
Dr T. S. Pradeepkumar has been appointed as ACM Distinguished Speaker,2018
Dr G Malathi received Outstanding Faculty award in Venus International Faculty Awards,2018.
Dr R. Rajalakshmi received CODS Data Challenge Winner from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2017
Dr V. Pattabiraman and Dr. S. Harini received Best Paper Award with Euro 150 e-Cash Voucher in the International Conference on Computational Sciences, Advanced Database and Computing (CSADC2017) held at Phuket, Thailand, 2017.
Dr B. Rajesh Kanna received Best Poster Award at 22nd International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing(HPDC2013), New York, 2013.
Dr.S.Geetha won “Best Professor Award” from ASDF for the year 2014
Dr. Jagadeesh Kannan won “ADINA Young Scientist Award” instituted by ADINA Group of Institutions, Sagar (M.P.) on March 05, 2016.
Dr.Jagadeesh Kannan won “Vidyasagar Award – Keen Dedication & contribution in the field of Science & Technology” in 2016.
Dr.T.Subbulakshmi won “Best Young Researcher Award” from SIAA of ASDF for the year 2017.
Dr.Syed Ibrahim S.P. received “Best Male Faculty Award” in University Day Celebrations, VIT University Chennai in 2017.
Dr.Harini Sriram, Dr.Pattabiraman won “Best Paper Award”, Springer in 2017.
Dr. Vaidehi Vijayakumar won “Research Award” for 4th International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking ,MIT campus Chennai in 2017.
Dr.S.Geetha won “Outstanding women in Engineering Award” from Venus International Foundation for the contribution and achievement in the field of computer science and Engineering in 2018.
Dr.Geetha won Best Poster Award, 105th Indian Science Congress, Held In Manipur University
Dr.Jagadeesh Kannan awarded as “Best Faculty Coordinator” Of Ciyf 2.0 – Chennai International Youth Fest’18 – The World’S Biggest Youth Conclave In India, Which Is Organized By Youth Development Consortium (Ydc) Supported By Govt. Of India & Govt. Of Tamil Nadu, September 01 – 15, 2018
Dr.Pradeep Kumar T.S received “Award Of ACM Distinguished Speaker For Three Years”, ACM Headquarters On October 25, 2018
Dr.Abdul Quadir M.D awarded as “Best Alumni Achiever” in the field of Academic Research and Training for the year 2018.
Dr.Vijayalakshmi A won “Best Research Award” in University 2019 for her exemplary commitment, dedication and motivation towards funded projects/Research Publications Patents during the year 2018.
Dr.Shyamala won “Research Award” in University Day and Annual Sports Day 2020, for her exemplary commitment, dedication and motivation towards Research publications during the year 2019.
Prof.M.Nivedita awarded as “Best Proctor” in University Day and Annual Sports Day 2020, for her exemplary commitment, dedication and motivation towards effective proctoring during the year 2019.
