Report of Events for the Academic Year 2019-20

• The Department of Computer Science was buzzing in the midst of a slew of events in the academic year 2019-20, targeting varied beneficiaries viz. faculties, research scholars, college students and school students alike. The events were staged in diverse platforms from District-level to International-level. Ramping-up to the current needs and availing latest technologies, the Department has conducted online conferences of International repute. Being a socially responsible College, the laboratory of the Department has always been the chosen destination for hosting various computer-based training programmes conducted for Government officials. Here is the sneak peak of list of events in the Department of Computer Science for the academic year 2019-20.

NKN GLOBAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:

• • The College has garnered a special status of being selected as one among a handful of Remote Nodal centers in India for hosting National Knowledge Network (NKN) Global Summer and Winter Faculty Development Program 2019- 2010, under E&ICT PDPM IIITDM-Jabalpur.
  • Summer/Winter Global FDP 2019 course was offered through NKN based video conferencing with lectures in diverse domains were delivered by invited experts from IITs, NITs, IIITs and other premier Institutions/Industries.
  • The participants were trained with hands-on practical sessions with local coordinators from our Institution ensuring the requisite software, hardware and state-of-the- art infrastructural facilities are available for use in the CS- lab.

NKN-SUMMER FDP 2019-2020:

• Our Institute was accorded permission to host 5 one-week Summer-FDPs from 27th may 2019 to 28th June 2019. Faculty members from various Colleges and Universities participated in the FDPs.

  WEEK	DATE	TOPIC	SPONSORS
  1	27th to 31stMay 2019	Deep Learning &Applications	E & ICT IIITDM- JABALPUR
  2	3rd to 7th June 2019	Advancements inSignal Processing & OptimizationTechniques
  3	10th to 14th June 2019	Embedded Systems & Interfacing Hands-on
  4	17th to 21st June 2019	Introduction to Programming- A Pedagogical Approach
  5	24th to 28th June 2019	Robotics & AI

NKN-WINTER FDP 2019-2020:

• The credibility of our Institute was reinforced as it bagged the highest honours of hosting 6 one-week Winter-FDPs from 2nd December 2019 to 17th January 2020.

  WEEK	DATE	TOPIC	SPONSORS
  1	2nd to 6th Dec 2019	Deep Learning &ApplicationsPython Programming with Industry Perspective	E & ICT IIITDM- JABALPUR
  2	9th to 13th Dec 2019	Deep Learning & Applications
  3	16th to20th Dec 2019	VLSI CHIP Design: Hands- on using Open Source EDA	E & ICT IIITDM- JABALPUR
  4	23rd to 27th Dec 2019	AI & Machine Learning	E & ICT NIT-PATNA
  5	6th to 10th Jan 2020	Natural Language Processing
  5	13th to 17th Jan 2020	ICT Tool for Teaching Learning Institutes	E & ICT IIITDM- JABALPUR

TECH BLAST - 2020:

• A One-day District-Level Inter-School Symposium was organized on 4th March 2020 to provide a level-playing-field for school students from diverse backgrounds from in and around Kanchipuram to exhibit their latent talents.

• The programme was inaugurated by Mr. S. Naresh Kumar, M.Sc CST, M.Tech., M.B.A., Human Resource Head (Global Hiring)- Impactiva S de R L, China, Human Resource Head(Global Hiring)- Vaeso S de R L, India. A Handbook titled “Discovering Knowledge” was also released in the function. Our Principal Dr. K.R. Venkatesan, delivered the presidential address.

COMFETE 2020:

• Comfete is a flagship programme of the Department organized to provide a window of opportunity for budding prodigies of student’s community to stage their skillsets on national level. COMFETE’20 was organized as a National- Level Seminar on “Natural Language Processing” and an Inter-Collegiate Technical Symposium on 5th March 2020.