• 39th Senate Meeting of IIITB was held on April 9.
• Jugaad Innovation, which was an interactive discussion with authors of the eponymous book, was held at IIITB on April 16. The highlight of the event was the panel discussion anchored by two of the authors of the book, Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu. The other co-author of the book is Simone Ahuja and Kevin Roberts wrote its preface. At the event, the authors discussed the new edition of their book and talked about the theory behind this flexible, frugal and inclusive approach to innovation. The panelists, who are practitioners telling their own real life stories of Jugaad Innovation in action, were Vikram Damodaran, Director Healthcare Innovations, GE Healthcare India and Tina Datta Nayak, Head of Marketing, ZipDial. The discussion was lively and interactive, with the students and invited audience making the best of the opportunity to interact with the authors. For further details: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/media/events/event-details/?ee=23
• There was an ACM Siggraph Bangalore chapter Talk on "Physical Visualization of Models: 3D Printing" by Prof. T. K. Srikanth on April 26. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair and Bhardwaj Ramkumar, who are active in the Bangalore chapter, helped organize and host the event at IIITB.
• Research admissions closed on April 15. M.Tech. admissions closed on April 30.
• As part of our outreach efforts, IIIT-B has been conducting excITe children programme for high school students. The programme first started in 2001 and has become an annual event since 2009. As part of the programme, students interact with IIIT-B faculty in the mornings and visit industries around Electronic City in the afternoon. This year, we had 38 students from Sri Kumaran's school and 5 students from Navodaya School, Bangalore (rural) participating in the programme. The week-long programme had interactive sessions from Profs. Srikanth (Mobile App Development), Madhav Rao (Robotics), K V Dinesha (Software Engineering). Prof. Kshitish Acharya from IBAB conducted a session on Biotechnology. Fields of View team conducted a session on development of cities as well. The students visited Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, IBAB labs and IIIT-B incubation center.

Publications

• The research paper titled "Energy and Delay Constrained Scheduling of Real Time Traffic over OFDM Communication System with Non-causal Channel Information" has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier Journal on Physical Communication. The authors of the paper are Prof. Debabrata Das and Ritesh Kumar Kalle (PH2007901).
• The paper titled "Cognitive State Classification Using Transformed fMRI Data", by Profs. Hariharan Ramasangu and Neelam Sinha, has been accepted for publication at the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2014) to be held at IISc, Bangalore, during July 22-25. Prof. Hariharan Ramasangu is a faculty member at M. S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies.

Faculty & Staff

• Prof. Madhav Rao presented a paper on "Self Assembly based High Frequency Heatsink Antenna" in 2014 IEEE TENSYMP conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during April 14-16. The co-authors of the paper are Neha Oraon (PH2013008) and Putluru Sravani (MS2013004). The conference travel was supported by CEEMS lab project in IIITB. The conference, which provided a view of upcoming bio-electronic devices and neural interfaces, included topics ranging from antennas for mobile LTE applications and higher frequencies, signal processing, and biomedical devices. There were around 410 registered participants from USA, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, UK and other countries in the conference. For further details:http://ieeemy.org/tensymp/.
  
• Profs. S. Rajagopalan and Amit Prakash were invited to attend a 4-day workshop on e-Government and Information Security & Privacy organized by the United Nations Asia-Pacific Centre for ICT and Development (UN-APCICT) at Incheon, Republic of Korea during April 15-18. The workshop saw participation of about 30 government officials, policymakers and ICTD trainers from Asia-Pacific and Africa. UN-APCICT and the Center for IT and Public Policy at IIITB are shortly expected to enter into an agreement to collaborate on capacity building of government officials and youth in the area of ICT and Development.
  
• Ms. Roshni D’Souza, has joined IIITB as Officer- Placement, PR and Outreach on April 15.
  

Students

• A poster by Abhilasha Aswal, Anushka Chandrababu, Venkata Sai Sriram Mahavadi, G. Srinivasa Raghvan and G.N. Srinivasa Prasanna, "Indian Railways – A robust optimization based approach to solve problems in complex networks", was presented at the 14th INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research held at Boston, USA during Mar 30 - April 1.
• Abhilasha Aswal, Anushka Chandrababu and G. N. Srinivasa Prasanna, presented a paper titled "Uncertainty Quantification for Robust Optimization - Information Theory and Extended Relational Algebra of Polytopes" in 2014 IAM Conference.
• Subha P E (PH2010905) presented the paper titled, "Opportunistic Communication Enabler for IoT/M2M Radio Communications"at IEEE SIEDS'14 Student Workshop, held on April 27-May2 at the University of Virginia,Virginia, USA. She and Prof. Jyotsna Bapat are authors of the paper. The IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS'14) is a student-focused international forum for applied research, development, and design in Systems and Information Engineering. Subha received full scholarship from IEEE SIEDS to attend the workshop.

Guest Talks

• “Explicit Vector Programming”, by Dr. Milind Girkar from Intel on April 22.

Campus Visitors

• April 4 - Mr. Amit Chatterjee, Country Director, HP software.
• April 7 - Dr. Venkat, ABB
• April 9 - Dave Ranson, Managing Director, Moog & Venky IESA
• April 10 - Dr. Paventhan of ERNET, IISc
• April 15 - Kumar Ramachandran, Vignani Solutions
• April 21 - Vinod P Deshmukh, Innovation Hub Technologies Pvt Ltd.
• April 28 - Vishal Mehrotra, Sr. General Manager,TCS visits