Events

• The orientation program for Master of Science by Research-Ph.D. 2015 - 16 Term 2 was held on January 4.
• The 3rd batch of Sponsored M.Tech. for Samsung Research (Bengaluru) Engineers was started on January 6.



• SPICMACAY IIITB chapter presented Carnatic Violin Concert by Sangeetha Choodamani  Padma Shri Ms. A. Kanyakumari on January 6. Ms. A Kanyakumari was accompanied by H. S. Sudhindra and S. Srishyla. 

• Graphics-Visualization-Computing Lab (GVCL) participated in the Bangalore Vis Workshop at IISc on January 9. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair and Prof. Vijay Natarajan (IISc) organized the event. Profs. T. K. Srikanth and Jaya attended the event with other lab members.



• Lohri was celebrated on campus on January 13. As per the tradition, a bonfire was lit, students gathered around the rising flames and threw til (sesame) and peanuts into the fire.

• FLAIR Program was held at IIITB during January 18 -22. IIITB conducted a training program on Moodle for teachers from Kerala as a part of the Fostering Linkages in Academic Innovation and Research (FLAIR) program, which is an initiative of the Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala.


• IIITB Innovation Center found its new physical space in the previous men's hostel, on January 18, and the new space for the center was inaugurated by Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director (IIITB). 



• The Seventh edition of Ramanujan Mathematics and IT 2016 (RMIT 2016) was held during January 21– 22. This year the conference saw talks by Prof. Ashish Choudhury (IIITB), Dr. Manoj Dixit (Mathworks India), Prof. Srinath Srinivasa (IIITB),  Prof. C. S. Rajan (TIFR, Mumbai), and Prof. R. Thangadurai (HRI, Allahabad) on Day 1; and Dr. Swarup Kumar Mohalik (Ericsson, India), Prof. R. Balasubramanian (IMSc, Chennai), Prof. B. Ramakrishna (HRI, Allahabad), ad Dr. Radhakrishna Bettadapura (Strand Life Sciences, India).
  For Photos:https://goo.gl/photos/AetmNqrCRkwif1Re7



• An MoU was signed with Huawei Technologies India Private Limited on January 25 to provide "Huawei Scholarship for Excellence" to 2nd, 3rd and 4th year iMTech students. Huawei was represented by Mr. William Zhao, COO, Mr. Gilbert Millicent Nathan and Mr. Satya. IIITB was represented by Prof. Sadagopan, Director, Prof. Debabrata Das, Dean - Academics and R&D and Prof. Tricha Anjali.


• The 67th Republic Day was celebrated on campus, where Prof. Chetan Parikh was the Chief Guest. Students, faculty members and staff members participated in the celebrations. 
  
  
• An internal workshop conducted by Prof. N. J. Rao to Faculty on National Board of Accreditation (NBA) on January 27.

Publication including Presentations

• The paper titled “Learning-Based Text Classifiers Using the Mahalanobis Distance for Correlated Datasets” by Noopur Srivastava and Prof. Shrisha Rao has been published in International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, vol. 3 (1), 2016, pp. 18–27.  doi:10.1504/IJBDI.2016.073901.
• The article titled "There’s a Fog over Net Neutrality" by Prof. V. Sridhar and Prof. Rohit Prasad (MDI Gurgaon) appeared in The Hindu Business Line on January 10 and can be accessed at:  
  http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/theres-a-fog-over-net-neutrality/article8089254.ece



• An article titled "Beyond 'free' and 'neutral': An Internet Policy for India" by Prof. Amit Prakash appeared in the op-ed page of Deccan Herald on January 11. The same can be accessed at: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/522382/beyond-free-neutral-internet-policy.html 



• Ambuj Mishra (MS2013002) presented his paper titled "Towards Formal Verification of Adaptive Cruise Controller using SpaceEx"  co-authored with Prof. Subir K. Roy at Second IEEE International Conference onVLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology and Applications 2016  (VLSI SATA 2016) organized by Amrita University, Bengaluru on January 12.  The proceedings of the conference will be published in IEEE Explore.



• Pavan Kumar (MS2013013) presented his paper titled "Non-Intrusive FPGA based Profiler for Loop Execution Characterization"  co-authored with Prof. Subir K Roy at Second IEEE International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology & Applications   (VLSI SATA 2016), organized by Amrita University, Bengaluru on January 12.



• The article titled “Needed, a national fibre optic network” by Prof. V. Sridhar and Prof. Rohit Prasad (MDI Gurgaon) appeared in Mint on January 12 and can be accessed at:
  http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/RE8AOLdPm2S3XNcmTJUuvI/Needed-a-national-fibre-optic-network.html



• The article titled “A watchdog for the WhatsApp economy?” by Prof. V. Sridhar and Prof. T.K. Srikanth appeared in The Hindu Business Line on January 22, 2016. The same can be accessed at: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/a-watchdog-for-the-whatsapp-economy/article8140955.ece



• The article titled "Starting up for a longer haul" by Prof. Amit Prakash appeared in The Times of India on January 26. It can be accessed at: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/NasData/PUBLICATIONS/THETIMESOFINDIA/BANGALORE/2016/01/26/PagePrint/26_01_2016_008_86573ffc31c00bbd764b155a5ccd0477.pdf

IIITB in Media

• IIIT Bangalore admission open for M.Sc programme
• IIIT-B'lore to offer online data analytics course with UpGrad
• MSc Digital Society at IIIT-B
• Bulletin Board - PG Diploma in Data analytics
• UpGrad partners with IIIT Bangalore to offer online data analytics ...
• Govt may hire US, Israel cyber security firms for terror intel
• U.S., Indian students collaborate in open innovation for smart city
• As internet monopolies get larger, their gate-keeping powers need to be tempered: Sunil Abraham

Faculty & Staff

• Prof. V. Sridhar was a Panelist in the session on "Net Neutrality: Is it Good, Bad or Confusing for the Telecom Industry" at the 8th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2016, Bengaluru, January 7.
  
  
• Prof. Shrisha Rao gave an invited lecture on "Services Science and Services Computing" as part of the Distinguished Researcher Seminar Series at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur on January 8.



• Prof. Sadagopan, Director attended a program on “Promote Women in Technology - Workshop” on January 19 at Intel India, Bengaluru.

• Prof. V. Sridhar delivered a talk at a research seminar on “Techno Economics of Spectrum: Case of India” at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, on January 20.
  
• Prof. V. Sridhar was a panelist in the session on “Network Neutrality Regulation Across South Asia: A Roundtable on Aspects of Differential Pricing” organized by Observer Research Foundation, IT for Change and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, January 22.
  
• Prof. Sadagopan, Director attended as Chief Guest on the occasion of the International Customs Day celebrations by  The WCO ( World Customs Organisation) on January 27 at Customs office, Queens Road, Bengaluru. 
• Prof. V. Sridhar was a panelist in the session on “Data Privacy”, organized by Data Security Council of India (DSCI) Bengaluru Chapter, Bengaluru, January 28.
• Prof. Amit Prakash delivered a guest lecture on “Public Health Management and information systems” at the Center for Public Health, NIMHANS on January 29.


• Prof. T. K. Srikanth delivered a guest lecture on "IT in Healthcare", at the Center for Public Health, NIMHANS on January 29.



• Prof. Meenakshi D'Souza attended Microsoft Academic Research Summit in Pune held during January 29-30. She also represented IIITB in the All India Research Board meeting of ACM at the summit.




• There are new faces and roles on campus. Details of their joining:

  January: Prof. Anand Bariya,Visiting Faculty Member
  
  January 4: Ms. Parul Pandey, Outreach Staff
  
  January 4: Prof. Preeti Mudliar, Faculty Member
  
  January 20: Ms. Sowmiya N.: OAES Project Staff
  

  
  Academic Milestones

• January 8: Balachandra K (PH2013006) - State of the Art Seminar (Ph.D.)

• January 25: P Joy Prabhakaran (PH2012003) - State of the Art Seminar (Ph.D.)

Guest Talks

• January 11, 2016: “5g: What Can We Learn From The Previous Four Generations?” by Dr. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University and FCC.
  For Photos: https://goo.gl/photos/BsXtKeJt1tYryemp8
  For Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCjgbKwIkbk



• January 28: "Building cyber competencies to master critical risks in a hyper connected world: a Swiss perspective” by Prof. Solange Ghernaouti, University of Lausanne.

  Campus Visitors

• January 8: Thakur College, Kandivali, East Mumbai.


• January 13: Students and Faculty members from Texas A&M University, USA visited IIITB Innovation Center.


• January 14: ABB Research Team


• January 18:  Dinesh Malkani, President Cisco India and SAARC


• January 18:  Dr. Kaveri Srini Director, CNRS Office in India , French Embassy, Service for Science and Technology