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Department Of CSE

Rethinking IoT Systems with IIT Guwahati National Conference on Recent Advances in
On the 18th of October 2021, the Department of CSE joined Computing and Information Technology
hands with IIT Guwahati to gift over 200 students and faculty A 2-day National Level Conference on "Recent Advances in
from colleges across Tamil Nadu with a dynamic and Computing and Information Technology" was conducted by the
constructive one-day ISEA workshop. The theme of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering on the 3rd
workshop was "IoT-Edge Ecosystem : A Security Perspective”. and 4th of December 2021 on the theme Artificial Intelligence
It helped participants explore in great depth the prerequisites and Computer Vision. A live interaction with Mr. Ganesh Kumar
of an IoT application and decode regions where the technology Sundaram, the Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Payoda
faced
faced security vulnerabilities. With the enlightening live Technologies, Coimbatore and several online sessions by
sessions of Dr. John Jose (Assistant Professor IIT Guwahati) eminent speakers focused on the use cases of AI and its
eminent
and Dr.Ruchika Gupta (Post-Doctoral Fellow IIT Guwahati), limitations. During the pan India conference, 41 papers were
students were illuminated on the ways to contribute to this shortlisted from 80 papers and published after a series of
domain. reviews, by a team comprising Dr. R Manimegalai, Dr. V C
Mahavishnu and Mr. N Aravindhraj.
The Clash of Codes
Furious typing and nervous cranking of the keyboard was a
common sight to behold on the afternoon of 1st November 2021
as 99 students from 2nd and 3rd Year CSE competed in the
coding contest, "Clash of Codes". The event was conducted in
association with The Institution of Engineers (India) PSGI
Students' Chapter on the online platform Hackerrank,
successfully recreating an atmosphere of Competitive
Pro
Prgramming and allowing students to think outside the
box.On the 18th of October 2021, the Department of CSE joined
hands with IIT Guwahati to gift over 200 students and faculty
from colleges across Tamil Nadu with a dynamic and
constructive one-day ISEA workshop. The theme of the
workshop was "IoT-Edge Ecosystem : A Security Perspective”. Principal, Dr. G. Chandramohan presenting a
It helped participants explore in great depth the prerequisites memento to Mr. Ganesh Kumar
of an I
of an IoT application and decode regions where the technology
faced security vulnerabilities. With the enlightening live Talk on ‘Decision Science and Intelligence in the
sessions of Dr. John Jose (Assistant Professor IIT Guwahati) Context of an AI/ML Driven World’
and Dr.Ruchika Gupta (Post-Doctoral Fellow IIT Guwahati), The eighth technical talk
students were illuminated on the ways to contribute to this under the banner "Bits,
Bytes & Packets", a series
of talks on Computer
Science and Alternative
Career Options, was held on
the 10th December 2021 in
association with the
association
Institution of Engineers
(India) PSGI Students'
Chapter.Over 150 students
and faculty members from
engineering colleges
across Tamil Nadu tuned in
to Students eagerly listening to Mr.
tolisten to Mr. Ismail Syed
Mohammed, North America Ismail Syed Mohammed's insights
Oracle Utilities Industry
Participants raced against time to solve problems with an Lead (Accenture USA).
efficient, yet simple code.
This talk dealt with factors that influence the AI-driven
decision-making systems of tech giants in our daily lives.
Guest Lecture on “Artificial Intelligence: Past,
Present, and Future” Five-Day Faculty Development Programme
The department of CSE organized a Guest Lecture on 23rd
December 2021. Dr. C Mohan, visiting professor at Tsinghua In the weekends of October and November, 32 faculty
University, emphasized, and detailed why Data is the new Oil. members from PSG Institutions and other engineering
This interactive session also listed the three waves of AI and colleges around the city participated in a 5-day Faculty
the need for knowledge representations. Development Programme on "Mathematical Foundations of
Data Science". This online program conducted in association
with PSGTech and PSGCare emphasized the importance of data
parameters with a detailed emphasis on data analysis and
statistical models that infer data
statistical mode

Dr. C Mohan clearing the doubts of curious
students.

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