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HACKATHON Alumni Achievers

SRM Hackathon was conducted on
6th and 7th October, 2017. Top 150
participants were shortlisted out of 1500
registrations and top notch projects were
developed in the field of Machine Learning, Happy to inform that our Alumnus from M Tech Biomedical
Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality etc., Engineering (2010-12 Batch), Dr. Biswajeet Champaty from School of
and the winning team was from IIT Madras. Engineering, Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune, has received the
most prestigious “ISER-Young Scientist Award 2017” at the 203rd
Mr. Srini Ramaswamy (SRM Alumnus CSE- International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering
1989) was the Chief Guest and was also a and Management (ICSTEM) on July 26, 2017 in Vienna, Austria.
part of the judging panel. He enlightened the
developers with his knowledge and Out of 12 nominated young researchers across the globe,
experience and also made this edition of Dr. Champaty was selected to receive this award. The Inter-
SRM Hackathon truly unique by offering job national Society for Engineers and Researcher (ISER) of the
offers / internships to developers on the spot. Austrian Federal Government presented this award
One of the judges of SRM Hackathon was to Dr. Champaty for his unparalleled contribu-
Mr. Senthamil Ilango (SRM Alumnus, 1999), tion to the field of “Human-Computer Interaction”.
Senior Software Development Manager,
Amazon.

Ms. Pranali Sanghvi, an Alumna, presented her work entitled ‘Inves-
INTERNSHIP FAIR tigating the effects of different MSC therapies on immune cell infil-
trates in allogeneic corneal transplants’ at the Regenerative Medi-
cine Research Symposium held at NUI Galway on August 18, 2017.
Pranali’s project was supervised by VISICORT PI Prof Thomas Rit-
ter, Dr Paul Lohan and NUI Galway PhD student Nick Murphy. This
summer research project was part of the MSc. Regenerative Medi-
cine, a 12-month taught course coordinated by Dr Linda Howard.

Internship Fair was conducted on 20 and
th
21 October, 2017. ECS Inc., Global Man-
st
tra, Royal Minions, ABB, Philips, Xobin
came to offer internships to the students.
Pre-internship talks by company heads
and later interviews were conducted.

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