align their curriculum to meet the demands of the

industry.

Significant momentum has been generated by various

Student Branches (SB). Various SBs conducted

events such as Design Thinking Workshop at MIT

WPU, IOT for Affordable Agriculture at AISSMS, visit

to Pabal Vigyan Ashram and Hackathon in partner-

ship with Austin city at PICT. I happened to witness

some of these events and was very much impressed

by the work being done by IEEE volunteers and stu-

dent community at large. We need to sustain this

momentum through committed volunteering efforts.

Activities of Special Interest Group for Affordable

Agriculture are shaping up well and we have recently

signed MOUs with six Engineering Colleges for col-

laboration. IEEE student members can explore oppor-

tunities for taking up technology projects in agriculture

domain.

Last but not the least, I would like to draw your atten-

tion to IEEE Pune Section Awards for which you

need to apply before 30th October. The winners will

be announced in during our Annual General Meeting

in December.

Best regards,

Dinanath Kholkar Chair, IEEE Pune Section

Dear IEEE Members,

We are gathering momen-

tum as the date for PuneCon

(30th Nov, 1st & 2nd Dec) is

fast approaching. The paper

evaluation has been com-

pleted and tutorials for the

conference have been an-

nounced. We have been

able to get well known personalities from the technical

field as Guest of Honor, Keynote Speaker and speakers

for invited talks. Would encourage each one of you to

actively participate and benefit from this international

conference being jointly organized by IEEE Pune Section

& Symbiosis Institute of Technology. Look forward to

support from all the members to make this event a huge

success.

Another major upcoming event is "IEEE SPS Winter

School 2018 on Advances in Machine Learning and Vis-

ual Analytics for Forensic and Security Applications"

being held in MIT World Peace University from 10th to

14th December.

I have been conducting talks on "Preparing for Industry

4.0" at various colleges and the response has been ex-

tremely good. We will continue to partner with institutes

for creating awareness on the subject and to help them

Message from Chair, IEEE Pune Section I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Message from Chair,

IEEE Pune Section—

1

Editor’s Note 1

Preparing yourself for

Industry 4.0 Team

2

7th Execom Meeting 3

JSCOE IEEE Student

Branch Activity

3

Student Branch Meet 4

Visit to Pabal Vidnyan

Ashram 4

SS12 Project Compe-

tition

5

Design Thinking

Workshop

5

8th Execom Meeting 6

SYLC Congress 6

Visioning Workshop 8

ILS Kochi 8

International Hacka- 8

Blockchain Lecture 10

Credenz 10

MoU 11

IoT for Affordable

Agriculture

12

STEP Programme 13

SIG Activities 14

Technically Spon-

sored Conference

15

Up-Coming Events

PuneCon

16

SPS Winter School 17

IEEE Pune Section

Awards Events

18

Important Contacts 18

IEEE Pune Section Newsletter J U L — S E P 2 0 1 8 V O L U M E 7 , I S S U E 3

Editor’s Note Dear Friends, Greetings from IEEE Pune Section!!! "Growth is the only evidence of life." - John Henry Newman.

Rightly Said !!! If we're not growing, we're like a dying tree; eventually the winds of

change will snap off our rotting trunks and blow us over. At IEEE Pune section, we

continuously strive to ensure that we are growing. With this preamble, I take this op-

portunity to present IEEE Pune Section Newsletter Vol-7, Issue-3 for the 3rd quarter of 2018, which was fully

packed with activities. The month of July was mainly dedicated in the planning strategies to strengthen our ex-

isting student branches and encouraging others to establish one. The month of August was devoted to various

student oriented activities organized at our existing student branches, with an objective to involve maximum

number of students and professionals in Pune Section’s activity. The idea is to pass on maximum benefit to the

member community and keep them abreast with technology. Hence, all our activities and endeavors are aligned

towards the same.

Dr. Neha Sharma

Editor, IEEE Pune Section Newsletter

Publication Chair, IEEE Pune Section

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IEEE Pune Section have been organizing talks on the topic of “Preparing yourself for Industry

4.0” by Mr. Dinanath Kholkar, Chair, IEEE Pune Section at various IEEE student branches to

create awareness about the fast changing landscape and adoption of digital across indus-

tries. The talk emphasized on the measures to be taken to be future ready in this dynamic

industry and was well appreciated by the leadership of the institute, faculty members and

students. The details of the marathon series of talk in last quarter are as follows:

Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research on 16th July 2018

College of Engineering, Pune on 13th August 2018

PCCOE, Nigdi on 17th August 2018 during the inaugural programme of

ICCUBEA 2018

I2IT on 25th

August

2018

Preparing Yourself For Industry 4.0 Talk Series By Dinanth Kholkar, Chair, IEEE Pune Section

Vision Statement

IEEE will be essen-tial to the global technical communi-ty and to technical professionals eve-rywhere, and be universally recog-nized for the contri-butions of technol-ogy and of tech-nical professionals in improving global conditions.

Mission State-ment

To foster techno-logical innovation and excellence for the benefit of hu-manity

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PICT Student Branch on 22nd

September 2018

7th Execom Meeting Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune , 14th July 2018

The Seventh Execom meeting of IEEE Pune Section for the year 2018 was held at Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune

on Saturday, 14th July 2018. Mr Sudhanva Ranade, Director of Kelkar Museum, was the host for the meeting. The

Museum is a popular tourist attraction of Pune city and has a great collection of beautiful artifacts representing the

rich cultural heritage of our country. The MoU was signed between IEEE Pune Section and Kelkar Museum to mutual-

ly cooperate on following item points:

1. Encourage and consider Raja Dinkar

Kelkar museum as cultural /heritage

partner in prominent IEEE

initiatives of Pune Section.

2. Encourage visit to the museum by

IEEE members of the section, guests

during various IEEE events.

3. Support the museum’s digital initia-

tives with support from student branch

members (Website, social

media strategy, and branding, promo-

tional activities).

Expert Lecture JSCOE Student Branch Activity, 16th July 2018

The JSCOE IEEE Student Branch in association with Telecommunica-tion Student Association (TESA) of Electronics Telecommunication Department organized an Expert lecture on 16th July 2018. The re-source person for the training programme was Mr. Vaibhav Tarate (Entrepreneur and Mentor at Semiconductor Training @Rs1).

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Science Industrial Visit Pabal Vidnyan Ashram 30th July 2018

Student Branch Meet AISSMS Institute of IT, Pune, 17th July 2018

IEEE Pune section Student Branch Meet was held on 17th July

2018 at AISSMS Institute of Information Technology, Pune. The

meet was attended by two eminent speakers Mr. Ganesh Hingmire,

Chairman, Great Mission Consultancy Group and Shri Vinayakji

Chatre, CEO & Founder, Forbaco Systems. Prof Hingmire delivered

a very interesting and insightful talk on Intellectual Property Rights,

Patents, Trade Marks and Geographical Indications. He explained

the importance of the topic with very pertinent examples and data

points. Prof Hingmire encouraged the students to focus on innova-

tion and secure their rights on the same through awareness about

IPR. Vinayakji Chatre gave an inspiring talk to the students highlight-

ing the importance of collaboration and working in teams. Appar

Thusoo, Student Section Representative for IEEE Pune Section pre-

sented the annual roadmap for the Academic year for Student

Branches in Pune. He proposed a new model namely “College Con-

nect Model” which will provide Economies of scale, avoid repetitive

events and enhance leverage of the available budget.

A visit of IEEE student branch members and ex-

ecom members was organized to Pabal Vidnyan

Ashram on 30th

July 2018 on the occasion of 15th

anniversary of their Founder.

Pabal Vigyan Ashram is an organization which focus

on imparting STEM education, project based learn-

ing, socially useful projects, rural technologies and

entrepreneurship development. Their entire philoso-

phy is based on "Learning while Doing" and "Every

Problem is an Opportunity". They offer programs

such as "Diploma in Basic Rural Technology",

"Introduction to Basic technology" and

"Entrepreneurship Accelerator". There are many

other programs offered by them in the technology

space.

All their labs are frugal and interdisciplinary. Their

approach resonates with vision and mission of SIG

for Affordable Agriculture set up by IEEE Pune Sec-

tion. The exhibition showcased their various projects, methodologies and also provided an

opportunity to the visitors to see their labs. SIG seized this opportunity and organized a study

tour of their members to Pabal. The objective was to get ideas for setting up Affordable Agri-

culture labs in their respective institutes and to help them drive projects for benefit of the

farming community.

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An all-day Design Thinking workshop was organized for IEEE Student Branches across Pune on 14th August, 2018. It was

conducted by Reeta Mehrishi, an expert facilitator from TCS and attended by office bearers, volunteers and counsellors of vari-

ous IEEE student branches. The theme for the workshop was “how to increase membership of IEEE Pune Section”. The work-

shop got an overwhelming response and there was participation from around 40 students and 10 faculty members from

AISSMS IOIT, BV COE, DY Patil COE, PCCOE, GH Raisoni COE, MIT, MIT COE, PICT, PVG VIT, and VIIT. There were a few

participants from TCS as well to

make it a balanced group of academ-

ia and industry. Reeta explained the

various phases of Design Thinking

and explained the Discover phase in

detail. The participants were then

divided into groups and asked to in-

terview few students in the campus.

Detailed instructions were given to

them for conducting the interviews.

Post the interviews the respective

groups presented their findings.

There was a wrap up session con-

ducted by Reeta during which the

participants agreed and expressed

interest in doing a follow up session

to come up with an action plan.

SS12 Project Competition which was organized on 2nd

Au-

gust 2018 at PCCOE, Pune. The Competition is ar-

ranged by IEEE Pune Section in association with Educa-

tion Society, Women in Engineering Group and PCCOE,

Pune. The theme of SS12 Project Competition was

“Education Through Innovation”.

SS12 Project Competition PCCOE Pune, 2nd August 2018

Design Thinking MIT College Pune, 14th August 2018

Around 40 people including faculty and

students from six well known institutes

including AISSMS, I2IT, MIT, PICT,

SICSR and VIIT participated in the trip.

The students found the visit very inspir-

ing and learning experience. There

were lot of takeaways for the faculty as

well particularly the radical concept of

inter-disciplinary projects. Overall the

visit provided a big jump start to SIG

activities at the beginning of current the

academic year.

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Excom Meet Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Lavale Campus, 18th August 2018

IEEE Region 10 SYWL Congress 2018 Bali, Indonesia during 30 August -2nd September, 2018

IEEE Region 10 SYWL Congress 2018 at Bali, Indonesia during 30 August -2nd Sept 2018 was

attended by Dr. Rajesh Ingle (SAC Chair, IEEE Region 10), Dr. Surekha Deshmukh (YP Chair,

IEEE Pune Section) and Dr. Rajashree Jain (WIE Chair, India Council) and Student Representa-

tives from Pune Section.

Dr Surekha Deshmukh , represented IEEE Pune Section as Chair of YP Affinity Group. She partici-

pated in YP poster presentation session and presented the idea of forming "Digital career Guidance

Networking platform" , which was well appreciated by R 10 IEEE YP officers. The idea was

shared with YPs from Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, SriLanka , India etc. Dr Surekha

participated in discussion forum of YPs to explore the innovative business plans and creating more

visibility to YPs at IEEE R 10 level.

Execom meeting for the

month of August 2018 was

conducted on 18th

August

2018 at Symbiosis Institute

of Technology, Lavale

Campus. Along with the

execom meeting, there was

a review meeting of forth-

coming mega event of

IEEE Pune Section ie. Pu-

neCon 2018.

was

attended by Dr. Rajesh Ingle (SAC Chair, IEEE Region 10), Dr. Surekha Deshmukh (YP Chair,

IEEE Pune Section) and Dr. Rajashree Jain (WIE Chair, India Council) and Student Representa-

Dr Surekha Deshmukh , represented IEEE Pune Section as Chair of YP Affinity Group. She partici-

pated in YP poster presentation session and presented the idea of forming "Digital career Guidance

YP officers. The idea was

SriLanka , India etc. Dr Surekha

discussion forum of YPs to explore the innovative business plans and creating more

P A G E 7 V O L U M E 7 , I S S U E 3

Poster Presented at SYWL Congress by

Dr. Surekha Deshmukh

Glimpses of SYWL Congress

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ILS Kochi 8th Sept 2018

International Hackathon Austin, USA - Pune,INDIA 8th Sept 2018

Visioning Workshop SPPU Statistics Department 6th Sept 2018

Mr. Jagdish Choudhary, IEEE Execom member, conducted a visioning workshop at SPPU Statis-

tics department on 6th

September 2018

International Hackathon on 8th

September 2018

This was a major joint venture that was undertaken, named Austin-Pune Inter-national Hackathon: Smart Cities. The goal of this event was to develop ties between citizens of Austin with citizens of Pune. Bi-national teams were formed using the video-conferencing application, Zoom by the University of Texas, Austin. The event was a 24-hour sprint to push innovative ideas towards becoming a tangible product or proposal while simultaneously fostering personal one-to-one relationships between participants of both cities. At the end of the 24-hour period, all participating teams submitted their projects for judging and the awards were given to the top three. The team that claimed the top prize con-sisted of Karan Agrawal from Pune, Ashwin Tantri, also from Pune and finally, Pavan Agrawal from Austin. The IEEE Pune Section had given Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Pune the opportunity to co-host the hacka-thon in India along with the University of Texas, Austin and took place on Sep-tember 8th from 8:00 a.m. (CDT)/6:30 p.m. (IST).

IEEE Pune Section WIE team representing IEEE Pune Section at ILS Kochi

on 8 Sep 2018.

P A G E 9 V O L U M E 7 , I S S U E 3

The hackathon had also drawn in some large community partners such as the University of Texas, the Greater Austin

Asian Chamber of Commerce, Pune Fashion Week and of course, the City of Austin. The event was judged by Col.

Anand Kumar, Mr Anmol Gulhane, Mr Aniket Kolee and Mr Akshay Dhavale. Mr Dinanath Kholkar, Chair of IEEE Pune

Section and Head of Global Operations at TCS was Chief Guest for the event.

Glimpses of International Hackathon

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Blockchain– An Emerging Trend G.H. Raisoni, Wagholi, 18th September 2018

Dr. Neha Sharma, Execom Member, IEEE Pune Section had conducted a session on “Blockchain – An Emerging Trend” at G. H. Raisoni, Wagholi for the students of Computer Science Department on 18

th September 2018. She had also conducted a session on

“IEEE membership Benefits” for that faculty members and students on the same day.

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

Credenz PICT IEEE Student Branch, 21 - 23 September 2018

Credenz, the annual technical symposium organised by the PICT IEEE Student Branch started in 2004, with a view to elicit the best out of each and every one, and grew to become one of the finest technical events today. Cre-denz aimed not only to infuse a competitive spirit among participants but also widen their horizons in the ever-changing field of technology. Participants got a chance to discover their talents, thrive in numerous events, go be-yond the traditional spheres of academics, and make the most of their potential. Credenz ‘18 was the result of continuous hard work of 350 PISB members. Infinity and Perception was the theme for Credenz '18 which was implemented through the user in-terface, questionnaires, design perspective of the campus and many other areas. The Branch counsellor of PICT IEEE Student Branch, Dr Rajesh Ingle, who looked into every aspect personally and guided the team efficiently in a time of desperate need.

P A G E 1 1 V O L U M E 7 , I S S U E 3

Credenz ‘18 partnered with following companies - Title Sponsor Tata Consultancy Services, Co-Sponsor Automation Edge, Technology Partners Predikly and Renishaw, Education Partner TIME, Event Partner Extentia, Youth Partner Bee Urban, Stationery Partner Kokuyo Camlin, Online Ticketing Partner The College Fever, Web-Hosting Partner Entosa, RoboLIGA Partner Twisty Potato and Competitive Programming Partners Codechef and kaggle. Credenz ‘18 hosted 16 trademark events successfully, covering various technical and non-technical aspects. Two new events were introduced, a Data Science event DataWiz, and an aptitude based event Enigma. It gives me immense pleasure to state that both these events have surpassed the expected response and have garnered praise from all over. Credenz ‘18 team managed to reach out to a huge number of participants all across Maharashtra and

cater to a quality footfall of more than ten thousand emerging minds as participants for Credenz. All in all Credenz ‘18 was a huge success.

Memorandum of

Understanding

between

Austin and Pune 26th September 2018

City partnership between city of Austin, USA

and Pune, India on different urban develop-

ment meter, knowledge exchange, business

development was signed on 26th Septem-

ber 2018

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Speaker Mr Mohan TEXAS

INSTRUMENTS

Bangalore

Organising

chair Dr P B Mane

Convenor Mrs A D Shiralkar

Coordinator Mrs Varsha Patil

Technology

Used: Texas MCU for

base, +Wi-Fi boost-

er for middle layer +

grove kit for upper

layer was construct-

ed.

Participants have

uploaded the sen-

sors data in the

cloud of pub net,

freeboard.

Workshop on IoT For Affordable Agriculture AISSMS IOIT, Pune, September 27 - 29, 2018

IEEE Young Professional Affinity Group Pune section organised a three days STTP from 27 to

29 September at AISSMS IOIT PUNE on “ IoT for affordable agriculture”. The program was

Technically Sponsored by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Bangalore. 50 participants participated in this

workshop. Participants got an opportunity to get hands on experience and conceptual clarity on

IoT Groove kit containing different types of sensors such as moisture sensor, displacement sen-

sor, soil sensor etc.

Technological outcomes : Agriculture 4.0 standard, Concepts of IoT, Basic Texas mcu experience, Code composer studio

version 6, Wi-Fi booster pack and use of it.

Groove kit containing sensors such as moisture sensor, displacement sensor, soil sensor etc.

Texas MCU for base, +Wi-Fi booster for middle layer + grove kit for upper layer was constructed.

Participants have uploaded the sensors data in the cloud of pub net, freeboard

Other cloud obtains were also suggested

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

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The first “STUDENT TRANSITION & ELEVATION PARTNERSHIP (STEP)” program was organized for student mem-

bers by IEEE Young Professional Affinity Group of IEEE Pune Section on 29th Sept ember 2018. This program was

organized in association with IEEE Student Branch of AISSMS, IOIT, Pune. The STEP event was financially support-

ed by R 10 IEEE YP group. Total 86 students attended the function along with presence of IEEE members as well as

faculty members. The participation was from More than 10 colleges such as AISSMS’ IOIT, AISSMS COE, PVG’s

COET, I2IT, VIT, PICT, MIT, Bharathi Vidyapeeth, DYPCOE, JSPM’s JSCOE, Dhole Patil COE, Trinity COE,

GHRCOE, Cummin’s COE, Pune.

The objective of STEP program was to share the experiences of IEEE Young Professionals with student members

and encourage them to continue their membership after graduation to join YP group. Also this program was a mean

of a platform for building strong connect between student members and young professionals of section. Dr Surekha

Deshmukh :- Chair – YP Affinity Group presented the objectives of establishing the Young Professional affinity group

under Pune Section along with the series of activities being planned. The Young professionals Mr Bhaskar Mishra

and Ms Radhika Shouche shared their experiences of being IEEE member and volunteering since last few years.

They discussed about their involvement in conducting IEEE activities and how such involvement helped them in im-

proving their personal as well as professional skill sets along with networking opportunities. The current student

member Ms Purva Ektpure also shared her views on why students should take professional membership such as

IEEE.

The design thinking workshop was conducted by YPs where in the topic was “use of IOT in solving social issues and

issues in agriculture domain”. Total seven groups were formed. After brainstorming discussions, every group has

come up with problem statement and schematic of solutions. The issues addressed were, traffic signal coordination,

chick behavior monitoring, test bed for agriculture routine tests, snake identification system and safety shoes, weath-

er prediction tool, inventory monitoring system, Home automation for old age. The program was concluded with vale-

dictory function, during which the initiative of Young professional Affinity Group of “Building Digital Career Guidance

Platform” was launched officially. This platform will give an effective advice regarding different job profiles, required

technical and professional skills to budding engineers.

Outcomes of the Workshop on IoT for Affordable Agriculture Overwhelming response for this programme was a confirmation that hands on activities is need of the hour

Insight of current trends of IoT was provided from the leaders of technology from Texas university program.

The technology platforms for affordable solutions to agriculture were experimented

Common discussion platform to young innovators was provided, some of them already have start -ups

Student Transition and Elevation Partnership Programme AISSMS IOIT, Pune, 29 September, 2018

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Vision for the

SIG

To encourage en-

gineering students

to take up Agritech

projects, to empa-

thetically under-

stand farmer’s

requirements and

address those us-

ing innovative,

digital, frugal and

interdisciplinary

solutions. SIG will

also encourage

youth to take up

careers in Agricul-

ture domain and

help evolve suita-

ble models to en-

hance income lev-

els of farmers.

Mission of SIG

Create an ecosys-

tem to nurture inno-

vation for benefit of

the farming commu-

nity

Special Interest Group on Affordable Agriculture

There are multiple initiatives being driven by IEEE Pune Section for the benefit of the community.

One of the key initiatives amongst them is the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Affordable Agri-

culture.

Various activities undertaken by SIG in last quarter are:

Mr. Girish Khillari, Vice Chair, IEEE Pune Section and Mr. Jagdish Choudhari attended workshop on Organic Farming at Gram Pani Panchayat founded by Late Vilasrao Salunkhe and Kalpanatai Salunkhe on 19

th August 2018, as a part of SIG activity.

Mr. Girish Khillari, Vice Chair, IEEE Pune Section and Mr. Jagdish Choudhari participated in All India Grape Grower Association’s annual gathering at Balewadi Stadium on 24

th August 2018,

as a part of SIG activity. Mr. Jagdish Choudhari and Mr. Shakar Tagad from SIG for Affordable agriculture Ambejogai and Kerwadi, Gangakhed visited on 12

th September 2018. They met two NGOs named Ma-

navlok and Swapnabhumi and held a meeting with farmers. The idea is to start collective farm-ing pilots in collaboration with these NGOs.

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

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ICCUBEA 2018 was organized from 16-18 August 2018 at PCCOE - www.iccubea.com/

IEEE Pune Section’s Technically Sponsored conference

ICICET 2018 was organized from 29 – 31 August 2018 at Zeal College of Engineering - www.zcoer.in/

icicet2018

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Chief Patron Dr. S.B.Majumdar

Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar

Dr. Rajani Gupte

Patron Dr. Ketan Kotecha

Mr. Dinanath Kholkar

Organizing Chair Dr. Vivek Deshpande

Dr. S. Phansalkar

Finance Chair Dr. S. Phansalkar

Dr. S. Deshmukh

Publicity Chair Prof. Shilpa Gite

Prof. Shruti Patil

Mr. Girish Khillari

Dr. Neha Sharma

Publication

Chair Prof. Dipti Sarmah

Prof. Preeti Muley

Dr. Y. Dandawate

Web Chair Prof. Pooja Kamat

Prof. Aniket Jagtap

Dr. Pravin Kitte

Technical Chair Dr. Swati Ahirrao

Dr. Rajashree Jain

Prof. Dipti Sarmah

Prof. Preeti Muley

Up-Coming Events

PUNECON 2018 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2018 - http://ieeepunecon.org/

About IEEE PuneCon 2018 The 1st IEEE PuneCon(44533) will be an international conference on Data Science and Analyt-ics from 30 Nov-2 Dec 2018. It is organized at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Lavale, Pune, a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), ranked amongst India’s topmost in-ternational universities. The theme of IEEE PuneCon 2018 will revolve around advances in Data Science and Analytics and will bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners and en-compasses wide and diverse topics of application in almost every field of business and services. The highlights of the guest speakers are:

The Scope of the conference includes Domains/Tracks in the following key areas: Agriculture & Resources Healthcare & Wellness Security & Privacy Smart Cities & villages Intelligent Transportation System Industry 4.0 The conference also invites researchers to delve into the area with participation in tutorials/sessions using hands-on/live project demo by industry professionals. The tutorial sessions on the under mentioned topics on 30

th Nov 2018:

The academicians, researchers, industry professionals, UG/PG/PhD students from all the disci-plines of technology, healthcare, biotechnology, agriculture and government administration will highly be benefited by being part of this conference.

Guest of Honor Keynote Speaker Invited Talk

Dr. Kai Sang Lock

Professor, Singa-pore Institute of Technology Past Chairman, En-gineering Accredita-tion Board, IES

Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kassim

Malaysian Institute of Mi-croelectronic Systems (MIMOS) Ministry of Science, Tech-nology and Innovation Ma-laysia

Dr. Raghu T. Santa-

nam

Professor of Information Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business, Ari-zona State University.

Security & Privacy S Sachin P. Lodha, & Sandeep Saxena,

TCS Research and Innovation

Smart Agriculture Srinivasu P TCS VP Digital Farming initia-tives

Smarter Cities and Villages Alex Jojo Joseph, Program Director, IBM Watson Internet of Things Devel-opment

Healthcare and wellness Mr. Aditya Pathak, PierianDx India Pvt. Ltd

I E E E P U N E S E C T I O N N E W S L E T T E R

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IEEE SPS Winter School 2018

IEEE SPS Winter School 2018

on

“Advances in Machine Learning and Visual Analytics for Forensic and Security Applications”

IEEE SPS Winter School 2018, “Advances in Machine Learning and Visual Analytics for Forensic and Security

Applications” focuses on interdisciplinary approach to address the increasing sophistication and diversity of threats to

public security. There is critical demand of deploying reliable, secure, and timely efficient visual intelligent surveillance

systems in smart cities. A major recent development is the massive success resulting from using the machine learning

techniques to enable the significant boosting of visual analysis performance and initiate new research directions to un-

derstand visual content. It is expected that the development of Machine Learning and its related visual analytic meth-

odologies would further influence the field of intelligent surveillance systems. After the completion of the winter school,

participants will gain the fundamental and advanced knowledge in the extensive field of machine Learning and related

applications. Participants would be able to create better solutions and explore greater perspectives in their domains of

interest within this growing field of research.

Topics

Overview of Machine Learning

Machine learning & knowledge extraction

Building blocks of visual analytics

Neural Networks

Deep Learning

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning & knowledge extraction

Security applications like intelligent surveillance systems

Forensic applications

Event Dates:- 10

th – 14

th December-2018

Last date for registration: 20th

November 2018

F O R M O R E D ET A I L S C L I C K O N

V E N U E : D R . V I S H W A N A T H K A R A D M I T W O R L D P E A C E U N I V E R S I T Y ,

S C H O O L O F E L E C T R O N I C S & C O M M U N I C A T I O N E N G I N E E R I N G ,

S U R V E Y N O . 1 2 4 , M I T C O L L E G E C A M P U S ,

P A U D R O A D , R A M B A U G C O L O N Y

K O T H R U D , P U N E - 4 1 1 0 3 8 , I N D I A

W E B S I T E : W W W . M I T C O E . A C . I N

T E L . : + 9 1 - 2 0 3 0 2 7 3 4 0 0 / 3 0 2 7 3 6 7 7

Announcements IEEE Pune Section Annual Awards: Call for Nominations

Important Contacts

The IEEE Pune Section, in its attempt reach out to all its members and involve them in all its activities, is administering awards under various categories. Through its Awards Pro-gram, IEEE Pune Section shall advance the interests of its members by recognizing their contributions in advancing the fields of interest to IEEE to the benefit of society. By this means, the image and prestige of the organization, its mem-bers, and the profession are all enhanced. The IEEE Pune Section Award Program honors members and other profes-sionals for their service to society.

The IEEE Pune Section Awards shall be awarded for contribu-tions towards spread of technology and outstanding perfor-mance in specific fields of interest of the IEEE. These awards will be presented annually when, in the judgment of the Awards Committee, suitable candidates / branches are availa-ble. These awards may be presented during Annual IEEE Pu-ne Section Conference ie. PuneCon.

All the participants will be given a CERTIFICATE duly signed by the IEEE Pune Section Chair and a MEMENTO.

Last Date to Apply:

30 October 2018

Contact details of Section Student Representative 2018 for IEEE Pune Section Section Student Representative Appar Thusoo: appar.thusoo@gmail.com Co- Section Student Representatives Alifiya Shaikh: alifiyashaikh706@gmail.com Purva Ekatpure: e.purva@gmail.com

Membership Development: Dr. Yogesh Dandawate yhdandawate@gmail.com Student Branch: Dr. Pradip Mane pbmane6829@rediffmail.com Conferences: Prof. Mandar Khurjekar mandarjk@gmail.com Industry Interface: Mr. Girish Khilari gkhilari@hotmail.com Mr. Sachin Shelar sachinut@gmail.com SIG – Affordable Agriculture Mr. Girish Khilari gkhilari@hotmail.com Jagdish Chaudhari jagdish.chaudhari@tcs.com

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