10-FEB-2018: IEEE Vizag Bay Sub Section EC Meeting. New Team inducted. Venue: Hotel Meghalaya. Proposals are discussed for the coming year. Sri Venkatesh Secretary, IEEE Hyderabad Section also seen. 1. Mrs. M. Vijaya Secretary 2. Prof. N. Deepika Rani Treasurer 3. Prof R. Ramana Reddy 4. Dr. T.S.N. Murty 5. Prof. P. Satheesh 6. Mr. Chisti khwaja muinuddin 7. Dr. Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni (Past Chair) 8. Sri N. Venkatesh participated in this meeting. 26-FEB-2018 An administrative meeting is organized at Hotel Meghalaya to discuss and plan for the Events for the year 2018. 26-MAR-2018 A meeting was organized with Professional Members and Volunteers and discussed the functions of the officers of IEEE at Hotel Meghalaya. Dr. K. Ramakrishna Past Chair R10 addressed all the members present. He gave a talk on “Student Branches – Professional Members – Interactions”. 27-MAR-2018: Invited Talk by Dr. K. Ramakrishna Past Director R10, IEEE, on” Smart Grid Technologies" at GVP College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. 31-MAR-2018 IEEE SB INAGURATION (STB 10104) at Aditya College of Engineering and Technology, Surampalem, Near Kakinada.

31-MAR-2018 An Invited talk on “IoT Edge Analytics Gateways” by Sri P.V.S. Maruthi Rao via WebEx at Aditya College of Engineering and Technology, Surampalem, Near Kakinada.

31-MAR-2018: An Invited talk on “SOCIAL NETWORKS –TEXT AND INTELLIGANCE” by Dr.S.Lakshminarayana at Aditya College of Engineering and Technology, Surampalem, Near Kakinada.

19-JUNE-2018: An Invited Talk on A Smart Factory Reference Architecture by Sri Gopi Kumar Bulusu Past Chair IEEE Vizag Bay at Vijayawada.

20-JUNE-2018: Two Invited Talks on “Research trends in Data Mining and Text Mining” and on “IEEE Student Membership Benefits” were organized at Vishnu Institute of Technology (Bhimavaram)

21-JUNE-2018: An invited talk on "Women in Engineering“ by G Sreelakshmi, CVR College of Engineering and Chair, WiE Affinity Group and Ms. Pujitha, Vice Chair WIE.

23-JUNE-2018 An Invited Talk on “Smart World” by Dr . S. Raja Scientist-G, NSTL, Visakhapatnam at Hotel Meghalaya, Visakhapatnam (Professional Members)

12-JULY-2018

Invited Talks on Data & Text Mining & Benefits of IEEE Membership to Students was organized at Vishnu

Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram.

21-JULY-2018 IEEE SB Inauguration at Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vizag

21-JULY-2018 An invited talk on "5G Communications“ by Sanjeev Nimishakavi, Qualcomm and Chair, Comsoc/SPS Joint Chapter, IEEE Hyderabad Section at Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology

21-JULY-2018: An invited Talk on "Careers in Technology” by N Venkatesh, Redpine Signals and Secretary, IEEE Hyderabad Section at Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology

22-JULY-2018 “Women in Engineering – Leadership challenges for professional women” is organized at IETE Bhavan, AU College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. Prof. G. Nageswara Rao, Vice Chancellor graced the occasion.

27-JULY-2018: An Invited talk on the Benefits of IEEE Membership was organized at Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem.

28-JULY-2018 A one-day workshop was organized on “Signal Processing using Python” by Prof GVV Sharma, IIT Hyderabad at MVGR College of Engineering, Vijayanagaram.

07-AUG-2018: An invited talk was organized on “IT at Frontiers” by Prof T. Hanuman Chowdary at IETE Bhavan, AU College of Engineering.

18-AUG-2018 An Invited talk was organized on “IoT Applications” by Sri D. Ramakrishna, CEO, Efftronics, Vijayawada and Chair IEEE Guntur Sub Section.

18-AUG-2018 Two invited talks were arranged on (1) Digital Marketing Powered by Artificial Intelligence by

Vidyasagar T, Vice-chair, IEEE Computer Society Chapter, Tata Consultancy Services Limited and (2) on

“Conversational Experience driven by Artificial Intelligence” by Bala Prasad Peddigari Chairman for

IEEE Computer Society Chapter for Hyderabad Section at Hotel Meghalaya

25-AUG-2018 An Invited talk was arranged on “Advances in Computer Architecture” by Prof. Madhu Mutyam, IIT Chennai at Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vijayanagaram 30-AUG-2018 Two invited talks were organized on (1) (1) Text Mining in Mobile Applications and (2) Benefits of IEEE

Membership by Dr. Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni at Lakkireddi Balareddi College of Engineering,

Mylavaram, Vijayawada.

31-AUG-2018: A workshop on “Arduino & its applications: was organized at PSCMRCET, Vijayawada An Invited talk was arranged on “Text Mining in Mobile Applications” by Dr. Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni at PSCMR College of Engineering, Vijayawada.

02-SEPT-2018 A Review meeting was organized about the event and progress of IEEE Vizag Bay Sub Section on 2-9-18.

(1) Sri. P.V.S. Maruthi Rao (2) Sri M.G.P.L. Narayana (3) Dr. Abraham Varughese (4) Sri Gopi Kumar

Bulusu (Past Chair) and (5) Dr. Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni attended the meeting.

22-SEPT-2018 An Invited talk on “Benefits of IEEE Membership” was organized at Raghu College of Engineering, Dakamari, Vijayanagaram

28-SEP-2018 An Invited talk was organized on “Leadership skills in surviving and thriving in Modern times” by Sri MGPL Narayana, Vice-President TCS at Lendi College of Engineering and Technology, Vijayanagaram.

28-SEPT-2018 An invited talk is organized on “RF Radiation Hazards and its impact on Humanity” by Prof. N. Deepika Rani at Lendi College of Engineering and Technology, Vijayanagaram.

28-SEPT-2018 An invited talk on “STEM Projects – An academic passport to Career” by Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni at Lendi College of Engineering and Technolgy, Vijayanagaram.

02-OCT-2018 An invited talk was arranged on “Volunteer Development Programme” by Dr Abraham Varughese at IETE Bhavan, AU College of Engineering

05-OCT-2018: An invited talk was organized on “RF Radiation Hazards and its Impact on Humanity” by Dr. N. Deepika

Rani, Treasurer, IEEE Vizag Bay at Aditya College of Engineering and Tech, Kakinada

05-OCT-2018 An Invited talk was organized on ““Recent Trends and Challenges in Software Development" by Dr. P.

Satheesh, MVGR College of Engineering at Aditya College of Engineering and Tech, Kakinada.

05-OCT-2018

An invited talk on “STEM Projects – An academic passport to Career” by Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni at Aditya College of Engineering and Tech, Kakinada.

06-OCT-2018 Two invited talks (1) Recent advances in DSP Architectures & Metamaterials & Applications by Prof N.

Sreenivasa Rao, Past Chairman-IEEE Education Society Chapter Hyderabad and (2) Signal Processing

Applications using Python T. Sai Kumar, Associate Professor, CMR Tech Campus, Hyderabad were

organized at Aditya College of Eng and Tech, Surampalem, Near Kakinada.

06-OCT-2018 TISP: Teacher In Service Programme.

IEEE Vizag Bay Sub Section organized TISP at Ramnath Secondary School on 27 th October 2018. Dr. S. Ramaratnam Former Technology Director ISRO, Dr. Ravikumar, Dr Abraham Varughese from NSTL, Prof Ramana Reddy (MVGR) and Prof Deepika Rani (GVP) delivered talks in teaching methodologies to School Teachers. Dr. S. Lakshminarayana EC Member IEEE Hyderabad spoke in this occasion. Several 09-NOV-2018

An invited talk was organized on “Advances in Electrical Machines” by Sri Basam Venkata Rao,

Sc-D, NSTL at IETE Bhavan, Visakhapatnam.

09-NOV-2018

A meeting with all the volunteers of ICISGT was organized at IETE Bhavan to discuss the action

plan.

Besides the above events the following are the achievements of IEEE Vizag Bay Sub Section.

➢ IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Green Technology ICISGT will be organized during 10-11 May 2019 with IEEE Hyderabad Section.

➢ Dr. Usha Bala, WIE Co-Ordinator invited to deliver a talk at SSC, IEEE Hyderabad Section on "Building Trust Through Communication Skills".

➢ Dr. Usha Bala, nominated to participate at WIE at Kochi. ➢ Dr. Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni invited to deliver a talk on "Outcome Based Education - A

tool towards Accreditation in India“ in IEEE Education Society's Three Day Workshop On “PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS FOR FACULTY IN OUTCOME BASED ENGINEERING EDUCATION” 23rd Aug, 2018 to 25th Aug, 2018 at Hyderabad.

➢ Dr. Lakshminarayana Sadasivuni was invited to deliver a talk at TEQIP-III Sponsored two day workshop on “Pedagogical skills for outcome based Education” November 16-17, 2018 at Ananthapur.