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Trivia: Petition to establish Bangalore Subsection under India Section on approved on 14 Dec 1971.

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Trivia: Petition to establish Bangalore Subsection under India Section on approved on 14 Dec 1971.Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section won the prestigious MGA Outstanding Large Section Award, twice - 2013 & 2019

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Trivia: Petition to establish Bangalore Subsection under India Section on approved on 14 Dec 1971.Trivia: Two IEEE senior members Mr L Subramanyam of Bombay Section and Dr HV Gopalakrishnan, played a key role in forming IEEE Bangalore Section

International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies, CONECCT 2020 organized by IEEE Bangalore Section, India is all set to be scheduled on July 2-4, 2020. The confer-ence focusses on workshop sessions by reputed leaders and paper presentations by academia and industry. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conclave is going to be virtual. The workshops are focused on various trending technologies and their applications in the betterment of our society. The conference serves as the one-point access for com-plete up-gradation of technical knowledge and skills needful to face the technological disruptions in the future and leading to a better tomorrow. The pres-entations are focused on various technologies imple-mented in developing the projects resulting in the solutions for many existing problems. There are cash prizes of INR 25K and 5K distributed for the overall best paper and best paper of each track indi-vidually.

GURUKUL, a program initiated by the Member-ship Development Committee (Academia) of IEEE Bangalore Section, in order to provide a platform for students to continue learning despite the incon-veniences caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Students are affected by Colleges and universities being shut down and their access to face-to-face lectures and classes hampered.

This inconvenience is worse for final year and pre-final year students who were set to graduate soon.

To make up for the possible gap in learning of many core concepts, foundational skills and fundamental knowdelge that would be expected of them upon graduation, Gurukul was introduced. Gurukul is an online webinar based learning system that covers courses in the Engineering Curriculum. Professors, from engineering colleges all over Karnataka volunteered to teach modules of various courses and help the student community. IEEE Bangalore Chap-ter organized many two hour sessions on various topics. Dr. Pushpamala, MDC Co-Chair Academia, IEEE Bangalore Section hosted and moderated the sessions.

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Trivia: Mr Ravi L. Kirloskar was the first Chairman of IEEE Bangalore Sub-Section, under IEEE India Section

Over the last three months, IEEE organized 39 such sessions. An average of 60 to 80 students attended each session. The courses covered were:

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Topic Instructor/ Facilitator Basic Electronics Prof Ashwini Holla, Canara Engg College and

Prof Ravi Hosamna, KLEIT Operating Systems Prof. Khalikkunaisa, HKBK and Prof. Nirmala,

AMC College Signals and Systems Prof. Sudhir, SJCIT and Prof. Vaibhav,

Dayananda Sagar University Digital switching Systems Prof. Parimala, MSRIT and Prof. C R Gopala

Krishna Murthy, KSSESM Computer Aided Drawing Prof Lokesh, NIEIT Analog Circuits Prof. Raghunandan G H, BMSIT and Prof. S V

Uma, RNSIT C programming for Problem solving Prof. Arun K H and Prof. Varalakshmi, Acharya

IT Elements of Mechanical Engineering Prof. Amaresh Kaur, SVCE Microcontrollers Prof. Madhura, and Prof. Narendra Kumar,

RNSIT ARM Microcontrollers Prof. Sukumar, CBIT, Prof. Somashekar, SJBIT

and Prof. Veeresh, SIET Engineering Statistics and Linear Algebra Prof. Anil Kumar, RLJIT Control Systems Prof. Pallavi, VVIET and Prof Archana, NIEIT VSLI Design Prof . Lavanya, RLJIT and Prof. Girish, CiTech Computer Communication Networks Prof. Krishnananda, Govt. SKSJTI and Prof.

Rajendra Prasad, SVCE Digital Communication Prof. Puneeth, KSSESM Water Resource Management Prof. Tejas, Acharya IT Heat transfer Prof. Anand K Joshi, SSEC Electrical Machine Design Prof Sandeep, NIEIT Digital Image Processing Prof. Kavitha E, Sir MVIT Mathematics Prof. Vidya K, SDMIT Computer Graphics Prof. Vani K S, Acharya IT IoT and Applications Prof. Ravishankar,SaIT and Prof. Subhashini R,

CBIT Digital System Design using Verilog Prof. K Ezhilarasan, SaIT Object Oriented Concepts Prof. Naganandini, Acharya IT System Software and Compiler Design Prof. Nagaveni, AcharyaIT

With the exam season coming up in Universities, these sessions have served as an effective revision bridge for many students. By ensuring uninterrupted education, the Gurukul initiative has stood by its original meaning ─ Gurukul being loosely translated as ‘Place for Learning’. As the surveillance of drones is in impassable areas, power retention in the drone is a challenge. Accordingly, we have introduced solar pads for the drones to charge themselves autono-mously when encountered with inadequate power for their operation.

IEEE MDC continued its volunteering journey in second quarter (Apr-June) with initial members of 6,205 (Mar). As per “#Mission2020 Target 15K+ Plan”, after second quarter the total membership count is 7,290 (June-21). The Section has reached close to its halfway mark on its #Mission2020”. MDC organized the following activities from April to June 2020 to improve membership and support IEEE’s many members and non-members.

The Status of IEEE Members count is as follow.

}}2020: Jan- Mar: 6,205 +741

2019: Jan- Mar:5,464

2020: Apr- Jun: 7,290 + 1,160*2019: Apr- May:6,130*

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IEEE Awareness to Faculty Members28 Apr.3. 208

IEEE Virtual Sahayavani Centra @ Presidency University29 Apr.4.

Online Workshop & Demo: IEEE Conference Application

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In the prevailing pandemic, IEEE Bangalore section was very quick to adopt to the new normal. Delivering technical content through electronic media, keeping its members engaged and motivat-ed, via high-end technical and management talks. Most webinars were delivered through the SAC, WiE, Industry Engagement Group, different tech-nical society chapters of the Section, YP, the newly formed Consultants Network and some in associa-tion with the Mangalore Sub Section. Given below are the Professional Activity initiatives by the Section in the past three months.

The April webinar series was inaugurated by the WiE team with Ms Ragini Randhawa, Director, CEO, Innovations Unlimited addressing the students and young professionals on Industry requirements for fresh engineers on 1st April. MSS organized a talk on 3rd April by Dr. Wing-Kai Hon, Prof. NTHU from Taiwan on Tiny-Pan Coin-Weighing Problem.Members were entertained by the experiences of Dr Niranjan U C, Chair MSS, Director R&D Manipal Dot Net on his narration of My three-decade long journey with IEEE on 6th April. Dr Navin Kumar, Prof. ECE Amritha Vidya Peetha & Secretary IEEE Bangalore Section addressed the members on How & Why of Peer Review on 7th April. Dr. Prasant Misra, Treasurer spoke on How can Mobility be used to Solve Social Problems? on 8th April. Prof K V S Hari, Chair IEEE SPS, shared his views regarding Autonomous Navigation on 9th April. This was the joint initiative of SPS, COMSOC & VTS societies.

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A curtain-raiser webinar series for the IEEE Ban-galore Humanitarian Technology Conference scheduled for October 8th to 10th, 2020 at Dr. P G Halakati College of Engineering and Technology, Vijayapur, Karnataka, was planned with the theme & focus on United Nations sustainable develop-ment goals for two weeks daily starting from 13th. Dr.Ashok Das - FounderCEO, SunMokshaaddressed on 13&14th on Technologies and Models for Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas. The following two days 15&16th were taken up by Mr. Jayakrishnan Divakaran - Co-Founder and VP, VNJ Systems LLP on provid-ing insights on Co-creation and later on “Problem Solving Techniques . On 17th April Prof.Farrokh Mistree- University of Oklahoma USA , addressed the audience regarding “ Competencies for Sustainable Development in the 21st Centu-ry”. Mr.Narayanan Subramaniam-Senior Staff Architect & Director Engineering, Nutanix, as well as Execom member spoke on Climate Change and its Mitigation through Technology on 18th and on “Clean Energy Technologies “ on 19th. Mr.Ravikiran Annaswamy-CEO & CO-founder, Numocity Technologies and past Chair of the Section spoke on “Role of Electric Vehicles & its relevance to India on 21st. We had Dr.Daniel Lottis- Chair SIGHT Steering commit-tee, Physiscist CLSE Consulting, join us from USA on a very engaging discussion on “Sustaina-ble Technologies for Urban Poor.”and on the following day we were happy to have, Chair IEEE Bangalore Section, Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra -Scientist ISRO address us on “Humanitarian Activities and Opportunities in IEEE.”

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Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section won the prestigious MGA Outstanding Large Section Award, twice-2013 & 2019.

During the first week of May, special invited sessions were organized with eminent global experts by the Industry Engagement Group. The unique nature of the webinar was evident from the title of the talk and the expertise of the speakers. We had Mr. Dejan Milojicic-FIEEE, Distin-guished Technologist HPE Labs, USA kisck off the series on 4th, by speaking on “Technology Predictions for Times of Pandemics”. Following this Mr. Geo Murickan-Chair Sequoia Technolo-gy, CEO, TranfInnovation IoT, USA, spoke on “India-US business collaborations & COVID-19 business going forward!” on 5th. On 6th, Prakash Ramachandran- Board member Openstack & Principal Architect Dell, San Jose, US spoke on “OpenStack & Containers in Hybrid Cloud”. On 7th we had Suprith Tumkur-Big Data Architect, Parrot Analytics, join us from Auckland, New Zealand speaking on “New Zealand's IT Land-scape & Data Analytics on Streaming Media”.

Women in Engineering - IEEE Bangalore Section came up with a webinar series on learning starting May 6th with speakers Dr. Krupa Rasane – Prof JCE Belagavi.& Dr. Shefali Jagwani – Prof EEE NMIT Bangalore, Ms. Sadhana Attavar Chair WIE Bangalore section, Ms. Divya M G- Vice Chair Bangalore section, Dr.Anandi Giridharan Chair-Elect WIE Bangalore section, Dr Annapurna Patil Prof CSE RIT Bangalore Ms. Supriya Kamthania HPE R&D Bangalore, Dr. Shoba K R Prof TCE, RIT Bangalore, Ms. Sushma S J- GSSSIET, Mysuru.

The series concluded with Steven Tan-Chair SODA Foundation, CTO Cloud Storage Future-wei, USA addressing on “ SODA - One Data Framework, Infinite Possibilities” on 8th at night 8:00 PM

Following this was the week long webinars by the SAC from April 26th,- 1st May 2020 exclusively for student community, with speakers Prof. Radhakant Padhi, Dept. of Aerospace Engineer-ing, IISc, , Ms Sugandha Srikanteswaran, VP – IBM, Dr. Gopal Krishna Sharma, Director - Fiserv India, Dr. Sudha Kumar, Director, USC Viterbi India Office, Mr.Shyamsundar Ramaswa-mi – Umbrella Org, Cisco Systems and Mr. Guruprasad Belthur, DevOps & Agile Coach, Cognizant.

In the month of May we had 4 successful series conducted in association with 4 -5 different entities.

IEEE Society Chapter Webinar Series was sched-uled for the week starting May 12th, with IEEE-AP-MTT Bangalore Chapter leading the way, with Dr.Raghavendra G. Kulkarni-PES University, Bangalore, of AP MTT Society, speak-ing on “Signal Processing with surface-acous-tics-wave (SAW) devices”. It was very entertain-ing as well as heartening to see a technologist speak about agriculture and how Precision agricul-ture using Robotics, Technologies, and Challenges there in could be addressed by Mr.Manohar Sam-bandam -Founder, CEO, Green Robot Machinery from RAS, Bangalore.on 13th. Thanks to the initi-ation by AESS Bangalore Chapter the members of the section were able to listen to a very illuminat-ing talk by a highly respected and noteworthy scientist Dr. Surendra.Pal-who is Dr. D S Kothari Chair, DRDO on “Satellite Navigation: Indian Paradigm” on 14th May. We were also fortunate to have 2 speakers on 15th May. Dr.Rob-erto Saracco -IEEE Future Directions, Co-chair Digital Reality Initiative IEEE,

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Starting from May 18th were webinars with estab-lished industrialists reg technologies focused on COVID19 and rehabilitation. Starting the series was a power packed address by Ms. Gnanapriya C-AVP, Head - Architecture Practice, Communications, Utilities & Services Infosys Technologies on “the Pandemic (COVID-19) crisis pushing the adoption of Blockchain in supply chain evolution” On 19th was the address by Prof Manoj Tiwari on Supply Chain. Dr. Sumeet Suseelan -Group Chairman, International Institute of Aviation Pvt Ltd. gave a very informative talk on “Future Transportation by Drone” showing the trajectory that will be most likely mapped by aviation technology, this was in association with VTS Bangalore Chapter on 20th May. The talk by Mr.Sishir Kolli-VP of Product Management, MPL Gaming on “How to look at data as a Product Manager” on 21st was very informative giving the attendees a fair idea of basic tools and techniques reg trends that are often used in market-ing and advertising strategies. Probably the most thought provoking and sought after was the address by Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala-Director, Data Science, Ericcson., Industry Engagement Bangalore Section on 22nd May regarding “DS 4 Covid-19: What problems to solve with Data Science amid Cov-id-19”.

The last series in May was that by the Women in Engineering as a curtain raiser for the IEEE WiE Global Summit, is scheduled to be held under the aegis of IEEE Bangalore Technology Conclave during October 2020 by eminent women Leaders around the globe starting May 25th .The series started with Ms.Celia Desmond -Senior Project Mager, World Class Telecommunication, joining us from Canada, speaking about “Women as Leaders in Project Management”. The following day was a highly interactive session by Ms.Geetha Kannan -Founder, and CEO Wequity on “Unearth the Unknown: tapping your inner potential”. The participants could relate very well with her diverse experience and hence sought her inputs in many instances relating to work front. On 27th May we had Dr. Lisa Lazareck-Asunta-IEEE WIE Chair 2019-2020 interact with us regarding “Women in Engineering: IEEE women and men using their diverse talents to innovate for the benefit of humani-ty”, from her Cambridge campus. It was a delight to listen to the crisp narrative of Ms Ponni K-Head - Telco Cloud Data Center, - Nokia Mobile Networks on 28th , sharing her experiences on “Step up your Leadership” , and see her interact with participants mostly people from early career. The last webinar in the series was by Ms. Nita Patel-Director, IEEE Foundation on “Leadership Learning” on 29th May.Also Conducted in May was webinar series in MSS with the one on 14th by Prof Suresh H Jangamshetti- HOD BEC BagalKot, Chair NK SubSection, on “How to make a self sustained India Using Solar Power”.The last webinar in May was a wonderful way to end the day with positive thoughts on how to organize one’s thoughts and leverage the help of technology by Mr, Sankhdeep Mitra,-Tech Enablement and Learning Lead at Walmart labs India – “Self to Soci-ety” - organized by Industry Engagement Group.

joined us from Italy to address on “Personal Digital Twins (PDTs) and their role in Epidemics Control” and Dr. Samar Saha-Past President IEEE Elec-tron devices Society EDS join us from USA to shed light on “Next Generation microelectronics devices and process architecture”. We also had Consumer Electronics Society in association with MSS organ-ize a workshop on 23 May, with Mr.Satish Patel -Secretary, IEEE CES- Bangalore Chapter on “Intro-duction and Application of IoT - Where to Start?”

Industry series by Industryco-ordination group in associationwith TEMS Bangalore Chapter

Curtain raiser series for WIE Global Summit

Trivia: Mr PN Hiriyannaiah, was founder secretary/treasurer of Bangalore Sub-Section, under IEEE India Section.

Based on a survey of most needed themes for inputs from professional members to students and early career professionals, it was thought that a series of talks on career choices and current trend regarding jobs needs to be organized, Mr Rajashek-har Execom member and . The first in this series was by Mr. Giri Krishnan -CEO -Futures and careers HR recruiting as a career for technical professionals on Ist June followed by Arjun Vellal -Founder – CEO ProAtWiz talking on Sales and Marketing. On 3th June Mr. Basavaraj N T-Nelli IP services spoke on Legal services as a career choice, following which the next day we had Mr. Raja Shekhar - Head Training and Documenta-tion – OSI Bangalore address the audience on Technical Writing and Training. The last day was the panel discussion arranged with all the speakers of the week and additional invitees Mr.Amit Rao -, Mr.Amit Tiwari-Director - Raise Ur Sales Business Consultants on Panel disciussion Future with Un conventional careers Moderated by Mr Raj Shek-har,Also conducted in June was a webinar by Mr.Dan-ny Lange-VP of AI at Unity Technologies, on “Simulations – The New Reality for AI”, as an outreach by Santa Clara Section on 5th June.

Mr John Day - IEEE MGA spoke on “IEEE Collabratec: Uniting the IEEE Global Technical Community” on 10th June . We had another address by Prof. Mayank Shrivasatava- Professor CeNSE, IISc on 11th on the topic “Defect Assisted Atomic Orbital Overlap Engineering in 2D Materi-als Resulting in Record High Performance Transis-tors”. The Saturday on 13th June was another webinar on popular demand with Prof. Prithviraj Umesh-,NITK, Suratkal, on “Open Source Product Development for Experiential Learning”

Second learning series started on 8th June by a very interactive and talked about session by Prof. Deba-tosh Guha- Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Antenna & Propogation, CU on “Art and Challeng-es of Writing Papers for IEEE Transactions”. Following this on 9th June was an address by Prof. Mayank Shrivasatava - Professor, CeNSE, IISc on “The Future of World Electronics and Possible Roles India Can Play”.

The section members were fortunate to have many talks with industry experts from India and abroad arranged in association with India Council and the discussions moderated with panelists Prof. S N Singh, Chair IC & VC, MMMTU, Gorakhpur & Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, Secretary, IC & Chair, Bangalore Section and special invitees. The series started on 29th April with discussions with Mr. Ramanan Ramanathan, - Director - Atal Innova-tion Mission, moderated by Dr.Tushar Sharma, R&D RF Design Engineer, NXP SemiConductors. The next talk was on 7th May with Dr. Frank Lam-bert -President, IEEE PES speaking on “Impact of Electrical Vehicles in the Post COVID World”. The discussion with Prof. Manoj Tiwari-DIrector, NITIE Mumbai on 19th “on Technology Driven Logistics and Supply Chair during COV-ID-19”, was very well received. The Q&A as well as participant interation on 23rd May during the discussion with Prof. Navkant Bhat-Chair CeNSE IISc on “Chemiresistive Gas Sensors: Towards Electronic Nose” was very heartening.

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The address by Prof. Ashuthosh Sharma-Secre-tary DST GOI, on 24th May regarding “Post Cov-id-19: Role of Science and technology towards Self Reliant India” was also very engaging, as was the talk by Prof. Asoka K Das -Vice Chair, Odisha Higher Education Council, Former VC, Utkal University on June 12 who spoke on “A step towards enkindling Atma Nirbharata in our youths in Higher Educational Institutes” The latest in the series was the panel discussion and interaction with Prof. Saifur Rahman, -Director Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA moderated by Prof. Bikas C. Pal, Imperial College London on “Role of the Smart Grid in Facilitating the Integra-tion of Renewables” on June 21

Looking forward to more learning and networking in the days to come, I’m sure we at Bangalore section are ready to come up with more interesting activities for engaging the members in technology.

Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section was established in 1977 and is one of the most vibrant and dynamic IEEE Section across globe.

1. BC Meet - 2 in Virtual mode. ( Only for Branch Counsellors) Date: 18 Apr 2020, 10.00 AM to 11.00 AMNo. of BC’s attended : 56 + 4 (Chair, SAC Chair & Co- Chair, MDC Chair) Puneet Mishra, Chair discussed the following points• Steps taken by section & IEEE towards COV-ID-19, various research and funding opportunities. Ways to engage students and Non IEEE Faculty Members with IEEE.• Good Practices – OU Analytics, eNotice, vTool reporting, Member validation Tool• Additional discount of 10% IETE/C-SI/ISTE Members

2. Virtual Faculty Conclave for Non-IEEE Faculty members:Date: 25 Apr 2020 from 10 AM to 12 PM. Registered : 584 & Participants: 386 Attended Puneeth Mishra, Chair; Raghavendra Prasad S G, SAC Chair; D N Sujatha, SAC Co-chair; Sreekanth Tangade, MD chair gave an insights on IEEE, staying relevant with IEEE, Feedback : 98 % the session enhanced knowledge about the benefits of IEEE membership, the activi-ties of IEEE Bangalore

3. Webinar : IEEE SAC learning Series (26 Apr – 1 May 2020) 6-7 PM Total Registrations: 283 Daily attendees avg: 85 Total of all 6 days: 510Titles of Webinar: 1. Artificial Pancreas Development2. Automation: Why is it even more relevant now ?3. Introduction to Data Science4. Graduate Studies in Engineering in the US5. Mind Hunter: Decoding cyber threats 6.Headless setup of Raspberry pi

YouTube Link to Recordings : https://www.youtube.com/play-list?list=PLY7bot1QKu9DcMP3F-FRv5Fq-XczRPqfcK

4. IEEE EAB Section Education Outreach OrientationDate: 6 May 2020 ( 9.30 PM – 11.30 PM)

5. District Coordinators meeting (IEEE Banga-lore Section) Virtual Mode Date: 6 May 2020, Attendees: 9 (Including 3 Execom members)Each of the district coordinators detailed their plan and efforts in reaching institutions in their district to create awareness about IEEE Membership.

6. Virtual Student Conclave for Non IEEE StudentsDate: 9 May 2020Attendence: 85 StudentsTo give insight into overview of IEEE, staying relevant with IEEE, benefits respectively.

7. VVIT IEEE Faculty meet (Vidya Vikas Insti-tute Of Engineering And Technology, Mysore) Date: 12 May 2020Attendence: 51 Faculty participated (2 Execom members). Puneeth Mishra gave an insight into overview of IEEE, benefits and Raghavendra Prasad gave an overview of IEEE continuing education.

8. Virtual Inauguration of IEEE Student Branch : National College, JayanagarDate: 9 Jun 20201. Dr. B R Parineetha, Principal gave the over-view, new courses introduced2. Prof. Shalini, HoD, CSE briefed about the initiatives and activities of the institution’s IEEE student Branch3. Raghavendra Prasad SG, SAC Chair, D N Sujatha, SAC Co-Chair and Mr Chengappa MD Co-chair gave an overview of IEEE, Bangalore Section, best practices of student branch, student branch benefits respectively

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9. Virtual Meeting of Membership Development Chairs / SAC Chairs / IEEE India Council Execu-tive Committee Members Date: 14 Jun 2020. Raghavendra Prasad SG, SAC Chair 1. gave overview of various strategies implemented by IEEE Bangalore Section towards membership development.2. Described the strategy of inducting district coordi-nators by Puneet Mishra, Chair in reaching to more institutions. 3. Explained the efforts of volunteers in contributing to growth of membership despite of COVID pandemic to gain the 4th position in the globe with 7200 members.

10. District Coordinators meetingDate: 20 Jun 20201. Puneet Mishra, Chair, IEEE Bangalore section introduced district coordinators with the intention of reaching to more institutions.2. Each of the district coordinators discussed their effort, plans and achievements in reaching to differ-ent institutions in their district for membership development, organizing IEEE events, strategies for starting student branch.3. 22 district coordinators, 10 SAC volunteers along with Chair, SAC Chair & SAC Co-chair discussed the plans for membership development in the coming days.

11. BLDEA's V P Dr PG Halakatti College of Engineering & Technology, Vijayapura IEEE student branch in association with SAC team IEEE Banga-lore Section arranged a webinar series from industry experts for the benefit of Undergraduate, Postgradu-ate students from 24 Jun 2020 – 30 Jun 2020. 300 students registered. 85 participated every day. Topics included:

1. Project Management2. Information Processing Techniques for mobile sensing applications at scale 3. Characteristics and Usage of 5G network4. Deep Learning Essentials and applications5. Product Development - Identify, Invent and Implement6. Technologies for Sustainable Environment7.IOT Devices and circuits

Trivia: Petition to establish Bangalore Subsection under India Section on approved on 14 Dec 1971.

IEEE student branch at BMSIT&M organized vari-ous events that provide an opportunity for student members to enhance and develop their skills to help them become efficient engineers and leaders. They were awarded “The most promising Student Branch” for their activities and initiatives for 2019. Various webinars were conducted by well-re-nowned speakers like Prof. William Lee, Mr. Sandeep Jain, Mr. Shishir Shekar, Mr. Anand Jaga-dish, and Mr. Naveen Lakkur on topics like Robot-ics, Software Job & Placements, Electric Power Industry, Git for beginners and Entrepreneurship. Technical Quizzes were also conducted from time to time on the Instagram platform. They also had a live session with Mr. Samrath Bonthala. Scholarships offered by IEEE CS were conveyed excellently by Ms. Sai Sparsha, Webmaster, IEEE SB BMSIT & M. They have conducted 2-Day workshop on Django Web Framework by Mr. Shrinidhi N Hegde, Webmaster, IEEE SB, BMSIT &M and there were 80+ participants for the workshop.

BITM conducted an orientation and AGM event on Feb 22nd 2020. This was followed by knowledge sharing on 28th Feb 2020 and a technical event for first year girl students on 7th March 2020. A recruit-ment drive was held on 11th March 2020 to make students industry ready. Series of online events were conducted under the title “Tech-Zap 2020” from 31st March to 4th April 2020 which included webi-nars on technical courses and competitions in video making, article and poster making.

IEEE-DSU conducted several events during Q2 of 2020, including a website design contest for students during the months of April and May. Win-ners of the contest were awarded cash prize, goodies and the post of web masters of IEEE-DSU. IEEE DSU organised an online webinar on 31st May 2020 on ‘Strategies to fetch jobs post Covid-19’ hosted by Mr. Karthik Dev, a career enhancer and job search specialist. An online cooking contest was arranged during the lockdown to engage and excite people to display their creativity and passion for cooking.

The GSSSIETW, Mysuru conducted a webinar series on “Satellite and Automation” with more than 3000 participants! This was held in conjunction with the IEEE Bangalore section and the IEEE CAS Society from 11th May to 13th May 2020. The webinar series included several informative sessions and were delivered by eminent speakers such as Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, Prof. Silvia Liberata Ullo, and Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala. The webinar was moderated by the Principal – Dr. Shivakumar M. From 10th to 12th June 2020, the college also conducted a second webinar series on “Telemedicine, IOT and Nano Science” in associa-tion with IEEE Bangalore Section and the IEEE CAS Society. This webinar was presided over by Dr. Parameshachari B D - IEEE Student branch coun-sellor and moderated by the Principal. The webinar had several lectures from distinguished individuals such as Dr. Álvaro Rocha, Dr. Liyanage C De Silva, and Dr. Vinay Venugopal.

JCE, Belgavi conducted a 2-day online FDP held on 8th & 9th June 2020, on skill enhancement was given by Dr Abhishek Appaji focused on effective online engineering education and CODE BITS, a technical quiz. They also conducted events to raise awareness on Breast, Oral and Cervix Cancer and "MARCHA-THON", a march for Traffic safety awareness

21.01.2020 to 24.01.2020: IEEE Student Branch organized a 4-day workshohp on MATLAB. The workshop was focused on understanding basics of MathWorks, MATLAB, Model-based design using Simulink, Image processing, DA, ML, DL, SDN with hands-on experience in multiple domains.

20.02.2020: Organized a technical talk on the Indian Army by Major Sachin Kashyap B K which covered topics like life and career in Army. 02.06.2020: A webinar was organized on “How you need to be ready for AI Industry?”. The speaker, Mr. Sudarshan K N threw light on industry expectations.

Women’s Day: On the occasion of Women’s Day, an event was organized at Maruthi High school to spread awareness about the safety of a girl child, educating them about the cleanliness and Do’s and Don’ts during menstruation.IEEE humanitarian activity was organized for the kids of Maruthi High School to create awareness about environmental hazards.

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ences on Innovative techniques in Multimedia Applications and advanced computing. Many eminent speakers from Universities, industries were part of these seminars and conferences.

Four interesting events were organized. MIND SPEAK DIVAAS was an online quiz competition organized as a brain teaser which was conducted for four weeks. Participation went up to 80 people at its peak. The Code War was a three week affair with new challenges every day and students getting tested on the speed of their responses. The Art Festival let students upload their art and unleash their artistic talents. 70 students participated in this event on 11th May. Frame -A- Round was a very topical contest regarding the superstations prevailing in society on the CORONA pandemic. Students were required to complete the conversation with interesting and posi-tive endings.

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Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section won thr R10 Distingusihed Large Section Award for the year 2013.

The National College, Jayanagar held the Virtual Inauguration of its SB on June 9 via Cisco WebEx. Heads of various Departments talked about the benefits of IEEE, how to manage a new SB etc. An interaction session with audience was held, with the IEEE Execom addressing their queries.

IEEE KSIT and WIE affinity (i) celebrated wom-en’s day on 9th March 2020 with 155 members and Mrs. Ravindra, vice-chair WIE IEEE Bangalore section, as Chief guest, and (ii) conducted an online quiz on “The Novel CoronaVirus” on 23rd March, 2020 in which more than 1700 participants were involved. The IEEE KSIT SB held an EXECOM Meet on 29th April, 2020 to discuss on inaugurating Signal Processing Society (SPS) under IEEE KSIT. Further, IEEE KSIT and WIE affinity conducted (i) code n win 1.0 hackathon on 4th May, 2020 involv-ing 380 participants, and (ii) virtual inauguration of KSIT IEEE SPS on 30th April, 2020 with Prof. Hari as chief guest.

The IEEE student branch at MSRIT organized many webinars during the month of May and June 2020, in association with other chapters. The events, Quantum Dot Automata and Learning Machine Learning: Preparing to Contribute to the Next Industrial Revolution, were hosted in associa-tion with IEEE Bangalore Section. They conducted webinar on Monk AI with TESSELLATE IMAG-ING, and Data Science and Design Thinking with Athena. The RIT SB also hosted webinars on Cybersecurity, and Universal Acceptance aware-ness with Internet Society Rural Development SIG. PES chapter of IEEE RIT-B held the event Resilien-cy of Micro grids Against Cyber Attacks. The eminent speakers for these various webinar were Dr. Preeta Sharan, Dr. Sargur N Srihari, Mr.Ab-hishek Kumar Annamraju, Mr.Akash Deep Singh, Mr.Nishant Gupta, Dr. Olaf Kolkman, Dr. Kotikala-pudi Sriram, Mr.,Subham Sahoo, Dr. Ajay Data, Mr. Sarmad Hussain, Mr. Samiran Gupta, and Mr. Harish Chowdhary.

NIE IEEE Student Branch, Mysore conducted the following events: (i) IEEE Programming League 13.0 on 20th and 21st April 2020 involving 110 participants, (ii) Mock Placements on 20th and 21st April 2020 for all the students, (iii) How to ace an interview on 23rd April 2020 with Mrs. Indumati Sandirane as the speaker, (iv) Quizlamatic over an online platform on 26th April 2020, (v) Electronika 12.0 on 28th April 2020 for all the students, (vi) Challenge Accepted between 29th April to 1st of May 2020 to spread awareness on COVID-19. (vii) Ideathon between 1st and 2nd May which involved providing original and creative solutions for a prob-lem statement, and (viii) Fable Fiesta on 7th and 8th of May 2020 which was a non-technical 24-hour story writing competition.

IEEE NITK conducted their second student mem-bership drive from 1st April to 5th April 2020. Over 20 new students joined and received half-yearly membership. From 23rd April to 25th April, NITK conducted a series of webinars called “One Last Time Series” in collaboration with their various in-house clubs. The webinar focused on different aspects of the M.S. and Ph.D application process and was hosted on the YouTube platform. Apart from this, they also conducted a “Summer Mentor-ship Program” from April to May 2020.

IEEE PELS and IES Bangalore chapters have been very active in the year 2020 conducting few admin-istrative meetings and many technical events. In the month of January and February two events were arranged focusing on Wide Bandgap semiconduc-tors (GaN/SiC) and their impact on the future of power converters. A week long online workshop was conducted in the second week of May on Design, analysis and applications of power convert-ers for a myriad of applications.Currently, both sections are involved in organizing interactive technical webinars inviting power elec-tronics and Industrial Electronics experts from across the planet, starting off with Power electron-ics traction applications. The audience response has been very good, and attendance is steadily improving. Publicity is being done on LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media platforms. Official twitter handle of IEEE PELS and IES have been regularly sharing/retweeting the posts. Continuing with the webinar series, the section has touched upon Charging Electric Vehicles from Solar energy. In June a detailed talk about Resiliency of Microgrids Against Cyber Attacks was made.The month of June also saw talks related to Flash Charging Technology for New Generation eBus, Virtual Oscillator Controllers for Inverter-based Power Systems and state-of-the-art Innovation in low-carbon vehicle technologies specifically focused on high frequency integrated power elec-tronics and vehicle to grid (V2G) systems.

This 2-month project concentrated on mentoring student members of the Mangalore Sub-Section in their fields of interest. Over 100 student members attended. The IEEE NITK AGM was held online considering the prevailing COVID-19 situation and was attended by all members. The annual report was discussed and transfer of core positions of the Execom to the upcoming batch was conducted.

The chapters will continue to organise more activi-ties to increase membership and also to provide significant value to all IEEE members in Bangalore and across the globe.

A set of 6 events was organized from 18th April to 21st May covering art and technical writing topics. The topics were varied and covered SQL Sessions, an Essay competition, a Literature Combat with quotes and poems, Paint box, Python sessions and even a short movie contest called Corto Flick. They all received good attendance going up to 35 partici-pants. A very successful Webinar was conducted on 10th May by Prathyush Kumar, a former EXECOM member of the same chapter and currently at ZopS-mart, on Software Engineer Job which covered crafting a tech CV and interpersonal skills. Over 100 people participated.

IEEE-RNSIT conducted three webinars during the second quarter of 2020. on May 23rd 2020, Dr Rajini V Honnungar of the Department of Electron-ics discussed the topic - Integrated Optics and Applications. Mr. Vilas Kadival an Agile Manage-ment Consultant and Coachdeliberated on ‘Keep-ing the hope and the motivation high during trou-bled times’ on June 6th 2020 and Dr Preetha Sharan, Professor & Research Head of ECE at the Oxford College of Engineering spoke about ‘Reversible Logic circuit : An approach towards Quantum Computing’ on June 11th 2020.

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SJCIT Student Branch conducted several technical, skill building events in April and May 2020 despite lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. These included session on advance algorithms of video processing using the Texture and Higher Order Derivatives for real time application, awareness on EDMODO technology platform in education, awareness on research project funding, seminars on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Computer vision. System Design using XILINX VIVADO session was organ-ized by IEEE Student Branch S J C Institute of Technology in collaboration with CoreEL Technol-ogies.

In order to make the students enthusiastic and to learn about societies student branch of SSIT conducted a quiz to the students and overall more than fifty students attended the quiz and made the event a grand success. The winner of the quiz was appreciated with Goodie. A webinar on “The challenging world of data analytics” was held by Abhishek Mukherjee on 19th June 2020. A total of 149 participants participated for the event. WIE affinity group organized an online coding challenge to introduce the competi-tive coding experience during lock down.

A total of 84 students participated in the event and top three were selected for cash prize. A World laugher day was celebrated on 3rd May 2020, in order to spread the happiness and joy among the people.

IEEE UVCE conducted a total of 14 events and webinars during the 2nd quarter of 2020. The events included Techroadies a multi-disciplinary engineering event, Epsilon 2020 – an online treasure hunt, Project Run 3.0 - semester-long project build-ing event. AGM 2020 was conducted on June 13th via YouTube live, where the new team for the year 2020-2021 was announced. IEEE UVCE Rewind 20 magazine was released to commemorate 20 years. Monthly events – NCode and Voltorb, were held in April and May.

Webinars on diverse topics like ‘How Corona Virus Affects Jobs in India?’ to ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Serverless Computing on AWS’ to ‘Placement Preparation’ were held. ‘Microgrids and Clean Technologies’ conducted by Dr Kumudhini Ravin-dra and ‘Solar Photovoltaic Energy Integration’ by Dr Swaminathan Ganesan was held in collaboration with BMSCE PES SB. Webinar on “Sustainable Project Design for Local Community” by Dr Abhishek Appaji was conducted by SIGHT.

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IEEE Student Branch RUAS in association with IEEE Photonics society Bangalore chapter organ-ized a one day workshop on Recent Trends in Opti-cal Communication on 4th March 2020 at Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Peenya Campus, Bangalore. The Pro Vice Chancellor - Research Prof. Govind R Kadambi inaugurated the event. Dr. Arun K Majumdar, Independent Research Scientist San Diego, California and Adjunct Professor Colo-rado State University, delivered a talk on Free Space Laser Communications and Research. Dr. E.S. Shivaleela, IISc delivered a talk on Recent Trends in Optical Networks and Dr. T. Srinivas, IISc delivered a talk on Quantum Information Technology using Photonics. Dr. S. Malathi, Chair 2020, IEEE Photonics Society, Bangalore chapter had an interactive session on internship opportuni-ties with 20 + participants from various universities and colleges.

Over ten events were conducted by the IEEE Student Branch during the second quarter of 2020 at Basaveshwar Engineering College.

Webinars by Mr. Aravindan Anbazghan, Mr. Dani Akash and Ms. Aathira Marayil educated students on non-technical aspects for career development. Contests and quizzes were held. The BEC IEEE WIE Affinity Group conducted a contest “ILLU-MINATE” focussing on writing and critical think-ing skills. A series of webinars were conducted as part of the PES Day Celebration by Prof. S H Jangamashetti. Environmental Day was celebrated along with PES Student Chapter with the conduc-tion of three events, a webinar on Carbon Footprint Assessment, the launch of an Android App devel-oped for Carbon Footprint Estimation by Dr. S S Injaganeri, and a quiz on Environment Awareness. All the events were conducted online during the period of lockdown on platforms like Cisco WebEx, Google meet, and YouTube.

IEEE MCE Student Branch conducted four events in Quarter 2. On 29th April 2020, for PES Day 2020 three online activities were organized in collaboration with IEEE PES - Electroquest, Elec-troid, and Wealth from Waste. On 16th May, a webinar was arranged with IEEE Photonics Socie-tyto commemorate the International Day of Light. Dr. Naresh Chand, AVP of Chapter and Relations, IEEE Photonics society, USA presented the topic - Photonics: Opportunities and Challenges for India. On 29th May, a webinar was organized with IEEE Photonics Society. Prof. Balaji Srinivasan, Prof. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras,spoke about Narrow Linewidth Fibre Amplifiers for Coherent Beam Combination. On 30th May, along with IEEE COMSOC Society, a webinar Prof. Parag Chatterjee, National Techno-logical University (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional) Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA and also Assistant Professor Department of Biological Engi-neering University of the Republic (Universidad de la República) URUGUAY was arranged on topic Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.

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Computer Society conducted a website develop-ment competition on 20th March 2020. WIE affini-ty group organised two events for women’s day - DHWANI on 26th March. Webinars on “Aerospace Engineering and Avionics” on 28th April 2020 by Sumanth Marankini, and “Data Analysis, Predic-tion And Forecasting For Covid -19” on 6th May 2020 by Dr Chandan Verma, Gratia Technologies were organised. Dr. S Ravi Shankar and Mr. Himamshu G Khasnis delivered webinars on 5G networks on 7th and 8th May 2020 held under Communication Society. Webinars were delivered by Dr Vidya N on Bioinformatics, Dr. R Suresh on Solar Energy and Mr. Rithesh Sreenivasan on NLP on 9th, 11th and 13th June 2020. A 6 day workshop on Blockchain was conducted between 15 - 20 June 2020. APS Society, IEEE RVCE along with IEEE AP-MTT Society conducted a 3 day workshop on Rf/Microwave Active Circuit Design and Analysis from 15 -17 June 2

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The Mangalore Subsection (MSS) recently added 2 new branches:

Srinivas University Student Branch got the approval on May 2020, with the strength of 13 student and 3 professional members. Dr. Krishna Prasad K is the Student Branch Counsellor.JNNCE Shivamogga student branch was reviewed and inaugurated on Feb 29th 2020With this, IEEE MSS has 12 student branches. 4 potential Student Branches have also been initiated. IEEE MSS SAC Webinar Series: 14 Webinars were arranged as part of the MSS SAC Webinar series from 26-02-2020 to 13-06-2020.

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Date

Topic/Session Details

Speaker(s)

26 Feb 2020 Benefits of Joining IEEE Signal Processing Society

Dr. K.V.S. Hari Vice President – Membership, IEEE Signal

Processing Society, Fellow of IEEE, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2 07 March 2020 Explore the World of IEEE - Join IEEE

Mr. Keith R Fernandes, SAC Chair, IEEE Mangalore Subsection, Asst

Professor, St Joseph Engineering College - Mangaluru

3 12 March 2020 SIGHT and Humanitarian activities

Dr. Abhishek Appaji, Chair, SIGHT, Bangalore, Asst Professor,

BMSE, Bengaluru

4 16 March 2020 E-Mobility Mr. Ravikiran Annaswamy, CEO, Numocity Technologies, Bangalore and Vice President - Marketing, Membership and

Communications, IEEE TEMS

5 19 March 2020 Take Your Career to the Next Level with IEEE Xplore

Dr Dhanukumar Pattanashetti, Client Services Manager, IEEE India

Operations Center, Bangalore

6 20 March 2020 Open Source Opportunities for Students and Faculty

Dr. Mohit P. Tahiliani, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, NITK,

Surathkal 7 23 March 2020 Prepare for Success Ms Vasanta Erraguntla,

Technologist, Innovator and Recognised Industry Leader

8 1 April 2020 Industry Readiness for Fresh Engineer

Ms Ragini Randhawa, WIE IEEE Execom member, Bangalore Section, and the Director at Innovations Unlimited Training Services, Bangalore

9 3 April 2020 Tiny-Pan Coin-Weighing Problem

Prof. Wing-Kai Hon, Professor, Department of Computer Science,

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan

10 6 April 2020 My Three Decades Journey with IEEE

Dr Niranjan U C, Chair, IEEE Mangalore Subsection and

Director, R&T, at Manipal Dot Net, Manipal 11 11 April 2020 Stress Management during

Lockdown Prof. Shalini Sharma,

Head, Dept of Counselling, Welfare, Training & Placement, NMAMIT, Nitte, Karkala,

Udupi 12 28 April 2020 IEEE SIGHT DAY - Basic

Needs, Projects, Challenges, and Sustainability Issues

Dr. K.V.S.S.S.S.SAIRAM, Professor, E&CE Department, NMAMIT,

Nitte, Karkala, Udupi 13 23 May 2020 Introduction and Application

of IoT - Where to Start? Mr. Satish Patel – Secretary, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society - Bangalore Chapter and

Consultant, IFC

14 13 June 2020 Open Source Product Development for Experiential

Learning

Prof. Prithviraj Umesh, Assistant Professor, Dept of Applied

Mechanics and Hydraulics, NITK, Surathkal

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Trivia: Petition to establish Bangalore Subsection under India Section on approved on 14 Dec 1971.

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1 11 May 2020 Recent Advances in Nanophotonics Dr. Mandeep Singh,

Asst Professor, Dept of E&C, NITK, Surathkal

2 12 May 2020 D2D Caching: A New Mobile Computing Paradigm

Dr. Jagadeesha R Bhat, Assoc Professor, Dept of ECE, SJEC,

Mangaluru

3 13 May 2020 Next-generation of Cloud: A system perspective

Dr. Sourav Kanti Addya, Asst Professor, Dept of CS&E, NITK,

Surathkal

4 14 May 2020 Solar Energy Applications for India

Dr.Suresh H Jangamshetti. Professor, Department of E&EE,

Basaveshwar Engineering College (Autonomous), Bagalkot

5 15 May 2020 Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles

Dr Prajof Prabhakaran, Asst. Professor, Dept. of EE&E, NITK,

Surathkal

6 16 May 2020 Open Source Resources for Student

projects in Physiological Signal Analysis with a Case Example

Dr Roshan Joy Martis, Professor, Dept. of ECE, VCET, Puttur

District CoordinatorsIEEE MSS initiated and have recognised District Coordinators for each districts and following are District coordinators1. Prof Manju Kiran, AJIET, DK coordinator 2. Prof Murali Krishna, MIT, Udupi coordinator 3. Prof Vikas Balikai, VDIT, UK coordinator 4. Prof Hemanth Kumar, JNNCE, Shivamogga coordinator 5. Dr. Anil Kumar, AIT, Chikamagluru coordinator

IEEE MSS Distinguished Lecture – Webinar Series: 6 Lecturers

IEEE Mangalore Subsection hosted a week long “IEEE MSS Distinguished Lecture – Webinar Series” from 11 to 16 May 2020.

Even being within the framework of restriction due to ongoing pandemic, the AP-MTT joint chapter could organize three technical events to serve the society during the second quarter of this year. Fol-lowing technical talks and workshop were organized in WebEx mode:

1. Technical Talk: “Signal Processing with surface-acoustics-wave (SAW) devices” by Prof. Raghavendra G. Kulkarni of PESU on 12th May, 6:00pm to 7:00 pm. This was attended by more than 90 participants.2. Technical Talk: “Electromagnetic Aspects of 5G Massive MIMO Systems: Antenna Design and Chan-nel Modelling” by Dr. Debdeep Sarkar of IIT Roper on 16th June 7 to 8 pm. More than 130 participants attended the talk.3. Workshop: “Practical RF/Microwave Active Circuit Design & Analysis” by Mr. Manjunath Reddy, Principal Application Engineer, CDS from 15th -17th June 2020 in Association with IEEE APS Student Branch Chapter, RVCE In addition to these, the chapter participated in the coordination meeting with the section on 17th May and conducted its Execom meeting on 30th May. The chapter is also preparing for its track in CONECCT 2020.

MISSIONBuild a sustainable ecosystem to foster innovation, learning and knowledge sharing in the field of circuit and system through active participation from academia, Industry, and interdisciplinary communi-ty in Karnataka.

VISION To build a vibrant CAS chapter dedicated to the technical advancements, innovation and learning in the field of Circuits and Systems.

Updates:

1. CAS membership drive: CAS new Exec. Comm. came on board w.e.f. April 26th under Leadership of Dr. Devesh Dwivedi. Team added 21 new members to CAS chapter in less than 2 months’ time2. Drive to add CAS student chapter, District coor-dinators & Regional coordinators in Karnataka state3. Regular weekly Exec. Comm meeting to review progress, challenges, and action plan to achieve CAS chapter goal4. Expanded CAS Exec. Comm team added two new experts (Dr. Vishal Khatri, Samsung Research, Mr. Rajinikanth, GlobalFoundries) from industry to Exec. Comm5. Held productive discussion with Prof. Amara Amara, CASS President and discussed the proposal to make CAS Bangalore chapter more vibrant and how CAS can help industry, academia, and society

We conducted 6 webinars from industry and academia stalwarts, covering different emerging topics in the areas of circuit & systems, 6 more are in the pipelineBetween 11th and 13th May, we had webinar on the theme, Satellite and Automation and had Dr. Shivakumar M, Principal, GSSSIETW, Mysuru as the Moderator of the series. We had first talk from Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section on Satellite: Configuration, Design, Assem-bly and Testing, followed by session from Prof. Silvia Liberata Ullo, Professor in Engg. Depart-ment, University of Sannio, Italy who share his insights on Satellite Remote Sensing for Earth Mon-itoring. Present and Future, and the role of ESA, and finally we had as session on Automation and AI Transformational Journey by Dr. Sunil Kumar Vup-pala, Director–Data Science, Ericsson Global AI Accelerator (GAIA), Bengaluru & Co-chair, Indus-try Engagement, IEEE Bangalore Section.

Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section won the prestigious MGA Outstanding Large Section Award, twice - 2013 & 2019

On 30th May 2020 we had as session on the theme AI and Data Science by Dr. Neha Sharma, Secretary for Data Science under the title “Data Science lessons using Covid Data”

During 10th and 12th June we had a session on the theme Telemedicine, IOT and Nano Science , for which we had Dr. Shivakumar M, Principal, GSSSIETW, Mysuru was the moderator and we had Dr. Álvaro Rocha, Honorary Professor, AISTI & University of Coimbra, Portugal speaking on Matu-rity models versus Telemedicine, followed by Dr. Liyanage C De Silva, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Integrated Technologies (FIT), Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, providing us the insights thru his talk titled Monitoring the Jungle using Internet of Trees (IoT), and finally a session on Nanostructured Multifunctional Antireflection Coatings for Solar Panel Glass by Dr. Vinay Venu-gopal, Professor & Head, Dept. of Physics, GSSSI-ETW, Mysuru.

On 13th June 2020, we had IEEE BIT Student Branch international Webinar by Dr Ashutosh Kedar, Scientist F Radar Antenna Microwave Divi-sion (RAMD) DRDO, Govt of India, Bangalore who enlightened the audience thru his talk on Microstrip Antenna – Future trends and new appli-cations

On 20th June, we had the opportunity to listen to Sanjay Churiwala, Senior Director Xilinx – Hydera-bad, who delivered the talk titled optimization tech-niques to reduce power in CMOS VLSI circuits under the theme Power for CMOS VLSI Circuits. On the same day, we also had Mr.Hemanth Ravin-dra, education us on NXP Semiconductor, Banga-lore from his session titled, Secure and smart weara-bles for contactless payments, and this session was organized as IEEE BIT Student Branch Alumni Webinar.

The technical society chapters are the most vital part of any section as the complete technical com-petence of IEEE lies with them. Bangalore section values this in its true sense and makes every possi-ble effort to reach out to the Chapters if they need any support; technical, administrative or in any other aspect for smooth functioning.During the last three months, a lot of effort has been put from the section towards this. In a significant step forward the long-standing problem with the office bearers of CAS society chapter has been solved and a new Execom has been installed following the due process and in concurrence with the CAS president. In addition to a dedicated volunteer from section looking into chapter coordination activities, each member of the section Execom has been assigned with one/two of the chapters for increasing the cohesion. It was also decided to have quarterly meeting with the chapter office bearers which was conducted on 17th May in WebEx mode for Q2. As many as 47 office bearers attended the meeting and 15 chapters presented their activities. The section also facilitated the chapter with WebEx support to organize the technical events in the prev-alent pandemic situation and as many as seven chapters availed this facility multiple times.

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Topic/Session Details Speaker(s)

1 07/01/2020 COMSNETS Bengaluru

Conference Talk: Ant taxi to Pie Passenger-Distributed Ride strategies

Snehanshu Saha

2 12/1/2020 U Tehran, Iran Invited Talk Parsimony Computing: Non-tuning methods in Neural Nets

Snehanshu Saha

3 29/1/2020 RVCE Bengaluru Tech Talk Demystifying Blockchain Nagendra

4 8/2/2020 RVCE Bengaluru Workshop Project based implementation issues and Thesis writing

Nagaraja G S

5 10/2/2020 NMIT Bengaluru Ideathon Ideathon - Participants compete for best ideas

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6 18/02/2020 BITS Goa Invited Talk The Mathematics of Activation Functions

Snehanshu Saha

7 20/02/2020 RVCE Bengaluru Workshop Python and Data Science Nagaraja G S

8 24/02/2020 NMIT Bengaluru Invited Talk Deep Learning models from Ground-up

Soma S Dhavala

9 4/3/2020 NMIT Bengaluru 2-day Hackathon GirlGeeksHack 2020 NA

10 6/3/2020 UVCE Bengaluru Workshop Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems/IoT/AI

(marking Intl Women's Day 2020)

Seema Chopra Achal Moudgal

Vishwas Lakkundi

11 7/5/2020 ICCTAC 2020 Kristu Jayanti

College

Conference Technical Session on 'Zero Trust Security Framework'

Vishwas Lakkundi

12 15/5/2020 Webex (online) Webinar Guidelines on writing a Research Paper: Industry

Perspectives

Seema Chopra

13 22/5/2020 Webex (online) Webinar Cognitive Modelling in HCI Sanjay Ghosh

14 29/5/2020 Webex (online) Webinar AdaSwarm: Optimization in ML

Snehanshu Saha

15 30/5/2020 IET Industry Institution Summit

3.0 Webex (online)

Panel Discussion

IoT: Maximising Value & RoI with AIoT & IoHT

Vishwas Lakkundi

16 30/5/2020 Jeppiaar Engg College

Webex (online)

Invited Talk Introduction to IoHT: Internet of Hacked Things

Vishwas Lakkundi

17 12/6/2020 Webex (online) Webinar Introduction to LaTeX Udayasree Gorantla

18 19/6/2020 Webex (online) Webinar ML Data: Assessment of X in Y=F(X)

Hima Patel

The following sessions and webinars were held as part of the IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter from January to June 2020.

Trivia: Two IEEE senior members Mr L Subramanyam of Bombay Section and Dr HV Gopalakrishnan, played a key role in forming IEEE Bangalore Section

REFERENCE IMAGEIEEE Young Professionals Bangalore section conducted various webinars during the period of April to June 2020. Ms. Sneha Shekhar from CISCO was invited for the STEP event co-organized by BMSCE on “Three Amigos, mouse clicks, Humans & Threat”. Ms. Shekar explained about the internet and security systems. The Pro Vice-chancellors of Jain University Prof. Sandeep Shastri and DSU Prof Janardhan were invited to give a talk on “Could Virtual Education System Become a New Normal”. Around 780+ students and faculty attended the webi-nar on webex and it was a great discussion. Dr. Abhishek Appaji IEEE SIGHT chair gave a talk on “Reference Management Tool for Research articles & Thesis Writing”, “ONLINE WORKSHOP ON Free MOOC to complement Engineering Education” and “Effective Online Engineering Education: TIPS & TRICKS” in three different virtual events jointly conducted by YP, SIGHT and Bangalore Section. Mr. Kaushik Mudda, a successful and young Entre-preneur gave a talk on "Journey towards building a true deep-tech startup". Mr. Pratyush from YP Ban-galore section discussed with engineering students of PESSE about Preparing for your first Software Engi-neering Job. Mr. Nivedan Nimpe a successful entre-preneur and founder of Areca Tea Spoke about “Tips to become a successful entrepreneur”. Mr. Samarth Bontala, secretary of YP gave a virtual talk on “Tips and tricks for engineering students” for BMSIT students. A “Technical writing” workshop was conducted by Dr. Ashwini Appaji, Chair, Young Professional Bangalore section for CMRIT students virtually.

Prof Celia Shanaz gave a talk on "Transforming Corona Crisis into Power of Learning and Technical knowledge" on account of PES DAY by YP. On the occasion of IEEE SIGHT DAY 2020 and IEEE PES DAY 2020, IEEE SIGHT Bangalore Section, IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section and IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter organized a Virtual Yoga, Breathwork & Meditation with Ms. Payal Khan-wani, Meditation & Yoga Teacher, Life & Wellness Coach (CHPC), DUBAI. A YP Idea Contest was conducted for students of IEEE from various branches where students submitted their entries of Quarantine time as posters, drawings and write-ups. All these virtual webinars conducted by Young Professionals were successful and hundreds of participants benefited from these events.

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WiE Execom meeting was conducted on 5th Janu-ary 2020 at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Ban-galore. The meeting was presided by Divya M G. WIE past Chair Divya M G introduced all the executive committee members. WIE Chair Sadha-na Attavar provided an overview of WiE 2020 operational procedure and activities.

IEEE-IISc Student Branch WIE Affinity Group was inaugurated by Nemichandra on 17th January 2020. The event had keynote talks and a panel discussion on the Role of Women in Science, Technology and Innovation.

First WIE Execom Webex Meet held on 30th January 2020. The meeting was presided by Sadhana Attavar, Chair, WIE IEEE Bangalore section who rolled out the roles and responsibility of all the office bearers. Important procedural and administrative decisions were taken.

WIE Parichaya Meet held on Feb 9th 2020 at BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Mr. Puneet Mishra, Chair IEEE Bangalore Section addressed the gathering and unveiled the bimonthly newsletter. Ms. Sadhana Attavar , Chair WIE, IEEE Bangalore Section presented the event plan for the year 2020. WIE student representatives presented their annual plans.

International Women’s day Celebrations with the theme “Each for Equal” was observed at Infosys campus Electronics city Bangalore by WIE, IEEE Bangalore section in collaboration with Infosys. There were around 150 participants from various organizations across Karnataka along with Infosys employees. The chief guest for the program was T.K. Anuradha, Director, SATCOM Program, ISRO HQ, Distinguished Scientist, ISRO satellite Centre.

International Women’s day Celebrations was held on 9th March 2020 at Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Meusum (VITM ),Govt. of India, Bangalore in collaboration with Women In Engi-neering (WIE), IEEE Bangalore section on the theme “Women Safety” . Over 100 participants from various educational institutes, media person-nel, police personnel and other industry organiza-tions across Karnataka along with VITM employees attended. This occasion was graced by Ms. Isha Pant, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police(D-CP),Command Centre, Bangalore as chief guest for the program along with Dr. Bindya Yohannan, Senior Counsellor, Parihar, Office of Commissioner of Police, Bangalore as guest of honor.

Trivia: IEEE is the trusted “voice” for engineering, computing, and technology information around the globe.

IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a bettertomorrow through its more than 419,000 members in over 160 countries.

WIE Webinar on Industry readiness for fresh engi-neers was organised by WIE in collaboration with IEEE Bangalore Section on 1st April 2020.The talk was delivered by Ms. Ragini Randhawa Director of Innovations Unlimited Training services and WIE Execom member IEEE Bangalore Section.

The second WIE Execom Webex Meet was held on 18th April 2020. The meeting was presided over by Ms. Sadhana Attavar, Chair. WIE IEEE Bangalore section webinar series during lock down was planned.

Mask making competition was conducted in the month of May for all WIE student members. Many students from various institutions across Karnataka participated in the event. The participants were asked to create a 90 second video of mask making. Madhuri Sinha from BMS college of Engineering and Anjali from SJCE, Mysore won the contest with first and second prizes respectively.

A WIE webinar series on Recent trends in Technolo-gies was organized.

A WIE webinar series on Recent trends in Technol-ogies was organized and here are the details on the webinar, We kick-started the series on May 6th 2020 with the session on Recent strategies for opti-mization of high and low power applications by Dr. Krupa Rasane, Professor & Head Dept of ECE, Jain College of Engineering, Belagavi and Dr. Shefali Jagwani, Asst professor, Dept of Electrical and Electronics Enng NMIT, Bangalore.

Following it on on May 8th 2020 we had the talks on Trends in computing by Ms. Sadhana Attavar, Chair, WIE, IEEE Bangalore section, Ms. Divya M G, Vice-Chair IEEE Bangalore section and Ms.Anandi Giridharan, Chair-Elect, WIE IEEE Bangalore section.Session on Learnings Techniques in Artificial Intelligence was held on May 9th 2020, and Dr.Annapurna Patil, Prof. Dept of CSE, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Ms.Supriya Kamthania, Senior Specialist, Software Engineering, Hewl-ett-Packard Enterprise R&D were the speakers for this session.The series was concluded on May 11th 2020 with a session on Internet of things-protocol stack, we had Dr. Shoba K R, Associate Professor, Dept of TCE, Ramaiah Institute of Technology and Ms.Sushma S J, Associate Professor, Dept of ECE, GSSSIET, Mysuru as the speakers of this session.

A WIE webinar series by women leaders was organ-ised from 25th to 29th May 2020 in collaboration with IEEE Bangalore Section.

Android App development for high school students was conducted online from June 15th-20th in associ-ation with VITM. The resource persons were from Ramaiah Institute of Technology.

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International women in engineering day was cele-brated by organizing Indo Swiss Women in Tech Entrepreneurs meet on 23rd June 2020 in which entrepreneurs from India and Switzerland spoke.

Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section was established in 1977 and is one of the most vibrant and dynamic IEEE Section across globe.

30 March to 1 April 2020: IEEE India COVID-MOVE hackathon challenge was organised by IEEE Bangalore Section in collaboration with Hyderabad Section and India council. There were more than 600 participants and 6 teams were announced as winners.

17 to 19 April 2020: IEEE Bangalore Section in collaboration with IEEE India Council, Pune section, Hyderabad Section and UP Section organ-ised IEEE COVIDMOVE Hackathon 2.0. Of the 400+ participants, 4 teams were announced as winners.

20 April 2020: IEEE Bangalore Section research-ers forum organised a workshop on writing a com-petitive research grant proposal. This was attended by 600+ participants pan India.

28 April 2020: IEEE SIGHT Day was celebrated by various student branches and IEEE Bangalore Section.

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28 April 2020: To commemorate IEEE SIGHT day, IEEE Bangalore section SIGHT Group conducted a webinar on SIGHT: Sustainable project design for local community in collabora-tion with IEEE UVCE Student branch.

28 April 2020: IEEE SIGHT day was celebrated through Virtual Yoga, breathwork and meditation with Payal Khanwani. It was attended by 600+ participants.

13 May 2020: IEEE Bangalore Section Researcher forum organized a workshop on Free MOOC to complement Engineering education. The workshop was attended by 1000+ participants pan India.

20 May 2020: IEEE Bangalore Section Researcher forum organized a workshop on Reference Man-agement tools for research articles and thesis writ-ing. It was attended by 1600 participants pan India.

Trivia: IEEE Bangalore Section won the prestigious MGA Outstanding Large Section Award, twice - 2013 & 2019

3 June 2020: The doctoral thesis of Dr. Abhishek Appaji, IEEE SIGHT Chair of Bangalore Section was published in IEEE SPS Newsletter. Retinal Vascular Features as a Biomarker for Psychiatric Disorders4 June 2020: IEEE Bangalore Section SIGHT group received funding from IEEE HAC for the project titled 3D Printed self care kit for under-served community in Urban slums to combat COVID19. The project was submitted in collabo-ration with IEEE BMSCE Student branch and NGO Bharath Vikas Parishath.

5 June 2020: IEEE Bangalore Section SIGHT organized a webinar on the overview of IEEE SIGHT: Opportunities to develop environmentally sustainable solutions on the occasion of the World Environment Day 2020 in collaboration with Christ University, Bangalore. This was attended by 250 students and faculty members.

8 & 9 June 2020: Dr. Abhishek Appaji, IEEE SIGHT chair organised an FDP on skill enhance-ment for academicians in collaboration with Jain College of Engineering, Belagavi.

8 to 13 June 2020: IEEE SIGHT Bangalore Section in collaboration with BMSCE Student branch had organized a short term training program on “Protecting against pandemic- holistic approach towards health”. It was attended by 200+ partici-pants every day.

Proper garbage segregation and disposal has been a growing problem for more than a decade. Bengalu-ru alone generates around 5,000 metric tonnes of waste every day out of which 64% is wet waste, 28% is dry or recyclable waste, and the rest is hazardous and inert trash. This number will grow exponentially in the next 20 years. At present only 10% of Bengaluru waste is recycled, which means that a large portion of solid waste generated is dumped in landfills, ruining its potential to be reused or repurposed. Effective segregation of garbage means that less waste goes to landfill. This makes it cheaper and better for people and the envi-ronment. The current structure in place to segregate garbage mostly involves manual labour comprising thousands of municipal workers who expend hours picking and separating recyclable waste. This is not only a tedious process but also unsafe when consid-ering current COVID-19 circumstances. A valuable modification would be to automate the process using the technology available to us. This project was developed with the usage of Con-volutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Image Processing algorithms to construct a model that will detect and classify recyclable waste and dispose of it appropriately. The trained algorithm can be deployed on hardware that is available in both small and large scales. The workflow of the current prototype is as follows:

the workspace and take a picture of the garbage.

Look Once’ (YOLO) object detection algorithm which can detect recyclable objects within the image and then classify them into one of five cate-gories namely: paper, metal, plastic, glass or wood.

passed on to the robotic arm which is controlled by a Raspberry Pi microprocessor, using which the objects are picked up at their co-ordinates and disposed into the appropriate bin. Thus, separating the recyclable from the organic waste. The image processing algorithm used is called Tiny-YOLOv3 where YOLO stands for You Only Look Once. It is more beneficial in real time object detection and classification as it processes the image of the garbage by passing the image only once through a CNN consisting of 24 layers of which there are 2 fully connected layers. YOLO divides the image into a 13x13 grid and detects up to 5 objects in every grid. The algorithm creates bounding boxes around the object in the image based on the condition that the object exists as well as the probability of the class it belongs to. It is more successful than Region based Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNNs) as it can make the detection of recyclable objects by looking at the entire image as a whole. Global context is impor-tant in order to locate boundaries of the full object and separate it from the background. The model is trained with YOLO network, originally created by Joseph Redmon in 2016, on over ten thousand images of recyclable objects comprising 5 classes: Paper, Metal, Wood, Glass and Plastic.

Fig: Recyclable Waste Detected by our Model

Dr. Naveen N.C., Jyothsna P., Akshitha Y.V., Cauvery A., Bhargav Hegde Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bengaluru

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The model achieved a mean average precision of 61.47% with this prototype. More categories and objects can be added over time and the model can be re-trained and scaled up to recognize new recyclable waste without much effort. This trained model can be called upon and used without any need for addi-tional computation power such as GPUs for small scale. This prototype carries out the image process-ing within the Raspberry pi, thus showing a lack of need for disk space as well. The project can be improved upon to work on large scale segregation at Garbage disposal centres, however a more extensive dataset, appropriate hardware and computational power is required to train such a model.

The implementation of this model is mainly suited for primary stages of garbage segregation. Since households and small commercial establishments account for 74% of the waste generated, it would be effective to monitor the segregation at these loca-tions in the early stages before it is taken over by the municipal authorities. Automation of garbage segre-gation could streamline the process of garbage disposal in urban and rural areas and significantly improve energy and resource management, as well as public health.

Abstract: This article describes network coding, a promising solution for meeting the low latency requirement of applications like internet of things, dense wireless networks and others.

Raghavendra M A N S, Abhijith B G. Saankhya Labs Private Limited.

From connecting users to connecting intelligent devices, communication technology is evolving in a momentous way. 5G communication technology is likely to achieve the objective of connecting everything and everyone. The parallel objective is to connect intelligent devices and live up to the user demands of high data speeds and throughput (low latency) in dense networks. To meet the latency and throughput requirements of dense communication networks, communication theorists and network theorists are considering an interesting solution called Network coding. The solution considers a communication network as a network of devices and intermediate nodes that fundamentally uses linear combination or XOR to address the issue of meeting high data rates and throughput. Network coding is based on this simple yet far-reaching idea: in a packet network, rather than simply routing or transmitting packets, intermediate nodes may compute and transmit functions of the packets that they receive. The idea of transmitting linear combinations of different users’ data, dates to 1978 when Celebiler et. al. proposed the idea of linearly combining data at the satellite repeater before transmitting data to the devices [1, 2]. This helps in increasing the down-link capacity of a Regenerative satellite Repeater in point-to-point communications.

In the case of computer communication networks, unlike satellite repeaters, network coding is achieved by making use of routers. Routers are the heart of communication networks that route the packets from source to destination. To avoid colli-sion and successful delivery, routers are made capable of handling network inflow and outflow. The arrival of a huge number of packets at the router can be used to increase the throughput of the network and hence serve multiple users, at a time. The ‘Butterfly’ effect

Fig 1. The Butterfly networkThe directed graph shown in Fig. 1 (a) — the so-called “butterfly network”— models a packet network. Conventionally, the concept of network coding is explained using two intermediate nodes that are between source and destination [3]. How-ever, to emphasize the importance of XOR or linear combination, in this article we have consid-ered one intermediate node N, which can internally be a network of two or more intermediate nodes. T_1 and T_2 are the signal sources that intend to multicast/ broadcast packets P_1 and P_2 respec-tively to the two destinations D_1 and D_2 via the intermediate node (routers) N. Each directed edge between transmitter and destination represents an error-free packet channel that can deliver a single packet of m bits per channel use.

A conventional collision free “routing solution” to this problem is shown in Fig. 1 (b), (c). In time slot 1, the sources T_1 and T_2sends out corresponding packets P_1 and P_2 . Assuming zero relative delay between direct edges and edges via node N, in time slot 1 packet P_1 arrives at D_2 from N and packet P_2 arrives at D_2 from T_2. Simultaneously D_1 receives packet P_1 from T_1. Thus, in time slot 1 D_2 receives both packets P_1 and P_2 and D_1 receives only P_1. It is in the time slot 2 that D_1 receives packet P_2. This implies that the through-put of the network is 1 packet per channel use. Using a simple XOR operation, a “network coding solution” that can achieve an improved multicast throughput of 2 packets per channel use—is shown in Fig. 1 (d). Here, in time slot 1, instead of routing one (and blocking the other), node N transmits the modulo-two sum of P_1 and P_2 (i.e., P_1 P_2 ). Destination D_1 now receives P_1 and P_1 P_2 and can recover both P_1 and P_2. Simultane-ously D_2 receives P_2 and P_1 P _2 and can recover both P_1 and P_2 at the same time. Thus, at the expense of an encoding operation at an internal node N of the network and decoding operations at the sink nodes, the multicast throughput has improved beyond what can be achieved by routing alone. In general, this analysis can be extended to networks considering any number of transmitters and receivers.

Though the fundamental concept of network coding involves the use of XOR, in general network coding contains a linear combination of messages. Thus, in addition to throughput enhancement, network coding can enhance the robustness of communica-tion and increase accuracy of network tomography. The main disadvantage of network coding is that it is vulnerable to pollution attacks and eavesdrop-ping [1]. However, few secure network coding techniques are proposed in literature to overcome this bottleneck [4].

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Network coding can be broadly classified intoi. Physical Layer Network Coding: Proposed for wireless relay networks like satellite communica-tion networks [2]ii. Random Linear Network Coding: Random linear network coding is based on principle that is applied in digital fountain codes and involves linear combination of messages.iii. Opportunistic Network Coding: Proposed for wireless broadcast networks [5].

In general, network coding can find applications in scenarios that require video on demand, live media broadcast [5], High-speed high capacity file down-loads and more. Though network coding offers theoretical gains when compared with the conven-tional schemes, its use in practice is restricted due to the computational complexity and its sensitivity to network impairments. However, there are few practically applicable solutions of network coding such as COPE [6], B.A.T.M.A.N [7], and Micro-soft Avalanche [8, 9].

The rapid developments in different network coding strategies, along with cooperative commu-nication, is making network coding one of the promising solutions for next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) and dense wireless communication networks [10]. This leads to an advancements in the use of mathematical tools, such as algebra, geometry, graph theory, combinatorics and optimi-zation theory to make network coding a real-time solution.

[1] Matsuda, Takahiro, Taku Noguchi, and Tetsuya Takine. "Survey of network coding and its applica-tions." IEICE transactions on communications 94, no. 3 (2011): 698-717.[2] Celebiler, M. and Stette, G., 1978. On increas-ing the down-link capacity of a regenerative satel-lite repeater in point-to-point communications. Proceedings of the IEEE, 66(1), pp.98-100.[3] Ahlswede, Rudolf, et al. "Network information flow." IEEE Transactions on information theory 46.4 (2000): 1204-1216.[4] Silva, D. and Kschischang, F.R., 2011. Univer-sal secure network coding via rank-metric codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(2), pp.1124-1135.[5] Nguyen, D., Tran, T., Nguyen, T. and Bose, B., 2008. Wireless broadcast using network coding. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular technology, 58(2), pp.914-925.[6] Katti, Sachin, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Médard, and Jon Crowcroft. "XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding." IEEE/ACM Transactions on networking 16, no. 3 (2008): 497-510.[7] NetworkCoding -batman-adv - Open Mesh". www.open-mesh.org. Retrieved 2015-10-28.[8] Sprintson, Alex. "Network coding and its appli-cations in communication networks." In Algo-rithms for Next Generation Networks, pp. 343-372. Springer, 2010.[9] Chou, Philip A., Yunnan Wu, and Kamal Jain. "Practical network coding." In Proceedings of the annual Allerton conference on communication control and computing, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 40-49. The University; 1998, 2003. [10] Swamy, Vasuki Narasimha, Paul Rigge, Gireeja Ranade, Anant Sahai, and Borivoje Nikol-ic. "Network coding for real-time wireless com-munication for automation." arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05143 (2018).

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���������Wildfire – the danger faced all over the globe due to climate change and human activities. Occurring throughout the year with high-intensity in summer and autumn. According to data, India has a forest cover of 712,249 Sq. km (71.22 million hectares), which consti-tutes 21.67 % of the total geographical area of the coun-try. Data reveals that about 50 % of forest areas in the country are fire prone. About 6% of the forests are prone to severe fire damage.

To fight wildfires many methods were employed in different parts of the country. Their primary motto was early detection of fires and timely notification. The persistent advancement of information and technology has helped to improvise and implement efficient meth-ods. One of the major solutions to spot wildfire's action is a UAV (Unmanned-Aerial vehicles) with high-reso-lution camera. Here, we propose a drone-based wildfire detection and security drone for monitoring remote and far-flung areas. This system is programmed to be an autonomous UAV (Unmanned-Aerial vehicles) with the main advantage of providing monitoring service faster than that of satellites proposed for this purpose. To detect the fire, we implement the visual based fire detection where closed circuit TV systems are used to detect fire in a surveillance video. We employ Fourier transformation to detect the fire, based on extracted pixel information. Usage of Gaussian-smoothed color histogram to generate a color lookup table of fire pixel and then take advantage of temporal variation of pixel values to determine the intensity of the wildfire caused.

As the surveillance of drones is in impassable areas, power retention in the drone is a challenge. According-ly, we have introduced solar pads for the drones to charge themselves autonomously when encountered with inadequate power for their operation.

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The objectives of the proposed system include i.To cover the entire forest zone and timely alerts when encountered with a wildfire and alerting the nearest forest official with the location dossier.ii.Encouragement in the usage of replenishable energy source i.e. Solar Energy, by the usage of solar charging pads.iii.Continuous Air-Quality reports on their contribu-tion to global carbon cycles.iv.Monitoring of illegal deforestation and human activities for maintenance, relevant improvement and safeguarding of biological diversity in forest ecosystems.��������­�������������������(�������)�����������Currently, we have been working on the simulation and programming of detecting the wildfire using selected algorithms such as YCbCr Model and enhancing the results of the true detection rate to ensure reliability and feasibility. In July, we will be calibrating the sensors on the Embedded systems i.e. Raspberry Pi. We will be improving the sensor's performance to remove all the structural errors initially in the outputs. (Struc-tural errors are differences between a sensor's expected output and its measured output, which show up consistently every time a new measure-ment is taken.) Calibration provides a means of providing enhanced performance by improving the overall accuracy of the underlying sensors. In August, design and implementation of the drone frame is to be accomplished. A complete hardware system is to be set up and the code integrated with the embedded system. Sensors and other flight com-ponents are set up onboard. In September, we will be fine-tuning the Drone to get better performance and attain a good efficiency to make it capable of implementation. And ensuring complete anonymous working of the drone

Asif Ali Ahmed R, Harshad R Bhatt, Roobini G

The proposed system employs recent advanced technologies and hence deploys a relatable fast processing micro-controller for detection of fire from the obtained image samples in less stipulated time. Once the fire is detected, the location coordi-nates are marked and sent to the officials.

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Two women… both excelled in Microwave Engi-neering at an International Level. Dr. Rajeswari Chatterjee was the first to establish the MICRO-WAVE ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORA-TORY in the country. Both Dr. Rajeswari Chatterjee and Prof. Bharathi Bhat carried out Microwave Research in the best Universities abroad but returned back to the mother land, where they ignited and inspired many to follow in their footsteps. The first Indian Woman Scientist Professor to pioneer the field of Microwave Engineering in India is undoubtedly Dr. Rajeswari Chatterjee (Jan 1922 to Sep 2010). She always walked the talk as men-tioned in her biography, Lucky to be where I am. She showed equal interest and concern for Profes-sional Excellence and Women’s Education. Always consistent, she completed her undergraduate and postgraduate education with First Ranks. She began her research in the Electrical Technology Depart-ment of IISc Bangalore in the area of communica-tion. She got a scholarship to pursue her higher stud-ies in the University of Michigan, USA. She had a few months of practical training in RF Measurement in Washington DC and then successfully completed Ph.D. degree in Michigan. She returned to India in 1953 unlike many others who continued to stay abroad. Dr. Rajeswari along with her husband, Dr. Sisir Kumar Chatterjee initiated microwave research and teaching for the first time in India. The couple can be called as ‘EVEN MODE COUPLE’ (both having like mind in everything). Dr. Rajeshwari’s disciple Prof. Bharathi Bhat, too, returned to IIT Delhi after her Ph.D. and PDF in MIT USA. Prof. Bhat established a state-of-the-art Microwave Integrated Circuit lab for the first time in an academic institution in India. Most of her time (apart from rigorous analysis and search in Micro-wave Integrated Circuits in IIT Delhi) was spent with the HP Network Analyzer in practical experi-mentation of the M.I.C components she had designed.

Harvard educated Prof. Bhat set an example of how an ideal teacher should be. A highly principled intel-lectual and stalwart in her subjects, she encourages her students to think. Though soft spoken, she does not compromise on the quality of research and is highly ethical and transparent. Dignified in her demeanour, she imparts creativity to all her work. After her successful research tenure in Harvard University under Ronald King (author of the classi-cal book on Antennas), she too returned to serve her mother land. Joining IIT Delhi in 1973, she nurtured the country’s technological progress in the field of Microwave Engineering. She facilitated many scholars reach sky high academically and technical-ly. Electromagnetics – the most difficult subject for electrical engineering students, is child’s play for her and she trains her students to fall in love with Microwaves. She corrects mistakes rather than answers during paper evaluation. Only after finding solutions of each question, she completes the ques-tion paper setting. She is the first Indian lady acade-mician who has contributed to practical Microwave Engineering in defense. Prof. Bhat’s books (coauthored with Prof. Shiban K. Koul) on Phase Shifters, Analysis, Design and Applications of Fin lines, Strip line like transmis-sion lines are reference books for academicians and technicians worldwide. Her research work proves that ‘Indians can be top researchers in the world’. Prof. Bhat has over 100 research publications in IEEE journals and has authored more than 7 world class microwave integrated circuit books. These books served as ready reckoners for Microwave components and circuit designers worldwide. Prof. Bhat has successfully completed valuable practical R&D projects. Rajendra radar phase shift-er was designed and developed by Prof. Bhat and her team. She was also instrumental in the making the AKASH missile system guided by Phased Array Radar that can simultaneously track multiple aircrafts and guide multiple missiles towards targets.

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Ex-Defense Minister George Fernandes said, “During my visits to various laboratories and scien-tific establishments under the DRDO, I witnessed dedication and commitment of our scientists and technicians. I felt that their work should be recog-nized." He announced Academic excellence awards of Rs 10 lakhs to be shared by the teams led by Prof. Bhat of the Centre for Applied Research in Elec-tronics (CARE) of IIT Delhi; and Prof T.K. Ghoshal of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadav-pur University, Calcutta. Prof Bhat’s team has been chosen for innovation and development leading to the production of phase-controlled modules through indigenous efforts, which led to self-reliance in critical components required for electronic scanning of phased array multifunction radar ‘Nagendra’. Prof. S.K. Chatterjee award, Distinguished Fellow of IETE, VASVIK Industrial research award for development of Ka-Band wave component and Ferrite Phase shifters for Defense organization, Distinguished Service award of IIT Delhi, DRDO Academy Excellence award, Institute of Engineers award, Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold medal, SK Mittra award, First IETE Prof. K. Sreenivasan award, IEEE Life time achievement award are some of the many awards that have decorated this microwave legend. At a time when a `phase shifter' required was not commercially available due to restrictions from developed countries, she developed it with her team. President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam commended this achievement in his Wings of Fire. He further shared the achievement of Prof. Bhat for the design and development of multi-tracking radar system.“Normally design engineers do not have an adequate opportunity to teach and academic schol-ars rarely have the experience of developing devices and systems to the ultimate point of seeing them tested in the field and accepted in service. Professor Bharathi Bhat combines these two distinct experi-ences in a very unusual manner and has done so for several years” – quoted Prof. P.V. Indiresan, former

Director, IIT Chennai. Brilliant in studies, professionally accomplished, sharp in intellect and memory, courageous and forthright in expressing views coupled with a kind personality, both these women stand tall to continue to inspire students and research scholars all over India and the world.

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The AIEE and the IRE merged to create the IEEE on January 1, 1963. At that time,the comnbined group had 150,000 members.

REFERENCE IMAGEProgramming is a very interesting and complicated field of the computing era that has become such an integral part of the digital world. Developers and coders are in high demand for their skills due to the fact that they are the backbone and draw revenues for their company. Every job requires different thinking mindsets and so does this one; but to design complicated algorithms, sophisticated appli-cations, and other frameworks, a programmer needs to be smart, logical, and rational. For such an intuitive field, the brains of programmers are some-what different from non-programmers. After study-ing them, we come to many interesting conclu-sions.

Just as learning to speak their first language is a big deal for humans, so does learning your first programming language. The paradigms and idioms of your first programming language influence and even dictate how you think about data structures and algorithms. Choosing the right one will impact your career growth in many ways. Earlier program-mers learned PASCAL, COBOL, and other such languages which are of practical insignificance now – and so learning modern language makes a huge difference. I started with C and later learned C++ and Python. The last two are beastly languages that approach coding in very different ways.

Studies have shown that programming leads to an increase in a person’s cognitive skills, enhancing his/ her intellectual capabilities. A recent study showed that programming, as a hobby or a career stimulated healthy brain activity and reduced risks of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. Further-more, while none of these studies show that these activities make you smarter or more capable, they do show that high-demand cognitive tasks extend your current brain health and significantly prevent neural deterioration.

fMRI scans showed five distinct areas of the brain that are involved in understanding source code - Middle frontal gyrus (Attention, language, working memory), Middle temporal gyrus (Semantic memory retrieval), Inferior parietal lobule (Work-ing memory), Inferior frontal gyrus (Working memory) and Inferior frontal gyrus (Language, working memory) This shows that coding uses up parts of the brain that are normally associated with language processing, memory, and attention. The studies were conducted for small lines of code and didn’t checking on challenging tasks. Though these studies do not suggest that programming languages are like foreign languages, they high-lighted that they involve similar regions of the brain. However this much is true - we know that program-mers regularly review source code, whether the code is self-written or belongs to somebody else. Programmers also spend lots of time fixing and refactoring code than writing new code from scratch.

All these facts certainly show that programming is not mental exhaustion on your mind – but a good brain exercise that stimulates and improves brain activities, keeping it in good health. Therefore, programming can be seen as routine stretches for your brain, and well it benefits very much from those stretches. Let’s start coding to stretch our brains and keep them active.

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