S. Vishnu Sharma
Mahindra University turned cynosure of all eyes when it organised its R and D event MURS recently.
As the pandemic situation is in vogue, Mahindra University Research Symposium (MURS) was conducted completely online.
The R and D showcase of Mahindra University witnessed a participation of over 350 representatives from various engineering colleges located across the nation.
Mahindra University organises great MURS 2020
Among the educational institutions that participated in the event organised by Mahindra University are IIT Roorkee, IIT-ISM Dhanbad, NIT Warangal, SRMIST, VIT, NIT Surathkal.
Also, IIT Bhubaneswar, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge and Technologies, Maturi Venkata Subba Rao Engineering College, Punjab University, IIT Hyderabad were among the colleges that took part in MURS 2020 by Mahindra University.
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Over 150 research papers were submitted for presentation at MURS 2020 by Mahindra University.
About 60 papers were selected after careful review for presentation under different tracks like oral, poster and prototype presentation – all around the symposium theme ‘Sustainable Development’.
Graduate, post graduate and doctorate students presented papers during MURS 2020 of Mahindra University.
Vice Chancellor of Mahindra University Dr. Yajulu Medury inaugurated MURS.
Professor Santanu Chaudhury, Director of IIT Jodhpur deliverd the keynote address at MURS by Mahindra University.
His multimedia talk dwelt on recent advancements in the areas of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) and their applications in the virtual reconstruction and multimedia depiction of national heritage sites like Hampi Temple, Viswanath Temple.
A plenary talk by ProfessorGanesh Baglar from IIIT Delhi on Computational Gastronomy also stood a highlight.
Dr. Shankar Venugopal, VP of Mahindra Research Valley spoke on ‘Mobility Engineer 2030.’
Their talks filled the young minds with knowledge about the latest developments in various technical fields of immense general interest.
The event was coordinated by a faculty team consisting Jayasri Dontabhaktuni (Lead), Gomathi Anandhanatarajan, Prafulla Kalapatapu, Venkata Dilip Kumar Pasupuleti and Prasad Pokkunuri.
Dean Academics at Mahindra University Dr. Bishnu Pal, and the dean research Dr. Arya Kumar Bhattacharya also spoke.
The second day of the event started off with the inauguration of Green Office (GO) logo of Mahindra University.
GO is a student body devoted to promote sustainability in education, research and various other institutional activities.
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Mr. Prashant Lingam, founder of Bamboo House India gave a plenary talk. Professor Prasanta Panigrahi from IISER Kolkata spoke on Quantum Computing.
Each presentation and talk introduced many interesting ideas and promoted stimulating discussions amongst the students.
A series of interesting and thought-provoking sessions ended with the poster presentations in which the participating students presented their research ideas and projects in the form of posters to the panel of faculty judges.
The moments turned delightful when winners were announced.
Winners of oral presentation category were Rahul Arepaka of Mahindra University who presented work on Cable lifted automated robot for agriculture.
The other winner was Subhajit Karmarkar of IIT Delhi and Mahindra University who shared concepts of Fano resonance in meta materials – an important phenomena in optical physics, characterized by sharp asymmetric spectral feature and low radiative loss channel.
Also Pritam Singh of IIT Roorkee who made a presentation on Zero-waste sustainable and environment friendly technology for 2G-ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass was a winner.
The winners in poster presentation category were were Krishna Shankar (IIT Roorkee) who made a presentation on homogentisic acid-based whole-cell biosensor for detection of Alkaptonuria disease.
Another winner was Anil Kumar of NIT Surathkal who made a presentation on solar cooker with low cost sensible heat storage medium.
Also, Phurba Tamang from Royal University in Bhutan who made a presentation on Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Recurring Slope Failure along Dewathang-SamdrupJongkhar Highway was a winner.
The winners in the Prototype Presentation category was Sai Bhargav Reddy of IIT-ISM Dhanbad who made a presentation on Model to forecast crop yield using satellite multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing to support better agricultural practices.
Another winner was Dr. Shailendra Singh of IIT Roorkee who made a presentation on real time monitoring of biomass, lipid and nitrate dynamic profile using innovative light evolution kinetic model.
Chakshu face attendance app
Mahindra University was again in limelight recently when its student Kartikeya Bhardwaj created a deep learning app ‘Chakshu Face Attendance.’
The app designed by Bharadwaj who is a mechanical engineering student of class 2020 provides employers, institutions with touchless recording of attendance attributes.
The app designed by Mahindra University student is said to have relevance especially in current COVID-19 situation as it provides a safe alternative to touch-based fingerprint attendance systems.
The start-up is being incubated at Mahindra e-hub, an incubation center of Mahindra University under the Mahindra University’s Centre of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The university focuses on providing an enabling atmosphere to the students so that they can apply their learning in creating innovative solutions to everyday problems, said Dr. Yajulu Medury, Vice Chancellor, Mahindra University.
The vice chancellor of Mahindra University further said one such focus has been on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, wherein we have not just created state-of-the-art labs but also made available live projects for students to work on.
It is indeed exciting to witness these efforts coming to fruition and our Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is providing a platform for these start-ups to grow and grow on their own by providing all necessary assistance in sync with the Indian Government’s mission, he said.
‘A strong anti spoofing provision makes Chakshu Face Attendance a highly reliable face attendance system. The app is secure, efficient and highly scalable,’ says Kartikeya Bhardwaj, Founder, Chakshu.ai.
In big organizations, for attendance, fingerprint or ID scanners are the norm.
In Covid times, ‘touchless’ technology is the call of the hour since anything that is used by many people may turn out to be conduit for transmission of the virus.
In MSMEs, this isn’t so, primarily because of the issue of costs, e.g. RFID systems require expensive hardware and regular maintenance.
In addition, a common issue is that of Buddy Punching, where employees do proxy attendance of their colleagues using their IDs results in huge losses and is an unethical practice that still floats around in offices all over the world.
Chakshu Face Attendance app developed Chakshu.ai is a touchless employee attendance app that lets an organization clock attendance through an android device (phone or a tablet) using face recognition.
The attendance process is completely touch-free and Covid-19 ready.
It also eliminates the buddy punching problem through SpoofSense, Chakshu’s AI algorithm is trained to detect Spoofing attacks and reject them, thereby making the process secure and trustable.
Chakshu Face Attendance App uses PyTorch which is a powerful Machine Learning Framework by Facebook to build and deploy Deep learning algorithms.
Scaling AI algorithms to thousands of users is a compute intensive process and often results in high latency situations.
Chakshu App involves careful model optimizations that makes the backend capable to serve a huge volume of traffic at Peak Performance, ensuring a frictionless user experience.