Introduction

IEEE Young Professionals Gujarat Section and Marwadi University has been delighted to host the “Campus to Corporate” Mentor Mentee Camp. The event was organised virtually through Zoom, which took place on 1st May 2021 in two sessions. We were overwhelmed to receive a huge number of participants from around many different colleges and universities. We had more than 450 registrations the night before the event.

Purpose of the event

The event was exclusively planned for Engineering students and Young Professionals. Speakers from diverse fields were invited to share their knowledge on different domains: ML/AI , Big Data, Cloud Computing and DevOps, Software Development, Mobile Application Development and Security. The purpose of the event has been to inspire the young minds by providing them an opportunity to network one-on-one with the domain experts and share insights on what skill sets are required to be industry-ready in this competitive world of professionals.

Agenda of the event

1. Introduction of the Event by anchor Kripa
2. Welcome Address by Prof. Foram Rajdev , IEEE YP & WIE Chair Gujarat Section.
3. Opening Remarks by Chief Guest: Prof. Dr. R.B.Jadeja, IEEE Region 10 Treasurer and Dean, FOE – Marwadi University.
4. Group Photo
5. Introduction of moderator and inviting him for further proceedings: Prof. C.D.Parmar, HOD, ICT – Marwadi University.
6. Moderator will invite each panelist to share insights on their respective domain.
7. Breakout Rooms with each panelist.
8. Feedback by participants from different break-out rooms.
9. Vote of Thanks and Virtual Gift ceremony by Prof. Mehul Kantaria.

Event Details

The session started with warm greetings from the anchor where she welcomed and briefed everyone about the event.

Prof. Foram Rajdev, YP and WIE Chair, IEEE Gujarat Section who took an initiative for this wonderful event did the formal welcome address to the chief guest, speakers and participants.

We were fortunate to have honourable Dr. R.B.Jadeja Sir, Dean – FOE Marwadi University and  IEEE Region 10 Treasurer, as our chief guest for the event. He gave opening remarks for the event where he acknowledged all the speakers and motivated students & young professionals. As a small token of appreciation for Dr. R.B.Jadeja, a virtual gift was presented to him on the behalf of IEEE Gujarat Section, IEEE Young Professionals and Marwadi University.

We were happy to have with us Prof. C.D.Parmar, HOD, ICT – Marwadi University. He moderated the event where he invited all the speakers to share their journey from being a student to a professional. Each speaker talked about the specific domain of their field and discussed about it’s current trend in the market.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. And we were fortunate to have many wonderful speakers with us on board that day to guide the students and young professionals.

Finally, the networking sessions began. All the participants were allowed to get into the breakout room of their domain interest where there was one speaker in each group. Everyone had the opportunity to talk and participate in the networking activity. It was amazing to see students coming up with such intuitive questions.

The breakout sessions were for 45mins. All the participants came back to the main room and there was a feedback session. Students from different break out rooms shared their experience about the networking with the speaker and on the event as a whole. Speakers also shared their experiences on interacting with the participants.

Lastly, the vote of thanks was given by Prof. Mehul Kantaria. He offered a small token of appreciation to all the speakers on the behalf of IEEE Gujarat Section, IEEE Young Professionals and Marwadi University by presenting them with a virtual gift.

(The flow and agenda for both morning and evening sessions were the same, just with the switch of speakers.)

Evaluating Immersive Tech

Date: 22nd April, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:10 AM IST
Platform: Zoom Meeting
Participants: 80+

Silver Oak University IEEE WIE AG in collaboration with IEEE WIE Gujarat Section had organized a talk on Evaluating Immersive Tech (AR and 3D simulations)

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology enriching the real world with digital information and media, such as 3D models and videos, overlaying in real-time the camera view of your smartphone, tablet, PC or connected glasses and Virtual reality (VR) implies a complete immersion experience that shuts out the physical world and users can be transported into a real world and imagined environments.

The event was concluded with an expert session of questions and answers. After the session, we offered profound thanks to our prominent speaker, Mr.Hardik Mehta, for a very enlightening session and for providing such great insights into the field of AR and 3D and also expressed gratitude towards the Gujarat section for the continuous support. We are grateful for receiving much excellent views and positive responses, and are sincerely looking forward to such informative sessions.

IEEE Gujarat Section along with  Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Gujrat Chapter is glad to announce professional development talk as under:

Title    : Challenge based learning, 21st century employability and the experiences of the Social Impact Lab

Speaker : Dr Pathik Pathak – Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Director of the Social Impact Lab at the University of Southampton, UK

Date:  23 April 2021 (Friday)

Timings: 2.30 to 3:45 PM (IST)

Abstract:

In this talk Dr Pathik Pathak will outline the principles of challenge-based learning (CBL),  how it answers the needs of the 21st century economy and higher education.  CBL sits at the intersection of problem-based and service learning, merging the principles of “T-shaped leadership” (Brown, 2005) with the graduate capital model as an evaluative framework (Tomlinson, 2017, 2020). He will also explain how CBL informs the work of the University of Southampton Social Impact Lab and our current portfolio of activities.

Registration:  The Registration is free but pre-registration is compulsory.

Please register your nomination by using the link below

https://tinyurl.com/3z7fb7ru

Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Gujrat Chapter is glad to announce next talk  under  Research symposium series 2021  as  details given below:

Title                :   Cellular Planning and Optimization for the Next Generation Wireless Network

Speaker         :   Dr Sarosh Dastoor – Asst. Professor , SCET

Supervisors   :  Dr. Upena Dalal and Dr. Jignesh sarvaiya  (SVNIT , Surat)

Date               :   23 April 2021 (Friday)

Timings         :   1.30 to 2:30  PM (IST)

Registration:

The Registration is free but pre-registration is compulsory.  Please register your nomination by using the link below:

https://tinyurl.com/dzr9xsrb

State Level Webinar on Fundamentals of Machine Learning 

In order to motivate the students and make them aware about basics of machine learning, IEEE
DDU SB and IEEE Gujarat Section have jointly organized the above mentioned webinar on 6th March 2021 (Saturday). The webinar was conducted by Dr. Mehul Raval, Senior IEEE member and Professor at Ahmedabad University.

The webinar was getting over wheeling response from various institutes of Gujarat state and other states also. Total 209 participants were registered in this webinar. Out of 209 participants, 35 participants were from some of the other reputed institutes like DAIICT, VIT Vellore and Cambridge institute of technology, Banglore etc.

The webinar commenced with formal introduction of speaker. Then, Dr Raval started the session with the explaining what an algorithm is and explained the basic process of what the machine learning is. He explained how a machine learns from previous information, in the same way as humans do.

The attendees were given insights on the difference between classification and regression, supervised learning and various algebraic functions used for development of algorithms.

Dr Raval also shared insights about the various tools used for machine learning.

Almost 149 students/faculty members attended the session and the time span was of two hours (10:00am-12:00 Noon). He then encouraged the attendees by sharing his experience that anyone with good knowledge of statistics, algebra and basic knowledge of programming can pursue a career in machine learning domain. He motivated attendees to work in this domain, as they can discover and explore their interests and utilize their time to develop new skills. At the end Dr Raval answered the questions from the attendees to their utmost satisfaction.

The attendees found the session very useful and interesting as it was something apart from the university curriculum.

The webinar was concluded by vote of thanks delivered by Dr. Mitesh Limachia, IEEE DDU SB counsellor. He mentioned that some of topics covered by Dr. Mehul Raval during webinar like supervised learning and ML frame work were really informative and certainly useful to the students. He also mentioned that the webinar had created sufficient interest among students in the field of machine learning. Dr. Mitesh Limachia had also delivered vote of thanks toProf. Harshul Yagnik, Technical Activity Chair, IEEE Gujarat Section for providing tremendous support for this webinar.

Video Link for the STEP Talk:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQYQUUKTaXJ7jeptL_V3NZBCmFTqPRh9/view

IEEE SPS Gujarat Chapter along with MathWorks is glad to announce to you  the workshop on ” Playing with Pixels & Voxels: Working with Images in MATLAB & Simulink” in association with Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Indus University  on 15th April 2021, Thursday (2.00 to 4.00 PM).

Please register your nomination by using the link https://forms.gle/S8z8RwQvde3Kfiy2A

The workshop is free and the experts with high profile from Mathworks will be conducting the sessions in this uniquely designed workshop

The following topics will be covered during the session:

Click here to download the brochure

1.Workshop Outline:

• Introduction and Access to MATLAB & Simulink
• Image Acquisition and Working with Image Datasets
• Image Analysis, Thresholding, and Segmentation
• Working with Medical Images and Volumes
• Image Registration and Batch Processing
• Building Your Own Image Processing Apps
• Interactive Discussion on Projects / Teaching / Q&A

2.Pre-requisites:

Participants should have access to a computer for the hands-on workshop. Participants should also complete the following onramps before the session:

MATLAB Onramp [https://www.mathworks.com/learn/tutorials/matlab-onramp.html]

Image Processing Onramp [https://www.mathworks.com/learn/tutorials/image-processing-onramp.html]

Each onramp course is 2 hours long and can be run via a browser and a certificate is provided on completion.

3.MATLAB Access for Workshop:

Participants should download a MATLAB trial for Image Processing and Computer Vision by following these steps:

1. Create / Sign-In to a MathWorks Accountby visiting the MathWorks Page [https://www.mathworks.com/login].
2. Visit the MATLAB Trials Pageon the MathWorks website [https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns/products/trials.html].
3. Enter your contact e-mail and other information asked for on the MATLAB Trials Pageand click on Submit.
4. Select the Image Processing and Computer VisionTrial Package for download. On the pop-up page, click on Select and Continue to proceed to download.
5. Download the installer for your operating system (Windows / Mac / Linux) and install the downloaded trial.

For Any query Please contact the Coordinator :
Prof. Hansa Shingrakhia
Chair, IEEE SPS , WISP
hansa.shingrakhia.2013@ieee.org

It gives immense pleasure to share that, with the launch of IEEE WISP SPS Gujarat Chapter, We are happy to announce that we are kicking off the contest of Logo Design. Where We are seeking a design/Logo which is youthful and dynamic for promoting the IEEE WISP SPS Gujarat Chapter activities and initiatives.

Women in Signal Processing (WISP) offers networking and engagement opportunities to and for women across signal processing disciplines and professions to exchange ideas and experience from research, industry, and academia.

So refer to the norms/guidelines and come up with a creative, unique, and memorable design.

Topic for Logo Designing:  “Design a Logo for IEEE WISP SPS Gujarat Chapter”

We invite you to participate in the logo design competition.

Rules and Regulations:

• The logo must be original and must NOT use any pre-existing templates/logos of other brands and institutions.
• Designs can be electronically made.
• No watermark should be there on design entries.
• The subject of the file should be Logo Design “Name of the Participant”
• Participation in the competition implies the acceptance of these terms, as well as the criteria and the judges’ final decision.
• Primary Logo has to be used as the IEEE Signal Processing Society logo
• The Above design has to be used for creating new Logo of WISP, please ensure the actual design shall not be tempered while adding the new elements, graphics, text or any emblems for WISP.
• The only acceptable submission format is JPEG/ PNG/.AG/EPS. So having access to Adobe Illustrator is necessary for the logo design. Detailed instructions and source files of the WISP logo will be provided to registered participants at the end of registration process.
• The logo design must be original and should not violate any provision of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 or the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party. The logo should not have been previously published in any print and digital media and must not contain any provocative, objectionable or inappropriate content.

Important Dates & Deadlines:

• Registration opens: 5^thApril 2021
• Registration Close: 15^thApril 2021
• Contest Submission Window Opens: 26^thApril 2021
• Contest Submission Window Closes: 30^thApril 2021

Rewards and Prizes

• Winner: 2000 & Certificate

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/8B2xXVXgrEejqtc86

About:

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter – IEEE Gujarat Section brings in Symposium series to foster exchange of ideas and experience. It provides a discussion forum for advancement of their research and gain feedback on research work in the domain of computational intelligence. This is an initiative by IEEE CIS chapter – IEEE Gujarat section to build community for intellectual exchange and support the budding researchers.

Intended Participants: Anyone interested in Computational Intelligence Domain

Details of the next Symposium talk

Topic: Recent trends in Brain Tumor Analysis

Date: 23.03.2021

Time: 11.00 am to 11.45 am

Speaker: Ms. Rupal Agravat, PhD Scholar, Ahmedabad University, India

Supervisor: Dr Mehul S Raval, Professor, Ahmedabad University, India

Cosupervisor: Dr Sanjay Chaudhary, Professor, Ahmedabad University, India

About Speaker: Rupal Agravat is faculty at the Institute of Technology, Nirma University. She is pursuing her PhD on “Robust Brain Tumor Segmentation for Overall Survival Prediction”. She has 18 years of teaching experience. Her research area includes Digital Image Processing, Medical Imaging, and Deep Learning. She has published around 15 research articles in National / International Journal/Conferences.

Registration: Interested may please register at https://forms.gle/6jHs8cy53cvrpu8Q8 and we will mail you the meeting details.