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The Office of International Relations Newsletter July & August -2013

In this issue: • Director, IR attends

WEBA event in Indonesia

• VIT Faculty attend Conferences Abroad

• VIT Faculty’s visits Abroad

• Special lectures by fac-ulty from Universities Abroad

• Summer school at Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

• LA VIE Culturelle En

France visit VIT Chen-nai campus

• Student Internships Abroad

• A Hearty welcome to students on short-term programmes

• Welcome Banquet • The Round Table Ex-

change Programme • BEATZ 2013

• A Hearty Congrats to the newly elected stu-dent representatives

• Visitors from Abroad

• MoU signed • A Hearty Welcome to

the new batch of Chi-nese students

Director, International Relations attends WEBA event in Indonesia: Dr. C. Vijayakumar, Director, International Relations undertook a tour to

Indonesia from 23 to 29 July, 2013. He participated in the World Educate

Business Associate (WEBA) event held on 27 and 28 July in Jakarta.

He visited:

• University of Pancasila on 24 July and held discussions with the Vice-

Rector, the Dean of Technology and his team. They were interested in

collaborating with VIT University in capacity building of their faculty and

student exchange programs. The Rector intends visiting VIT shortly to

sign up a Memorandum of Understanding.

Dear friends,

Greetings!

In this issue of the IR Newsletter, we present the activities of July and August,

2013.

The arrival of yet another batch of students from China has added to the

number of International students on campus. Alongside this, there were

many other activities that kept us on our toes. The visit of the Director and

Asst. Director to Indonesia and Ghana, respectively, the welcome meet for the

exchange students, visits of faculty from abroad and the visit by our faculty

and students to foreign universities have been presented in detail. Please read

through the newsletter to have an insight into each of these activities. We re-

quest you to kindly give your feedback and suggestions.

Happy reading!

Thank you.

• Binus University on 25 July. He met the Vice-Rector-co-operation and Director, In-

ternational Relations and her team. They identified four areas of co-operation with

VIT University: Faculty exchange, Capacity building of their faculty, Student exchange

and Twinning programs.

• University of Indonesia , on 26 July. He had a meeting with the Director, Interna-

tional Exchange and he stated that they were interested in sending their faculty to

attend International Conferences in VIT.

VIT Faculty attend Conferences Abroad:

International Conference at NUS, Singapore:

Prof.Dr. A.N Brijesh Nair, Program Chair B.Tech.

(Civil), School of Mechanical and Building Sciences and

Prof. Dr. Deepa Madathil, School of Bio Sciences

and Technology along with two students, Mr. Aman

Gaur and Mr. Shashank Chourey from final year

B.Tech. Civil Engineering attended the 4th International

Conference of Euro Asia Civil Engineering Forum

(EACEF’13) held at National University of Singapore

(NUS) from 26-28 June 2013.

They presented a paper titled “Performance Evaluation of Kolar Drinking Water

Treatment Plant of Bhopal City.”

International Conference at Helsinki, Finland: Ms. Vijayalakshmi Saravanan, Assistant Professor

(Senior), School of Information Technology and Engi-

neering, presented her Ph.D dissertation work titled

“Power-Performance of Multi-threaded Multi-Core

Processor: Analysis, Optimization and Simulation”

at the 2013 International Conference on High Perform-

ance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2013) Doctoral

Dissertation Colloquium held in Helsinki, Finland July1-

5, 2013.

She is currently a visiting researcher at Ryerson Univer-

sity in Canada.

Professors Dr. A.N. Brijesh Nair and Dr.

Deepa Madathil with Aman Gaur and Sha-

shank Chourey, at the Conference

Ms. Vijayalakshmi Saravanan, during the

course of her presentation

International Conference at Ghana:

• Prof. Dr. R. Seenivasan, Assistant Director, International Rela-

tions, was invited as fully sponsored delegate from India by the Fo-

rum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) to attend the 6th Af-

rica Agriculture Science Week (AASW) and FARA General Assembly

Business Meeting held during 13-22 July 2013 at Accra at Ghana in

West Africa.

He had delivered a keynote speech during this event and met several

renowned agricultural scientists from various countries to formu-

late future strategies for African agriculture research and develop-

ment.

VIT Faculty’s visits Abroad:

• Dr. D. Rajan Babu, Professor, Department of Physics, School of Advanced Sciences, was invited

to the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan as

‘Visiting Professor’ from 01 June to 31 August 2013. Shizuoka University is a national university

in Japan.

He made a presentation to the research group of this institute

about the research facilities available in VIT, research pro

gress in our lab and the plan of his visit. During this period,

he gained hands- on experience in the use of sophisticated

instruments such as FESEM and TEM. He held discussions

with Prof. Hayakawa, Head of the research group on the fea

sibility of starting an Indo-Japan project and collaborating

with VIT University.

He also attended the “Asia Pacific Conference on Green

Technology with Silicides and Related Materials (APAC- SILI

CIDES 2013)” , an International Conference held from the 27-

29, July 2013 at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. This

helped him to gain new insights on research.

• Dr. Sudipto Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, VIT Busi-

ness School was invited by Asian Productivity Organization

(APO), Tokyo as a National Expert from India and has been

assigned to take up a research for the APO titled, “Research

on Entrepreneurship initiatives in APO Economies.”

He attended the co-ordination meeting scheduled at Cam

bodia-Japan Coordination Centre (CJCC) at Phnom Penh,

Cambodia during 21-23 August, 2013.

Prof. Dr. D. Rajan Babu and Prof. Hayakawa at the Research Inst. of Electronics, Japan

Prof. Dr. S. Bhattacharya at the Cambodia-

Japan Co-ordination Centre, Cambodia

Prof. Dr. R. Seenivasan at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science week in Ghana

Prof. Dr. R.Seenivasan in a discus-sion with agricultural scientists

Special lectures by Faculty from Universities Abroad: (Chennai campus)

• Dr Christian Langen, University of Karlsruhe, Germany visited

the University on 20 August, 2013. He delivered a guest Lecture

on “ Image Processing using WAVELET”.

Summer School at Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany: The International Summer School on “Research and Sustainability” was

jointly organised by VIT University and Leibniz Universität Hannover during

15-30 June 2013 at Hannover, Germany. There were 15 Post Graduate stu-

dents from SBST who attended this event under ongoing VIT-LUH student

exchange programme.

Prof.Dr.Hans Jorg Jacobsen, Head, Dr.Fathi Hassan, Scientist, Institute of

Plant Genetics and Dr.Balasubramanian Ramani, Co-ordinator, India and

South Asia Region, International Office, Leibniz University and Dr. R. Seeniva-

san, Assistant Director, International Relations co-ordinated this International

programme.

Special lectures by Faculty from Universities Abroad: (Vellore campus) • Prof. T Dhanasekaran, Director, W.M. Keck Nanostructures Laboratory, University of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst, USA, visited the Centre of Excellence in Nano Composites, SMBS, on

13th August, 2013, and delivered a guest lecture on “Nano structures and composites”. He

also interacted with the faculty members regarding collaborative work.

The visit and lecture were arranged by Prof. K. Padmanabhan.

Students of the International Summer

School pictured with the co-ordinators

“LA VIE Culturelle En France” visit VIT Chennai :

The principal goal of this cross-cultural training session was to pro-

vide the students with necessary information about the cultural

aspects which included both business as well as day-to-day life, in

France.

This session provided the students an insight into the cultural pro-

file of France, highlighting the similarities and differences between

the the Indian and French cultures. Discussions on the influence of factors that affect family, busi-

ness and personal relationships followed. The session on the whole was highly informative and en-

riching.

Dr.R.Seenivasan with Prof.Bernhard Huchzermayer, Sr.Prof. Centre for Plant Biotech., Univ. of Hannover

Student Internships Abroad: (Vellore campus) Itika Gupta at Queen Mary University of London:

• Ms. Itika Gupta, of fourth year student from B.Tech. IT, recently visited Queen Mary,

University of London from 20th June to 03rd August 2013, to collaborate with Dr. Virginia Fernandez

and Dr. Tomas Piatrik from Multimedia and Vision Research Group (MMV) under the guidance of Prof.

Ebroul Izquierdo (MMV) and Dr. Krishna Chandramouli (VIT University).

During her visit, she developed a framework for addressing MediaEval 2013 challenge Social Event

Detection. The task required the participants to discover social events and organize the related media

items in event specific clusters, within a collection of web multimedia.

In addition she also contributed towards LACNEM 2013 Conference,

by obtaining feedback from Dr. Qianni Zhang, which will be presented in

Manizeles, Columbia.

In a continuation of the current work, Prof. Izquierdo has offered to

host Ms. Itika Gupta again, towards fulfilling her final year project.

Saurabh Narang at The University of Queensland, Australia: • Mr. Saurabh Narang, currently a final year student from B.Tech. Electronics and Instrumentation

Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering was selected for a Project entitled “Computer Simula-

tion of NMR Signal Evolution between J-coupled Spins in an Adiabatic RF field to see the response” .

He worked under the guidance of Dr. Yas Tesiram. In this project theoretically characterize the evo-

lution of coupled spins during application of low power adiabatic RF

pulses.

He was awarded a CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION for successful

completion of Research Program by the UQ, Australia. He received a

Scholarship for being selected as a Winter Research Scholar. Only

two International Students from the World were offered this privil

ege and Saurabh Narang was one of them.

He was selected by the Centre for Advanced Imaging at The University

of Queensland, Australia awarded by VIT University, Vellore.

Saurabh Narang at work in the

lab. at University of Queensland

Student Internships Abroad: (Chennai Campus) • Mr. Tanmay Sinha (10BCE1114) attended an internship programme at

the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

He worked on a project titled “Social network analysis of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC's)”. • Mr. Tejaswi Agarwal (10BCE1105) attended an internship programme

at Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Uni-

versity of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

He worked on a project titled “Multi-core Systems and Performance

Monitoring on Servers”.

• Mr. Tanmay Sinha, Mr.Anshul Saravgi, Mr. VRNS Srikanth and Mr. Ankit Banka attended an internship programme on ‘Cloud Computing’ in the Faculty of Com puter Science and Engineering, Dongseo University, South Korea .

• Mr. Abhishek Anand (10BME1002), Mr. Sohit Chhabra ( 10BME1094) and Mr. Pankaj

Gaikwad (10BCE1034), were chosen to pursue an internship at Dublin City University,

Ireland.

Mr. Abhishek worked on a topic entitled “Low energy plasma spray of free standing

Hydroxyapetite Scaffolds” and Mr. Sohit Chhabra on “Reverse supply Chain management”

in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Mr. Pankaj Gaikwad on the topic entitled “Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence” in

the Faculty of Computing Sciences.

Abishek Anand Sohit Chhabra Pankaj Gaikwad

A Hearty Welcome to Students on short-term programmes: • University of Malaya, Malaysia:

10 Students from University of Malaya, Malaysia spend 45

days in the School of Social Sciences and Languages for the

Internship program in Tamil Language and Literarture.

Dr.K.Tammilselvan designed the training schedule and exe-

cuted it with the support of Faculty from our University, Re-

search Scholars and Field experts from Other Universities

and Colleges. Apart from lectures the students visited places

of Historical importance related to their study across Tamil-

nadu. The students performed very well throughout the

training and scored high in the evaluation tests. Dr. K. Sathiyanarayanan, Dean SSL monitored the

entire program frequently and interacted with the students. • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China: 20 students and one faculty from the School of Software and

Information Technology , UESTC, China spent 45 days on an

Internship program in our University. Prof. C.Srimathi and

Prof.N.Suresh Kumar of the School Computer Science and En-

gineering and Prof.G.Anburaj of the School of Social Sciences

and Languages designed and executed the training. The in-

ternship program included Lectures, Industrial visits, Mini Pro-

ject, Language Training, Group interactions, visits to places of

cultural importance and participation in seminars. The stu-

dents gave an excellent feedback about the programme and added that they would motivate their

juniors to visit VIT for such programmes. Dr. S. Margret Anouncia, Dean, SCSE and Dr. K. Sathi-

yanarayanan, Dean SSL interacted with the students on a regular basis.

• Summer School Program Dongseo University, South Korea: 10 Students and one Professor from Dongseo University,

South Korea visited our University for the Summer School Pro-

gram organized by the School of Social Sciences and Lan-

guages. Prof.Christopher Rajasekaran executed the program

that included lectures on India and its heritage, visits to places

of cultural importance, field trips, Interactions with School,

College and Public.

• Welcome Banquet : Our Honourable Chancellor, presided over the welcome

banquet arranged for the International Exchange students

from universities above and other universities: 3 Students

from Clermont- Ferrand , ENSCCF, France;

The Round Table Exchange Programme:

A group of eight students from Europe who were on a visit to

South India on a “Round Table Exchange Programme” visited

the University on 01 August. They had a wonderful time of inter-

action with around 12 of our Indian, NRI and Foreign students at

the IR Office. They were taken on a tour of our campus and were

immensely impressed by the awesome and exquisitely planned

layout of our gardens, the academic facilities and the Library. This

was followed by a scrumptious lunch. They also met our Hon’ble

Chancellor and Vice-President, Mr. Sekhar Viswanathan. After a

brief intro’, they shared their views on VIT and their experiences of a week’s stay in ‘Incredible India’.

“Beatz-2013”:

The International Students Club strives at enhancing cross cultural exchange

among students in the University campus. ISC annually hosts a talent show

‘BEATZ’, for NRI and foreign students, which provides the freshers as well as the

seniors a chance to interact and display their talents. The ‘BEATZ-2013’ was

held on 06 August, 2013 at the Anna Auditorium. This provided a platform for

the NRI and Foreign students to showcase their talents.

The show started at 6:00 p.m. with a solo dance performance, following

which there were several other dances and songs. The air was filled with cheer

and excitement which was evident from the loud rounds of applause from the

enthusiastic audience.

‘Sixth Sanity’ and ‘Paradox’ were the two bands which performed that

evening and shook up the audi’ with their heavy metal performances. However,

the highlight of the show was a solo dance performance by DG, a foreign stu-

dent who not only rocked the stage but got everyone up on their feet.

The vote of thanks was proposed by Mr. Kashish Sharma, President of the In-

ternational Students Club.

Glimpses from ‘BEATZ’

2 students from Polytechnic School University of Tours, France;

2 students from University of Technology Compiegne, UTC,

France; 1 student from Fairview International School, Singapore;

1 student from University of Cincinnati, USA and 3 students from

Kings College London.

The Dance Club put up a scintillating programme on the dances

of different states of India. The International Exchange students

also performed songs and dances. The Interns pictured with our Honourable

Chancellor; Vice-President, Mr. Sekar

Viswanathan and Vice-Chancellor

Hon’ble Chancellor and Vice-President Mr.Sekar Viswanathan engaged in an active interaction with the R.T. exchange students

A Hearty Congrats to the newly elected representatives of the Student Council-2013-’14: The Office of International Relations take this special opportunity to wish Mr. Huang Ningjia, 12 BCC

0198 (Chinese representative); Ms. Banda Ellah, 11 BEE 0172 ( Foreign students’ representative)

and Mr. Ruman Abdul Hanan,12 BBA 0068 ( NRI representative), a VERY HEARTY CONGRATS.

We look forward to their whole hearted co-operation and co-ordination in organizing various events

for the Chinese, Foreign and NRI students in the University and their active involvement in sincerely

executing their roles as representatives in the Student’s council.

We wish them all the very best!

Visitors from Abroad: (Vellore campus)

July: • Dr. Tendai Padenga, Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe and Dr. Eng Kanhkamwe,

Vice Chancellor Harare Institute of Technology , Zimbabwe visited the University on 02 and

03 July, 2013. They met the officials of the IR Office to explore the possibilities of ac aca-

demic exchange.

• Dr. Idris A Rai, Vice Chancellor, The State University of Zanzibar, Tanzania and Dr. Yahya

Hamad Sheikh, Head of the Department of Computer Science, The State University of

Zanzibar, Tanzania visited the University on 03 and 04 July, 2013. They met the officials at

the IR Office and also held discussions with the Deans of the Schools of Computing Sciences

and Engineering and Information Technology and Engineering on academic co-operation.

• Mr. Supramani Shoniah, Faculty of Language and Linguistics, Indian Studies, Univer-

sity of Malaya, Malaysia, visited the University on 10 and 11 July, 2013. He met the Offi-

cials at the IR Office and held discussions with the Dean, School of Social Sciences and Lan-

guages on academic co-operation.

• Dr. Sivabalan, Professor in Tamil Language, University of Malaya, Malaya, visited the Uni-

versity on 15 and 16 July, 2013. He met the Officials at the IR Office and held discussions

with the Dean, School of Social Sciences and Languages on academic co-operation.

• Prof. Vignesh Rajamani, Ph.D., Research Engineer, Oklahoma State University, USA, vis-

ited the University on 17 July, 2013. He met the Officials at the IR Office and the Dean of

School of Electrical Engineering (SELECT) and delivered a lecture on Importance of Engineer-

ing Design(Related with Project Based Learning).

• Prof.Ramprasad Balasubramanian, PhD, Interim Associate Dean, College of Engineer-

ing, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts

Dartmouth, USA, visited the University on 22 July. He met the Officials of the IR office

and held discussions on academic co-operation.

August:

• Mr. Jiang Duyun ,Vice Chairman of The Standing Committee, The People’s Congress of

Henan Province; Mr. Yang Weibin, Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Office,

Henan Provincial Government,; Mr. Li Xiaojian, President of Henan University

of Economics and Law; Ms. You Hua ,Interpreter of the Foreign Affairs Office, Henan

Provincial Government visited the university on 02 August, 2013. They met the Officials

of the IR Office and other officials in the University.

• Dr. Prakash Hande, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School

of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore visited the University from 04 to

09 August, 2013. He delivered lectures to the postgraduate students of during his visit.

• Dr.T. Ravichandran, Associate Dean for Research and Professsor of Information Sys-

tems Lally School of Management & Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA,

visited the university on the 06 August, 2013. He met the officials at the IR Office and

also the other officials of the university.

• Prof. Bhojan Anand, Dept. of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore, visited the university on 06 August, 2013. He met the officials of the IR Office

and later on the Deans of the Schools of Computer Science and Engineering and Informa-

tion Technology and Engineering and held discussions on academic co-operations.

• Dr. K. P. Ramachandran, Associate Dean(Post Graduate Studies & Research), Caledo-

nian College of Engineering, Muscat, visited the university from 20 to 22 August, 2013.

He met the officials at the IR Office and other officials at the university.

• Dr. Harriet Howse, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom, visited the uni-

versity on 21 August, 2013. She met the officials at the IR Office and also the Dean of the

School of Information Technology and Engineering and held discussions on the feasibility

of academic co-operations.

• Prof. N. Ranganathan, Director, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université

Francois Rabelais de Tours, France, visited the university on 23 August, 2013.

• Dr. Krishnaswami Srihari, Professor & Chair Director, Watson Institute for Systems Ex-

cellence,The State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, visited the university

on 26 August, 2013. He made a presentation on the university.

MoU Signed:

VIT University signed Memoranda of Understanding with:

• North Dakota State University, USA on 24 May, 2013

• Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe on 03 July, 2013

• Group T International University College, Leuven, Belgium on 03 July, 2013

• The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Tanzania on 04 July, 2013

• Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland on 24 July, 2013

• Henan University of Economics and Law, China on 02 August, 2013

• Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda on 14 August, 2013

• The State University of New York at Binghamton, USA on 26 August, 2013

Visitors from Abroad: (Chennai campus)

July:

• Dr. Rao from IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, visited

the University on 25 July 2013. He delivered a guest lecture

on “Distributed Computing”.

• Mrs. Sakthi Subramanian, Principal Engineer, Ericsson

Inc. USA, visited the University on 26 July, 2013. She deliv-

ered a guest lecture on “Processor Verification”.

August: • Prof. Alex , Associate Head, School of Engineering

(Research) & Prof. Dr. Aman Maung Than Oo (Senior

Lecturer in Electrical Engineering), School of Engineer-

ing, Deakin University visited VIT University on 12

August, 2013.

A Hearty Welcome to the New Batch of Chinese Students:

VIT University extends a Hearty Welcome to the new batch of 63 Chinese students

who arrived in the University on the 19August, 2013 for the 2+2 twinning pro-

gramme in various disciplines that includes B.Com(C.A), B.Sc Computer Science,

B.Sc Multimedia and Animation Animation.These students are from Wuhan Univer-

sity, Hubei University of Science and Technology and Sichuan Top Vocational Institute.

The Office of International Relations wishes them ‘All Success in their Academic Programme’.