R & D Newsletter.cdr - Chitkara University - Himachal Pradesh

Getting ready for a quantum leap: Chitkara University serves as a Launchpad

for Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship

Member Secretary (RnD News)

The pandemic necessitated a paradigm shift in our approach towards research as

it is an important tool in nding viable and real time market solutions. This edition

is the epitome of research and innovation undertaken by different schools and

departments of Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh. The faculty members with

a researcher's bent of mind/ inclined towards research of the university have been

awarded multiple grants by national and international funding agencies. Further,

the project proposals for funding more than 3 crores were submitted to different

funding agencies. In addition, individual faculty achievements are highlighted in

the newsletter.

Asst. Dean (IPR Cell)

The newsletter covers major events organized by different schools, notably, the

webinars conducted with our industry partners and our alumni, an unbroken bond

in these challenging times. Finally, I thank all the members of the editorial board in

compiling the activities and achievements of their respective schools and

departments. I hope you will nd the newsletter resourceful. Please do write to us

and share your feedback.

Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship can never be inculcated and imbibed

in the teaching space rather these practices need to be nurtured and stimulated.

The current edition of the newsletter provides convincing print and coverage of the

activities and initiatives taken to foster entrepreneurship through panel discussions

and Startup Hackathons covered in top stories.

Lipika Gupta

We have led 39 patents and 4 patents were granted from July to December, 2020

and many more are in process. We are getting ready to take a leap with over 70

publications in SCI/Scopus indexed Journals and Conferences in the latter half of

the year. Thus, the university has served as a Launchpad for Innovation, Research

and Entrepreneurship.

Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh

Ÿ International Conference on Advances in Multi-Disciplinary Sciences and Engineering Research (ICAMSER-2021) 2-4 July, 2021

Ÿ International Conference On Sustainability : Multidisciplinary Engineering Practices 16-17 July, 2021

Ÿ Patent Filing Competition March-April, 2021

Chitkara University, HP is the rst university in the country among more than 1000 industries,

service sectors and MNCs to get this recognition for two successive years.

Chitkara university, Himachal Pradesh has been honoured with Gold Award at the 13th

Quality Council of India (QCI) - DL Shah quality award for the project and case study on the

topic "Impact of academia in achievement of sustainable development goals by setting up

zero discharge campus" showcasing the quality standards maintained through project

organisation.

Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar, Vice Chancellor (Chairman)

Dr. Sushil Narang, CSEDr. Bhisham Sharma, CSEDr. Sartajvir Singh, ECE

Dr. Sita Ram Sharma, Applied SciencesDr. Nitin Verma, CSP Ms. Navdeep Kaur, Nursing

Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, CA

Dr. Parul Grover, SBS

Dr. C. Prakasam, CEDr. Lipika Gupta, ECE (Member Secretary)

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL BOARD

FUTURE EVENTS

EDITORIAL

1

Faculty Achievements & Contributions 4

Patents 22

Top Stories 2

Events Attended 20

Editorial 1

Expert Talk Organized 17

Publications 26

Vol 6, Issue 1, February 2021(July 2020 - December 2020)

Global meet on Recent advances in Multidisciplinary ResearchA Global meet on Recent advances in Multidisciplinary Research was

organized in Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh in Association

with the UK Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators

on 3 July 2020. The objective of the meet was to blur the

internat ional boundaries for conduct ing high qual i ty

multidisciplinary research. The eminent guest speakers are Dr.

Vincenzo Piuri (Full Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, IEEE

Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist), Dr. Sreenatha Anavatti

(Professor at University of New South Wales, ADFA Campus,

Canberra), Dr. Sam Goundar (Associate Professor in Information

Communications Technology at British University Vietnam) and Dr.

Ahmed M. Elmisery (Associate Professor in informatics and

cybersecurity at the University of South Wales, United Kingdom). Dr.

Madhu Chitkara, Pro-Chancellor, Chitkara University (HP)

motivated the participants in the inaugural speech. Dr. Varinder S

Kanwar, Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University (HP) appreciated the

global conuence of the experts for multidisciplinary research. There

are more than 500 participants from India and Abroad. The event

was organized by Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Dubey, Ms. Ravita Chahar –

Assistant Professor (CSE), Moderated by Dr. Sushil Narang –

Professor and Head (CSE) and Dr. Abhishek Kumar - Assistant

Professor (CSE) and coordinated by Dr. Ajit Noonia - Assistant

Professor (CSE)

Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh started 4-year B. Pharmacy

program with a strong Industry focus and intensive practical

industrial exposure in the Pharmaceutical industry from academic

session 2020-21. Now more than ever, the world needs drugs that

can ght deadly infections and boost quality of life. At the frontline of

this battle will be superheroes in lab coats; Pharmacy professionals,

who will be responsible for tasks ranging from formulation to

delivery of life saving drugs. Chitkara School of Pharmacy with its

industry-oriented curriculum, state of the art infrastructure, and

emphasis on knowledge creation through cutting edge research, will

be their training ground. The transformative B. Pharmacy program is

designed to nurture professionals prepared for global healthcare

challenges of today and tomorrow. It's the healthy formula for future-

proof careers of our industry ready Pharmacy graduates. The

seamless blend of theoretical and practical learning with strong

research focus is the secret potion that will shape game changers in

leading pharmaceutical companies, healthcare facilities,

government bodies, academia, and research.

Launch of B. Pharma Course in collaboration with a reputed pharama companies

Virtual Panel discussion on Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Classrooms

Chancellor, Chitkara University, HP, Dr. Manoj Manuja, Pro VC,

Chitkara University, Punjab and Mr. S.R. Dhanasekaran, Vice

President, Ofce of Skills and strategic Initiatives, Chitkara University,

Punjab. The session was moderated by Mr. Nalin Singh, Founder

Natio Cultus, Hyderabad.Dr. Varinder S. Kanwar mentioned that a teacher has the key to spark

the imagination of in the students and hence motivate and guide them

to be entrepreneurs. According to Dr. Kanwar, Agritech, Hyper local

and Farming are the key sectors to escalate the country's

Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CEED),

Chitkara University organized a virtual panel discussion on

“Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Classrooms” on 11th September,

2020. The key panelists for the event were Dr. Varinder Kanwar, Vice

growth. Dr. Manoj Manuja mentioned that to encourage

entrepreneurship there is a need of internal and external stake

holders. According to Dr. Manuja, entrepreneurship training must be

imparted to the teachers so that they guide the students effectively. Dr.

S. R. Dhanasekaran mentioned that most of the students are seeking

for jobs not for careers. This needs to be changed. Mr. Nalin Singh

mentioned that concept of “Scholars to Job” needs to be replaced with

“Scholar to Entrepreneurs”. He stated that entrepreneurship is not a

co-curricular activity; it's a full-time skill. He also mentioned

Universities should actively support entrepreneurship among students

as entrepreneurship culture tends to spark the industry. Out of top 10

Global companies in the world 6 are led by an Indians, so Indian

entrepreneurs are proven and skillful race.

TOP STORIES

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from Government of Himachal Pradesh for a period of 1 year

amounting to 3 Lakhs p.a. There were cash rewards to the top three

winners offered by the Govt of Himachal Pradesh. The nale of

startup Himachal Hackathon was held virtually on 27 October

2020. 32 participants from all over India competed in the nals. The

participants pitched their respective ideas in front of the Jury. The Jury

includes Mr. Sanjay Kanwar, Deputy Director, Industries Baddi, Dr.

Varinder Kanwar, Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University, Himachal

Pradesh, Dr. Archana Mantri, Vice Chancellor, Chitkara university,

Punjab and Mr. Sumeer Walia, Director CEED, Chitkara University.

Mr. Gurmohan Singh, Assistant Professor and Mr. Sahil Gill, Student –

Civil Engineering (CE) have received the seed funding worth INR 2

Lakh, for the development of approved project proposal entitled “Self

Healing Orthopaedic Metallic Implant” from NewGen IEDC,

Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

Ÿ Research grant worth of INR 1,400,000 has been received from

The AI for Health Team, Microsoft for the project entitled

“Molecular Docking Based In- silico Screening of Phytochemicals

Against Therapeutic Targets of COVID-19”. Dr Nitin Verma-

Principal, Chitkara School of Pharmacy, is the principal investigator

and Dr. Sushil Narang - Professor & Head, Computer Science

Engineering (CSE) is the co- Investigator in the project.

Ÿ A workshop grant of US $1000 was received from Society of

Toxicology, USA to conduct the International Workshop on Human

Health Risk Assessment. Dr Nitin Verma - Principal, Chitkara

School of Pharmacy, successfully organized and conducted the

workshop.

Seed funding of INR 2,00,000 received

Ÿ Dr. Shivendu Prashar - Assistant Professor, Electronics and

Communication Engineering (ECE), Chitkara University H.P. has

received a funding of INR 1,830,000 from SERB-DST for the

project entitled “Development study of FBG based snow surface

temperature sensor for forecasting of avalanche activity”.

Research funding of INR3,200,000 received

Chitkara School of Pharmacy (CSP), Chitkara University, Himachal

Pradesh has organized SOT Sponsored International Workshop on

Human Health Risk Assessment, from 17-18 September, 2020. Dr.

Michael L. Dourson, Director of Science, Toxicology Excellence for

Risk Assessment (TERA) Cincinnati Oh, USA, Dr. Bernard K.

Gadagbui, Sr. Toxicologist, TERA Cincinnati Oh, USA, Dr. Debabrata

Kanungo, former Additional Director General, Ministry of Health

and Family Welfare Government of India, Dr. K.S Rao, Senior

Research Director and Head of Safety Assessment, Syngene

International Bangalore, Dr. G.B Jena, Associate Professor National

Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, NIPER Mohali,

Dr. Vaishali Manikrao Patil, Associate Professor (Research), KIET

School of Pharmacy, UP and Dr. Varun Ahuja, Senior Scientist, Drug

Safety Assessment, LUPIN Pune, India were the eminent speakers.

The speakers deliberated on the intensive outline and overview of

Principles and applications of Human Health Risk Assessment. More

than 200 participants from Indian, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden

and other parts of the world had participated. The workshop was

highly appreciated by pharmacy community across the globe. Dr.

Nitin Verma – Principal, Chitkara School of Pharmacy, along with the

faculty members of the school organized and coordinated this global

event.

Startup Himachal Hackathon

International Workshop on Human Health Risk Assessment

“Startup Himachal Hackathon", a special edition for all our faculty

members. In association with Startup Himachal, Chitkara University

organised this hackathon on 27th October, 2020. The aim is to

support Faculty, Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Researchers who

plan to develop innovations that would shape tomorrow. Through

“Startup Himachal Hackathon” early stage Ideas, Innovative

projects and new Startups were offered a wide range of support that

includes infrastructure, nance and industry connections. Shortlisted

and Selected entries got the chance to set up their own company and

apply for incubation under Startup Himachal, wherein, they will

receive a monthly sustenance allowance of Rs 25000/- per month

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Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Dubey – Assistant Professor (CSE), has been

invited for the Online Expert Talk on "AI and Machine Learning" in the

Sagar Group of Institutions Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on 8 July

2020.

Awarded Distinguished Educator award by GISR foundation @ 2nd International Business and Academic Excellence (IBAE-2020)

Dr Ajay Goyal, Professor (CE),

received Distinguished Educator

award by GISR foundation @ 2nd

In t e rna t iona l Bus ines s and

Academic Excellence (IBAE-2020)

on Dec 26, 2020. Award was

awarded in recognition of overall

achievements and contributions in

the education and academic eld.

GISR is a non-prot organization

and a research and development

initiative established by senior

researchers to promote the research

and development activities in the

eld of engineering, management, technology, and science.

Young Investigator Travel Award

Invited for the Online Expert Talk on "AI and Machine Learning"

Dr. Nitin Verma, Professor and Principal (CSP), has attended 88th

EAS congress. He has been awarded young investigator travel

award of 400 Euro and also earned 25 credit point. He also has

been conrmed honorary membership from Movement Disorder

Society (MDS) for the Year 2020-2021.

Recognized Speaker for Webinars on “AAtam Nirbhar Bharat” and “Mathematics and Its Applications”Dr. Sita Ram Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Applied

Sciences (AS), was one of the recognized speakers for webinar on

AAtam Nirbhar Bharat. The special event was organized by Shiksha

Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, Himachal and Chitkara University, Himachal

Pradesh on September 18, 2020. Dr. Sharma also acted as expert

speaker for webinar on “Mathematics and Its Applications”

organized by Govt. Degree College, Bilaspur on December 4, 2020.

As an expert in “Vedic Mathematics” he also delivered a talk on the

same topic on National Mathematics Day on 22nd December, 2020

at Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, Jammu.

Radio Talk Show: Awareness is the greatest agent for changeInternational Association of Suicide prevention along with World

Health Organization observes 10th September, 2020 as Suicide

Prevention Day all across the globe. To aware the community

regarding the same, a radio talk on “Suicide Prevention” was given

by Ms Bandana Bisht – Principal, Chiktara University College of

Nursing (CUCN) on Radio Chitkara 107.8 FM. She was also invited

to deliver an expert talk on theme “Break the silence; let's talk now”.

The event was jointly organised by Chitkara University College of

Nursing, Himachal Pradesh and Department of Computers

Applications, Chitkara University, Punjab. Ms Bandana Bisht briefed

the students on factors leading to suicidal ideation among youth. She

talked about the importance of breaking the stigma and calling out

for help if you have suicidal thoughts.

Distinguished speaker during Inaugural Address in Webinar on “Introduction to Securities Market”

Dr. Parul Grover Mahajan – Assistant Professor, Chitkara School of

Business Studies (CSBS) represented Chitkara University, Himachal

Pradesh by presenting the inaugural address in the Webinar on

“Introduction to Securities Market” organized by Securities and

Exchange Board of India (SEBI), National Securities Depository

Limited (NSDL) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) in association

with Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh on September 18, 2020.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS

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Ÿ Dr. Abhishek Kanoungo – Assistant Professor (CE) contributed as

reviewer of Materials Today: Proceedings – A Scopus indexed

Journal.

Ÿ Dr. Bhisham Sharma Associate Professor (CSE) received

certicate of recognition as a reviewer from prestigious journal

like IEEE Access, International journal of communication systems,

Future generation computer systems, Medical Science Monitor.

All the journal are indexed in Journals Citation Report (JCR), Web

of Science (WoS) by Clarivate Analytics. He has also recognized

as TPC member for the two prestigious international

conferences.

Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor

Book on “The Laplace Transform” authored Dr. Sita Ram Sharma -

Associate Professor (AS), published by Scholar's Press Germany in

Dec, 2020. The book is intended to provide the conceptual basis on

Laplace Transform, its properties and application in Engineering and

Technology.

Ÿ Dr. Abhishek Kumar - Assistant Professor (CSE) has been

Appointed as an Associate Issue Editor in the Journal Computer

materials and continua [SCI and SCOPUS, IF- 4.98], Intelligent

Automation and Soft Computing [SCI, SCOPUS, IF-1.276] &

Cognitive Neurodynamics, Springer [SCI, SCOPUS, IF-3.925]

Book publications by our faculty members

Ÿ Dr. Bhisham Sharma - Associate Professor (CSE) selected as an

Associate Editor in International journal of COMMUNICATION

Systems, SCI & Scopus Indexed with Impact factor:1.319, Journal

Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics): 198/266 (Engineering,

Electrical & Electronic)73/90 (Telecommunications) Online

ISSN:1099-1131 © John Wiley & Sons Ltd. He also proposed

special issue and serving as a managing guest editor in special

issue “lbdl - Load Balancing of Sensory Data for IoT Deep

Learning Applications with Edge/Fog Computing” of Computers

& Electrical Engineering journal (Elsevier), SCI & Scopus Indexed

with Impact factor: 2.66.

Our faculty members are reviewers of esteemed SCI/ Scopus journalsŸ Dr Arun Lal Srivastav – Assistant Professor (AS) has served as

reviewer for prestigious SCI journals by reputed publishers like

Springer and Elsevier.

Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das, Associate professor, Chitkara University School

of Computer Applications (CUSCA) contributed as reviewer

National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and

Mathematics (NCASM-2020).

Faculty for Keynote Address, Session Expert and Session

Chairs for reputed International ConferencesŸ Dr. Abhishek Kumar- Assistant Professor (CSE) has acted as

Session Chair in ICAICR -2020 International Conference on

Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, 26-27

December 2020, Springer. He also delivered a talk as resource

person in an International Webinar Organized by BPB

PUBLISHER on topic Articial Intelligence: The future of Humanity

on 29 August 2020.

Ÿ Dr. Sartajvir Singh- Associate Professor (ECE) invited as session

chair and was facilitated with Recognition Award for valuable

contribution at 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of

Geosciences, Springer Nature, Tunisia on 2-4 November, 2020.

He has also contributed as Technical Program Committee

member in reputed International conferences viz. IEEE

International Conference on Computing, Power and

Communication Technologies (ICCCA-2020), IEEE International

Conference on Computing, Power and Communication

Technologies (GUCON 2020), and IEEE Region 10 Symposium

(TENSYMP), Bangladesh.

Ÿ Dr. Abhishek Kumar, Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Dubey - Assistant

Professor (CSE) and Dr. Sushil Narang – Professor and Head

(CSE) have been invited for the special sessions and session

chairs for the four international conferences: International

Conference on Smart Technologies for Smart Nation, Universiti

Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 15-17 July 2020; International

Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics,

VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and the

Electronic Research Institute (ERI), Egypt, 19-21 October, 2020;

International Conference on Advances in Computing &

Communication Engineering), Las Vegas, USA, 22-24 July,

2020 and International Conference on Advanced Informatics for

Computing Research), Gurugram, Haryana, India, 26-27

December, 2020.

Ÿ Dr. Shivendu Prashar, Assistant Professor (ECE) and Dr. Sartajvir

Singh- Associate Professor (ECE) invited as session chair at IEEE

International Conference on Computing, Power and

Communication Technologies (GUCON 2020), organized by

Galgotias University, India on 2-4 October, 2020 and

International Conference on Computing, Communication and

Automation Jointly Organized by Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,

Romania & Galgotias University, India, on 30-31 October, 2020.

Incentive received for Startup Idea in Startup Himachal

Hackathon 2020

Mr. Ankush Tanta, JRF (CE), also received a grant INR 20,000 in the

same event.

Mr. Gurmohan Singh, Assistant Professor – Civil Engineering (CE),

received a grant of INR 30,000 in Startup Himachal Hackathon

2020 - a competition for identifying & honouring compelling

innovations & technologies, organized by CEED, Chitkara

University. The event had participation of over 185 applicants pan

India & the nale was held on 27 October, 2020.

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ISRO outreach Centre at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh

Industrial Consultancy worth INR 90,000

ISRO outreach Centre of Chitkara University, H.P. Coordinated

eleven different courses organized by IIRS – ISRO, Dehradun.

Faculty, Research Scholars and students from different parts of

country participated in these courses. There were 108 participants

attended these courses from July to December 2020. The Centre is

coordinated by Dr. C. Prakasam – Associate Professor, Civil

Engineering (CE).

Dr. Nitin Verma - Principal (CSP), provided industrial consultancy to

Sapiens Labs Baddi for three different projects. Dr. Verma along with

Mr. Vivek Puri and Ms. Amaya Sharma, Assistant Professor-CSOP

provided their expertise to complete the projects.

Ÿ Dr C. Prakasam, Associate Professor (CE) and Dr Sartajvir Singh

Dhillon - Associate Professor (ECE) have submitted a research

project to DST, New Delhi with proposed funding of INR 2, 29,

50, 500 Lakhs. The project is entitled “Development of

Environmental ow & Flood Monitoring Systems”. Dr. Prakasam,

has also submitted a proposal for summer/ Winter Schools in

Geospatial Science and Technology Level 2 (Landslide) proposal

to DST, New Delhi with proposed funding of INR 11 Lakhs.

Biological Fertilizers and Mashroom Cultivation”. The project has

been submitted to Department of Bio-Technology (DBT),

Government of India.

Ÿ Dr. Nitin Verma – Principal (CSP), Dr. Lipika Gupta – Associate

Professor & Head (ECE), Dr. Suhil Narang – Professor & Head

(CSE) submitted a proposal to MDS (International Parkinson's

and Movement Disorder Society) to develop Mobile Phone

Application (app) for patients with Parkinson Disease (PD). The

expected funding is approximately US $5000.

Ÿ Dr. Nitin Verma - Principal (CSP), has submitted two projects for

approximate funding of INR 90 Lacs. One project entitled “DBT

Skill Vigyan Programme under State Partnership in Life Science

and Biotechnology” has been submitted to Department of

Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of

India and HIMCOSTE Shimla. The project entitled “Initiatives to

estimate the presence of Peruoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in rivers

and ground/drinking water in Himachal Pradesh: Emissions and

implications for human exposure” has been submitted to H.P.

Council of Science, Technology and Environment (HIMCOSTE).

Ÿ Dr. Lipika Gupta– Associate Professor (ECE) contributed as

reviewer of Scopus indexed Journal. She has also served as

reviewer two of prestigious conferences.

Ÿ Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) has contributed as

Reviewer in reputed International Journals e.g. Groundwater for

Sustainable Development (Elsevier), Applied Sciences (Springer

Nature), Computer Science (Springer Nature) and Current World

Environment (ENVIRO Publisher). He was also reviewer in

reputed International conferences e.g. SPRINGER Conference of

Arabian Journal of Geoscience (Tunsia), IEEE India Council

International Conference (INDICON), and Indo-Taiwan

International Conference on Computing, Analytics and

Networks.

Ÿ Dr Shivendu Prashar– Assistant Professor (ECE) served as

reviewer for the journal entitled Computers and Electrical

Engineering, published by Elsevier and 5th IEEE International

Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation

(ICCCA-2020), jointly organized by Aurel Vlaicu University of

Arad, Romania & Galgotias University, India on 30-31 October,

2020.

Project proposals submitted for funding by our faculty members

Ÿ Dr Ajay Sharma, Professor and Dr Arun Lal Srivastav and Dr

Ishwar Dutt – Associate Professor (AS) have submitted a research

project for external funding “Evaluation of metal mobility from

soil to plants and to identify bio-indicator plants for

phytoremediation” to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and

Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India (INR- 36.69

Lac).

Ÿ Ms. Minaxi Dassi – Assistant Professor (ECE) served as reviewer

for 2020 IEEE 17th India Council International Conference

(INDICON), Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi,

India

Ÿ Dr Ajay Goyal- Professor (CE), as a Co-PI has submitted a

research proposal to DST, New Delhi with proposed funding of

INR 33.25 Lakhs. The project entitled “Assessment of seed quality

traits through thermal imaging for determining the viability of

wheat seeds”

Ÿ Dr Arun Lal Srivastav and Dr Ishwar Dutt – Associate Professor

(AS) have submitted a research project for funding upto 19.55

Lac. The title of the project is “Skill development in rural

population of KotBeja Panchayat of Solan District to increase

their income through the productions of Biological Pesticides

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The School of Business Studies (CSBS) organized Online Workshop –

“Train the Trainers on Financial Literacy” exclusively for NSS and

UBA Volunteers on July 3 and July 11, 2020 with an aim to enlighten

students about the basic nancial concepts like nancial planning,

savings, debt/borrowings, investment, types of accounts and loans,

KYC, banking ombudsman etc. This workshop was helpful in

creating awareness and disseminating nancial knowledge among

the students. The event was moderated and conducted by Dr. Parul

Grover Mahajan – Assistant Professor, CSBS.

Webinar on Drug Discovery: Serendipity to Articial Intelligence

Dr Vinay Lather, Professor, Amity

Inst i tute of Pharmacy, Amity

University, Noida, India delivered a

webinar on “Drug Discovery:

Serendipity to Articial Intelligence”

on July 7, 2020. The webinar was

organized by Chitkara University

School of Pharmacy and Basic

Sciences and was internal ly

coordinated by Dr. Ajmer Singh

and moderated by Dr. Nitin Verma

– Faculty (CSP). The objective of the

talk was discussing the role of AI in

drug discovery and development process which was attended by 33

participants.

Online Workshop – “Train the Trainers on Financial Literacy”

“Marketing as a career option” by Mr Rajesh Kumar

A session on marketing as a career option conducted by CEED where

speaker Mr Rajesh Kumar, IIM Calcutta Alumni, Vice President –

UiPath, Former Head of Audience & Experiential Marketing for SAP

Asia Pacic & Japan in conversation with Strategy and Marketing

expert, Dr Sandhir Sharma, Chitkara University, Punjab thrown light

on various career opportunities. The event was conducted on July 9,

2020. Mr. Rajesh discussed how technology has not changed the

fundamentals but Technology has given a lot of power in the hands

of marketers to do things more effectively & efciently.

Chitkara University School of Pharmacy organized webinar on the

topic “Insights to Combat COVID-19 with Nanotechnology” on July

9, 2020. Dr Geeta Aggarwal, Professor and Dean Academic School

of Pharmaceutical Sciences, DPSRU, New Delhi, India was the invited

speaker. She emphasized on role of nanotechnology to combat viral

infections and how nanotechnology can be use for diagnosis,

prevention and treatment of COVID-19. The talk was attended by 30

delegates and moderated by jointly Dr. Nitin Verma- Principal and

Ms. Ameya Sharma – Faculty (CSP).

Insights to Combat COVID-19 with Nanotechnology

National Level Quiz on Engineering Mathematics

H u m o n g o u s n a t i o n w i d e

response was witnessed for

participation in Engineering

Mathematics quiz organized by

Department of Applied Sciences.

Two-day event was organized

online from July 10 - 11, 2020.

Dr. Sheai Batra - Associate

Professor (AS) organized and

coordinated the event.

EVENTS ORGANIZED

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Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) organized a webinar

on “Applications of Machine Learning in Remote Sensing”, resource

Dr. Devnedra Kumar Soni, Additional Director and Senior Scientist,

Central Pollution Control Board, Lucknow shared his valuable

experience and delivered a talk on the topic “Biomedical Waste

Management with respect to COVID-19” with the faculty members

and students of the University on July 13, 2020. The event was locally

coordinated and organized Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav – Associate

Professor (AS).

Chef Divay Mehta from Chitkara School of Hospitality and

Management conducted and organized a webinar on Molecular

Gastronomy on July 13, 2020. He gave insights of the unique

cooking technique.

A Full Marathon of 42.19km is

considered to be Test of mental

and physical Strength. Ms.

Apoorva Chaudhary an “The

ultra-runner" was in conversation

with Mr. Sumeer Walia Director-

CEED on 11th July, 2020. She is

the only Indian woman to run

more than 200km holding a

National Record 2019. Youth

icon's and innovators Series is a

stage to feature and speak with

people committed to make a change.

Webinar on “Biomedical Waste Management with respect to COVID-19”

“The Youth of India and their Million Dreams” by Apoorva Chaudhary

Webinar on “Molecular gastronomy”

Webinar on Applications of Machine Learning in Remote Sensing

person: Mr. Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Snow and Avalanche Study

Establishment (SASE) in laboratory of the Defence Research &

Development Organization (DRDO), Chandigarh (UT), India, the

event was attended by 60 participants.

Online Session on Hospitality Now and the Future

Mr. Harpreet Singh Chhatwal, Senior

HR Director, Hotel Radisson,Dubai,

UAE gave an e xpe r t t a l k on

“Hospitality Now and the Future” on

July 15, 2020. The focus of the talk

was the impact of the pandemic on

Hospitality industry and the way

forward.

Chef Amit Vohra, Associate

Director, Indian School of

Hospitality, was invited to

engage the s tudents on

interesting topic of “Culinary

Maths for Students” on July 16,

2020. He gave insight on

m e n u p l a n n i n g , m e n u

engineering, costing and prot

volume.

An international eminent

speaker, Mr. Narender Verma,

Project Manager Catalent

Pharma Solutions, Ontario,

Canada, in teracted wi th

faculty members and students

of Chitkara University, HP on

the most relevant topic of

Global Pharmaceutical Drug

Development on 17th July,

2020. The objective of this talk

was focus on the continuous

endeavor of Pharmaceutical

Industries is to improve and

extend people 's l ives by

maintaining lead in science and operations, attracting and nurturing

the best talent, and driving innovation in development of life-saving

medicines globally attended by 31 delegates coordinated by Mr.

Vivek Puri and Dr. Nitin Verma.

Global Pharmaceutical Drug Development

Culinary Maths for Students

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Webinar on "Railway as a Future Prospect for Civil Engineers”

Motivating Talk on “Let's meet and unleash your Potential to maximum"

An eminent speaker and Guinness World Record Holder, Arvind Mishra, TEDx speaker interacted with faculty and students of Chitkara University, HP on 18th July, 2020. His talk was on the topic "Let's meet and unleash your Potential to maximum". He gripped the audience with the heartening story of breaking world record for a marathon. Department of Civil Engineering, Chitkara University, H.P. organized this webinar which was attended by 512 participants. This event was coordinated by Dr Ajay Goyal- Professor and HoD (CE).

Department of Civil Engineering organized a webinar on "Railway as a Future Prospect for Civil Engineers" in collaboration with Systra MVA Consulting Pvt. Ltd. on 18th July, 2020. Mr. Satyaki Bhattacharya, Principal Engineer- Track &Alignment from Systra MVA Consulting (India Pvt. Ltd.) elaborated on fundamental aspects of alignment of railway tracks. More than 100 participants attended the event. This event was coordinated by Dr Abhishek Kanoungo – Assistant professor (CE).

Captivating Session on “Reconstructing and Reshaping the Road Ahead-Polishing Employability Skills”

Psychologist, Ms. Sangeeta Bhatia, from M.G.N. Public School, Jalandhar interacted and conducted a captivating session which motivated the students and faculty members in this difcult time of Covid-19. She focused on utilizing this time for improving and sharpening of the required employability skills. The session was moderated and organized by Dr. Neha Kumra- Associate Professor (AS) on July 21, 2020.

Dr. Tarun Sharma from Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea delivered

Webinar on “Silicon Nitride Platform for Nanophotonics Integrated Circuits: Past, Present and Future”

an technical webinar to the students of Electronics & Communication Engineering on the topic Silicon Nitride Platform for Nanophotonics Integrated Circuits: Past, Present and Future on 22nd July, 2020. The event was organized and moderated by Dr. Shivendu Prashar- Assistant Professor (ECE).

Webinar on “Revealing the things which you never knew: An engineer to billionaire”

Mr. Narayan Lal Gurjar, Founder and CEO, EF Polymers private limited, Graduate from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan shared his story of success journey from a student to CEO on 23rd July, 2020. Dr Ashu Taneja – Assistant Professor (AS) moderated and organized this webinar which was attended by more than 100 students and faculty members.

Food plating Competition

Chitkara School of Hospitality and Management organized an online “Food Plating Competition” on 23rd July, 2020. The objective of the event was to engage the students' in Hand on activities while studying at home. Chef Divay Mehta, Chef Setu Sharma and Chef Anup Kumar organized and coordinated the event.

“Parents and Stress: Understanding Signs, Responses and Management”

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) organized a webinar on “Parents and Stress: Understanding Signs, Responses and Management. The speaker of the webinar Dr Amanpreet Kaur, Ph.D, Psychologist, Former PGIMER, Chandigarh discussed the concerns of the faculty members of the university who are also parents at the same time. The event was conducted on 24

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July,2020 and was locally coordinated and moderated by Ms. Sandhya Sharma- Assistant professor (ECE).

Technology enthusiast, Mr Udit Ghai from Netsmartz Mohali acted as a resource person for the webinar on Solution Design and Architecture. He discussed about “Anatomy of Software Design” to be applied on software designing. Dr. Madhu Gupta - Associate Professor (AS) organized the event on July 25, 2020 which was attended by 70 participants.

Webinar on “Solution Design and Architecture”

CUSP invited Dr Damanpreet Singh, Senior Scientist and Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences (AcSIR) Pharmacology and Toxicology Laboratory, CSIR Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampu r, H.P., India to deliver a webinar on Preclinical Research in Drug Development Using Zebrash as an Experimental Model on July 27, 2020. He discussed that Zebrash is increasingly used as a toxicological model to conduct rapid in vivo tests and developmental toxicity assays; the zebrash features high genetic homology to mammals, robust, phenotypes, high-throughput genetic and chemical screening have made it a powerful tool to evaluate in vivo toxicity. About 103 participants attended. The

FDP on "Fundamentals aspects on Green Buildings”

Preclinical Research in Drug Development Using Zebrash as an Experimental Model

A faculty development program on "Fundamentals aspects on Green Buildings" was organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Chitkara University, H.P. from 27-29 July, 2020. 88 Faculty members from various institution nation-wide participated in the FDP. This event was coordinated by Dr Ajay Goyal- Professor and HoD (CE).

webinar was moderated by Dr. Nitin Verma and coordinated by Ms. Komal Thapa.

Workshop series on Thai Cuisine, Immune boosting food during/ post COVID 19 and Prehispanic Mesoamerican Food

Master Class by Mr. So Zahoor, CEO-HumanCap India, for the 56 participants of CEED Accelerator Program (CAP) Cohort-II on the Topic-"Motivational talk with focus on Creating High Performance Team" was conducted on 28th July, 2020. The speaker addressed various issues which can lead to a failure of a startup. According to the speaker, the biggest mistake we do is that we easily get settled for good. Good is the biggest enemy of great. One should always aspire to take his journey from good to great.

"Motivational talk with focus on Creating High Performance Team" Master Class with Mr. So Zahoor

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A session under the “Youth Icon's & Innovator series” on the topic “Engineering safe and resilient cities " was organized by team CEED on 8 August 2020. The session was delivered by Mr. Arbab Ahmad, an award winning, genius and a gifted architect who has brought unique innovations in urban planning and been rewarded by State and National government. The director of CEED, Mr Sumeer Walia moderated the session. Mr Arbab Ahmad talked about his journey and shared his thoughts about the opportunities that are available for architecture students in entrepreneurship.

Session on “Engineering safe and resilient cities”

Chitkara School of Hospitality and Management organized an online workshop series on “Thai Cuisine” from 27-28 July, 2020. Chef Thipaphol Boondri had an interactive session with students and faculty members. He gave insight about Thai cuisine. Continuing the workshop, Chef Sastri Bidaisee, demonstrated d i a b e t i c f r i e n d l y f o o d preparations on August 17, 2020. A resident of Trinidad & Tobago, she is an alumnus of Les Cordon Bleu and an expert in psycho logy and bus iness management, which she uses to integrate people and cuisine. Finally on August 26, Prof. Paol Chef Nayeli Lama Arteaga gave the master class on Italian Cuisine.

Webinar on "CHALLENGES AHEAD - POST COVID-19”

Department of Civil Engineering organized a Webinar on "CHALLENGES AHEAD - POST COVID-19" in collaboration with Mr. Subhransu Mohanty, Head, Human Resources, Everest Industries Ltd. on 5th Aug, 2020 and attended by 134 participants. This event was coordinated by Mr Gurmohan Singh - Assistant professor (CE).

A Webinar on "My environment-my responsibility - am I playing my part?" was organized by Department of Civil Engineering on August 13, 2020. The event was attended by 255 participants. The speaker and coordinator of the webinar Dr Ajay Goyal- Professor and HoD (CE) motivated the participants and emphasized that saving our environment is a collaborative effort and inputs and contribution by each and every individual is the key.

Session on “Kuch kar Dikhana Hai Entrepreneur Ban Dikhana Ha”

Webinar on Adolescents Volunteers Rise to the Challenge of COVID-19

Webinar on “My environment-my responsibility”

On the occasion of 74th Independence Day, 15 August 2020, a virtual session on “Kuch kar Dikhana Hai Entrepreneur Ban Dikhana Hai" was organized by CEED where Chitkara University's startup brigade shared their thoughts and passion towards building a great Nation. According to the young startups, that it is the responsibility of youngsters to take the “Make in India” movement forward. Also, there should be compulsory teaching of Entrepreneurship at school level. It will give students the kind of learning & condence that is very essential to not become a job seeker but become one who can create jobs for others. According to the young startups, everyone does not have the same motivation & passion. It is very difcult to bring commitment from the whole team. But if you value each member of your team, then they will be committed to the company.

Department of Civil Engineering (CE), Chitkara University and National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of INDIA , New Delhi , joint ly organized a national level w e b i n a r o n A d o l e s c e n t s Volunteers Rise to the Challenge of COVID-19 at 21st August 2020. Dr I. Balu, Scientist NIDM, Prof. Santosh Kumar, Professor & Head, CCDRR, NIDM, Dr. Kumar Raka, Programme Ofcer, CCDRR, NIDM, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India delivered the key note address, where, they emphasized on Adolescents Volunteers rise to the challenges of COVID-19. Dr. Varinder S.

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Kanwar, Pro- Chancellor, Chitakara University, HP participated as Chief Guest and interacted with the participants on Social activities by Chitkara University. There are 224 participants attend the event from different parts of the nation. This event coordinated by Dr C. Prakasam - Associate Professor, CE.

Chitkara University College of Nursing had organized an insightful and valuable Webinar on 'LIFE BETWEEN LIFE' by Ms Paramjit Kaur, A hypnotherapist, Regression therapist, Nurse practitioner from Australia. She elucidated on the need and process of regression therapy and Life between Life that helps to heal the deeper part of your soul which has been injured from old memories and is stopping you from moving forward. The science behind such therapies, the exigency of self-love, self-care, acceptance detachment from uncontrollable situations, being empathetic: not to absorb but to observe the pain of others to lead a contented life were also illuminated. The session was moderated by Ms. Bandana Bisht, Principal (CUCN) and was conducted on 22nd August, 2020.

Webinar on 'Life Between Life’

ACM Chapter - Webinar on “Cloud Infrastructure and Security”

Department of Computer Science Engineering organized a webinar on “Cloud Infrastructure and Security” on 28 August, 2020. Dr. Sonal Sharma, Senior Member ACM, Poornima Col lege of Engineering, Jaipur, India was the expert. The event was locally coordinated by Ms. Parul Datta and Dr. Ajit Noonia – Assiatnt Professor (CSE).

Session on “Sales for startups”

A virtual session on “Sales for Startups” was organized by CEED, Chitkara University on 28 August 2020. The Key resource person for the session was Mr. Subramanian Chandramouli. Mr. Subramanian Chandramouli discussed ve simple things to increase the sales which include various pointers like to do ve follow ups in a day,

atleast ve leads every 3 days, need to do three virtual meetings every 3 days and nding ve proposals every 15 days. Around 700+ students, faculty, industry people and other joined the session.

Hospitality Trivia- An online quiz competition

Relevance of Research and Academic Collaboration in Higher Education

An online quiz competition was organized from September 4-25, 2020 for the students of SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT. As many as 63 students participated in this event. Mr. Inder Singh and Ms. Kritika Kapoor from CUSHM organized this event.

Dr Kamal Dua, Lecture, Discipline of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia discussed about the need of doing Relevant research with Collaboration and delivered a webinar to faculty members and students of Chitkara University, HP on 28 August, 2020. He emphasized on collaboration among people and institutions will promote teaching and research activities. Academic collaboration is benecial to the faculty in learning new teaching tools, and to the students in increasing the breadth of their knowledge and learning different approaches to solving a problem. The webinar was attended by 23 delegates and coordinated by jointly Dr. Nitin Verma and Ms. Lata Rani.

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Chef Anup Kumar, Assistant P r o f e s s o r - B a k e r y & Confectionary, SHM, conducted a live workshop on 14 September 2020, for the students and faculty members of the university to explain the nuances of making a Donut, which though easy can be tricky if not managed well. Chef Anup took the participants through a step-by-step process that can be managed even at home.

Chitkara University College of Nursing, Himachal Pradesh in collaboration with Sanjeevini: Life Beyond Cancer had organised awareness take on Cancer on 24th September 2020. Ms Ruby Ahluwalia, Cancer Victor, the founder of Sanjeevini shared her journey of ghting with stage 3 cancer successfully. She explicated how and why the non-pharmacologic therapies: positive thought process, nutrition and breathing are of utmost importance in combating cancer. Also, Ms Florina, senior program executive, elaborated the need of emotional, psycho-social and empathetic support to cancer patients. Cancer is not fatal, if you work towards early diagnosis and it's treatment!!

Online workshop on Bakery & Confectionary

Webinar on - Never give up hope # Cancer Free India

Virtual session Incubating Big Ideas: A Peeping into the Journey of an Academy Incubator

A virtual session on the topic “Incubating Big Ideas: A Peeping into the Journey of an Academy Incubator” delivered by Dr Puran Singh, Head-IIT Mandi Catalyst was organized by CEED, Chitkara

University on 25 September 2020. Mr. Sumeer Walia, Director (CEED) moderated the session. Dr. Puran Singh talked about the entrepreneurship ecosystem of IIT Mandi and how they manage the whole startups and grants. He stated that building an Incubator is about Creating a vibrant ecosystem & creating a success story which can inspire young minds. He also talked about the support that IIT Mandi gives to its startups. According to Mr. Puran Singh, there are two important aspects in the startup building process: rst is quality of inputs i.e. quality of idea & second is mentoring process.

Nuances of food presentation

Dr Shubhneek Kaur Dhillon, Ophthalmologist from CMC, Ludhiana delivered the webinar on the topic “Protecting your eyes in Digital World'. She emphasized that in current digital age, it is critical to

Chef Divay Mehta – SHM, conducted an engaging online session on the topic “Nuances of food presentation” on September 26, 2020. Through this session he emphasized on hands-on tricks to make food more appealing by presentation.

Protecting your eyes in Digital World: Live the life you want to

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A virtual session on “Raising Agri based Startup from an Incubator” was organized by CEED on 9 October 2020. The session was delivered by Mr. Ram Dhulipala, Theme leader –Digital Agriculture & Youth Innovation Systems Drylands, ICRISAT, Hyderabad. Mr. Sumeer Walia, Director, CEED moderated the session. Ram Dhulipala talked about his journey and shared his thoughts about the opportunities that are available for agriculture students in entrepreneurship. According to Mr. Dhulipala, digital technologies have a big role to play at multiple levels in agriculture. He mentioned that AI/ML can be used for season forecasting, soil moisture detection and image recognition can be used for crop disease detection, irrigation management system.

Raising Agri based Startup from an Incubator

World Mental Health Day

assurance and associated procedures for manufacturing and controlling sterile pharmaceutical products in order to advise manufacturers of sterile pharmaceutical products and regulatory personnel responsible for pharmaceutical inspections on sterility assurance of the products processed by terminal sterilization procedures. About 72 participants attended. The webinar was moderated by Dr. Nitin Verma and coordinated by Ms. Neha Kanojia.

The students of B.Sc. Nursing 2nd Year, Chitkara University College of Nursing, Himachal Pradesh organized an online Mental Health Event on 10th October, 2020. The objective of this event was to begin

Hospitality Star Awards 2020

Sterile Manufacturing Unit Process and Its Requirement

know various ways to ensure that your eyes remain healthy. She discussed about explicit instructions specied to prevent Dry eye/ computer syndrome by using 20:20:20 formula i. e blink eyes for 20 times after every 20 minutes looking at 20 feet distance when using screen continuously. Also, pluses and minuses of the techniques such as LASIK & SMILE used to get freedom from glasses were elucidated. The webinar was organized by Chitkara University College of Nursing, Himachal Pradesh on 28th September, internally co-ordinated by Ms Navdeep Kaur, Vice Principal, CUCN.

A series of online competition were organized in collaboration with

faculty members of IHM and CCHM throughout the month such as

chef of the year, baker of the year, server of the year, housekeeper of

the year and concierge of the year. 125 students participated and on

28 September, 2020, the event was concluded by announcing

winners. Mr. Inder Singh, MS. Kritika Kapoor, Mr. Divay Mehta and

Ms. Setu Sharma –Faculty members of SHM coordinated and

moderated the event.

Dr Tarun Chug, Head, SIMCO Pvt. Ltd. India share his expertise about Sterile Manufacturing Unit Process and Its Requirement in Pharmaceutical Industries and delivered a webinar to faculty members and students of Chitkara University, HP on 09 October, 2020. He emphasized about current basic concepts on sterility

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The key speakers for the event were Mr. Ankur Warikoo, Cofounder Nearbuy.com, Mr. Sanam Kapoor, Founder La Pino'z , Dr. Ilham A Habibie, Chief executive, National ICT council, Republic of Indonesia. Along with this a panel discussion was also organized in the startup Conclave. The main panelists were Mr. Gaurav Goyal, Founder Anukai Solutions, Mr. Divam Wadhwa, Founder Chai Nagri and Mr. Abhiraj , Founder Schoolpad.

Dr. Mandar Bodass, Solution Consultant, Research Solution-Life Sciences, Elsevier, UK delivered a webinar to faculty members and students of Chitkara University, HP on 23 November, 2020. He discussed about key goal of drug discovery is the recognition of new molecular entities that may be of value in the treatment of diseases that qualify as presenting unmet medical needs. About 65 participants attended. The webinar was moderated by Dr. Nitin Verma and coordinated by Mr. Vivek Puri.

Introduction to Drug Discovery

Chitkara University College of Nursing (Himachal Pradesh) hosted an intense and heated debate competition among 40 participants from various nursing colleges of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi on the topic- Breastfeeding in HIV- Pros and Cons on 1st December 2020. Event edied the enthusiasm and insistence of the participants.

WORLD AID'S DAY"Startup Conclave 2020"- Chitkara University's one of its kind entrepreneurship summit with a strong focus on promoting entrepreneurship in India & to inspire, nurture & handhold budding entrepreneurs from the Indian Startup Ecosystem was organized by team CEED on 19 November 2020. Around 1200 students and faculty members participated in the event. The multi-stakeholder conversations enabled a robust community to nurture young entrepreneurs in driving the developmental change in the society.

Startup Conclave 2020

Relevance of Collaborative Learning and Research in Higher Education

redressing the historic neglect of mental health along with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's mental well-being. Entries were invited for debate competition, poster making competition and video making competition and prizes for various positions were bagged by the students. This event encouraged the students and sensitized them to invest more on their mental health.

Dr. Monira Momin, Principal and Professor, SVKM's Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, India discussed about the Relevance of Collaborative Learning and Research in Higher Education and delivered a webinar to faculty members and students of Chitkara University, HP on 16 October, 2020. She discussed about In the Educational System, Collaborative learning and research among students can occur peer-to-peer or in larger groups. The benets of collaborative learning include development of higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills, promotion of student-faculty interaction, Increase in student's self-esteem, and responsibility, exposure to and an increase in understanding of diverse perspectives and preparation for real life social and employment situations. About 52 participants attended. The webinar was moderated by Dr. Nitin Verma and coordinated by Ms. Ameya Sharma.

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Ÿ Mr. Abhinav Sharma from Barclay's, shared his thoughts on the topic - Success: IQ vs EQ

Ÿ Mr. Lalit Sharma, Head , Emerging Tech & Innovation discussed the topic - Articial intelligence & Machine learning

Ÿ Mr. Sandeep Kumar from Carrefour delivered master class on Future of Work.

Ÿ Mr. Chethan Seegehalli, Head Digitalization and Technology Solution, Siemens Advanta considered the topic - Digital Twins Powered by AI and ML for master class

Ÿ Mr. Saket Rahotagi from HCL Technologies, the expert discussed about- What it will Take to be relevant Tomorrow?

Ÿ Mr. Piyush Juneja from American Express gave the glimpse on the technical topic: Articial Intelligence and Fintech

Ÿ Dr. Anil Kumar Misra, CHRP, Magic Bricks motivated students with the topic - Staying ahead in Unprecedented Times

Ÿ Master session on COVID impact on Construction Industry was taken Mr. Sailesh Vilankar (Sr. Vice President, Field Operations - Schnidler

Ÿ Mr. Kapil Bakshi, Engineering manager - OYO rooms, gave a technical talk on Future of Android

Ÿ Mr. Harsh Sinha from DCM Shriram emphasized on Skills needed post pandemic.

Ÿ Engineering Your path to Success & Unearth Opportunities Galore in the Automobile Sector by Mr. Yeshwinder Patial, Director (HR), MG Motor India

Ÿ Dr. Kathleen Clough form Macquarie University, walked the memory lane with a motivational talk on Connecting The Dots

Ÿ Mr. Veerappaji, Hexaware Technologies motivated the freshmen on Leading through Covid-19 Embarking on a Graduate Course

Ÿ Mr. Amit Sharma, Chief Resource Ofcer, Volvo Group India elaborated Skills for Future.

Ÿ Mr. Keshav R. Murugesh, CEO, WNS Global Services conducting a Leadership Session with faculty and students

Ÿ Mr. Kaushik Das from Siemens spoke on a motivational topic - Discover the Diamond in You

Ÿ Mr. Ashish Gupta (Chief Technology Ofcer, Max Bupa Health Insurance) discussed the topic - Impacts Vs Actions: What I've learned through my Career

Ÿ Mr. Kshira Sagaran, Director, Consulting Services, CGI took master class on Future Trends of databases

Ÿ Mr. Rajiv Singh (Head of Cloud COE, Sopra Steria) discussed Future of Technology

Industry Academia Interface – Master Classes

Department of Applied Sciences celebrated National Mathematics Day. A sequence of events was organized, Video Making Competition, Kala-E-Ganit, Invite Talks, Paper Presentation and Mathematical Quiz. Dr Sita Ram Sharma, Dr Ashok Kumar and Dr Shefali Batra – Associate Professor (AS) jointly organized the event.

National Mathematics Day

Ÿ Mr. Himanshu Verma from KPMG India delivered the master class on “Opportunities in Covid”.

Ÿ Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh from TCS took technical master class on Machine Learning and Articial Intelligence

A series of Industry Master Classes were organized for the B.E. and BBA (Batch 2020) as a means of online Induction Programme twice a week in the month of August-September-October wherein numerous expert sessions were organized by the industry experts from organizational giants and area experts from international institutions. The objective of these sessions was to provide industry and international exposure to students for laying strong academic and professional foundation. At the same time, these sessions were planned to give motivation to the students in these unprecedented time of Covid-19. These sessions were organized in collaboration with Ofce of External Affairs (OEA), Chitkara University and were internally coordinated by the academic mentors of the students, Dr. Lipika Gupta – Associate Professor (ECE) for B.E. (Batch-2020) and Dr. Parul Grover Mahajan – Assistant Professor – CSBS (for BBA Batch 2020). The highlighted Master classes are listed below:

Ÿ Dr. Ashwin S Kumar (Senior VP, Capability, Transformation & Operations Head- Virtusa) opened the Master class sessions with the topic - Skillset & Traits for the Future.

Ÿ Mr. Manish Chandra, Head, Deployment Services Marketing at Nokia, conducted master class on the topic - 5G: The New Revolution for Communication Service Providers & Consumers.

Ÿ Mr. Venu Adithya, Executive Director, HR, Brisk info discussed Social Engineering in Cyber Security

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Webinar on “A General Manager new normal during COVID 19 in the Mexican hotel”

An expert talk for students and

faculty members of Chitkara

School of Hospitality and

Management was organized

on 24 July, 2020. Ms. Karla G.

Ruiz - GM of a boutique hotel

at Mexico addressed the

participants. She is an expert in

safety and Food hygiene and a hotel consultant.

Expert Talk on “The Journey 1G- 5G and Beyond”

EXPERT TALKS ORGANIZED

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Mr. Manash Chatterjee from Bentley Institute shared his valuable

knowledge on the topic "Experience the Power of BIM” on August 1,

2020. Mr. Chatterjee elaborated that every budding civil Engineer

can see a bright future in the eld of BIM. Attended by 92 participants

and was moderated and coordinated by Mr. Akhil Shetty - Assistant

professor (CE) Interdisciplinary topic "Articial Intelligence in Civil

Engineering" was taken by Dr.Piyush Samui, FICDM, FESI, NIT Patna

on 1st August, 2020, wherein, he focused on applications of AI in

effective prediction of soil failures and stability of Slopes. An

engrossing webinar was attended by 98 participants and internally

coordinated by Dr Ajay Goyal, Department of Civil Engineering.

Dr. Neeru Sharma - M. Tech & PhD in Wireless Communication,

Assistant Professor at JUIT, Wakhnaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh

gave an expert talk on the topic to the students of ECE on 31st July,

2020. Attended by 42 participants, the event was moderated and

coordinated by Ms. Minaxi Dassi - Assistant professor (ECE).

Industry expert talk on "Experience the Power of BIM” and

"Articial Intelligence in Civil Engineering"

Session on “Insight into contemporary Indian cuisine”

A Michelin star chef Manjunath Mural expert for the session, is a

person who can transform a regular Indian dish into an eye

appealing wonder. He shared his expertise with Faculty and students

of SHM on August 10, 2020.

Session on “Antenna for Biomedical Applications”

Seasoned expert, Dr. Balaka Biswas, SRA-Scientist's Pool, CSIR-

CSIO, Chandigarh, was expert for the webinar on “Antenna for

Biomedical Applications” conducted on August 7, 2020. Ms. Monika

Parmar, Assistant Professor (ECE) coordinated and moderated the

event.

Session on “The third Way: Becoming an Academic Entrepreneur”

A session on the topic “The third Way: Becoming an Academic

Entrepreneur” was delivered by Mr. Sumeer Walia on 19 August

2020 to the faculty of Chitkara University from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.

Around 120 faculty member from different streams joined the virtual

session. Mr Sumeer Walia talked about the CEED and mentioned the

achievements of CEED. Mr Sumeer Walia talked about the various

opportunities that are available for faculty members for becoming

an entrepreneur. He talked about the various grants and the support

that Chitkara University provides to the faculty members in order to

start the startup.

Expert Talk on "Value Added Concrete in collaboration with UltraTech Cement"

Er. Arpit Bansal, UltraTech Cement Pvt. Ltd. was the eminent speaker

for the Webinar on "Value Added Concrete in collaboration with

UltraTech Cement" held on 22nd August, 2020. The event was

attended by 80 participants. The webinar was focused on recent

updates on the cement manufacturing industry and wide range of

value added options available nowadays to the consumers. The

event was coordinated and moderated by Dr Ajay Goyal, Professor

and Head, Department of Civil Engineering.

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Mr. Shivam Agarwal, Alumni, Batch 2015 (Department of Civil

Engineering) interacted with the students on the topic "The Plastic

Paradox - In and Out of it" on 22nd July, 2020. As many as 108 civil

engineering students attended the event which was internally

coordinated by Mr Nitin Sohal-Assistant Professor (CE).

Ÿ Mr. Aditya Khanna (Technology Analysts at Infosys Chandigarh)

and Mr. Nitish Khanna (Support Engineer at Cloudera, Chennai)

Alumni of CSE (Batch 2010) discussed on the topic “Transition

from Campus to Corporate Life” on August 21, 2020. The

Alumni touched upon the demands of the IT Industry in the times

of/ post COVID- 19 and bridging the industry academia gap in

unequivocal words. They shared their Industry experience and

talked about the latest technologies and platforms being used in

IT companies.

Ÿ Alumnus of Batch 2010, Ms. Disha Ghai (Soft Skills

Trainer/Image Consultants) interacted with the university

Chitkara University School of Computer Applications (CUSCA)

conducted webinars for the students on soft/communication skills,

interview tips and tricks. The speakers in these webinars were Alumni

of the Chitkara University, HP. Experts in their respective elds; our

prominent alumni have now gained insight into the working of

industry and hence guide the budding engineers for the professional

life ahead and how to sustain themselves in the ever changing

technology.

Session by Alumni

Ÿ Ms. Savvy Aggarwal (Practice Manager, Veeva Systems) Alumnus

of CSE 2010 Batch conducted a webinar on the topic “Why

Career is like a Marathon” on August 4, 2020. She shared her

experiences starting from University to Industry life. With great

experience up her sleeve, she guided her successors about the

Tech Job Market, preparing them for the future. She advised

them to be passionate enough about technology and learn to be

a part of a team always.

Ÿ Business Analyst at Deloitte, Ms. Anumeha Verma of Batch-

2011(CSE), walked back into the memory lane while giving

insight on the professional career on 22nd September, 2020.

Her topic was “My journey from back benches to Deloitte desks”.

Ÿ In a technical session on 16th October, 2020, Mr. Mohit Bahl,

Batch-2008 (CSE) working as Data Migration Consultant at

Deloitte, Gurgaon discussed the topic “SAP Success Factors -

Cloud Platform” with the students and highlighted about about

SAP Cloud Platform is the enterprise platform-as-a-service with

comprehensive application development services and

capabilities which enable customers to achieve business agility,

create a truly integrated and optimized enterprise, and

accelerate digital transformation across the business – all without

the requirement of maintaining or investing in on-premises

infrastructure.

students on 27th August and discussed on the topic “Success:

Interviews & Beyond”. In continuation to that Mr. Abhinav

Sharma of Batch-2012 (Business Manager at Marketing Hook)

shared his experience and valuable tips on the topic “How to start

preparing for Interview” on 8th September, 2020.

Ÿ Mr. Nishant Angaria, Batch -2008(CSE) who is presently working

as Client Technologist at Telstra, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

delivered a Webinar on Importance of soft Skills on 1st October,

2020. The international Alumnus focused on the importance of

Soft skills is personal attributes that inuence how well you can

work or interact with others. These skills make it easier to form

relationships with people, create trust and dependability, and

lead teams. In essence, they are essential for your success in the

workplace, your company's success and your personal life.

These webinars were organised as well as mediated by Ms. Shivani

Gautam, Assistant Processor – CUSCA. Dr. Prasenjit Das- Associate

Professor and Mr. Shankar Aggarwal- Assistant Professor – CUSCA

internally coordinated the event.

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Digital Training Program - Foundational Course on Entrepreneurship By Wadhwani Foundation One month training program was conducted by Wadhwani foundation for the comprehensive course content on Learnwise platform starting from 6th July, 2020. The aim was to train Teaching Assistant (TA) Digital Training Program for Foundational Course on Entrepreneurship. The delegates participated from all over India in the program. Ms Abha Sharma and Dr. Neeraj Kumar, Coordinator, CEED attended the course. This course aimed at empowering an entrepreneurial mindset and business skills to enhance your job prospects, which help to develop entrepreneurship skills. Various aspects about the risks and rewards in choosing entrepreneurship as a career option were considered.

Ms Aarti Thakur, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing had an enriching experience while attending the webinar organized by EDCTP Knowledge Hub on 31st October 2020. Chair persons for the webinar were Prof. Catherine Hankins (Deputy Director Science, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development) and Professor Jeffrey Mphahlele (Vice President for Research, South African Medical Research Council). The focus of the webinar was to provide researchers with tools and guidance to enable them to undertake high-quality health research.

Webinar attended on “Suicide prevention”

Poster Presentation in 9th Annual ASCCT Meeting

Very knowledgeable webinar on “Suicide Prevention” was organized by Saraswati Group of colleges on 10th October 2020. Mr Surinder Singh, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing attended this webinar, where, Guest Speaker Dr Jasbir Kaur (Principal M.M.C.O.N Solan) provided the guidance regarding multiple talk therapies that reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviours including dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT).

Dr. Nitin Verma, Professor and Principal, School of Pharmacy (CSP), Presented the poster Importance of in-silico Chemistry for Safety Assessment of Nutraceuticals during the 9th Annual ASCCT (American Society of Chemical and Computational Toxicology) Meeting, October 20-23rd 2020.

Completed online courseŸ Dr. Abhishek Kumar - Assistant Professor (CSE) has been

Coursera Certied in Computer vision in MATLAB with 100% Grade on 23 August 2020, Binding machine learning projects with 83% Grade on 15 September 2020.

Ÿ Dr. Aditi Chandel - Assistant Professor, Chitkara School of Business Studies, completed MOOC on ““NSDC Course: Retail Trainee Associate” at Alison Platform.

Well Grounded webinar on High Quality health research

Ÿ Dr. Hitakshi Dutta - Associate Professor, Chitkara School of Business Studies, completed MOOC on “Effective Human Resource Administration” at Alison platform.

Ÿ Dr. Parul Grover Mahajan – Assistant Professor, Chitkara School of Business Studies, completed two MOOCs on “Strategies of Economic Growth and Development” and “Basic German Language Skills – Revised” at Alison platform.

Ÿ Dr. Nitin Verma, Professor and Principal, School of Pharmacy (CSP), successfully completed Publon Academy Peer Reviewer Course from Publon Academy.

Ÿ Mr. Rinku Saini- Assistant Professor – CUSCA completed MOOCs on “COVID-19 Contact Tracing”, “Introduction to Python”, “Coronavirus - What you need to know”, “Hello Bot: Introduction to RPA and Use Cases v1”, “AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native” and “Technical Support Fundamentals” on Coursera platform

Ÿ Mr. Shankar Aggarwal- Assistant Professor – CUSCA also completed MOOC on “Introduction to Web Development” on Coursera platform.

FPDs and workshops attended by faculty members of various schools

Ÿ Dr Sita Ram Sharma - Associate Professor, attended Short Term Training on “Linear Algebra and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (LA & SES-2020)”, organized by Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP- III), from 2nd- 6th September 2020.

Department of Applied Science (AS)

Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das, Associate professor and Mr. Shankar Aggarwal- Assistant Professor – CUSCA, completed MOOCs on “Python data Structures”, “COVID-19 Contact Tracing” and “Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)” on Coursera platform.

Faculty members from various schools of Chitkara University, H.P. participated in different FDPs, workshop and conferences during January to June 2020. The detail of events attended is extensive as each faculty member has attended multiple events taking the advantage of online transformation due to Covid-19. We have tried to national and international highlighted events, online webinars, conferences and FDPs in this section.

Ÿ Dr. Ashu Tanja – Assistant Professor attended three-days live online workshop on Mathematica for beginners (A technical computing system), organized in Chitkara University, Punjab, during 17-19 August 2020. She also attended one-week AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "Articial Intelligence" from 7th Dec- 11th Dec, 2020 at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal

Ÿ Dr Neha Kumra, Dr. Shefali Batra, Dr. Madhu Gupta - Associate Professor, attended Five-day Faculty Development Programme on “Mathematical Concepts by Using Free Open Source Softwares (Foss)” organized by the Department of Mathematics, BMSIT&M, Bengaluru from 21st - 25th July, 2020.

Ÿ Dr. Ishwar Dutt - Associate Professor, has attended a two days International workshop on “Human health risk assessment' sponsored by Society of Taxicology (SoT), USA on 17-18 Sept, 2020 at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh India.

Ÿ Dr. Neha Kumra and Dr. Shefali Batra participated in International Conference on “History and Development of Mathematics” (ICHDM2020) on December 22, 2020, organized by Department of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak.

Ÿ Dr Ajay Sharma - Professor and Dr Arun Lal Srivastav – Associate Professor, had attended 2 days Indus Synchrotrons Users Virtual Meeting (ISUM-2) organized by Raja Ramanna Center For Advance Technology, Indore & UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientic Research, Indore from July 28-29, 2020.

EVENTS ATTENDED

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Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)

Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das- Associate Professor, Ms. Shivani Gautam, Mr. Shankar Aggarwal and Mr. Rinku Saini-Assistant Professor (CUSCA) attended Three-Day virtual Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “ANN & Deep Learning” 14 – 17 August, 2020 organized by Matrusri Engineering College, Hyderabad

Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das, Mr. Shankar Aggarwal and Ms. Shivani Gautam attended a Virtual workshop on the implications of Environment Impact Assessment-2020 on 18th August, 2020 which was conducted Department of Economics Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Kerala

Ÿ Mr. Shankar S Aggarwal attended Three Days Pre-Confenrence Workshop on “Current Trends and Future challenges in Education (ICTFCT 2020)” organized and conducted Vellore Institute of Technology - VIT Chennai from 7 – 9 October, 2020

Ÿ Dr Ashok Kumar- Associate Professor, has attended “The virtual

global summit on Articial Intelligence: Responsible AI for Social

Empowerment” from 5th -9th Oct. 2020 organized by Ministry of

Electronics and Information Technology (GOI). He also

participated in 5-day online faculty development program on

Universal Human Values for Deeksharambh from 21st -25th

September 2020 organized by NIT, Patna . He also has chaired

a session in National Conference on Advances in Applied

Sciences and Mathematics 24th - 25th September 2020,

organized by Chitkara University, Punjab.

Department of Computer Science Engineering (CSE) and Computer Application (CUSCA)

Ÿ Dr. Sushil Kumar – Professor & Head (CSE) attended AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy online FDP on Augmented Reality (AR)/ Virtual Reality (VR) from 7-9-2020 to 11-9-2020 organized by VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das attended 10-Days FDP on ICT Tools for Teaching, Learning Process and Institute organized and conducted by Electronics & ICT Academies NIT Patna, MNIT Jaipur, PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur, IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee from 10-21 August, 2020

Ÿ Dr. Prasenjit Das, Mr. Shankar Aggarwal and Mr. Rinku Saini attended National workshop on “Social media analysis using nvivo” organized by Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow on 12th September, 2020

Ÿ Ms. Shaminder Kaur - Assistant Professor, attended FDP on

Advanced Design in RF which was held on 16- 20 November

2020 organised by IEEE HMRITM students' branch. She also

participated TEQIP sponsored ve days Online FDP on "Ofce

automation" during 24-28 August 2020 organized by

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT

Uttrakhand and SLIET Longowal.Ÿ Dr. Sartajvir Singh – Associate Professor (ECE) attended one-

week online faculty development program on “Recent Trends in

computational Technologies,” from 13-18 July, 2020, organized

by Ashoka Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malkapur. He

also attended ve-day online faculty development program on

“Applications of articial intelligence for modern power system,”

from 20-24 July, 2020, organized by St. Joseph College of Engg.

Chennai and many more

Ÿ Dr. Shivendu Prashar– Assistant Professor, attended “2020 OSA Advanced Photonics Congress”, in virtual mode on 13 - 16 July 2020. He also attended “3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Signal Processing”, organized by Malla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology, Telangana, India, on 21-22 August 2020 and many more.

Ÿ Dr. C. Prakasam – Associate Professor, Aravinth R and Saravanan R – Research Scholars, presented attended and presented a paper International Conference on Natural Disasters and their Early Warning Systems (NEWS) 2020 by VIT Vellore from 8th - 9th July 2020.

Ÿ Ms. Minaxi Dassi - Assistant Professor, has attended the four-day online workshop entitled workshop “Solar cell simulation using Open-Source TCAD Software (SCAPS),” organized by Chitkara University, Punjab from 22-25 July, 2020.

Ÿ Dr. Lipika Gupta - Associate Professor, participated in IUCEE Annual Leadership Summit 10-12 July 2020. She also Expert Series on Harnessing Intellectual Assets” conducted in the form of four webinars from 19 Sept to 31 Oct -2020 by Sanshadow consultants. She alos attended AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "Data Sciences" from 7-11 December, 2021 at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology.

Ÿ Mr. Gurmohan Singh, Mr. Nitin Sohal and Dr. Abhishek Kanoungo, Assistant Professors had attended Online AICTE Recognized Faculty Development Programme on “Engineering Optimization” organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India from July 13, 2020.

Ÿ Ms. Sandhya Sharma - Assistant Professor (ECE) participated & successfully completed ve days AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "Articial Intelligence" from 2020-12-7 to 2020-12-11 at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. Ten days National Level Faculty Development Program on “LATEX for preparing Manuscripts” organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India, from 20th July to 31st July 2020 and many more.

Ÿ Dr. Neeraj Kumar- Assistant Professor, ve-day online faculty development program on “Applications of articial intelligence for modern power system,” from 20-24 July, 2020, organized by St. Joseph College of Engg. Chennai. one-week online faculty development program on “Trends in Energy Conservation Technologies,” from 6-11 July, 2020, oragnised by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru

Department of Civil Engineering (CE)Ÿ Dr. C. Prakasam – Associate Professor attended the refresher

course on 21 days online GIS training program using QGIS” from 13th July to 2nd August 2020 organized by School of Earth Sciences, Central University of Karnataka, Karnataka. He also attended a course Articial Intelligence organized by Yogananda College of Engineering & Technology, Jammu in collaboration with Institutions Innovation Council from 10th-14th July 2020and many more.

Ÿ Mr. Ankush Tanta, JRF, had attended STP on "Computational Intelligence in Earthquake Resistance Design" organized by Prof Ram Megha College of Engineering & Management, Amravati, Maharashtra-AICTE From 3-8 August 2020 and many more.

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Ÿ Mr.Akhil Shetty – Assistant Professor, had attended the webinar on FDP cum Training Workshop on "Environment, Water and Disaster Risk Reduction" organized by Sharda University & NIDM from 3-17 July 2020. He also attended the webinar on Fundamentals of Concrete Technology organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India from 20-24 July 2020

Ÿ Dr. Ajay Goyal - Professor, had attended a online Short Term Course- Fire Resistant Design of Structures organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India from 24-28 August 2020. He also attended a Short Term Course - Climate Change, Disaster and Pandemic Management organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India from 17-21 August 2020.

Chitkara University School of Pharmacy (CSP)

Ÿ Dr. Nitin Verma - Principal, participated in National e- Conference on “An Alternatives to Animal Testing's: Replacement, Reduction, Renement, Rehabilitation, Reuse, and Recreation (6 Rs) Strategies to Address Current Scenario”, organized by Laureate Institute of Pharmacy (A Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of H.P. Technical University), Himachal Pradesh, India from July 13-14, 2020. He also attended "IATDMCT Industry Workshop Webinar: Use and potential benets of Mitra micro-sampling devices for the assessment of Therapeutic Drugs, Tacrolimus and Creatinine" on Oct 7, 2020.

Ÿ Mr. Vivek Puri and Ms. Amaya Sharma - Assistant Professor, attended live activity on “2nd Rhoton Society Virtual Meeting and 8th International Zoomposium on Microneurosurgical Anatomy” organized by Stanford University School of Medicine, CA on Sept 11-20, 2020. They also participated in FDP program titled “Quantum Science in Visible Range” organized by Pratap University, Jaipur on Nov 21, 2020.

Chitkara School of Business Studies (CSBS) Ÿ Dr. Hitakshi Dutta - Associate Professor, School of Business

Studies attended FDP on 'Pedagogy for Logistics Courses'

organized by the Logistics Sector Skill Council from Jul 10-13,

2020. She also attended E-Inauguration of LMS integrated with a

Digital Learning and Certication Portal organized by Retailers

Association's Skill Council of India (RASCI) and Skilled India,

Virtual Master Class Series on “Pedagogical Interface on Humour

Teaching” organized by College of Education, Chitkara

University, Punjab and Chitkara International School in July,

2020 and session on Acharyadevo Bhava” organized by NAAC

on Sep 11, 2020Ÿ Dr. Parul Grover Mahajan – Assistant Professor, School of

Business Studies, attended FDP on “Statistical Analysis and

Structuring Equation Modelling in Social Sciences using AMOS

and Smart PLS” organized by Institute of Management Studies,

Ghaziabad from Aug 10-14, 2020 and 2 FDPs organized by the

Logistics Sector Skill Council on 'Pedagogy for Logistics Courses'

from July 10-13, 2020 and FDP on “LSC Web-portal, LMS, Exam

System” on Aug 21, 2020. She attended workshop on “Power

Your Business with Search & AI in G Suite” on Aug 6, 2020

and Conference on “India Internet Day” organized by TiE Delhi-

NCR on Aug 7 -8, 2020. She also attended Best Practices

Webinar on “Inclusive and Success Strategies – A Way Forward

jointly organized by NAAC and Holy Cross College,

Tiruchirappalli on Aug 10, 2020 and Session on “Aacharyadevo

Bhava” organized by NAAC on Sep 11, 2020.Ÿ Dr. Aditi Chandel - Assistant Professor, School of Business

Studies, attended FDPs on Pedagogy for Logistics Courses'

organized by the Logistics Sector Skill Council in July, 2020 and

"Step by Step guide to write a good research paper" organised by

Research Foundation of India and Symbiosis University of

Applied Sciences from 15-21 October, 2020.

Floor Duster Pocha - Dr. Sita Ram

Design Accepted and Published, Journal No is 50/2020 and Journal Date is 11/12/2020

Journal No is 50/2020 and Journal Date is 11/12/2020

SUNWIZOR EXTENDED - Dr. Ajay Goyal, Dr. Abhishek K, Monika Garg, Agam Goyal, Ankush Tanta

Patents GrantedA Weight Measuring Device - Gangesh Kumar, Arun Chaudhary, SagarJunejaPatent Number – 353195 Granted on 08/12/2020

Chitkara University H.P. has been granted 04 patents during Jul – Dec 2020. The number of patents applications led during this duration is 39. We lled 100th Patent in Dec-2020.

PATENTS

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Dispensing equipment that includes two movable sections adapted to hold a dispenser for hands and foot. The dispensing equipment includes a foot pedal that can be operated to facilitate dispensing of uid from the dispenser.

Application No. 202011028425


VIDEO CALLING SPECIFIC EMBEDDED DEVICE FOR FAST MOVING VEHICLES - Ashu Taneja, Nitin Saluja, Varinder Singh, Deepak Saluja

ADJUSTABLE FURNITURE - Aditya Mahajan, Dr. Lipika Gupta, Dr. Neeraj Kumar

This is an adjustable furniture comprising: a base adapted to be placed on a oor, a vertical frame coupled to the base a seat section adapted to pivotally couple with a forward side of the rst seats with two sliding rods that are arranged between the gaps for adjustment.

DISPENSING EQUIPMENT - Dr. Neeraj Kumar, Mayank Bansal

It is apparatus for dispensing of cream, edible color, molten chocolate, sauce, mayonnaise, and the like, that can be in form of a liquid, gel, and foam, where the one or more substances can be dispensed for icing and decoration of confectionary items.

Design: 331615-001


APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING ONE OR MORE SUBSTANCES - Anup Kumar

Design Accepted and Published, Journal No is 01/2021 and Journal Date is 01/01/2021

MOLDING FOR DECORATION - Dr. Sita Ram

Patents Filed

ALERTING SYSTEM AND DEVICE TO FACILITATE SOCIAL DISTANCING - Pintu Kumar, Ajay C Rajan, Mayank Sharma


The present disclosure pertains to an alerting system and device to facilitate social distancing. The device can include a processing unit, a set of sensors and congured to detect temperature. A communication module is congured to detect a distance between the devices. It also includes an alerting unit congured to send the alter signal when temperature and distance parameters are found beyond a predetermined limit range.

Design: 332351-001

A system and a method are provided for managing an environmental ow requirement for a predened physical area. A correlation between the determined SPI and the FDC is calculated to manage the environmental ow requirement for the predened physical area.

The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus that is adapted to accommodate and monitor presence of one or more objects. It includes sensors congured to sense presence and absence of said objects. Also includes a processing unit that can be congured to alert a user if an object is found to be absent from the apparatus.

COMPACT HANDY SANITIZATION KIT WITH SLING & BELT LOOP - Dr. Hitakshi Dutta

Design. 332086-001


SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW WITHIN A PHYSICAL AREA - Prakasam C, Sarvanan R

MAT TO LAPTOP – Dr. Neha Kumra

APPARATUS ADAPTED TO ACCOMMODATE AND MONITOR PRESENCE OF ONE OR MORE OBJECTS - Dr. Lipika Gupta, Dr. Sita Ram Sharma


AN ADJUSTABLE AUTOMATIC SHOE POLISHING DEVICE - Dr. Ajay Sharma, Dr. Lipika Gupta

Design: 332698-001

An adjustable automatic shoe polishing device is provided. The device includes a housing having a shoe inlet through which a foot with a shoe is inserted and a foot plate where the shoe is placed. A polish dispensing unit is coupled at a front end of the housing and has associated multiple knobs for dispensing polish. A brush is xed at the front end of the shoe inlet for covering a front part of a shoe.


SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONOR COMPACT PACK - Dr. Parul Grover Mahajan

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DUST PAN - Dr. Neha Kumra

Design: 333091-001

The present disclosure relates to an automated waste receptacle comprising a housing adapted to receive the debris, a lid pivotably coupled to the housing to facilitate opening and closing of the


Design: 333091-001

A method and a system are provided for facilitating transfer of images from a rst image capturing device to a second image capturing device. Further, access permission is granted to access in real-time an image capturing screen of the rst image capturing device to the second image capturing device. Upon receiving the access permission, a plurality of second set of images is captured and is stored to the second image capturing device, and is transferred to the rst image capturing device.



CUTTER ASSEMBLY - Dr. Ashok Kumar, Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav

This invention is an apparatus for providing riveted concentration and focus to a user practicing meditation. The invention provides for a height adjustable stand that can modify and regulate the height depending on the comfort of the user. A light illumination assembly along with concentration enhancing images are provided.

A cutter comprising a blade congured cut the plastic bags without discarding any plastic piece to save environment.

The present disclosure pertains to a security system for fence. The system includes a set of sensors congured with the fence and adapted to detect one or more entities and correspondingly generate a rst set of signals, activate the roller grills congured across the fence.

AN APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDITATION - Dr. Ishwar Dutt

DUAL OPTIC POURER - Mr. Abhay Kashyap

AUTOMATED WASTE RECEPTACLE - Nitish Kumar, Dr. Abhishek K, Dr. Lipika Gupta, Srishti K, Swedika Sharma



SECURITY SYSTEM FOR FENCE - Dr. Ajay Sharma, Dr. Lipika Gupta

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSFER OF IMAGES ACROSS DEVICES - Monika Parmar, Suraj Singh

housing such that when debris reached to pre-dened height, and biodegradable debris can be collected in separate chamber, and decomposed for producing the fertilizer.


SELF-CURING CONCRETE COMPRISING OF AGRO-WASTE - Dr. Varinder S Kanwar, Ankush Tanta, Manvi Kanwar

It is a type of hemp concrete, specically, the invention is directed to a self-curing concrete composition comprising hemp hurds, aggregates, a binder and water. The disclosure also relates to a process of preparing said composition. Said composition requires less water for curing and is crack resistant

PORTABLE WATER PURIFIER - Setu Sharma, Tarun Arrora


APPARATUS FOR CLEANING BOARD - Chetan Sharma, Shamneesh Sharma, Sakshi, Vinay Kukreja


360 DEGREE MOVABLE SET TOP BOX STAND - Chetan Sharma, Shankar Shambhu, Prasenjit Das, Shaily Jain, Sakshi

The invention is used water ltration and purication. It is exible and portable water purier comprising wheat husks, activated wheat bran charcoal and muslin cloth. The invention also relates to a process of purication using the same. The apparatus provides effective purication without losing essential nutrients from water. It also does not employ any complex electrical or magnetic components for driving the process of purication.


Design- 335196-001

BISMUTH HYDROXIDE COATED RICE HUSK - Dr. Arun Lal Srivastava

The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus to facilitate cleaning of a board. The apparatus includes an encasing comprising an eraser positioned on a bottom surface of the encasing to facilitate cleaning.

The present invention relates to a method for purication of water. Specically, for removal of uoride ions from water using bismuth hydroxide coated rice husk. The present invention provides bismuth coated risk husk as an adsorbent for uoride ions.

BAG FILLING AND SUPPORTING DEVICE - Dr. Ajay Sharma, Dr. Varinder S Kanwar, Dr. Arun Lal Srivastava


An apparatus for lling and supporting a bag is disclosed. The disclosed apparatus comprises an outer frame coupled to an inner frame. The inner frame includes a at planar base to hold a bag from underneath. A supporting means is provided in the inner frame and coupled to the outer frame to provide support for holding the bag from the mouth of the bag. A soil puller is coupled to the outer frame and the inner frame which enables digging a material and lling the bag with the dug material.

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EASY CAKE FINISHING KNIFE FOR AMATEUR - Divay Mehta, Anup

Kumar

DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING DEVICE - Dr. Ajay Goyal, Dr.

Abhishek K, Dr. Aditi Chandel, Mr. Gurmohan Singh, Dr. Sudesh

LID ASSEMBLY FOR A COOKING VESSEL - Divay Mehta


A device for opening and closing door is disclosed. The disclosed

device accommodates a hooking element and a knob positioned at

the hooking element that enables a user to hygienically open the

door without touching door handles and also enables the user to

operate public keypads without touching the keypad respectively.



Design - 335434-001

APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF COATING LAYER ON FOOD

PRODUCTS - Divay Mehta, Anup Kumar

The lid assembly comprises a lid congured for covering and

uncovering the cooking vessel. The lid includes a fan positioned on

the lid for circulating hot air inside the cooking vessel, and a handle

positioned on the upper surface of lid to facilitate lifting the lid easily.

KNIFE FOR SLICING AND HEATING OF FOOD ITEM - George

Emmanuel

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for distribution of

coating layer on a food product, the apparatus includes at least one

horizontal arm congured with a sharp edge at one side adapted to

smoothen the coating layer on top surface of the food product, a

plurality of grooves congured on one side of the at least one vertical

arm, to smoothen the coating layer on side surface of the food

product, wherein the at least one horizontal arm and the at least

vertical arm are arranged in perpendicular to each other.

Design: 335518-001


LIGHT WEIGHT LMV JACK - Dr. Ajay Goyal, Mr. Nitin Sohal, Mr.

Gurmohan Singh, Mr. Sahil

The present disclosure discloses a knife for enabling slicing and

heating of food items, such as butter, cheese, and frozen ghee. The

knife includes a blade having multiple grooves of pre-dened

dimension congured on at least one edge of the blade, wherein the

blade is made of a thermally conductive material.

The present disclosure relates to a cleaning system for solar panel, which includes a container for storing water, spraying elements uidically coupled with the container. The spraying elements are congured to spray of the water for a, from the container, on the solar panel.


CLEANING SYSTEM FOR SOLAR PANEL - Ms. Abha Sharma, Pranav Goyal


ATTENDANCE MARKING SYSTEM - Dr. Arun Lal Srivastava, Dr. Shivendu Prashar, Dr. Sartajvir Singh, Ms. Vishakha Sood, Ms. Ravneet Kaur, Mr. Bir Inder Singh Arora

The present disclosure pertains to an attendance marking system including capture one or more images of the one or more entities, a temperature sensor to sense temperature and to sense retinal parameters like iris sensor for marking the attendance.

Design: 331107-001

FACE MASK FRAME- Dr. S N Panda, Dr. Sachin Ahuja, Dr. Prasenjit Das, Mr. Simranjeet, Ms. Shaanu Bhardwaj, Ms. Humma Naz

This is a design patent in which a facemask hass been designed similar to the material used in BP machines where the msk has straps which gets stick to each other. The strap is adjustable as per the circumference of face.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE RELATED REMINDERS - Mr. Vishal Verma, Ms. Harsha Chauhan, Dr. Sachin Ahuja, Dr. Shefali Gupta, Dr. Deepali Gupta, Dr. Junedul Haque, Dr. Prasenjit Das


Health care alerts are sent for vaccination/medicines to the users so that the medicines can be administered on time. Each time medicine is to be given, a prior alert as set by user is sent to the user. This way the medication is not missed.

COOKING APPLIANCE – Sakshi, Chetan Sharma, Prasenjit Das, Sachin Ahuja, Shaily Jain, Shankar Shambhu

Application Number: 202011049181Roti, chapatti is an important item in every house and for making these items we need griddle to cook. This device is having inbuilt griddle within induction which can be used when required by the user.

DEVICE FOR APPLYING FLUID MATERIAL – Sakshi, Chetan Sharma, Prasenjit Das, Sachin Ahuja, Shaily Jain, Shankar Shambhu

Application Number: 202011054563

Device is used to apply the uid to any food item which required uid to be applied on the surface of items and device also include spatula.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION OF USER SESSION - Prasenjit Das, Sachin Ahuja, Shaily Jain, Chetan Sharma, Shankar Shambhu

Image will be used for authentication of session instead of password to be typed using keyboard.

Application Number: 202011045180

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Ÿ Kanoungo, Abhishek (2020) – Department of Civil Engineering Investigation of potential use of waste lime sludge in bituminous binder. Paper presented in International Conference on Advanced Materials Behaviour & Characterization, Mattest Research Academy, Chennai (18 - 23 July, 2020).

Papers presented in national/ international conferences by faculty members

Ÿ S.R. Sharma, Madhu Gupta – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled “Bounds between rst and second order moment with Harmonic mean” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ Prakasam, C., Saravanan, R., Kanwar, Varinder S., Sharma, M. – Department of Civil Engineering presented a paper on “Mapping Agricultural Drought Vulnerability at a Regional Level Using GIS A Case Study” at International conference on paleoclimate changes (ICPC-2020) by geosciences research lab, School of civil engineering, Vellore institute of technology, Chennai (9-10, July 2020).

Ÿ Prakasam, C., Saravanan, R., Kanwar, Varinder S., Sharma, M., (2020) – Department of Civil Engineering Impact of Hydropower Project upon Agriculture – Perception of Farmers A Case Study of Pandoh Hydropower Project. Pape presented at second International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development, Resource Conservation & Food Security organized by Bearys Institute of Technology, Mangalore (23-25 July, 2020).

Ÿ Sartajvir Singh – Department of ECE, presented a paper titled “Unsupervised snow cover classication using dual-polarized SCATSAT-1 satellite data” at International Conference on Soft Computing and Signal Processing (ICSCSP-2020), Malla Reddy College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (21-22 August, 2020)

Ÿ Prakasam, C., Aravinth, R., (2020) – Department of Civil Engineering Long-Term Shoreline Change Analysis and Impact of Hard Coastal Structures On Shoreline A Case Study From Nagapattinam To Ramanathapuram District. Paper presented at International Conference on Natural Disasters and their Early Warning Systems (NEWS) 2020 organized by VIT Vellore (9-10 July, 2020).

Ÿ Nandini Nayar, Shivani Gautam, Gaurav Mehta, Poonam Singh – Department of Computer Science Engineering presented the paper titled “Ant Colony Optimization: A review of Literature and application in feature selection” in the 2nd International Conference on Inventive Computation and Information Technologies, organized by RVS Technical campus, Coimbatore, India (24-25 September,2020)

Ÿ Neha Kumra, L M Saha, M K Das – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled “Investigation of Chaos in Indian Bank Stocks, NIFTY and Bank NIFTY Indices” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ Sandhya Sharma- Department of ECE presented a paper titled “A Detailed Study on the Recognition of Text using Machine Learning” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ Lata Rani, Jyotsna Kaushal, Arun Lal Srivastav – Department of Applied Sciences and School of Pharmacy presented the paper titled Mechanistic route for the removal of heavy metals ions from water on biochar. in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ S.R. Sharma, Prakash Thakur, Dinesh Sharma – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled “Three phase lag model on the Vibrations Generalized Thermoelastic nonlocal Hollow Cylinder with void” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ S.R. Sharma, Shefali Batra, Neha Kumra – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled “Analysis of Area and Perimeter of Sierpinski Triangle” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ Suman, Neeraj Gandotra, Madhu Gupta, – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled “New Picture Fuzzy Entropy in regarding to Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Application” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ Nirankar Singh, Sonia Randhawa, Ishwar Dutt, and Ashok Kumar – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled Characterization Of Laundry Wastewater And Its Potential Applications In Garden Irrigation And Lavatory Cleaning: A Squat Review, in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ Ishwar Dutt, Ashok Kumar and Nirankar Singh – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled Research Documents of India in Nuclear and High Energy Physics: A Bibliometric Analysis. in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ S.R. Sharma, Neha Kumra, Shefali Batra, Madhu Gupta – Department of Applied Sciences presented the paper titled “Square Carpet Designs due to Self Similarity” in National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASm-20), at Chitkara University Punjab, India (24-25 September, 2020)

Ÿ S. Rao, S. Boyapati, A. Kumar – Department of Computer Science Engineering presented the papers entitled “Study of Game Theory Mechanism for Effective Sentimental Analysis using Natural Language Processing”; “Quantum Neural Networks for Dynamic Route Identication to avoid trafc” in 4th International conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC 2020) (5-7 October, 2020)

Ÿ S. Boyapati, S. Rao, A. Kumar – Department of Computer Science Engineering presented the paper entitled in 4th International conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC 2020) (5-7 October, 2020)

Ÿ Sartajvir Singh- Department of ECE presented a paper titled “Role of Ku-band (13.5 GHz) based Scatterometer Satellite (SCATSAT-1) in Cryospheric applications” in International Conference on Himalayan Cryosphere (ICHC-2020) organized by Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (October 19-23, 2020)

PUBLICATIONS

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Ÿ Mukesh Kumar, Gaurav Mehta, Nandini Nayar, Manik Gupta –

Department of Computer Science Engineering presented the

papers titled “IoT in Building Smart Cities and Smart

Environment: Your Way to Success”; “EMT: Ensemble Meta-

Based Tree Model for Predicting Student Performance in

Academics”; “Application of IoT in Current Pandemic of COVID-

19” in the 1st International Conference on Computational

Research and Data Analytics (ICCRDA-2020), jointly organized

by Suleyman Demirel University and Isparta Applied Sciences

University, Turkey and College of Engineering Roorkee, India (24

October, 2020)

Ÿ Sandhya Sharma, Neeraj Kumar and Monika Parmar-

Department of ECE presented a paper titled “Analysis and

Comparison of Different Blockchain Algorithms in IOT Security”

at 1st International Conference on Computational Research and

Data Analytics (ICCRDA- 2020) jointly organized by Suleyman

Demirel University and Isparta Applied Sciences University,

Turkey and College of Engineering Roorkee, India (24 October,

2020)

Ÿ Prakasam, C., Aravinth, R., Kanwar, Varinder S., Nagarajan, B

(2020) – Department of Civil Engineering Socio presented at

paper “Economic Impacts of Rock Slides on Himalayan Region –

A case Study” at International Workshop on Assessment and

Mitigation of Landslides in Himalaya organized by Wadia

Institute of Himalayan Geology (28-29 October, 2020)

Ÿ Sartajvir Singh- Department of ECE presented a paper titled

“Cloud removal for satellite image using fusion of SCATSAT-

1and MODIS data” at 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of

Geosciences, Springer Nature, Tunisia (2-4 November, 2020)nu

Ÿ Monika Parmar- Department of ECE presented a paper titled,

“Blockchain based Secured Data transmission of IoT Sensors

using ThingSpeak” in 2nd International Conference on Articial

Intelligence and Speech Technology (AIST-2020) organized by

Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW),

Delhi (19-20 November 2020)

Ÿ Prakasam, C., Saravanan, R., Aravinth, R., Kanwar, Varinder S.,

Sharma, M.K., (2020) – Department of Civil Engineering

presented a paper titled “Environmental Flow Monitoring System

- Mitigation Measure” at two days Virtual International

Conference on Innovations in Water Resources and Waste

Management organized by Satyabhama University (3-4

December, 2020)

Ÿ Sartajvir Singh- Department of ECE presented a paper titled

“Estimation and Validation of Enhanced Resolution Brightness

Temperature Products of SCATSAT-1” In 2020 IEEE 5th

International Conference on Computing Communication and

Automation (ICCCA) organized by Aurel Vlaicu University of

Arad, Romania and Galgotias University, India (30-31 October,

2020)

Ÿ Lata Rani, Jyotsna Kaushal, Arun Lal Srivastav – Department of

Applied Sciences and School of Pharmacy presented the paper

titled “The Mechanistic route for the removal of heavy metals ions

from water on nanoparticle incorporated biochar” in AMRP-

2020, at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology

(Deemed University, Centrally Funded Technical Institute of Govt.

of India (November 9-11, 2020)

Ÿ Parul Datta, Prasenjit Das, Abhishek Kumar– Department of

Computer Science Engineering presented a paper titled

“Techniques in Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy: A Review” at 1st

International Conference on Communication, Cloud and Big

Data (CCB 2020) organized by Sikkim Manipal University,

Sikkim, India, Springer Nature (LNNS Series) (18-19 December,

2020)

Publications in Journals

[4] Dassi, M., Madan, J., Pandey, R. and Sharma, R., 2020. A novel

source material engineered double gate tunnel eld effect transistor

for radio frequency integrated circuit applications. Semiconductor

Science and Technology, 35(10), p.105013.

[5] Dogra, R., Rani, S., Sharma, B. and Verma, S., 2021. Essence of

Scalability in Wireless Sensor Network for Smart City Applications. In

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol.

1022, No. 1, p. 012094). IOP Publishing.

[8] Grewal, A.S., Thapa, K., Kanojia, N., Sharma, N. and Singh, S.,

2020. Natural Compounds as Source of Aldose Reductase (AR)

Inhibitors for the Treatment of Diabetic Complications: A Mini

Review. Current Drug Metabolism.

[12] Kanojia, N., Singh, S., Singh, J., Sharma, N. and Singh, A.,

2020. Recent Advancements and Applications of Inhalable

Microparticles Based Drug Delivery Systems in Respiratory

Disorders.

[3] Chitkara, M., Kanwar, V.S. and Dutta, H., 2020. Redening

Indian Universities: An Insight of Education Sector towards Evolution

of Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Special issue on Reimagining Indian

Universities, University News – A Weekly journal on Higher

Education, Association of Indian Universities, Vol. 58 (33), August

17-23, 2020..

[9] Grewal, A.S., Thapa, K., Sharma, N., Singh, S., Singh, R.,

Singh, K. and Arora, S., 2020. PDE4 INHIBITION: AN EMERGING

THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY IN LIVER DISEASES. Plant Archives, 20(2),

pp.2285-2290.

[7] Grewal, A.S., Thapa, K., Sharma, N. and Singh, S., 2020. New

Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 inhibitors for combating antibiotic

drug resistance: recent developments. Medicinal Chemistry

Research, 29(8), pp.1301-1320.

[11] GUPTA , M . and GANDOTRA , N. , BOUNDS ON

LOGARITHMIC MEANS. Advances in Mathematics: Scientic Journal

9(9), (2020), 7471–7476.

[2] Batra, S., Gupta, M., Singh, J., Srivastava, D. and Aggarwal, I.,

2020, November. An Empirical Study of Cybercrime and Its

Preventions. In 2020 Sixth International Conference on Parallel,

Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC) (pp. 42-46). IEEE.

[10] Grewal, A.S., Thapa, K., Bansal, A., Sharma, N. and Singh, S.,

2020. Therapeutic role of nuclear factor erythroid-2 related factor 2

(Nrf2) in liver disorders. Research Journal of Pharmacy and

Technology, 13(8), pp.3952-3956.

[1] Arora, G., Maman, P., Sharma, A., Verma, N. and Puri, V.,

2020. Systemic Overview of Microstrip Patch Antenna's for Different

Biomedical Applications. Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin.

[6] Grewal, A.S., Singh, S., Sharma, N. and Thapa, K., 2020. NEW

DELHI METALLO-β-LACTAMASE-1 INHIBITORS: A REVIEW OF THE

PATENT LITERATURE (2013-2019). Plant Archives, 20(1), pp.3321-

3328.

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[13] Kanoungo, A., Kanwar, V. S., Goyal, A., & Kanoungo, S. (2020).

Investigation of potential use of waste lime sludge in bituminous

binder. Materials Today: Proceedings.

[21] Prakasam, C., Aravinth, R., Kanwar, S, Varinder., Nagarajan, B.

(2020) Comparative Evaluation of Various Statistical Models and Its

Accuracy for Landslide Risk Mapping: A Case Study on Part of

Himalayan Region, India. In; Kanlı, Ali Ismet . (eds) Slope

E n g i n e e r i n g , I n t e c h O p e n , L o n d o n , 1 - 1 8 , D O I :

10.5772/intechopen.94347.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51354-2_25

[20] Prakasam, C., Aravinth, R., Kanwar, S, Varinder., Nagarajan, B

(2020) Kinematic Analysis of Rainfall Induced Rock Slide Along

Roadcut Slopes – A Case Study On Dhalli Landslide, Himalayan

Region. Disaster and Development, 8(1), 115-127.

[19] Prakasam, C., Aravinth, R., Nagarajan, B., Kanwar, Varinder S.

(2020). Site-specic geological and geotechnical investigation of a

debris landslide along unstable road cut slopes in the Himalayan

region, India. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Vol 11 (1), Pp

1827–1848. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2020.1813812

(T&F)

[16] Khurana, M., Shivani, S., Tiwari, S., Sharma, B., Obaidat, M.S.

and Hsiao, K.F., 2020. Optimized Time Synchronized Multilayer

MAC Protocol for WSN Using Relay Nodes. Adhoc & Sensor Wireless

Networks, 48.

https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25215071.

[22] Prakasam, C., Saravanan, R., Kanwar, Varinder S (2021)

Evaluation of environmental ow requirement using wetted

perimeter method and GIS application for impact assessment.

E c o l o g i c a l I n d i c a t o r s , 1 2 1 , 1 0 7 0 1 9 .

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107019.[23] Puri, V., Sharma, A., Kumar, P. and Singh, I., 2020. Thiolation of

Biopolymers for Developing Drug Delivery Systems with Enhanced

Mechanical and Mucoadhesive Properties: A Review. Polymers,

12(8), p.1803.

[14] Kanoungo S.K., Sharma U., Kanoungo A. (2021) Utilization of

Waste Lime Sludge and Coal Fly Ash in Construction Industry. In:

Reddy K.R., Agnihotri A.K., Yukselen-Aksoy Y., Dubey B.K., Bansal A.

(eds) Sustainable Environment and Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in

Civil Engineering, vol 90. Springer, Cham.

[15] Kanwar, V.S., Sharma, A., Srivastav, A.L. and Rani, L., 2020.

Phytoremediation of toxic metals present in soil and water

environment: a critical review. Environmental Science and Pollution

Research, pp.1-26.

[17] Kumari, A., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., Chunduri, V., Kapoor, P.,

Kaur, S., Goyal, A. and Garg, M., (2020). Inuence of biofortied

colored wheats (purple, blue, black) on physicochemical,

antioxidant and sensory characteristics of chapatti (Indian

atbread). Molecules, 25(21), p.5071.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.107

[18] Pandey, R., Madan, J., Sharma, R., Dassi, M. and Chaujar, R.,

2020. Built-in Reliability Investigation of Gate-Drain Underlapped

PNIN-GAA-TFET for Improved L inear i ty and Reduced

Intermodulation Distortion. In Energy Systems, Drives and

Automations (pp. 205-213). Springer, Singapore.

[24] Puri, V., Nagpal, M., Sharma, A., Thakur, G.S., Singh, M. and

Aggarwal, G., 2020. Development of binary dispersions and

nanocomposites of irbesartan with enhanced antihypertensive

activity. BioImpacts: BI, 10(4), p.269.

[29] Sandhu, M., Kumar, N. and Malhotra, R., 2020. Harmonic

Minimization in DC Microgrid using Renewable Energy Sources and

Modied Symmetrical Multilevel Inverter. Journal of Critical Reviews,

7(11), pp.1809-1820.

[38] Singh, S., Tiwari, R.K., Gusain, H.S. and Sood, V., 2020.

Potential applications of SCATSAT-1 satellite sensor: a systematic

review. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(21), pp.12459-12471.

[25] Rani, L., Kaushal, J., Srivastav, A.L. and Mahajan, P., 2020. A

critical review on recent developments in MOF adsorbents for the

elimination of toxic heavy metals from aqueous solutions.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp.1-26.

[26] Rani, L., Thapa, K., Kanojia, N., Sharma, N., Singh, S., Grewal,

A.S., Srivastav, A.L. and Kaushal, J., 2020. An extensive review on

the consequences of chemical pesticides on human health and

environment. Journal of Cleaner Production, p.124657.

[27] Rani, L., Grewal, A.S., Sharma, N. and Singh, S., 2021. Recent

Updates on Free Fatty Acid Receptor 1 (GPR-40) Agonists for the

Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Mini Reviews in Medicinal

Chemistry, 21(4), pp.426-470.

[30] Sharma, A., Mittal, A., Puri, V., Kumar, P. and Singh, I., 2020.

Curcumin-loaded, alginate–gelatin composite bers for wound

healing applications. 3 Biotech, 10(11), pp.1-13.

[31] Sharma, B., Obaidat, M.S., Sharma, V. and Hsiao, K.F., 2020.

Routing and collision avoidance techniques for unmanned aerial

vehicles: Analysis, optimal solutions, and future directions.

International Journal of Communication Systems, 33(18), p.e4628.

[32] Sharma, S., Gupta, S. and Kumar, N., 2020. A Comprehensive

Study on the Recognition of Gurmukhi Script. Journal of

Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 17(6), pp.2674-

2677.

[34] Singh, K., Sharma, B., Singh, J., Srivastava, G., Sharma, S.,

Aggarwal, A. and Cheng, X., 2020. Local Statistics-based Speckle

Reducing Bilateral Filter for Medical Ultrasound Images. Mobile

Ne twork s and App l i ca t i ons , 25 (6 ) , pp .2367-2389 .

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-020-01615-2

[35] Singh, S., Sharma, N., Bansal, A., Kanojia, N., Sethi, S., Madan,

J . a n d S o d h i , R . K . , 2 0 2 1 . A p o p t o s i s m o d u l a t i n g

nanochemotherapeutics in the treatment of cancer: Recent progress

and advances. Clinical Perspectives and Targeted Therapies in

Apoptosis, pp.153-207.

[36] Singh, S., Sood, V., Prashar, S. and Kaur, R., 2020. Response of

topographic control on nearest-neighbor diffusion-based pan-

sharpening using multispectral MODIS and AWiFS satellite dataset.

Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 13(14), pp.1-9.

[28] Kaur, S., Singh, B., Kaur, H. and Gupta, L., 2020. Injecting

Power Attacks with Voltage Glitching and Generation of Clock

Attacks for Testing Fault Injection Attacks. In Evolving Technologies

for Computing, Communication and Smart World (pp. 23-37).

Springer, Singapore.

[33] Shivani, S., Patel, S.C., Arora, V., Sharma, B., Jolfaei, A. and

Srivastava, G., 2020. Real-time cheating immune secret sharing for

remote sensing images. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing,

pp.1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-020-01005-7

[37] Singh, S., Tiwari, R.K. and Sood, V., 2020, October. Estimation

and Validation of Enhanced Resolution Brightness Temperature

Products of SCATSAT-1. In 2020 IEEE 5th International Conference

on Computing Communication and Automation (ICCCA) (pp. 758-

762). IEEE.

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[40] Sood, V., Singh, S., Taloor, A.K., Prashar, S. and Kaur, R., 2020. Monitoring and mapping of snow cover variability using topographically derived NDSI model over north Indian Himalayas during the period 2008–19. Applied Computing and Geosciences, 8, p.100040.

[41] Srivastav, A.L., Patel, N. and Chaudhary, V.K., 2020. Disinfection by-products in drinking water: Occurrence, toxicity and abatement. Environmental Pollution, p.115474.

[39] Sood, V., Gusain, H.S., Gupta, S., Singh, S. and Kaur, S., 2020. Evaluation of SCATSAT-1 data for snow cover area mapping over a part of Western Himalayas. Advances in Space Research, 66(11), pp.2556-2567.

[42] Srivastav, A.L. and Kumar, A., 2020. An endeavor to achieve sustainable development goals through oral waste management: A short review. Journal of Cleaner Production, p.124669.

[44] Taneja, A. and Saluja, N., 2020. A Transmit Antenna Selection based Energy-Harvesting MIMO Cooperative Communication System. IETE Journal of Research, pp.1-10.

Thapa, K., Khan, H., Sharma, U., Grewal, A.K. and Singh, T.G., 2020. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 as a promising drug target for neurodegenerative diseases. Life Sciences, p.118975.

[43] Verma, N. and Khosa, R.L., ANTINOCICEPTIVE ACTIVITY OF ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF WEDELIA CHINENSIS. National Academy of Agricultural Science, 20(2), 7976-7978

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